Meun Fan Thai Cafe — Restaurant in Santa Barbara

Dishonest business conduct. Owner knows what she's doing when deceiving customers with a Menu that reads one price but when the bill comes they slide in the extra bucks. This happens with quite a few essential dinner orders, like the pad thai, which is listed exactly as "Shrimp and Chicken Pad Thai" for $9.99, You order it. The bill comes charging $12.99 for it, because it has shrimp and chicken and this is extra!! Same with the curry dishes, etc. You will always get overcharged. Most won't even notice it. The portions are small. You order an appetizer for 5 people and it brings a tiny dish with sauce that is only good for one person. When you call waiter for more sauce they will bring it, but then the bill will later reflect a buck extra for that tiny amount of extra sauce that wasn't enough either! It is a shame that the ownership is such a money monger and we can't believe they are still getting away with this. Many locals, including ourselves, have confronted the owner directly about this issue to have her only say that she will change the menu with correct pricing. She told us this during spring last year, but our friends dined there recently and had the exact same menu and billing problem. To top it up, the staff is rude and short-sided. They come across as nice at first, but don't ask them for anything or question anything. The service is very lacking. The food is not bad in general. Pad Thai tastes like the rusty pan, but they can make good strong sauces. Our noodles are always very sticky and gummy as if they were sitting in water for a while, but the sauces are very good. Again, it's a shame we have a local business that takes many of us as fools and disrespects the community blatantly. Until they decide to do better we would not encourage anyone...

Great take out Thai, but I would NEVER eat in the restaurant again. I have had great take out from here and would be tempted to give 5 star based on that, but a recent experience in the restaurant would get 1 star at best! Such horrible service. Even though they weren’t busy, they got several orders wrong and overdid the spice level so much the dish was inedible. The woman who brought it seemed shocked by the spice level visible on the dish and said looks very hot. When we sent it back the other server argued with me about ordering medium spicy even though I have ordered this dish take out and the spice level was always perfect. Her attitude was so rancid I woke up the night after feeling so disgusted I will likely never eat here again and will throw the left overs out. Perhaps there are different chefs and the one who does dinner service is vindictive when specific spice levels are requested? The server was so nasty, when she brought the take out bag, my sweet friend said thank you, to which the server responded by slamming the bag down and turning to walk away without a single word. Horrible disgusting service. I always tip well, but after this experience I am ashamed to have left any tip at all! They could offer a full refund and apology but this horrible woman’s actions are unredeemable....

Highly recommend the Thai tea!

Accidentally entered from the side (street) entrance instead of the front entrance (parking lot). There was only one waitress during lunch time; however, it wasn’t extremely busy, so there was no worries. But we had to walk to the front entrance area for the waitress to seat us because she probably didn’t see us. Nonetheless, the food met expectations. The Thai tea wasn’t too sweet and not too bland, just right. The pad Thai was fine. There were no roasted peanuts, but I still tasted a peanut taste in the dish. Lastly, there were a couple fruit flies on the window, inside the restaurant. Whatever flies we were unable to kill flew around our food at times. However, the table was clean and the restaurant as a whole looked neat...