Thai Lucky — Restaurant in San Antonio

We decided to eat at Thai Lucky for an early dinner knowing that they had great reviews but to our surprise, this was by far the worst experience we have had eating anywhere in San Antonio. There was only one lady that was the hostess, waitress, and everything else in between for the entire restaurant and it definitely showed.

1st - We were the only guests in the restaurant and it took two other families to sit down before we got our menus and/or drink orders.

2nd - There was absolutely no caffeine free drinks for the kids besides water and sweat tea.

3rd - Our food was delivered to a different table and then that same food was brought to our table once the mistake was realized.

4th - Once all of our food came out, we noticed that there was a dead fruit fly in our fried rice. After about 5 minutes of trying to get her attention, I ended up walking up to the front to show her our discovery and she was in complete denial until I showed her one of the legs that was sticking up.

5th - Our order came out wrong.

After eating one piece of sushi from each one of our sushi rolls and a super small portion of the fried rice, we called it quits and asked for the check. We ended up paying $70 for the fruit fly fried rice and everything else that we didn’t dare eat.

The egg rolls were...

Returned for a 2nd time.. Tried the beef pad thai this time. Was pretty good. Again spicy scale is on the hotter side. So far everything I've tried here has been pretty good.

• Previous Review *

I recently tried this place for the first time. I visited in the evening around 7 p.m. located about two blocks east of the Alamodome, it's in a spot that the average person in San Antonio doesn't see unless they live in the area.

A friend of mine suggested this place for dinner one evening. I've eaten it almost every thai restaurant in San Antonio and I had no clue this place existed.

I decided to try the pad see ewe with beef, medium hot. We had the Thai spring rolls as an appetizer. The order came out after about 15 minutes.

The spicy scale here is on the high side, so order your spiciness conservatively. A medium was decently hot.

The flavor of the food was very good, dishes authentically prepared but there were no deserts on the menu, and no soup served with meals.

I would consider returning to try more items, its one of only 2 Thai restaurants I know of in the downtown or Southside of San Antonio.

Overall my first visit was...

Beware the "service fee" Was not impressed with the Pad Thai I ordered, it was fine and tasted right, but not notable by any means. My husband's Pho was'really good', though. We also had sushi, the Lovely Roll, that we can definitely NOT recommend. It was covered in a fried batter that was way too thick and really hid the flavor of the roll. We ate inside the restaurant and found it ok and comfortable, despite the questionable neighborhood it's in. Definitely make sure to check your bill prior to paying though. Our bill should've been around $55 including tax, with no tip included in that price, and somewhere along the route, we paid $70 for I don't even know what. So just watch your pocketbook when your preparing to pay and leave.

*update, based on other reviewers comments, sounds like we too were victim to this place automatically charging a 15% "service fee" onto our bill. Readers, I wouldn't touch this dishonest place with a 10 foot pole. There's much better, transparent, and honest...