Thai Bayside Restaurant — Restaurant in Palm Bay

Thai Bayside, 1850 Eldron Blvd. SE Ste. 8, Palm Bay, FL 32909

1.5 Stars

"Oh, yeah!" Said no one ever when going to yet another Thai food/Sushi restaurant combo. Few and far between is excellent fare found at one of these places that seem to be on every corner these days. Not to get ahead of myself, but after this experience, I assure you, the venery continues.

"A" is our service non-professional today. I am a far cry from being a xenophobe, but if you are going to open a service industry place of business in any foreign country, doesn't it behoove your business interests to have at least one employee fluent in the native tongue? This is yet another Thai entry in an ever-increasing category of a place where no one speaks English and then appears to become agitated with you when you can't understand them.

Taking a seat and perusing the menu, I thought this place was pathetic! Virtually every single roll had krab, and not that it matters, but the prices are outrageous for crab-flavored fish. Not that it contributed to the abysmal rating (that's all on the food), but the kid making take-out bags and sucking on his empty drink while snapping the 200 or so bags open is almost as annoying as someone mopping under your table while trying to dine; it just adds a more significant negative to the foul-tempered service and fish not suitable for an alley cat.

I was informed that they were out of most items, and as it's only Saturday, my guess is the under-order is due to a lack of customers. At least they had enough Tuna for a Tuna Hand Roll and Chicken for an order of Thai Green Curry Chicken. The place is clean, albeit a ghost town, but sparkling.

As we were the only customers present, our order was up in a flash. While the Tuna Hand Roll was certainly pleasant to the eye, it was not as such to the palate. The Tuna was on the wrong side of fresh. It wasn't fishy enough to spit out, but it was close.

Could you look at the picture of what was billed as Thai Green Curry and answer one question for me? What is that? I was expecting Green curry, and I don't know what that was, but it certainly wasn't the Thai Green Curry to which I have grown accustomed. The Chicken was OK, actually cooked to perfection, and the curry was flavorful, but the rice? The rice was hard and crusty like it came from the nether regions of the steamer.

The Big Boy says, "It is not on the Swill Alert list, but it's too close...

Service is great, super friendly. However the food is so blah and so EXTREMELY overpriced for what you get. The flavor of the pad Thai is so weird. They overdue it with fish sauce and add no lime wedges or fresh bean sprouts. Everything is just cooked all together and slapped on a plate. The fresh spring rolls is really just one small roll of lettuce cut up into 4 pieces for $6.95. And the Tom kha soup is watery with barely anything in it. The worst Tom kha I’ve ever had. And I’ve been to probably a hundred different Thai places. I asked for just vegetables in it and they barely put in anything, but they did add cucumbers which is so strange. Overall I think they are nuts to charge this much money for what you actually get and I will never be coming back here again. I got very basic Thai dishes that should be easy for them to make, but no, they somehow completely messed it up. It’s like they don’t even care and are probably secretly laughing at the people who even think this how actual Thai food is supposed to taste. This has to be a joke. We paid $60 and it isn’t even worth $30. I don’t mind paying any amount of money for food, if it is actually good, but this is not. Anybody who thinks this place is good has never tried authentic Thai food, and has probably never left...

I can only surmise that the people rating this have never actually had authentic Thai cuisine. The only reason I’m giving them 3 stars (vs. 2 or 1) is because the service was friendly. Our Tom Kha Gai soup was so heavily laden with lime juice it was nearly inedible. In every other Thai place I’ve ever eaten, and there have been many around the world, when I ordered tofu in any dish, it has always been stir fried crisp with an extraordinary amount of flavor. Here, it was literally fried in oil which gave it a crispy shell but no flavor whatsoever. Even the sauce on our drunken noodles couldn’t bring out any flavor in the tofu. The dish is marked as spicy but I’d rate it maybe 2 on a 10 point scale of spiciness. The worst scenario of all was the sushi. I ordered the volcano roll. I’m wondering if they used ordinary white table rice for this as, every time I went to pick one up with the chopsticks the rice literally disintegrated before I could even get it to the soy sauce. The flavor was good but I had to eat most of it in little pieces as none of it stayed together. I cannot recommend this restaurant, unfortunately, because it’s so far removed from anything resembling authentic Thai cuisine and the sushi is...