Phuket Thai — Restaurant in Louisville

I am more of a meat and potatoes guy, but willing to try new things from time-to-time. Because I don't order a lot of Thai food, the few times I've tried it, I've have a lot of trouble ordering. Usually, what I get is far from what I expected. Phuket was very different. My wife and I both thoroughly enjoyed the experience and the food.

The menu was full of options, items were numbered (so I didn't have to worry about trying to pronounce words I didn't know) and scattered around the restaurant were laminated sheets containing photos of the menu items by number. Once I had narrowed down my order, I wandered over and took a look at the options so I'd know exactly how my order would look and it did.

The descriptions were accurate as well. I hate onions and for some reason, restaurants feel perfectly at liberty to jam them into everything and not mention the overpowering, herpes of the culinary world in the description. Not the case here and when I found an item I wanted that did have onions, they were able to skip them—not pick them out of a precooked pot of something (which always still tastes like onions)—but simply not include them in the meal they cooked specifically for me.

The service was lightning quick and about half the tables had people at them. The to-go orders were non-stop during this time as well. This was around 7 p.m. on a Saturday evening. They have beer and wine available and good deals on beer during happy hour.

For someone who doesn't usually have luck with Thai restaurants, I found Phuket a very relieving experience. The food was really, really good and we went back for lunch the next day.

We had three taste chicken, egg rolls, drunken noodles and something else. I don't remember what my wife ordered, but so far, they're...

I had an extremely upsetting experience at this restaurant. After returning from Boston following the sudden passing of my father, I arrived at the McCaslin bus stop and was waiting for my friend to pick me up. While waiting, I urgently needed to use the restroom, so I walked into this restaurant, intending to both use the facilities and purchase lunch for my friend as a thank-you for picking me up.

Upon entering, I saw no staff at the counter, so I proceeded to the restroom. When I came out and approached the counter to look at the menu, a waitress aggressively confronted me, berating me for using the restroom. She loudly claimed there were no public restrooms and accused me of "walking in like I owned the place" and "having no manners." I calmly explained that I had just returned from Boston after my father’s passing, but she ignored this and continued to berate me while following me through the restaurant.

As I was leaving, I told her, "I hope no one treats you this terribly after one of your parents dies." Her shocking response? "I hope your parents die."

I was appalled by the cruelty and complete lack of basic human decency. No customer—let alone someone intending to make a purchase—should ever be treated this way. Regardless of policy, there is no excuse for hostility or outright malice from staff. I would never recommend this establishment to anyone based on...

It's honestly kind of hard to find great, authentic Thai food in the Boulder area. This is one of my new go-tos. I ordered the drunken noodles and the flavors were absolutely on-point. I was pleasantly surprised to see they don't just use those long wide rice noodles that a lot of thai places use-- instead, they use the wide, randomly-shaped assymetrical sheets that you get from the real-deal thai spots. Also ordered the banana soup and jeeeeez the FLAVOR. Spices used in that are wonderful.

The soup portion was huge for $12, but the drunken noodles weren't the huge oversized portion you sometimes get at thai places. It was more the size of a medium-ish normal sized meal and didn't feel like overeating. Personally, I'd much rather pay a little more and have frickin quality food--...