Khao San Road Thai Cuisine — Restaurant in Seattle

Stopped in for lunch on Saturday for some yummy Thai food. I wanted a repeat experience we had had last time both with dining in and with the food. It was so delicious. We were given print outs of a QR code and told we had to look at the menu on our phones. What? Why? When scanned, it opened some food delivery app where we had choices of Pho and other Vietnamese dishes. When the young girl returned, we asked if we could order Thai food instead, so she went and printed the register receipt with the QR code for the Thai menu. Really? We can't just have a real menu to look at? This is a sit down restaurant, right? We had real menus last time we stopped in. Took me a bit to find what I thought was the same dish I had last time because looking at the tiny pictures on the phone with a short few word description was trying. Got the dish, it looked and smelled wonderful, but it was drowning in some sweet & salty sauce that would have been ok if they hadn't drown the food in it. In my opinion, sauteed Thai food should be fresh without a lot of heavy sauces, but they pored it on like some Chinese places drown their food in goo. Overall, it wasn't a very pleasant experience, and I probably won't ever go back. Too bad for me...

Arrived to a closed sign with instructions to report next door to " Pho Hiho" for pick ups and dine in? Asked server if this was Thai Crusine she said " yes", for tonight only. I thought that was odd. I asked if same owner for both places? No answer. Ordered Prawn Phad Thai and fried spring rolls. Then server comes from the " back of the restaurant with my order. ( kitchen Was in the front). Not sure what the deal is? My Phad Thai was terrible. Noodles hard and chewy under cooked. Asked for 2 stars, no spice at all. The spring rolls looked like fat egg rolls deep fried in dirty oil. No flavor, tasted like it was not fresh. My food was not hot barely warm. The arrangement of the next door business cooking the Thai food is bizarre, this is a Vietnamese restaurant. Curious if this may be a Public Health issue, it appears that my food came from the backdoor and kitchen from Thai restaurant. Needless to say I won't return. Wasted $30 including 18% tip. I didn't want to rip off the server, since it was not her decision. With sign displayed in window, it doesn't appear to be...

Food was absolutely delicious. Top tier Thai food! The rest of this will be a story of how awesome Tony was.

So I brought my dog in, as a lot of Asian restaurants don't seem to mind. After sitting down and getting menus, Tony came over and broke the news to me. He said he loves dogs, and wouldn't mind if we were the only customers, but he has to be mindful of others coming in, and their aversion to dogs.

He then offered to pick up a table and put it outside in the beautiful weather-- we said yes, and then he brought a water dish for my dog. It was so perfect to eat such great food outside in the beautiful weather, and Tony was so nice and understanding.

I admit, I put him in a tough position, but the compromise turned into something really special.

Tony seems like a higher up manager, or maybe owner, so you can expect an awesome person like him to be there for awhile. So yourselves a favor and come experience great food, great service, and wonderful accommodations at...