Elephant #8 Thai Taste — Restaurant in Slippery Rock

Elephant #8 in Slippery Rock is stellar. the food. the service. the atmosphere. the walk from the car to the entrance even! do yourself a favor, and park up the street a couple blocks. it’s a nice slow gradient downhill. its a college town, a beautiful compact town. with storefronts and cool spots to eat, a microbrewery thats merits a long relaxing visit. But back to #8, with the decorated entrance, i got a pic posted of that. how many places decorate the outside? inside, good seating. not tightly packed. plenty of customers theres a reason for that. the food is so freaking good. disclaimer, obligatory reference to time spent in air force and friends Thai Wives delicious cooking.

this restaurant had to have been planned and designed and the menu developed and curated and tested in labs… No. Pretty darn sure they just came up with everything as they went along because the food here, ALL the food here, is authentic. flat out authentic, and, drum roll, if i ever had better, i dont remember it. or you can try, everything ive had here, and i have taken food to go from here, just because. well, yeah the crispy duck was great. Linda said her Pad Thai is the best ever. its a 23 mile drive. it only makes sense to buy more food for home consumption! it saves money in the long run! and it reheats great. even the crispy duck. and it does the heat scale thing. 1 to 10. wife and i get a 4, and that is where i reccomend you start unless you are really used to REAL Thai heat. i dont know who gets the 7 to 10 heat range, but I’m impressed if you do! the pics are more than i usually do. oh, and their summer rolls are great too, but you have to ask for fish sauce. also also, make sure you get extra chopped peanuts. no sushi. there is another one that has sushi. you want to eat at the Slippery Rock location. if you want to make a drive here, from youngstown or meadville, worth it. really really worth it. anyways, crispy duck. the one with peppers on the side and a savory tamarind sauce. the other crispy duck has a sweet tamarind sauce. both great. i like the savory one. wife got pad thai. extra chopped peanuts. and split an order of summer rolls, with shrimp. and BYOB. that great benefit of eating out in PA! i never have, so i dont know if they charge a buck. but. i like a good beer with Thai food. i never have done the byob thing here. because, food. plus if i want a beer, up the street at the brewery place. As an aside, I’ve gotten “Best Of” meals everywhere I’ve eaten since i moved to New Castle. i genuinely like the lamb and hot dogs and gyros and Ladies of the Dukes Sunday dinners. but this spot. Elephant #8 in Slippery Rock, worth a drive in the country, to eat at this place. oh and service is gracious and attentive. service is...

Nina (the owner) showed my family and I a wonderful time up at Slippery Rock. My family and I (A party of 9) were up at SRU for a football game. After the game ended, we decided that we wanted to go get some food. The problem was that it was right after the game so everywhere was just slammed!

Elephant 8 is new since my wife went to SRU but we love Thai food so we decided to give them a call. We said that we wanted to eat in and wanted to know how long the wait was for a party of 9 (that was asking a lot). Nina said she thought that she could squeeze us in and wanted to know how soon we could get there. We told her we would be there in 10 minutes.

10 minutes later, we walk in expecting a wait but we were surprised! We walk in and a section of the restaurant was all pushed together, set with place settings, and full water cups at every seat!

They were slammed with order for take out and were completely packed but within 20 minutes we all had our very different orders placed before us. The food was FANTASTIC and Nina was a great host. She came and talked with us and made sure that everything was to her standards.

We were blown away by her hospitality and food and we will make this a regular stop when we are...

DO NOT ORDER TAKE-OUT. I have ordered take-out twice, the first time no issues and food was great, however the second time I ordered (through the same ordering platform) when i arrived to pick-up my order, the gal at the front desk was VERY SHORT AND RUDE stating they did not receive my order and that the platform i ordered from was a SCAM. Yet a week before that my first order had no issue with the same platform. I understand being very busy and not able to get to to-go orders, but lying and stating its a scam when a customer gets there and has already paid is unethical. I now have to report it as fraud with my bank to received a refund as nothing was offered to resolve the issue. Instead after insiting it was a scam she walked away and tended to other customers. If your take out customers are not valued as you clearly indicated in your lack of response to rectify the issue, dont offer take out. I will be contacting the better business bureau on this matter, and not returning as a customer as I am clearly not a...