Chantanee Thai Restaurant & Bar

This is a great place for lunch! Outdoor seating for sunny days in Bellevue, and super fast service for a quick sit-down lunch. They even serve complimentary soups, and the soup is GOOD.

Get the:
Heavenly beef (delicious)

Don't get the:
Cashew chicken (boring)

Prices are reasonable, menu is simple! I probably wouldn't come here for dinner because there are other restaurants nearby that have better menus, but for lunch Chantanee is awesome.

FIRST OFF. Dis place be rollin in the deep. Located right between Bellevue Transit Center and Bellevue Square Mall, y'all can peep dem weirdos going around da place. All in the comfort of your own thai. Hey Chan. Tan yo Knee. To complete dat experience, you just need some Chinese acrobats shooting out of Mexican cannons for you to experience in this lush Chantanee locale.

This place just looks freakin fetch. Waitress comes up and be all like, "hey b, how u doin?" I'm all like, "yo gangster, gimme a drink. sumtin cool and light. but make it come wit mah dinner so i can enjoy it harmoniously, namsayin?" you gotta make dem liquid have chemical reactions with thai spices and go all circus monkey in your mouth.

But no, waitress comes up and brings me the drink about 8 minutes later. I be all like, "hey gangster, where mah food? I wanted dis with mah food?" she be all like, "your food's about to come." I wait 5 minutes...hmmm........SORRY MY ORDERS DON'T COME WIT INSTRUCTION MANUAL.

After about 5 more minutes, food's come. I got the Phad Phed Gang Dang (Ima call it the GANGDANG), because the name's hilarious, yo. Cocktail's not bad. Reminds me of a koala soarin' up a cloud. But the service here is not above the intelligence of yo average marsupial. I ain't never seen any waiter bring you the check while you are still eating. To be as clear as the aurora freaking borealis, the waitress brings me the check while i'm still nommin the hell out of my GANGDANG. So while I'm meditatin to my GANGDANG, ya put dis piece of leather n paper next to me and i'm like, "Is this paper for my chakras power level? BECAUSE I AIN'T FEELIN YOU."

Now as for the food, the GANGDANG puts the Gang in GANGSTER FLAVA. To spell it out for you, the GANGDANG is your choice of meat in "green bean, onion, mushroom, bamboo shoot, bell pepper, and sweet basil in a red curry paste." But DAMNNN I can taste some coconut (or just something REALLY CREAMY) in there I swear to Jimi Hendrix. They take this flavor to another level. I ordered 3 spice...it ain't all dat spicy, but it's got the most intricate flavor I've had in a Thai dish. They got some baby crying while we were eating too. He just wished he had mah GANGDANG.

There were a few peppercorns served with the GANGDANG. I put a few in my drink, hoping that once I drink it, I'd have dreams of a Mexican monkey. Instead I dreamt about Thom Yorke.

Over errthang, good food, marsupial service.

3 Koalas out of 5

A little disappointing ..the food is not that great..The chicken satay was dry ..the phad kee mao was mediocre..