Rose Thai — Restaurant in Sylvania

On previous occasions (we had visited “Rose Thai” several times in the past few years) we received good tasty food and service that was consistent with the recommendations we'd received from others and online. However, this time around, while the service was good, our food was not.

We each had a spring roll to begin with (serving consists of a single spring roll at $1.99). While they were suitably crisp and golden on the outside, the filling was mushy and not a pleasant flavor, as if it had been cooked from frozen.

The Pad Kee Mau with beef (dinner-sized portion) was extremely disappointing. It used the wrong kind of noodles--the narrower & smaller rice noodles, not the really thick & extra-wide kind that have a nice soft texture, and they were a little too firm, so they were swimming around in copious amounts of sauce that was very salty and tasted mostly of soy sauce. It's quite possible that other Thai restaurants also serve those regular noodles in this dish, but this is first of numerous times I've ordered Pad Kee Mau across the country where they didn't use the extra large/wide noodles.

My wife's food (a dish containing chicken with nuts) was also dominated by a 'soy' flavor, and too much salt.

I hope this was a one-time anomaly (a stand-in chef for the holiday period?), but we won't be taking the chance again, I'm afraid.

The service was good, and the ambience/atmosphere, and cleanliness of the restaurant and restrooms were also good. I particularly like having the menu visible through the glass table top, and the nice tablecloths and goblet water glasses are...

This was our first visit, BUT NOT MY LAST! I loved the food and our waitress was awesome! Because I hadn't had Thai in some time I asked her , her favorite, she suggested a curry coconut chicken dish. I normally don't order curry, not a fan , but I ordered it, and the Pad Thai ( chix) both med high spice..and my husband orders a beef dish with curry and veggies also med high spice. All dishes are served with white rice unless u specify fried rice, so we did one bowl fried, one bowl white. I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THE CHICKEN CURRY DISH! The pad Thai was good, BUT THE CHICKEN CURRY HAD LEVELS OF FLAVOR. Here's the funny part, it wasn't that spicy. Two days later I ate my leftovers for lunch with my husband, as he ate his, and we both looked at each other and said WELL NOW ITS HOT!!! LOL BUT...

Incredibly disappointing. I know everywhere is short staffed, and I am not sure this is the case here. But at 7pm on a Saturday I went here to eat. The two of us stood with about 7-10 other people inside the doors. Most of the people had been there before we walked in. No one came at any point to greet us. No hostess, bartender, server, cook, or anyone, the staff kept telling each other about the growing and shrinking group of people waiting to be checked in. No one came. We waited for about 20 minutes before we left. Some others left before us, some stayed after we left.

If it is a 2 hour wait, just let me know. Don’t make me stand for 20 minutes without telling me. That doesn’t make sense. Why are they avoiding people coming in when there is a wait? Have they been yelled at by too...