Thai Dishes Wilshire — Restaurant in Santa Monica

Thai restaurant on Wilshire with generous portions for reasonable prices. There’s also happy hour from 3-6 with cheap beers and select apps. Came here on a Sunday at 6pm for dinner with a group of four and was seated immediately. There were a couple other tables and it’s indoor seating. The waiter was prompt in getting our drink orders and there’s also a free Thai iced tea if you check in on yelp. We got the sampler for the appetizer which came with veggie spring rolls, shrimp wrapped in fried noodles, and this fried curry thing that I liked the best. The sweet chili sauce that came on the side was good as well - sweet, not spicy at all, with an almost syrupy texture. The dishes we ordered were all sub-$20 but were very large. The pad Thai was yummy as was the pad see ew. You have the option of meat so this can certainly be made vegetarian. The fried rice has different levels of slickness that you can customize and was also plentiful. The honey ribs came in three and were large. Those were alright, but I’d get the pad thai and pad see ew again. The Thai tea was also deliciously creamy and sweet, and you could share it between two people. We left with doggie bags for all our food so I feel like we got a really good deal for the portion sizes. They do take card and bathrooms are available in the back. Overall a good spot for some Thai food in Santa Monica where you can get your...

This is the only dining experience I can remember having in the last decade where I did not tip. They did literally everything possible wrong about a dining experience except spit in the food (and who knows... maybe they did that too). Don't go here. There are better places a few blocks away.

Very long wait for the order to be taken even though it was a slow night. The order was incorrect (shrimp instead chicken shrimp Thom Ka). I would have eaten it anyway but I hate shrimp. The soup was barely lukewarm, and had four shrimp in a pot meant to share. That's forgivable. They replaced it with what I ordered the first time. I love this dish and order it at almost every Thai place I go. It was not good. The bill came and I had been charged for both the incorrect and taken back shrimp order and chicken order.

My friend received his Pad Kee Mao 20 minutes after I got my incorrect entree, right around when I got my replaced order. I have had this dish at a hundred Thai places. It was ok at best. 4.5/10. The first refill of water happened as they brought the aforementioned incorrect bill. And to top it all off, I have a strong stomach and can usually handle the spiciest of Thai food. This wasn't spicy, but I currently feel like a stomach...

We've been regular take-out customers from Thai Dishes for easily over 20 years beginning long before they moved from their 19th and Wilshire location to 26th and Wilshire. The food has never been the same since the move, but tonight was the worst ever! Not a single dish was made fresh. No fresh vegetables, no recently cooked meat and even the Pad Thai noodles were days old. And instead of the Pumpkin Curry with chicken that we ordered, it arrived with soggy, over-cooked and unappetizing shrimp instead. Terrible! I'm not sure we'll give them one more chance after tonight, but if there's ever again a repeat of tonight, it will certainly be our last with another scathing revue to follow!!!

Update March 2025: We gave TD's another chance tonight and the food was day-and-night different from our last experience. The egg rolls were perfectly browned, not almost blackened like the last time; the Larb chicken salad was fresh with plenty of cilantro; and the other three entrees were freshly made and came as ordered. I'm not giving them the benefit of the doubt to increase rating yet, but another well prepared culinary experience from them the next time we order will be...