Thai Woodbury — Restaurant in Woodbury

“Thai Woodbury” is the city’s new (and only) Thai restaurant, conveniently located off 494 and Lake Rd, in a little strip mall by the cycle shop. Thai Woodbury serves a delicious mix of Thai, and some Chinese, Vietnamese, and Lao dishes. They use plenty of fresh spices and veggies, lots of protein and have good sized servings. Some places skimp on these, not here! Tastes have been excellent for every meal. Clearly authentic, great quality food with a fresh home-made taste. Food preparation is excellent, the noodle and rice dishes have the classic “breath-of-the-wok” (wok hei) taste that comes from rapid searing and tossing of protein and vegetables in a very hot wok. Their menu covers the basics of Asian fare, but is a bit limited compared with the (incredibly) extensive offerings at some downtown Thai places. There’s also a limited selection of beverages besides bottle water and canned sodas.

Our recent meal there included egg rolls, drunken noodles, shrimp pad Thai, roast duck curry, with sticky rice and mangoes for dessert. The egg rolls were the best we’ve ever had, unique and home-made (and for us, better than their fancier Thai Egg Rolls). Their Roast Duck Curry is really good, has lots of tender duck, fresh tomatoes and basil, peas, carrots in a mildly spicy curry sauce. The other items were excellent, similar to meals we’ve had in our vacations to East Asia. I tried their Ravu stew, new to me, which they said was the Thai take on American beef stew, flavored with Thai spices. It’s pretty good! tho a bit sweet for my taste. I could see recommending it for someone who wants an introduction to Thai flavors.

The place is small, only about ten tables. Last time it was quite full, so we had a short wait. They seem to have a busy take-out business. Staff is very friendly and welcoming, adds a lot to the otherwise clean and simple atmosphere. Everything is neat and clean. It’s a new place, so it will be interesting to see how they handle MN winter weather when it gets...

My little family and I stopped in and was excited but was quite disappointed. We were greeted and than seated at a small table. We ordered chicken satay and spring rolls from their appetizers, my husband ordered walleye curry, since they were out of catfish. My daughter had sticky rice and sausage. While I ordered beef laab and lao papaya. The spring rolls aren’t your traditional spring rolls, instead of sliced roasted pork, you get a small sausage in the roll which I have never seen and it was disappointing. My husband wasn’t a fan of the curry. He wanted it spicy and wasn’t expecting them just to sprinkle dry pepper flakes…if you prefer your curry on the sweeter side, their curry would be okay. My daughter’s sausage was small and looked like it was a frozen sausage and then was thawed then cooked. The side that came with the sausage was just steamed veggies… probably frozen too. The laab didn’t look appetizing and same with the taste. The lao papaya I ordered was made wrong, with little to no flavor, mostly fish sauce. The service is okay. Once we received our food, the server never returned, and we never got refills. Almost into an hour of dining, the server returned and since we were done we asked for the check. The pricing is a little more on the expensive side, comparing to other restaurants we have been to. You can find better restaurants that is more affordable with better quality of food. We discussed and this will be our first and last time ordering from Thai Woodbury.

On a side note, we watched a customer come after we had order our food and he was waiting for his pickup. He didn’t receive his order until we had already finished our meal. The gentleman actually fell asleep while waiting. Good luck if you plan to...

Came in for dinner for two. Wish I hadn't.

My food initially came out briefly, before the server looked down at it with concern and then took it back into the kitchen for 5ish minutes.

Ordered a curry with beef, found other some possibly microwaved beef (I heard one beeping during that 5 minutes and it had the consistency) in there with other meats that I hadn't ordered. I'm fairly sure it was chicken. I'm not allergic, but nothing was said to me as it was set down. My eating companion was vegan(and we had mentioned this), so this didn't sit well with either of us. She had a different dish at least.

When I brought it up, a different server said he could take it back to redo it. When I suggested that maybe they just charge me for chicken instead of beef, I was told that I had gotten double meat and I was LUCKY I wasn't being charged extra for it.

That was the last time they came to our table. I had to get up to get to go plates and also to pay. Servers were in the back the whole time minus that very unpleasant interaction and our initial order.

Food tasted fine, but it wasn't among my top 5 Thai places even judging it on that alone. My companion was also served 5 minutes after me, even with that 5 minute pit stop my food took in the kitchen to add presumably microwaved beef. Server said nothing about when her food would be out when I was served.

If I come back, it'll be because I'm eating with someone who wants vegan food and they don't want to have any of the other few options in town. Worst service I've...