PINKAOW Thai Restaurant

So yum! A great place for us and close to home. Love the food and atmosphere. Ask for it extra Thai spicy, f you can handle it.

Great atmosphere, Great Service, Great food! Nice upscale restaurant. I love their food, especially all their fried rice dishes. Little on the pricey side but not bad. Can be a bit busy at times (sign of a good restaurant). :)

One of my favorites. Every time I eat here they are spot on. The restaurant itself is very nice, good date place. I always gravitate towards the chicken panang curry, cream cheese wonton appetizer, and either a Thai iced tea or a coconut to drink.

We tried the other location not even knowing there was a Pin Kao by us!
The food was super yummy and authentic and the green papaya salad was on point! I love how they always have it available pretty much and can add grilled or dry shrimp! We shared the chicken pad Thai and chicken gyoza and all of that was gone between the two of us!
The servers were all very friendly and attentive even work a full house of customers!
The other reviews said so-​so things about the curry but we usually stick to noodle dishes and salads and appetizers — we have yet to not be happy!
We even saw a full drink menu we haven’t tapped into yet.

The food is always decent and we’ve had many things on the menu here. The Panang is especially good.
However, after a recent to-​go purchase, we were extremely disappointed by the portion size. We have gone to eat there as a family many times and never really take any food home as leftovers the way we do at a couple other Thai restaurants. The pretty presentation distracts you from realizing just how little food you are actually getting for your money.
Side note: the yellow curry in was very liquid-​like and not thick and creamy the way we are accustomed to. Time to say goodbye for a while I think. Overall: meh.

My best friend is Thai and I worked at a Thai Restaurant all through high school and college so I am quite picky when it comes to Thai food. When I first moved to Vegas I was a bit hesitant to try this place because it wasn’t off of Spring Mt. Where I was told all the good and legit Asian food was.
After hearing from several people that this is the best Thai food in Vegas, I decided to go.
The restaurant is really nice. And seemed to be pretty legit.
I ordered the Papaya Salad with dried shrimp (I’d rate it ⁸⁄₁₀), Beef Jerky (my favorite dish from here– I’d rate it a ⁹⁄₁₀), Thom Yum Goong (I had better, not too good here) and the Padt Thai (average– ⁶⁄₁₀). The Papaya Salad and Beef Jerky were definitely my favorite. I will definitely be back and order these two dishes.

Really great Thai food. The inside is decorated with traditional Thai wood finishes. The staff is friendly and they have outdoor seating. Came here with a group of 4… Being the family. Pad Thai is amazing

I’ve dined here often. Its better than most Thai restaurants but there are a few better establishments than PinKaow.
Its in a great location right along Eastern, makes it convenient to dine here.
I always order my Beef Noodle Soup at a Thai 10 spice level and it’s not spicy here. It taste more like a 5 – 6 lvl, not good when you like Thai 10.
I like the décor and servers seem nice. Nothing overly impressive in regards to service but not rude.
Lately, been checking out other Thai restaurants.
Time to step up your game PinKaow.

The food is fantastic and their service is great!
They are always polite and attentive when I go there either to dine in or carry out.

Came here for dinner on a Wednesday evening. We were seated quickly, the restaurant was about half full. Service was quick and friendly. I ordered the chicken fried rice and the egg rolls, both were flavorful. I’d come back here again when in town.

I really enjoy this thai restaurant! They’re always so kind and happy and the service is SUPER fast! I come in whenever I have a craving for thai food. My favorite is the pad thai. And it gets pretty spicy! You can choose how spicy and I usually go with about a 3 or 4. It’s not too spicy, and just right. I like the beef but I’m pretty sure the chicken is also bomb with pad thai. Their décor on the inside is super cute and very authentic. What we really enjoyed was their music playing in the background. Definitely a place to stop by and enjoy with some good company! They’ll take care of you!

Walking in the place looks awe inspiring… Buuut the service sucks. Got servers darting every which way but mine.
The food is AWFUL… But I get it.
The people around here don’t care about actual good flavored food, because it’s pretty and makes them feel nice and privileged when they treat themselves to this dog food.

Had been wanting to try this place so finally came in the other night the food was OK nothing exceptional I got the pumpkin curry little lacking in flavor, the appetizer of jerky was a bit hard and chewy. The venue is nice and clean. The staff is attentive and kind but the prices are kinda high. Lighting is good for a date but probably won’t be my everyday Thai food place.

There was a bug in my water so I asked the lady if she could get me a new glass of water. She comes back and she had just refilled my water, the bug was still in the glass… WOW! She must have not heard or understood me…
The food isn’t spicy enough, it was good but there are better places. The restaurant itself is nice and at a convenient location.

This visit was so much better then visits in the past. We sat outside as it was nice out even though to me this is normally the area of death because you never get service. It almost seemed like they are finally reading Unilocal reviews because the service was TOP NOTCH. We had so much service it was almost overwhelming, but really very much apprecaited.
The food is always amazing here and the service was one of the best we have ever had. The springs rolls were cooked all the way through this time which was good and the rest of the food was pretty good.
On the Pad Thai, the chicken was a little dry and on the Pumpkin Curry with Beef, the beef was tough, so unfortunately it seemed like all the meat was a little over cooked but it was still edible.
This place is good, but it is really hit and miss. One this trip we had AWESOME service and just ok food. Sometimes it is GREAT food and bad service. One day they may get everything spot on and I guess I will have to keep going back until I get this spot on food and service, it has to happen.

Had this place for a late lunch with the girls.
I would have to say it is pretty good but I have had much better for a lower price. I got a pad Thai which is my favorite noodle dish for any Thai place.
I got a level 7 for spice and it was not at all spicy… more sweet than spice. 12.95 for a bowl of rice size amount.
Service was good the waitress greeted us quickly and got us out of there quickly since we were kind of on a time crunch as well.
Friends got a pumpkin curry special and another kind of curry which I forgot what kind.
I just expect SPICY from a Thai restaurant but it seems adjusted here for the Americanized mouths ahahha less spice.

The portions at Pinkaow have definitely gotten smaller.
The pineapple fried rice was disappointing. The rice was dry and the shrimp was flavorless. The pad thai was good, ²⁄₁₀ on the spicy scale was perfect for me. The chicken cashew was also dry and completely unmemorable.
I’ve had way better thai food in Vegas. Bye Pinkaow :(

This location is in the super busy plaza on Richmar and Eastern across from BJ’s, but finding parking wasn’t too bad. For a Thursday night, the restaurant was busy, but we were able to get a table right away. It’s a medium sized restaurant and really nice inside. It’s not your typical hole in the wall Thai place. You could dress up and come here for dinner and fit right in.
The service and food were better than I had anticipated. I was starving so I wanted order like 4 things and have a bunch of left overs for my boyfriend. My friend is vegetarian so she ordered the spring rolls, which are deep fried so to me, that’s egg rolls, but whatevs. She also ordered tofu green curry.
I ordered papaya salad, beef larb with a side of sticky rice, and chicken red curry. The papaya salad is really good, but it could stand a little bit more flavor. I’m used to the lao potent version, but this version is very refreshing and delicious. I’m scared of spice so I ordered it at a 3, and it was barely spicy. I wish I had stuck to 5.
The larb was really delicious. I love sticking my sticky rice in the plate one bite at a time. It’s how we’d eat it when I was younger. Yum!
The red curry was also very good, but a little sweet for my taste. I added salt and it balanced out the sweetness and was perfect.
Overall I was super happy and satisfied. I would say it’s one of my top Thai places in Vegas behind Lotus and Le Thai. However, compared to Lotus and Le Thai, the prices are WAY more reasonable. My 3 dishes and a Lychee Martini came to about $ 50 with tip. That’s a steal!

Went here with some friends to celebrate surviving our final unit exam and decided to check it out. First impression of the place was that it was cleaner than most Thai places I have been to and it looked so nice and fancy. Thank goodness they had a cheap lunch special going on because the regular prices were a little higher than normal.
I ended up ordering the red curry and I have to say it was not really that good. It was just watery and lacked the strong taste of spices and flavoring that I commonly experience with Thai food. I got the curry with level 5 spiciness and that pretty much all I experienced in terms of flavor. The beef was okay, but some pieces were pretty chewy which is kind of weird. Although I have to admit that the little salad portion they gave me was decent and probably the best part of my meal. I just stopped eating after a while because it was like eating watered down curry with rice. Our waiter was good since he was nice.
One thing is that there was this lady who came by our table and took away our spoons for some reason. Why would you place spoons as part of the table set to begin with if you were just going to take it back? It also got kinda weird when she had to partially lay on our table to reach across to grab the rest of the spoons. She could have just asked us to help her out… Anyways, the spoons came back when we got our dishes.
Overall, this place was just okay at best. I wouldn’t really come back considering it is located in a plaza with other restaurants that are probably better.

This is probably the worse Thai place I’ve been to in Vegas. The only reason we finished our food was because we were both really hungry and I hate seeing food go to waste.
Let me start with the service. We were greeted and sat down pretty quickly. Our waiter took our food order and that’s pretty much the end of seeing him. Someone else brought our food out and not once did he check if everything was ok. The bf needed chili for his food and it took us forever to flag down anyone to bring it to us. Every other table around us had the little chili condiment plate except for us, so the bf started to get irritated. The food was equally disappointing as well.
Mee krob: crunchy noodles covered in oyster sauce with shrimp and chicken. Way too sweet for any noodle dish. It only had 2 pieces of shrimp and 2 tiny pieces of chicken.
Tom yum with shrimp: traditional lemongrass soup served with shrimp, mushrooms and tomatoes. This was the highlight of the meal. Spicy, sour goodness. Only downside was that it was served as a hot pot and you could smell the gas burning underneath to keep the soup hot. The gas fumes were not very pleasant while eating.
Brown rice: hard and old tasting.
Chicken panang: Thai curry with coconut milk. Let’s just say their version was very bland. I’ve had much better panang elsewhere.
Overall, this was a pretty crappy dinner the bf and I have had in a while. Would definitely not recommend this place.