Thai Sawatdee — Restaurant in Winston-Salem

It all began quite suddenly…automatic sliding doors, a sideways glance…the double take and an innate willingness to take a chance.

What had I to lose? A couple of bucks and a few loose doo doo’s?

One does not usually partake of side-business grocery store fare, but as for my own luck, I was on a tear.

A waft of savoury aroma followed by shortness of breath, a burly Thai man in a colourful Polo with a smile so deft. Self restraint, you ask? I had none left.

Varied and vibrant, the portions had heft. Prices so nice I thought it theft, but man, could I possibly trust that smiling strongman with a chin so cleft?

BANG! Taste piled upon taste, this one-hit-wonder soon became an album, with lonely Friday nights turning into Thai food/pleasure amalgams. Can you hang tonight? No ma’m! I have plans with some homemade cuisine from a little Thai fam.

Months stretched to years and the album became a catalog. The words “Thai Sawatdee, can I help you?” swirling in my head and watering my mouth like Pavlov, head in a fog…only one saved number repeatedly left in my call log!

“Teeter Thai”, the pet name for my new mistress, we developed our own dialect.

“Heeeeeeeey man”

“Hey man, how you been?”

No language barrier here, we clicked through thick and thin. Green curry or spicy noodles? One, the other, or los dos. Suffice it to say….they were always there when I needed it most.

Gone now, I’ve moved away, but in my...

Love this place. I did not expect much, tucked away in Ardmore's Harris Teeter as it is. They actually have, I think, 8 4-tops, where people of all ages, races, persuasions sit, after giving in their orders at the counter. When your soup is ready, the guy comes bustling out to your table, bringing egg or spring rolls with soup -- for you and everyone else at the table.

By-n-by, same fella shows up with your entré, takes away the first course. This, of course, is normal restaurant procedure. What's different is that who's serving and bussing, as well as ringing up your order and handling take-out orders over the phone, is the same person, who I've always assumed is the owner. There are two others, a woman and man,who take his place from time to time, but the procedure is always the same. I confess, I don't know any of their names, which is embarrassing, but we'll usually carry on a little light conversation.

Again, I think they're all family, but have no knowledge of it. It's a happy and surprising discovery that a place with little space of its own has such a comfortable ambience, part which is that while there, you're looking out at HT's fresh fruit islands with their colorful grapefruits, oranges, pomegranates and such.

Oh, and I should mention that their menu is extensive, reasonably priced and the...

The cashier was extremely rude, and disputatious.

I was on a doordash run, and when I arrived I notified the cashier about the order I was picking up, and the cashier proceeds to bring an order out to the pickup table, and as I was about to look at the name of that order, she stops me and says "this isn't your order and that I'll bring it out to you." Then when she gives me my order I begin to head to the customers location, only to get a call from doordash that stated "the restaurant failed to give me the complete order" and so I went back to see what happen, she angrily demands to know why I didn't grab the first order she set down on the table when I first came. I tried reminding her that she specifically told me not to take that one, but she starts raising her voice and talking to me like I'm a child, getting loud, rude, and making a scene. I acknowledge that there was miscommunication, but reguardless of where the miscommunication originated it wasn't that big of a deal for someone to get so hostile and agressive for something so little. Hostile behavior is not acceptable...

( My review is solely on this doordash run, ive never eaten here, and...