Thalia Spice

This was the longest Thai meal due to poor service! I had made a reservation for 7:30, meal ending at 11 PM. I had been here once before and had a positive experience, So when we wanted to take friends out, I thought a reservation would warrant a good table and not in the bar. Dinner for 4 where it was uncomfortable to have a LONG dinner at a high table, (with no place for women's purses). Not sure why service was so slow and awkward, with many employees (and I thought the owner present too). Our drinks were mixed up. The main courses were not brought out together, making everyone wait till all 4 meals were there. Sad banana dessert. Basically a bowl of vanilla ice cream. How come-One person had their main course alone for about 10 min., then 2 more arrived, with the last entree about 20 min. after the 1st?! We WILL N OT be back . Food was adequate. With the place almost empty at the end of the meal, YOU would think it would not take long to get the bill and THEN get it back to us when we provided a credit card.Too many other better options in Chicago.

We went there for lunch.
Lunch portion is just right. Tom Yum soup is great and authentic.
Food was great but rice portion is small. Add rice is $1.5 extra.

Just went for the special Suzy Singh/Thalia Spice fixed price Thai/Indian fusion Valentines dinner with wine pairing. Six courses. Shout out for the Pyaar (Volcano shrimp bisque with curried foam), the Lady and the Tramp (Tamarind baby back ribs on bed of spice noodles) and the Romance dessert (Fried banana, pistachio Kulfi with sugar cone fragments). The wines were very good: an iltalian pinot grigio, an australian shiraz cabernet, and a german riesling to top us off.
Service was slightly off with the wine pairings, but I somewhat expected this since fixed price dinners/wine pairing are not routine at this restaurant (we had to ask our server for our wine on one of the middle courses).
Suzy Singh would come out of the kitchen intermittently to chat with us and other guests. Besides being a great chef, she is the nicest person. Always smiling.
At 69 dollars per person (that is with the wine pairing), I think this is one of the best quality dinners with drinks that your 69 dollars can buy, but due to the mediocre service, I can not give it 5 stars and must give it 4.5 stars. Since Yelp has no fractions of stars, I had to round it up above to 5 stars.
I await the next Suzy Singh/Thalia Spice special event dinner!