Thai Chef — Restaurant in Schertz

I was pretty excited to try this new restaurant, but my first visit was pretty flat.

Even though it has the word “Thai” in its name, the restaurant menu is a hodgepodge of Thai, Japanese, Chinese, and Vietnamese dishes. A Sloppy menu is usually an off putting flag and in this case was no exception as it tastes like the food is either being made hours in advance or being prepared from prepackaged pastes. I’d love to see the chefs prepare the food to be proven wrong.

Service is pretty poor here. The wait staff asked for our drink orders, but the restaurant doesn’t provide a drink menu. The waitress wasn’t able to give us any options for drinks so we just ordered water and a soda.

The restaurant tables are also crammed. Each table has a large round serving tray that must have been a foot in diameter with s&p along with sriracha and hoisin sauce. If you’re expecting the usual Thai condiments of sugar, fish sauce, chili flakes, and vinegar- they are not in this tray.

But all this to say that we sat at a 4 top and ordered 2 entrees and one app and the plates wouldn’t fit on the tables. Secondly, why bother calling them appetizers when every single item we ordered came out at the same time, less than 5 minutes after we placed our order?

Getting the food so quickly was also a little concerning which is why I suspect it was all prepared ahead of time. The spring rolls were good I have no complaints there. But the drunken noodles were terrible. The color was off, the dish was dry, the cuts of beef seemed to be the lowest quality of beef the restaurant could scrape up, and the vegetable portion was abysmal. The noodles themselves had a gluey texture and everything had a which char texture which makes me suspect the dish is made ahead of time and then quickly reheated on a wok when it is ordered.

The panang curry tasted tasted good. I disagree a little with the choice of veg as it is usually served with bell peppers but here it’s full of mostly beans, along with your choice of protein. The main complaint I have with this dish is that it’s nothing I couldn’t have whipped up myself at home with a package of panang curry paste, some beans and some raw shrimp. There’s no complexity to the curry being served here.

Overall I couldn’t even give this place 3 stars because I’d be willing to go back to a 3 star restaurant if I was in the mood but I can easily say I will never return to Thai Chef.

The meals are very affordable though. In my opinion I would rather pay a little more for better food, but maybe this is what the local...

Well. Just left. Took my 9 yo daughter here for some much needed one on one time. We both LOVE sushi and wanted to give it a shot. The sushi we ordered (Cibolo & Schertz Rolls). The avocado was brown when they brought the rolls to the table and everything in the rolls were very soggy and hardly held together. Nonetheless we were not going to let that put a damper on our lunch date! We finished our food and were just chatting and goofing off (low key...We were not loud nor were we bothersome to anybody else). The women looked a little put off that we were "hanging out" (they were NOT busy by any means) and the man (I assume is the owner?) became very irritated that we were still there. He began hovering around our table and eventually came up and asked if we were finished. I asked if I needed to go to the counter for the bill but he responded very quickly that he would bring it to me. From that moment on he unpleasantly brought the check, I handed him my card and when he came back with the reciept I tried to say thank you but he just slammed the receipt book down and walked off. He had actually just done the same thing to an older lady who had been there for the same amount of time as we were. She said she had to step outside to grab something and that she would be right back. He threw her stuff away. Less than 3 minutes, she walked back in and acknowledged that she told him she would be right back. He couldn't have cared less. Good food or not (which we weren't impressed), we will not contribute to this business ever again. And to clarify, we were in there for MAYBE an hour and a half. Apparently they only want customers who get in...

I love Thai good but this is one of my worst experiences servife and food wise. Ordered my food at 5:06pm, they said 25 mins. I showed up 30 minutes later, they said my food was being packaged, 10 minus later-- still being packaged. another 10 and same thing. There's a crowd of takeouters forming and 1 guy said he ordered at 4:30pm and they gave his order to the wrong person. it's almost 6:30 at this point. How ridiculous? An hour and a half after ordering, the only consolation would have been if my food was good after waiting soloist an hour for my takeout order with little kids in tow. However, the food was absolute trash! My fried rice was the burned and blandest rice of any kind I've ever had, my drunken noodles and pad see ew were hard and stuck together. The mango sticky rice sauce was way too watery and the mangoes weren't even ripe. The rangoon and the sauce were just off. The orange chicken was ok and the spring rolls were fine but that's it. My pad thai was also too stuck together and hard and none of my family (who love thai food) wanted any. It was a complete waste of almost $90 and 75% of the food went in the trash. So not only did they waste my time, but also my money. If they were honest enough to tell me my order wasn't even stated yet, I would have dropped off my kids and returned for pickup but the fact that they were dishonest and kept stalling me pissed me off more than the poor food quality. I would normally give places a 2nd try as the non-take out food actually LOOKED decent but I...