Patou Thai

Decent thai food but did not care for the décor which was very minimal. Nothing really pertaining to Thailand which I think is a shame. Also busser girl was more polite and talkative than actual waitress. Regardless, Thai food is always better than chinese… yes i had it and at my village!

I found the food to be very bland and not great quality. The wine pour was quite skimpy and the overall prices high. There are many better places for Thai in the area in my opinion. Thai Moon in Arlington is a personal favorite.

I think this is generally an earnest place, though they’ll need to do some work to be more successful and attract more customers.
Most of the dishes we had (the curry fried squares, the larb (chicken salad with tasty galanga root), and the fried fish with spicy sauce) were very flavorful. Hot and spicy!
The macadamia nut beef dish had a slightly strange flavor, plus the beef was a bit tough.
Of greater concern was the ambience and the layout of the restaurant; in general I think this place suffers from something of a lack of identity. Too much empty space in between tables, restaurant seemed too large for its purpose. Tables were unevenly sized and were of different heights (a really fancy big table surrounded by rather ordinary smaller tables). And what is their mission? Are they trying to be a fancier Thai restaurant, in which they would be carrying more expensive and clearly higher-​end dishes? Are customers willing to pay more than they usu. do for Thai food? Or do they think that they are a better than average Thai restaurant which justifies the higher prices? In which case, they would need to do much more work on ambience, setting, service, to match those places which invest a significant amt. of time training for that?
Good luck! I think this place has great potential; certain aspects just need to be thought out more carefully.

This is right down the street so it’s easy. Great drunken noodles and the pad Thai is solid! Ambiance is strange but the food is really worth it. Cheap Thai beer and very fast! I’ve also tried the beef basil which was spicy and yummy!

I’ve been many times and finally am writing a review. I love this restaurant for so many reasons. The food is fabulous, from the appetizers: sumai, spring rolls, satay, etc. to main dishes — I could list them all! My husbands favorite is the beef short ribs. It’s a consistently nice dining experience with care also taken to the dishes presentation. The staff are all friendly and efficient. There is seating for two, four or more and a private back room with a large window (albeit looking over the parking lot) for a party. They also have out door dining in the back in the summer. Also parking is never an issue. They also have some beautiful wood carved screens and tables that are a must see.

Had the beef basil for lunch, was great.

Great house fried rice and iced tea. Nice and low key. Great location in the center. Eat in or takeout is thr same great quality.

The food can range from average to very tasty. Therein lies one of the problems: the consistency seems to be pretty low. Depending on who makes it on a given day, it can taste completely different than on other days. The menu offers a wide range of choices and it is not easy to pick amongst them.
The place is very clean and spacious and has a good lunch ambience.
The worst part here is probably the slow service. Between the wait to order, the time it takes to actually get the food and the time it takes them to bring the check, one actually spends as much time as at an upscale dinner place on a weekend day. I am usually here to have a relatively quick, casual lunch, so this is a real problem.

Love the décor, the plentiful parking — and mostly, the amazing Thai food.

Just had the prix fixe lunch. Service was excellent and fast. Food was excellent. We loved the shumi, vegetable rolls, and curry roll appetizers, the curry vegetables and pad Thai. Awesome!

The ambiance is great, but there’s no one to greet you. After a few minutes, I asked if I should just seat myself. The greeter mumbled something and picked up the phone and seemed to have a casual conversation for 5 minutes. As I turned around to leave, she quickly got off the phone and seated me. The only time a waitress came around was to serve my food. I had to walk up to ask for the check, give my payment, ask for hot spices twice, which they only had minimally/​basic kind, but the pad thai was great. Worst service ever experienced. Non-​existent. Hate writing bad reviews.

Have been here a few times before and have enjoyed the food. Very clean establishment. When I arrived tonight they had just cleaned the restrooms and it was spotless. Walked by the kitchen and same with the kitchen. Food was Fresh and delicious. Had the Thai soup, chicken satay, pad Thai and crispy rolls. All fresh and flavorful. Definitely recommend.

My wife and I go there once a month and enjoy the $ 45 dinner special
I enjoy the Pad Thai

The chicken pad Thai was fantastic! The best of any I’ve had in the Greater Boston area. The service was prompt and the waiters were contagiously happy. The atmosphere is fairly good, although slow jams on the saxophone is never bad music to have at a restaurant, I was hoping for something more authentic. The location is great, there are plenty of nearby shops and parking wasn’t too bad. Surprisingly there weren’t many other patrons, but I was dining on a Saturday for lunch, and a filling lunch it was at a fair price ($ 9 for pad Thai).

I have been a customer of this restaurant for a decade. My favorite dish has been «Tom Yum Noodle (not soup)!» It’s so flavorful! You must try it!

TWILIGHT ZONE ALERT!!!
My man and I thought it’d be nice to go out to eat about a week before Christmas. The beautiful Christmas tree in the back part of Patou Thai lured us in — and we were hoping to enjoy our meal by its ambient glow…
Well, let’s just say our hopes of eating went to mere hopes of simply being acknowledged by ANYONE…(sending out an SOS to ANYONE!!!) But no… we stood at the hostess area for a few minutes without any sort of greeting, let alone eye contact from any of the employees. Thinking maybe they didn’t see us, we inched our way forward to the bar… where staff moved in and out of the kitchen. Again, we waited for about 5 minutes and STILL nothing! Finally we said «Hello? Can we please get a table?» They then looked at us if that was the most asinine question they’d ever heard and mumbled something about clearing off a table. At that point, we felt we’d be seething over our meal if we stayed, so we just turned and left. And no, no one seemed to care about that either.*
Too bad Patou, we were hoping to really like you. There was a good amount of people in the restaurant, but surely it wasn’t that busy to not properly acknowledge and greet what most likely would have been repeat patrons.
*We remedied the situation by going to Kashish, the Indian restaurant a few doors down, where we were greeted promptly and served yummy food quickly.

Patou, being walking distance to my office is one of my usual lunch time haunts and lemme tell you, this place is AMAZING.
I love Thai food and can’t really find decent, fresh food outside of Boston. Patou is the solution for those Thai lovers out there which can’t stand the hassle of finding city parking.
My favorite dishes here are the Pad Thai (light but very flavor full — you usually get 3 – 4 large fresh shrimp mixed in) and the Noodles & Tender Beef which has fresh cut beef mixed with veggies and thick cut noodles. Both dishes are truly worth driving for and the majority of lunch entrees are under $ 10.
The staff are friendly and the owner Dan personally checks in on our every table. Totally weird but Patou has the coldest water I’ve ever drank.

If you enjoy awkward service and average Thai, I’d recommend Patou in a heartbeat. We were sat in the back of the restaurant, which was empty and freezing. It took almost 10 minutes for anyone to realize we were there, and when they finally took our order we were surprised to find out that rice doesn’t come with any of the dishes — it’s a dollar more. Not that it breaks the bank or anything, but I’ve never heard of a Thai restaurant charging for white rice on main dishes. Maybe they do things differently in New England.
Dishes arrived hot but after a minute or so they quickly cooled down in the freezing room. Not that it mattered much — our food was extremely spicy. We love spice, so it didn’t bother us too much, but I feel the best Thai dishes incorporate more flavor vs heat.
Overall we were dying to get out of there. The service was really slow for a place that only has three tables full in the middle of peak dining hours, and it kind of bums me out that we spent $ 40 for two sub-​par entrees. Lesson learned!

Went here on a whim after stopping by Craft Beer Cellar next door for my regular beer run.
I have very mixed feelings about this place… the ambiance is nice, the service was okay, and the food was mostly good. Had the hot and sour shrimp soup (solid flavor but slightly watery) and chicken coconut soup (pretty tasty and on par with other places) to start. Entrees were the shrimp pad thai (absolutely fantastic) and wild boar basil (spicy enough for me, but just not exciting in any way, shape, or form). The standout star of the meal was undoubtedly the pad thai, but most everything else was not worth the slightly high price tag.
And speaking of price tag, I was ready to give Patou four stars because of the delicious pad thai, but then came the check. A $ 2 extra charge for the rice that came with (or apparently didn’t) my pork dish. I absolutely cannot stand asian restaurants that charge extra for rice (which costs them basically NOTHING to buy and prepare) with dishes that have no noodles or anything like that. Furthermore, I was not told it would be extra, I was simply asked if I’d like brown or white rice.
So all in all, my average pork with veggies entrée came out to over $ 15, while I could get it (with rice) for no more than $ 10-​$ 11 at many other asian joints (and not just the dirt cheap Americanized ones).
Honestly the rice thing upset me enough to dock even more stars, but Patou’s pad thai was too good for me to rate them any lower. Proceed with caution!

Exquisite Thai restaurant in the heart of Belmont Center. Tofu pad thai with veggies will be my next item to order. I treated myself to a Saturday lunch at Patou on a chilly afternoon. I got a glass of their house Chardonnay and it was delicious with my tofu pad thai. For some reason I was thinking it came with veggies, but it does not. Next time I’ll specify. The server was very prompt, polite, and sweet.
The prices are so low, I couldn’t believe it – I was kind of nervous the quality would not be there, but it was. I’d guess this was the best pad thai I’ve had.
They offer lunch deals and you will get a ton of food. I hear they have a great dinner deal too.
The restaurant was spotless and large and very nicely decorated.
I will definitely come back.