Thai Valley Kitchen — Restaurant in West Virginia

Almost speechless for how good my meal was.

I love finding restaurants with something unique on their menu, even if I don’t order from it, I like to see the stand out menu options.

Anyways, like most cuisines whenever I try a new place I have a typical staple dish.

Although they had something I never heard of called Jungle Curry, my particular choice for Thai food it’s always Massaman Curry, it’s a bit weird but I have tried all the colored Curries and Green Curry would be my 2nd favorite.

Massaman is typically a beautiful blend of sweet and spice with the sweet being peanut base, and the complimenting ingredients mostly are potato and rice.

Anyways, for the most rural town I can find myself in for the evening, Nitro WV, I basically found almost the best representation I can find.

Previous 1st was PakPao Dallas TX Short rib Massaman, anyways I have had probably the dish 100-200 times in my lifetime and again from first bite to completely clean dish it jumped immediately to top 2 if not best ever.

Kudos to whoever’s cooking and whoever’s recipe but great work, and hopefully I make it back to try the Jungle Curry.

Overall, place definitely didn’t disappoint as one of the top ranked restaurants in small town according to Google maps, and next to, and within walking distance to the best ranked Hotel in 50 mile radius.

2nd pic added for landmark, if you don’t take shortcut behind car-lot fence, to get to “strip mall” you will walk a long way to get to driving entrance, if you...

We were passing through West Virginia on our way to Indiana. The town of Hurricane (what a great name!) was halfway so we opted to spend the night there. As an aside, we stayed at the Holiday Inn Express which seems to be the best option in the area. Perusing Google and Yelp, I saw lots of favorable reviews for Thai Valley Kitchen. Huh, in West Virginia? What the heck – we decided to give it a try. All I can say is “Wow”. What a hidden jewel. Don’t be deceived by the exterior or half vacant strip mall. The interior is open and cheery. The wait staff is accommodating and very sweet. We ordered a glass of Deloach Merlot, and they poured a nice size serving. For dinner, we shared egg rolls, the Tuna Tower and the Seared Tuna. Everything was delicious! We were both jockeying to get the last bite. The Tuna was seared on the outside and raw on the inside. It came with a mango salsa that matched perfectly. Now, I could go on and on about the tuna tower. It is a pile of spicy, tender tuna chunks on top of more chunks of avocado and mango. We could have eaten another one! I will say it was a bit zesty for us but that didn’t stop us from wolfing it down. When we asked, the waitress did respond that they can make it less spicy – duly noted for the next time. Please open a restaurant in Ruckersville, VA!...

Usually, our experiences here have been good, however, this instance was not. We got seated right away, but then waited nearly 45 minutes before a waitress came to get our order. Once the order was in, it took another 20 minutes to get our appetizer. And the food came out maybe 15 minutes after. The whole experience was 2 hours from sit to check. I have a few suggestions for the owners of the Thai Valley Restaurant to make this place run a little better. It was the day before a major holiday (Feb 14th) and there were only two wait staff. They were doing everything from running food and taking orders and drinks, to putting together pickup orders and taking phone calls. You definitely need to have more staff there during bigger holidays like that. Have someone dedicated for takeout and another helping take orders or just doing drinks and running food. I believe our waiter was on break when we got there because we did not see her until the 30 minute mark. There should have been someone filling in for her, or just not seat anyone on that side until she was back. This was by far the worst experience I've had at Thai Valley. I'm giving two stars for two reasons. I know they can do better with time management and staffing if they hire more people. The food was hot...