Toi’s Thai Cuisine

Im really disappointed. this is the 2^nd time I’ve eaten here. I’m a HUGE curry fan and have eaten at a lot of places but I cannot figure out why on earth you would fill your tiny curry to-​go box with 2 pieces of meat, tons of bamboo shoots that are undercooked and flavorless, and eggplant that has turned to slime. the options on the curry are so small and the price is a little much for how little product is actually in it. I really hope you read this and expand to make some better curry options. like potatoes, peas, and carrots with meat. the first time I ate here it was takeout for everyone in my family, It was over 60 $ and the curry was very disappointing. mine only had 2 pieces of beef in it and the rest was bamboo and snotty like eggplant.

They say «hole in the wall» places have the best food. I will say this «hole in the wall» is the real thing. While visiting Helena we found ourselves here for dinner and the food was amazing! I knew it was going to be good because every seat in the place was taken on a Tuesday night. We ordered the fried won ton’s as appetizers (very tasty) and for dinner we ordered, red curry beef, red curry shrimp and the spicy fried fish. All 3 dishes were excellent. The curries were amazing I could have ate two bowls by themselves. If you are in town looking for something different to eat, Toi’s Thai Cuisine is the place for you. Wish I could have taken pictures of our dishes to upload, but they smelled so good I got to eating right away.

my mom works here and personally i think its horrible my mom makes think im a jerk because of it i dont really feel bad because i am a independent women. dont mess with me.

Toi’s is an A-​OK Thai place. I enjoyed the spring rolls and Padd Thai. My friend, however, felt his Padd Thai was made from spaghetti noodles and lacked authenticity. The service was good and the restaurant was packed the Thursday night we went.

This year I wasn’t super impressed with Toi’s. Tom Yum Goong was extremely thick in consistency and overly seasoned with salt. The pineapple curry had a nice spicy sauce but the shrimp were cut up in pieces and the pineapple didn’t seem fresh. Again, not a good idea. The fish was good and tasty. The garden salad had a very, very, vinegary dressing that made it almost inedible.

Came here on our only night in Helena off of a recommendation from our host. We love Thai food, but this place was NOT good. I ordered the shrimp and pineapple curry and the pineapples were definitely from a can. I could tell just by looking at them, but after I tasted the artificial canned-​pineapple flavor, it was confirmed. Honestly, they were pretty gross. Additionally, the ratio of pineapple to shrimp was laughable. I had 4 or 5 pieces of small, weirdly shriveled shrimp and a large amount of the gross pineapple.
Besides the food (which I understand can be situational), the place was really hot and the bathroom had a set of very small saloon-​style swinging doors, leaving lots of room on the above and below the doors for nasty bathroom particles to enter the restaurant and kitchen. This also leaves for very little privacy…
anyway, I do not recommend this place.

You have to go to sketchy looking places to get good Thai food. This place fits that description perfectly. ;) My wife and I like extremely spicy food, and usually we cannot get anything spicy when we eat out. When we asked the cooks here to make it as spicy as they could, they really tried their hardest. (Normally, cooks will hold back, or just not even know what to do.) They really did a great job of bringing up the heat level. We were also happy that they did not just sprinkle chili powder or hot sauce on top. They made us fresh food, and they cooked the spice into it. My wife had chicken panang curry, and it was wonderful. However, the portion was quite small considering the price. I ordered the chicken pad thai, and it was definitely not as great as I hoped. But the serving size was generous.
I wouldn’t give them high points for authentic Thai taste (maybe 3 stars), but I would give them 5 stars for trying to make us happy!
We might go back for lunch tomorrow. :)

My wife and I had dinner at Toi’s and weren’t impressed. The portions were small, especially given the $ 13/​dish price tag, and most of it was rice. The green beans were clearly canned, not fresh, and when the dish is beef, green beans, rice, and curry, that makes a huge difference.
What led me to write a 1-​star review, however, is an incident following our visit. My wife accidentally left her water bottle at the restaurant — a $ 25 Hydro Flask — and when we called later to see if it was found, we were told that it had been found and we could pick it up whenever.
When we got to the store, however, we were told the server who found it put it somewhere the other employees didn’t know of. Fast forward to now, and I’m told an employee may have taken it home but the store won’t reimburse us because «we’re not responsible for lost items.»
I would totally understand that if the bottle hadn’t ever been found, but since the store did find it and keep it, it became their responsibility. Other small business owners I talked to said they’d definitely replace the bottle.
Toi’s, if you read this and want it taken down, you owe me a Hydro Flask.

Took a group of 9 for 5 days of auditing all the way from Moses Lake, WA to Bozeman, MT and this was the meal everyone talked about! The food is so fresh and good. There is not one item that I can talk about because our group ordered nearly every thing on the menu and everyone was blown away. MAKE A RESERVATION or you’ll be eating somewhere else!

Good service. A friend and I came in about ten minutes after they opened so it wasn’t busy and we got our food pretty fast.
I ordered the chicken panang and didn’t like it very much, but I am a pretty picky eater.
My friend ordered the pad Thai and it was great! Wasn’t too spicy.
We got the sweet rice dessert with mangoes on top and it was delicious!
We will definitely be back.

So here it goes:
Pros: Food deserves 5 stars, GREAT, perhaps the best in our limited Helena restaurant market.
Cons: Terrible service and extremely confusing operationally speaking. Odd hours, mediocre space, and no clear idea what’s going on when you enter the place.
I rather do take out and avoid ruining some fantastic food with a disappointing ambiance. Make sure you call before hand, they give you the stink eye if you are brave enough to walk in without a reservation.

Great food. I love the curries and the padd thai. The owner is extremely friendly and comes out to speak after each meal. Bring your own beer or wine.

Excellent! I have had Thai food all over the country, and this is some of the best! I love the Thai green salad, green curry, and sticky rice (definitely the best I’ve ever had). It is such a fantastic, authentic little restaurant in Helena! Make reservations!

I had been looking forward to experiencing Toi’s Thai for months, and due to their irregular hours was finally able to try it last night.
I’m sorry to report that Helena is still without good Thai food.
Menu items tried:
Thai Spring Rolls that were soggy and filled with imitation crab and chicken, no vegetables at all (which is where the name «Spring» roll comes from).
We also had Panang Curry with chicken and the Shrimp & Pineapple Curry. The Panang had 3 very thin pieces of chicken as big as my thumb and an entire can (yes can) of green beans. Nothing else but the rice and curry. What?
The protein portion of the Shrimp curry was the same story. All pineapple with about five pieces of shrimp smaller than cat treats.
I LOVED the curry sauce however, which is why Toi gets two instead of one star from me.

Toi recognized us for the buffoons we are. That automatically puts this restaurant in a category of its own.
Delicious Panang Curry, I would recommend to all passing through travelers. The noodle dishes are pretty good (Pad Ki Mow and Lard Nar) but it seems as if the curries are where it’s at. Wontons were crispy and served with a tasty plum sauce. HUGE benefit to this restaurant is that you can bring your own wine/​beer and there is NO corking fee! Love it! Service is A+, the people who work there are charming especially the owner Toi.
A helpful recommendation: if you think you will be eating here on Friday or Saturday call in ahead to get reservations. It can get very crowded and is a small establishment so having that as a safeguard is really helpful.

One star because our waiter was REALLY nice, but everything else was pretty awful. First of all, it was uncomfortably hot inside the restaurant. We were seated right away, but sat at our table for about 15 minutes before the waiter brought us menus and water. He was the only waiter and he was basically acting as a waiter, host, and bus boy.
Once we finally got menus and placed our orders, we waited about 45 minutes before we asked where our food was because we had tickets to a show and needed to leave. He said the cook was about to start making our food! Why was she just starting on our order 45 minutes after he put it in?
When the food arrived, it was horribly mediocre. I got veggie pad thai which kind of just tasted like plain noodles soaked in oil. I wasn’t really expecting anything mind blowing, but pad thai is pretty hard to mess up. Really disappointing.
I really wanted to like this place! Again, our waiter was super nice and apologetic, but that wasn’t enough to save the experience.

This place is very bland and food is very greasy. Lemon chicken was rich and spicy but no lemon flavor. Green curry tasted like spicy coconut milk. The best thing was the kids noodles with chicken. Do yourself a favor and go somewhere else.

OMG OMG OMG Toi’s is the best. I’ve had thai food all over (not in real Thailand, but maybe someday, amiright?!), and Toi’s is my fave.
I remember back when I was a little kid Toi was a checker at Buttrey’s, and telling us about her dream of opening a Thai restaurant in town. We were hopeful for her, though who ever knows if someone else’s dreams will come true. Then, she quit Buttrey’s and opened her restaurant! It was so exciting, we were all so happy for her.
I had dinner before my senior prom here, dinner for many a birthday, many an anniversary, and so on. It’s a special place. The food is great, Toi comes out and says Hi, and the atmosphere feels very authentic (though, please do see above ^ I’ve not been to Thailand. But I’m still cool enough you would think maybe I had!!! Hahahaha, kidding. Kinda)
My favorite is the Number 1 meal, or the red curry with pork, or shrimp and pineapple curry. I love the salad, and the spicy shrimp soup. And, like with all things in life: ALWAYS GET DESSERT. It’s really good! I think the portions are great, I always leave with a box of leftovers.
A few things to note: Yes, it is small (get over it – and I say that with love). Yes you need reservations (Sign of a good place, I think). And yes, it’s hot as hades in the summer (IT IS LIKE YOU ARE IN THAILAND! OMG!). The highlight isn’t the service, but it doesn’t matter because the food is so good. Bring your own wine or beer.
Go eat there! Enjoy! :)

The only reason this place gets two stars instead of one is because the people that work here are so nice. I almost feel bad leaving a negative review but I feel an obligation to warn out-​of-​towers craving good Thai food. The food here is AWFUL.
I’m visiting from California and my boyfriend and I wanted some good Thai and this was the only restaurant in town. We dropped by for lunch only to discover they aren’t even open at lunch time, they only serve dinner. So we came back later in the evening and ordered Tom Kha Gai and Pad Thai. The Tom Kha was so overwhelmed by lemongrass it tasted sour. And instead of the perfectly seasoned broth I’m used to at virtually every other Thai restaurant I’ve been to, it was creamy and thick and a little grainy. I couldn’t even force myself to finish it. The Pad Thai was slightly better, but that’s not saying much. It was so bland it might as well have been ramen.
I’m sure this is the best they could make with the ingredients available in Montana so kudos to them for trying. And the staff is so incredibly nice. If you’ve never had real Thai food anywhere else I could see how maybe you might give the food a good review, since you don’t know any better. But if you have ever had good Thai food before, don’t come here. You will be sorely disappointed. I was bummed I wasted $ 30.

I really wanted to like this place. I was dying for some Thai food and I saw this had good reviews.
It was a busy Saturday evening (6pm) and the place was full and service really slow. To be fair, once server admitted that this was his first time working and it was an emergency situation where they needed help. A lot of tables had to get up to ask for service/​menus/​checks and clearly were very frustrated.
Onto the food:
— beef salad — Spice combination was right but just too much of it/​sauce. Beef was a little chewy but the veggies were good
— yellow curry chicken — almost entirely bamboo shoots. The chicken content was less than your 4 fingers and it was chewy and overcooked.
I wouldn’t go back.