Lemongrass Seafood Bar & Grill Thai Cuisine — Restaurant in Prunedale

The prices were higher than I had hoped for, but the flavors that are combined in this restaurant are FANTASTIC by any definition of the word. We started off with the fried sweet potato, which was NOT by any means anything like the sweet potato fries we enjoy from the freezer bag. They came with a neat variation on sweet & sour sauce. I had one of their daily specials (The Seafood Cha Cha Cha) and was absolutely STUNNED by the delicious attack I received. It was perfectly spicy and that's taking into account that I had completely forgotten to have the obligatory "how spicy do you want it" conversation. My dish had a wonderful variety of seafood in the mix. My wife had the Basil Eggplant. I have to say, I've never been to a thai restaurant with such a GREAT variety of vegetables with their dishes. There was asparagus, onion, mushrooms (okay, not a vegitable, whatever), broccoli, carrots, and each dish has a nicely placed mini salad of raw strings of carrots and cabbage. They had $4 well drinks all day! The waitresses were slightly slow on checking on us, but I think they were aware that we were enjoying ourselves by our excited chitter chatter over the food we were having with ouselves and one other curious patron...

Mediocre food, friendly but unskilled staff, good decour. Read for more details:

Recently ate, ordered Spicy Fried Rice with Pork and Lemongrass Tom Yum. The Tom Yum originally arrived without any coconut milk at all and in a few minutes the waitress returned with the issue fixed. However, the lemongrass flavor was overpowering and MUCH too sweet; so much that you could barely taste anything but the thin but sickeningly sweet broth. Also, the bowl wasn't very large for the price.

Alright, so just one dish wasn't good? Well, the spicy fried rice with pork had issues as well. The rice was slightly overcooked and had little flavor, the pork was a few measly morsels sprinkled ontop. And strangely enough, they peppered it with half leaves of mint. This dish only nourished my stomach, and nothing else. It didn't taste offensive but left me feeling cheated and frustrated.

The service was friendly and initially helpful despite the mistake mentioned in the first part of this review. However once we finished, nobody noticed we had finished for nearly 10 minutes and were never offered the check, we had to ask to pay ourselves.

Food isn't great (for the price) and mistakes were made on various levels. I wouldn't return to this...

We stopped in here to order a bubble tea after the antique fair, which was excellent and I'm sure the food is as well based on everyone's amazing reviews of this place. While we were waiting, I went to the restroom in the back of the restaurant. Back there they have a small kiddie pool for their koi fish. This pool lacked a sufficient amount of water and room for the fish swimming in there. The water level was barely anything for them to swim in. There was at least 1 dead one in there, along with many others struggling to survive. It was such a disgrace and it was clear to me that no one really cares for them. I really regret not going back with my phone to capture a photo of this. I did not say anything to anyone working there as I was disgusted and wanted to leave. For this reason alone I will not be back to try their food, which is apparently great....