When you let them
Know how you specifically want your food, they can be on point.
Their shrimp shu Mai (steamed) is good, the sauce makes it better.
Their vegetable egg rolls are a must have
They serve better pad Thai than sticky rice. If you want it to be spicy let them know. But make sure you don't emphasize it too much because they WILL make it spicy. Really spicy. I've learned.
Some of their food is better than sticky rice some not. Their pad woonsen is a miss.
They dont have a lot of choices on their menu as well.
It can be a hit or miss, and when it's a hit, it's really a HIT.
good luck
They have an interesting specials menu with some things I had never seen before. It wasn't the same menu you see at almost every Thai restaurant. The food quality was great, vegetables were super fresh. The Ginger dish with shrimp is awesome, and doesn't fall short on ginger. Music was 101.9 The Mix, which made the atmosphere somewhat unpleasant, until someone asked them to change it.
Review Source:Thai Room is good. They are old school and have been here about 30 years. The decor hasn't changed.
BYOB is nice.
Their lunch specials are great and very reasonable. The other day I did a lunch special takout w/ spring rolls, salad, Pad Thai entree & a diet coke for $7.67. That's a solid deal because it's all very tasty.
They have a spicy curry duck dish in a curry sauce that's excellent. It comes with rice and works well mixed together. It's a substantial dish. Definitely good for two meals but so good it's hard to stop when full.
I've been to many Thai places and Thai room is solid.
I've been coming to the Thai Room for over 25 years and the quality, although not quite as good as a couple decades ago, has remained consistently good.
The decor and atmosphere is actually very nice. Cozy ambiance is not the norm for asian restaurants, which is one of the reasons most people would rather carry out than dine in at a typical Chinese or Thai establishment.
Some recommended appetizers are the Som Tum spicy salad or the fresh spring rolls. A couple of our favorite entrees are the Pad See Oew with tofu and the Spicy Chicken Basil with rice. Their curry dishes are well prepared also.
To som it up, good food, great service, cozy ambiance, generous portions and reasonably priced. They've been around for a long time so they must be doing something right
This place got pretty good reviews on Grub Hub so we decided to order from here.
The food here wasn't horrible but it just lacked that great spicy flavor of typical Thai food.
Pad Thai had absolutely no spiciness to it at all and it was kind of flavorless. My friend ordered the Tom Yum soup and the shrimp still had the tails on. Very strange. Egg rolls were flavorless too.
Skip it - there are better options in the area!
That about sums it up.
Tom Yum soup is the equivelant of chicken noodle soup to me when I'm sick. I ordered the large $8 soup. What I got was a fair amount of sweet broth. I don't need sweet, I need spicy like typical Tom Yum. That's the secret ingredient to help clear up the ole sinuses, duh! Strike 1
The egg rolls - all dough and some indistinguishable flavored soggy filling. Strike 2
Pad Thai - lack luster. Strike 3
Sorry Thai Room, not enough room in my Thai restaurant circle to keep you in the mix.
I made the mistake of ordering a deep fried $22 Whole Red Snapper. Â Dry, gross, unedible! Â I waited an hour for delivery when I only live 1 mile away. Â Veggie Egg Rolls, dry, not good. Â Gyoza, dry, nothing was hot, it was luke warm. Â I was so pissed I asked my boyfriend to call and get our money back. Â I gave the delivery person a $5 tip too. Â $35.95 later and we got an incoherent, non English speaking person on the phone. Â When we complained and asked for a refund, they offered chicken (the next evening!) Â I tried calling at 8:38 and the manager was not available. Â I checked my Chase account and I was billed twice! Â for $35.95.
Review Source:I've been ordering from the Thai Room since I was a small child. This place has enormous portions, excellent curry, fantastic fried rice, great noodles. They deliver pretty quickly, and they are relatively cheap.
As for eating in, the atmosphere is nice and quiet, though some of the ornamental furnishings look a little out of date. That said, their service more than makes up for that.
What other Thai restaurant willingly and correctly accepts and makes dishes with up to three 'modifications' like no napa cabbage in my fried rice? Can't beat the Thai Room in my book.
My experience with here has only been with delivery. There are a lot of Thai options in the area, and this one is just average as far as food goes. But, the portions are a good size, the prices are reasonable and the service has always been good. We've ordered from them three or four times and the food always arrives within an hour and nothing has ever been missing.
Review Source:Powered by GrubHub - Thai Room had good prices with a classic Thai menu. I ordered a bit of gyoza, crab rangoon, and shrimp pad thai. Since I ordered more than $15, they decided to throw in some free egg rolls. Fifty minutes later my delivery came to my door and I got the goods!
Gyoza - came with a dipping sauce with sesame seeds. Another dipping sauce seemed like Mexican green sauce. Gyoza was very crisp but a tad on the dry side and I kind of like it that way. Insides were still moist and tasty.
Crab Rangoon - Crunchy, not wrapped to the point of  being utterly compressed. The crab rangoon was probably pan fried or deep fried but not for too long. It also came with a strange green dipping sauce but I didn't need to dip any into the sauce.
Pad Thai w/Shrimp - I ordered mine without the sprouts and it looked like they cooked it well done just the way I like it. Lots of real peanuts were chopped into the pad thai and the peanut sauce was stick to your ribs good.
Overall not bad for this Thai Room test spin. There are a few places closer than me that deliver quicker but if you live nearby, go right ahead Thai Room's got the goods.
This Thai restaurant is a big NO in my book. I love Pad Thai. I could eat it everyday if I could. I know that is not possible so I like to have it a couple times a month. We tried this place 2 times now and both were not so great. We had Thai Room the other night and the delivery guy didn't want to come to our 3rd floor condo so my husband had to meet him downstairs. That was weird but maybe he had an injury?
When you order on GH, you get 2 free egg rolls. Nice touch but they taste like they were sitting around since yesterday. Gross. My pad Thai had ROTTEN carrots on top. I had to pick them out because it was turning my stomach. The pad Thai was on the dry side. Luckily my husband switched dishes with me. He ordered the basil chicken. It was OK but again, they used near rotting produce.
If Grub Hub shows this restaurant as an option, skip it. You will thank me later!
This is my new go-to Thai delivery place. The pusher man, aka Grubhub, suggested it to me, and Yelp gave it the nod, so I gave it a try. Then to be sure, I tried it two more times in the same number of weeks.
One reason to love the Thai Room is that they're doing something a little different than the other Thai places in town. Sure they've got your standard satay and pad thai and panang curry. But they also have two different kinds of sausages, spinach and chicken pot stickers, and fried squid stuffed with ground pork. Several different duck dishes -- including a duck curry -- salmon, and catfish. And on and on. I've barely made a dent in the menu, while with a number of other Thai places, I'm already bored with everything they have.
Delivery is quick -- usually quicker than the time they quote -- but it's also 3 bucks. They start giving you free stuff after $15, which takes away some of the sting.
After my fiance and I consulted our third roommate, Grub Hub, we were all in agreement tonight was definitely a Thai food kind of night. I remember passing Thai Room on my way to school every morning during my good ol' SBHS days, so we opted to give it a try since we'd never had it.
Good call Grub Hub! The gentleman who took my order told me it would take 45 minutes, but low and behold, 35 minutes later my man is meeting our new friend Mr. Delivery Driver and liberating a piping hot bag of goodies from his clutches. Within said bag was some chicken pad woon sen, beef panang curry, crab rangoon and pot stickers (Thai Room style).
The crab rangoon was delectable, as most crab rangoon tends to be. What threw me for a loop was the pot sticker. I now know that Thai Room style reads MEATLESS. Okay, in all fairness I should have read the description first. It's supposed to have ground chicken mingling with all that tasty spinach, but I didn't really pick up on that. The important thing to note is... who the hell cares??? They were absolutely delicious! I'm sure many a Yelper will disagree with me, but I'm always pleasantly surprised when I discover spinach in my food.
While I didn't try the curry, I can vouch for the pad woon sen. This was my first go round with this dish, and it reminded me of pancit or chap chae (my fellow Asian food enthusiasts will know what I'm talking about here). There was the perfect veggie:noodle:chicken ratio, undeniably a mouth-pleaser.
My one complaint? The person who took my order would ask me to repeat what I had just said and then cut me off mid sentence. To ask me to repeat. Again. But the lengthy ordering process was a very small price to pay for such tasty eats!
The green curry tofu is just incredible: sweet, spicy, and full of flavor, refreshing yet filling at the same time. Â I could probably live off of this. Â The pad thai, on the other hand, had a bit too much fish sauce in it for me. Â However, I'm pretty sensitive to fish sauce, so the problem may have been me.
It's located in one the most boring areas of the city (apologies to my brother, who lives two blocks away), but I would go out of my way to come here and get the green curry.
This is the best Pad Thai I've had in the city. This is compared to Pad Thai I've eaten at:
Thai Wild Ginger
Thai Eatery
Sticky Rice
Siam Noodle & Rice
Opart Thai House
Thai Lagoon
Tasty Thai
Charlie Thai
Anong Thai
Yeah, my husband and I are obsessed with Thai food. Either way, I've gotten around when it comes to trying pad thai and this has had the most well balanced flavors and best texture, etc.
Ok, funny story:
I just moved near Thai Room and subsequently needed to fulfill my inner curry-monster ('C' is for curry and that's good enough for me!). Â Well, I went online to my favorite restaurant review website and I found that I had no choice but to try...STICKY RICE. Â Ok ok ok. Â So, this was on Tuesday, and by today (Thursday) I have acquired some sort of sinus cold dealie; and consequently I have been sippin' on dat Thera Flu in my "MSU Is For LOVERS" mug.
So, the stage is set for my sinus to need a curry-booster shot to clear out the mucky mucus that lies within my face. Â I am loopy on sinus meds (you know, the hard CVS kind...) and have again today read some great reviews on why I should go to Sticky Rice.
I drive there, park on a nearby street perpendicular to Western Ave. and walk right in. Â I order eggplant kha prao with chicken-which had basil leaves and chiles, fried squid rolled around homemade sausage (app.), jasmine tea, and green curry with chicken. Â Yes, I am starving, I mistakenly lifted weights today, which immediately convinced my sinuses to close up shop for at least the next 24 hours; and also required me to eat something spicy to be able to detect any flavor molecules.
The squid-sausage combo is not fantastic, but ok. Â It comes with a sweet and sour sauce that was above average though. Â It is really hard to tell if there is even squid wrapped around the sausage pieces. Â Instead it seems that it could just as likely be wontons. Â My green curry was sweet and slightly spicy with all white-meat chicken. Â Fab-u-lous. Â The curry sauce was divine spooned over the included jasmine rice. Â Â The eggplant kha prao had a good bit of veg in it (incl. eggplant) and, again, an abundance of white-meat chicken.
I happily pay my bill (about $30, with tip), and then I leave, turn to the left to walk to my car, get in, loosen my belt because there are no leftovers, and head to my apt. Â I drive past THAI ROOM, which is right next door to WHERE I WAS SUPPOSED TO EAT-Sticky Rice.
Long story short, possibly-dare I say probably, not funny for you, but I was in stitches! Â It made me wonder if it was a self-fulfilling prophecy since I knew that Sticky Rice was supposed to be fantastic. Â Or at least delicious. Â Anywho, I will be trying Sticky Rice again soon and I hope that it is at least good as Thai Room.
Cheers!
Sticky Rice is closed, so it's time for Thai Room.
Food was pretty inexpensive and tasty, some nice spices, my eyes watered, but it was cool and authentic. Boiled coconut milk is awesome and makes you want to sleep, but makes for a great dessert. This is one of the many places that makes the awesome and well known pineapple fried rice. I also had a "original hot number one", of which the translation would piss off any grammar nazi. Meanwhile, it was spicy and fantastic, a great curry to clear your sinuses.
It's a good place to go for thai overall, although the menu choices are a little bit small.
I used to go to this restaurant every Wednesday night in 2007 - 2008 then I got really busy and could only make it in a few times since then.
When I started going there the food was amazing! But I just went back recently and the food quality suffered. Nothing had any flavor. It was really depressing.
After digging through our bag of carryout menus, I came across this Thai restaurant that I hadn't tried yet and decided to give it a go. Â Well, delivery was cutting into the one hour mark pretty close, but the food wasn't that great either. Â My beef Pad Se Ew was kind of bland and missing the flavor that I was craving. Â My Basil Chicken was better than the Pad Se Ew dish, but I've had better as well. Â The prices are pretty average. Â I don't see it being worthwhile for me to stop in since the food itself wasn't impressive and will stick to my Thai restaurant on Milwaukee, Pot Pan for delivery.
Review Source:If the delivery driver had not increased his tip (to 35%) on our credit card slip, I would give Thai Room two stars due to their tasty curry dishes. However, everything else I've tried is lackluster.
Overall, the food is just okay, it's nothing special, but at least the prices are not inflated. But for the same price you can get much better Thai food!
We were introduced to Thai Room by a friend who had been a regular when he lived in the neighborhood more than ten years ago and he wanted to treat us there. After the meal, he said that the quality has gone down over time which may explain the raving reviews this restaurant seems to have accumulated in the press. My husband liked the curry, so we gave it another chance.
I'm still upset about being ripped-off by the delivery driver but I'm happy to report that I've turned to Yelp consumer therapy. So "NO" to proposition Thai Room!
Three stars for the curry noodles alone. I normally hate curry dishes, but daaaang - this was delicious. I ended up eying my date's food all night and wishing I'd listened when he said I should order it.
Otherwise, I had the pad se ew with chicken, and while the flavor was fine, it was cold.
The Thai Room is defintely the most frequently visited Thai restarant that I hit. Â It is a little hole in the wall on Western avenue that has GREAT food.
I love the hot sauce, so any dish I have gotten there is always great after I loose a few pounds of sweat while throwing on the red chile sauce. Â Hmm Hmmmmmm. Â The prices are very reasonable...
They deliver too and it is super fast and always as good as if you were sitting in the restaurant. Â
The inside of the place is very well decorated with all sorts of different arts and crafts from the mainland, while the music brings you 10000 miles away! Â Oh, there is ample seating too!
Defintely a great little Thai place!!
The Duck in the Red Curry! Â Order it!
We were searching for a delivery Thai place near the house and came across Thai Room on <a href="/redir?url=http%3A%2F%2FGrubhub.com&s=b68af316d5ad911efafe6df1a7700193fecd9928d904496b34ba6a876ef91c08" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://Grubhub.com</a>. Â Lucky would have it, we were very happy with our choice. Â The food came quick and hot! Â You must try the Roasted Duck in Red Curry and the Hot number one!
Got to my midwife appointment a tad bit earlier than expected because Chicago traffic was being nice. Â My husband had is usual (and by that I mean any Thai, Vietnamese or Chinese restaurant this is what he gets) Fried Rice, I had a cucumber salad because that was all I could stomach at the time. Â Both were tasty and satisfying and since it is hard for me to find things that will stay down, this turned out to be a delicious treat. Â I want to try Cousins down the block because it says vegetarian so I think I will look for a review on that :)
Review Source:Honestly I think the portions and the prices don't match. Â Lunch for two shouldn't be very expensive and I spent nearly thirty something dollars (w/ tip) with one appetizer, two entrees and two soda's. Â My friend thought the basil chicken was pretty good. Â Panang beef was just O-k my accompanying noodle dish was also just OK. Â Crab Rangoon's were plain, dipping em' in the chili sauce and sweet and sour sauce, helped alot. Â Service was good. Â In comparison to the Thai place that's next door... Â (Note:WhyTF is there a Thai place next door?) Â In comparing service and food,Thai room is a far better experience.
Good for dates. Â Parking can be hard to find. Â If you don't mind walking, you can find parking on the inside streets just 2-3 blocks north.
I love Thai Sookdee in Evanston, so I was really excited to try the owners' other restaurant on Western. The menu is pretty similar to that of Thai Sookdee, so I knew I'd be in for a good meal. The crab rangoon is reaaaally good and the sauce is exactly the same as the one used in Evanston - VERY important. I had ginger chicken as my entree and it was delicious! They've got all of the "standard" Thai dishes you'd expect, plus a few specialty entrees and interesting curries. Plus you can get almost anything as a vegetarian option, or with any degree of spicyness (is that a word?) you desire.
Review Source:Pretty good, I ordered delivery. The guy on the phone was very nice & Â I Â did not have to repeat myself at all:) The delivery was prompt & they called as we had asked which is a rarity it seems.
We ordered the Crab ragoon -typical triangles(my husband likes this type alot but I pefer thin crispy wrapping like what was on our Veg egg rolls YUM. We also got a tom yum soup Very strong & pugent flavor. And the Cashew entree with tofu - Fresh & Â light with lots of fresh veggies (no baby corn YAY!) & they took out the onions as we asked*
I would order here again
Also they upgrade to brown or sticky rice which is cool
I heard that the fish dishes are excellent, I will venture to try one at a later time.
i decided to try thai room for the first time, and got delivery. i looked at the menu online (on grubhub - it had really good reviews on there, too) and chose the shrimp dumplings and the shrimp and pineapple curry (shrimp extravaganza!). the delivery was quick, and the food was hot.
the best part was the dumplings; there were 8 very small, squishy and delectable savory streamed dumplings. i would go back just for those. the curry, however, while flavorful, lacked in ingredients. i noticed other people said that things like chicken were wanting in thai room's food. basically, this curry was a lot of curry sauce with some chunks of pineapple and shrimp (which annoyingly had shells on the tails). it seemed like there should have been some vegetables, or at least some basil or something... because i don't like to eat all the rice, i was left with a bunch of soup.
i recommend thai valley on wilson/kedzie for a heartier meal, although i think the flavor of the curry (curry soup?) at thai room is superior, as are their amazing dumplings. ultimately, though, three stars is the best i can do.
Ok, so the time has finally come for my first review. I know the rest of the yelp world has been waiting with bated breath, so I promise not to disappoint. After much angst and indecisiveness for the past few months about what would be the awesome place to get my first review, Thai Room wins because I went there for lunch today, and that seemed like a logical place to start. Enough of my random ramblings, on to the review (which will also contain random ramblings, but at least those might be a little more relevant).
I ended up Thai Room for lunch today as we started our lunch decision making process at work today with a co-worker wanting to go someplace with soup. We decided to hit up Thai Room which one of my other co-workers has been raving about, so we hopped into the rental car of the co-worker who just got into an accident and we were on our way. With a little maneuvering of the one way side streets off of Western, we found a parking spot near the entrance and dashed in from the rain. We were seated immediately and focused in on the lunch specials which come with an entree, rice, appetizer, soup, and cucumber salad. Yeah for lots of additional items, all for $6.95.
After waiting just a few minutes the waitress came to take our order, and a few minutes after that the soup arrived. Another yeah goes to Tom Yum soup that actually had lemongrass, lime, and fresh mushrooms-awesome flavor, perfectly spicy, and no obnoxiously huge chunks of tomatoes.
The lunch arrived and even if it had been crappy I would've loved the fact that the lunch entrees come in a laquer tray sectioned off so there is a spot for your appetizer (I got spring rolls), the dipping sauce for your appetizer, the cucumber salad, your main dish (I had Pad Khee Mao with chicken), and the rice-yeah number 3 goes to the opportunity for those of us in the compulsive organizing portion of the world having food that is both pretty to look at and yummy to eat.
My co-workers got Ginger Chicken and the Original Hot Number 1 (which wins for best name of a dish ever) and everything was wonderful. The earlier mentioned divided trays meant that we could easily share and still enjoy our own dish without trying to make random space on our plates which inevitably just results in mass chaos.
The flavorful, perfect sized portions meant that I could actually come back to work and not pass out in a food coma, but also that I actually got to enjoy valid amounts of chicken and noodles and not just huge pieces of bell peppers and tomatoes.
After our fortune cookie arrived with our bill and we paid, we talked a little more and realized we were needing some dessert too. We added on the mango with sticky rice, which arrived with an actual half of a fresh mango. Really good, and again perfectly sized to share and still have enough to eat.
All in all, great experience, totally deserving of my first yelp. Feel free to awaken yourself from the daze of my stream of consciousness.
Both the food and service at the Thai Room are excellent. They have a pretty extensive menu with both meat and vegetarian options. It is the standard by which I compare all other Thai restaurants. I love it.
Just a note......I, myself, do not like spicy food but a friend of mine does and when we go here he always gets his dishes "Thai spicy" as the waitress called it and man is it ever. When you start to tear up from across the table....you know you've got some fire on your hands. So be mindful of how you order.
I had a great meal here. Service was very attentive without being in your face, and the food was authentic. There was a wide selection of vegetarian and meat-lover options, but it was not "greek diner menu" overwhelming. I was quite pleased overall.
However, for me, the best part of this place was the clientele. As much as I would recommend the restaurant for good meal, I would also encourage any recreational people watchers to get on out there-- now. I have never seen such a varied group of diners in my life! It was a brilliant show, to say the least. I think if I were doing some serious character studying, this would be the place to go.
So it may not be the prettiest restaurant on Western Avenue's long drag, but what it lacks in outward appearances, it certainly makes up for in its food and service. Â I have been there two times in the last two weeks and it would have been three had it not been closed last night. Â The service is lightning quick. Just be careful what level of spiciness you select, as you get what you ask for with this place. Â If it's the food you're after without any song and dance, the Thai Room is the way to go!
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