Payaathai Cuisine — Restaurant in Riverview

It's a good weekday lunch option. You can get a starter, soup or salad, and a drink (canned soda, Thai iced tea or coffee) along with your choice of meat for your entrée. The lunch special is about $15 per person and served between 11am and 3pm (Mon-Fri). It's a good deal.

My husband selected the drunken noodle with pork along with a green salad and bags of gold appetizer. He was given a scale of 1-10 for the spice level. He chose 8, but actually got more of a 4 or 5. He prefers it to be hotter. The sauce was also sweeter than he prefers. We've had that same dish at other restaurants and it was more savory. He also wasn't expecting to get a sweet peanut dressing on his salad. So for him, it was a miss.

I had the green curry with chicken along with the same appetizer and a vegetable clear soup. We've had this version of the bags of gold appetizer at another restaurant in Brandon. This one was good but lacked coconut. It was also more compact with less meat inside. It was still good. The soup was very different. I liked it because it had lots of vegetables and included glass noodles instead of rice. The green curry is probably the best one I've had in the area. The eggplant and the rest of the veggies were cooked perfectly. It was extremely spicy, and I didn't even give them a spice level. I'd say it was about a 6 on the scale. It was definitely hotter than my husband's drunken noodles. I was able to tolerate it just because the flavor was so wonderful. I had to mix it with more rice and thankfully I had that sweet Thai tea to help get me through it. I would definitely order the curry again. In fact, I think this restaurant's curry dishes totally shine. It was a win for me. So much so, that I'm looking forward to trying their chicken khao soi (a coconut curry noodle soup) next time. They also have a blue butterfly pea drink (Payaa Drink) and a tricolored mango sticky rice dessert that looks so pretty and colorful. That's what I'll get next time.

It's pretty much hidden in the River Springs Town Center on Boyette Road in Riverview. It's next door to the Talking Pint. You won't see it if you're coming from Bell Shoals, but the shopping center is right there on the corner as you cross over Boyette Road/Fishhawk Blvd. Try it if you happen to be...

The food is fairly priced and has outstanding flavor. I enjoy taking my family out to eat on the weekends to support local restaurants and their employees. This was our third visit to this restaurant. We arrived and there were 10 other customers seated inside. One waitress, but we ordered within about 5 minutes. I ordered Pad Ka Prow with ground chicken, which is what I ordered the two other visits; ground chicken is the traditional way this dish is served. We waited. A party of three arrived and was seated. We waited. The party of three was served their food, finished, and left. We waited for 1 hour and 15 minutes before receiving our orders. When I received the bill it included 18% gratuity, which is not standard for a party of 5. I paid, signed the bill and as I was walking out the door the waitress yelled to me and asked why I didn't leave a tip. I walked to her and explained it was already included on the bill, which it shouldn't be. I left, but decided to return to the restaurant to speak to the owner. I explained the above. Her reasoning for our delay was because I ordered ground chicken, the same item I ordered two previous times with no delay. I'm convinced it should not take more than 1-2 additional minutes to grind chicken meat. The food has...

The best Thai food I've had in years! All my favorites were available on the menu, and I greedily ordered them all for my siblings to try. Photos weren't even an option, everything went straight into my mouth!

We started with a papaya salad, hot level, and my siblings got their first real experience of (albeit muted) Thai food heat. Luckily the Thai tea cooled us down, with its intense sweetness. If you like sweet things, give it a try. Then came the Tom kha (coconut soup), which is my personal favorite, and everyone enjoyed it. If you're not a big fan of chicken, I suggest pick a different protein as the meat portion made up a large amount of the soup. Next, we had an order of pad kee mao (drunken noodles) which I was excited to eat, and they didn't disappoint. The peppers were left on the side, so everyone chose their own spicy level and added them as they liked. Finally, we finished off the meal with sticky rice and mango, and I highly recommend it. They serve theirs with flavored rice, Thai tea, sweet pea flower, and jasmine. Absolutely delicious! It was a first for my sisters, and they loved it.

We had a great meal, and it was fun to share my knowledge of authentic Thai food with my family. They plan to become regulars, and I hope to visit again next time...