Thai Orchid

I love this restaurant — the staff and the entire menu is great. I can’t wait to eat whenever I’m on the way to dine-​in or pick up food here. The green curry is the best, and as a vegan it’s my favorite dish in town. I order it with their tofu, and it comes with eggplant, various green veggies, and a curry/​coconut milk sauce to die for! Be sure to request it with the amount of spice you’re comfortable with, or it’ll likely be too HOT for you.

What a nice thai hole in the wall. The atmosphere inside was quite and enjoyable. The thai orchid wrap…, decent, probably wouldn’t get them again. But the curry… wow! The panang curry had just enough heat and a nice kick. The masaman curry was a little sweeter and nuttier with no heat, but still great! Would highly recommend Thai Orchid, and definitely will be back

What a great place to have in mentor! The Thai Orchid House wraps are so fresh and satisfying. My favorite is EVERYTHING! Not too oily and just the right amount of spice. The staff is so friendly and the portions are perfect.

Never again!
I went to this restaurant several times in the past. The food was okay and tasted well. No complaints.
The last three times, was disappointing. The last time was especially pathetic. The food was possibly stale and was smelling bad. I didn’t argue/​complain. I’m not going back again.

Stopped by here for lunch with Powell. Overall, food flavor was good, service was fantastic! Complaints over one dish, but portions were well sized.
He got unsweetened tea and the Tofu Royale. I got diet coke and Penang Curry w/​shrimp.
Things we loved:
– Penang Curry was spot on! Perfect portion size (not too much curry, but enough for all pieces to be bathed in a delicious puddle). Shrimp were a good size and perfectly cooked. Overcooked shrimp happens so often, I was pleasantly surprised. I should have asked for a little more mild, but the server mentioned that the peppers today were particularly hot…
– The tea! Good proper Thai style Ceylon tea without the condensed milk. It was so refreshing and surprisingly strong. I kept stealing sips, much to my husband’s annoyance.
– Service! Fantastic server, w braided hair. She was lovely, managing to pay attention to everyone (8 or 9 tables!) while smiling and chatting.
– Price! (Less than or equal to) $ 10 per person. And we’re both stuffffffed.
Things we did not love:
– It’s called Tofu Royale. There was about 2 cups or bean sprouts and 5 lil cubes of tofu. Not very tofu, not very royale. Although flavor and portion sizes were pretty fantastic.
Conclusion:
– Would definitely come back! The pad thai looked stellar and the flavors were so surprisingly authentic. (I love Ohio, but I miss well flavored asian foods that aren’t brown sauce based are hard to come by…) Will just have to not get Tofu Royale and try something else!

3.5 stars really. Why not more? The Summer rolls had to large of pieces of cucumber for me. Some may lime it this way but I like mine julienned more. But don’t let that keep you away. The flavors are fantastic. But if you have time… drive to Akron and eat at Thai Phở… now thats Thai food!

Pad Thai was so delicious! Also their coconut tea is very good if you don’t mind the coconut flakes in it.

The high overall rating on Unilocal is unfortunately deceiving. Words like «slimy» and «chewy» shouldn’t be the first things I use to describe Pad Thai, but… what a slimy chewy mess.
As another reviewer stated, the spring rolls seem clearly frozen. Honestly, what stood out most to me about them was the amount of oil they deposited on my hands.
On the whole: grossly understaffed, awful food, and not recommended.

Eat here quite a bit. Always get vegetable pad Thai and spring rolls. Always done very well. Last couple of times I noticed the veggie pad thai is becoming less veggie and more like noodle pad thai. Too expensive for just a bowl of noodles. The flavor is consistently good. Just specify more vegetables from now on. As far as the service… Always good.

I felt that giving this place one-​star would have been made my review appear biased and affected by a single bad experience here; this is not the case. This last trip was the final straw, which is sad to say because I used to get pretty decent Thai food from Thai Orchid.
The food prepared here is about as old and tired as everything else in this restaurant. It’s safe to say that the bathrooms (surprisingly clean) are probably the cleanest part of the restaurant.
Everything on the table, including the menus had a remnants of old sauces food particles from previous meals stuck on, not to mention a nice greasy sheen. I’ll come here if I need anything to keep pesky stray hairs in place if I’m away from home.
The food was pretty close to inedible. The spring rolls and chicken wings were both clearly frozen and, if not for the sauces (same sauce for both items) would have been completely tasteless.
The entrees ordered were the beef Panang curry and the chicken Rad-​Na. Both meats were incredibly tough and made the dishes additionally unappealing. The taste of the curry was a bit off even, which was surprising. The only thing that was somewhat interesting about the rad-​NA dish were the dumpling-​like consistency noodles; they weren’t good, just interesting since I had never had noodles that had the chew of a dumpling before.
To top it off, the presentation of the all of our food seems the chefs and the owners clearly do not care any more, which is sad and unfortunate.

We stumbled upon this place late evening around 8:30 on a Saturday night. The place looked decent from outside. Surprisingly this place wasn’t packed on a Saturday night. Me and my one other friend ordered our food and drinks. It took about 20 mins for them to get the food which is OK with us. Apparently waitress forgot about our drinks even after she brought out the food. When she brought the drinks finally it had no fizz to it and it tasted very bland. We told her about it and she did not look surprised at all. Her response was something is wrong with the pop machine. She took it out of the bill. I was surprised by the fact that if you already know something is wrong with the pop fountain then why would you serve customers out of it. I probably would never go in there again even though food quality was ok, but the service we got was not impressive. Hope they step up their game.

I got a Pad Thai to go, so I can’t really say much about the restaurant atmosphere but the food was good for an all american town like mentor. I come from the greater NYC area so I have had better. Trust me its extremely hard to find good Asian food in this area so I’m glad this is here.
Changed to 3 stars cause my stomach was in pain for a long time after eating this.

Went in last week. The place looked dirty. A bunch of crap was laying around cluttering up the left front corner of the restaurant that was not being used. We sat down at a table and waited a while before the server came to the table. When she finally arrived at our table, she was rushing us to take our order. It was our first time there and we had some questions. When we asked questions about the food, the server gave us generic responses by saying Thai is Thai. The prices were really expensive. We just got up and left.

Just no. Service was really really slow when we went… and there was no one else in the restaurant. The food was okay. Not the best Thai food, not the worst, but definitely not good enough to go back.

I’m not that impressed with Thai Orchid. It is an average restaurant with average food. The service has always been good and the restaurant itself is clean and comfortable. I want so badly to like this place but I have had way too much great Thai food. It’s fine for when you want some Thai food in a pinch but I would definitely try other places in the greater Cleveland area.

First time visitor on a Wednesday early afternoon. The place was totally deserted, which seemed odd, but perhaps the lunch rush had come and gone already? I got the Panang Curry with chicken, and asked that they fire up the heat as high as they knew how!
Heat was ok, but I’ve definitely had hotter at other Thai restaurants. Ingredient quality was above average and approaching excellent, though I was somewhat disappointed at how little chicken was actually in the dish. Green peppers seemed a bit soft.
In the end, it was a perfectly serviceable lunch at a fair price. Thai Orchid won’t be stealing the #1 spot on my favorite Thai restaurant list, but it’s solidly in the top 10. Will return.

Thai Orchid used to be pretty disappointing. This is really the only Thai food around (or exotic food of any sort in Mentor), and couldn’t compare to restaurants Thai in cities like DC or Chicago.
Recently, however, Thai Orchid has really stepped it up a notch. The past two times I’ve visited, my dinners have been more than satisfying. The noodles curry is definitely a new favorite, as is the masaman curry and pad kee mao. They have a spice scale from 1 – 10. I got a 3 and my mouth was pretty much on fire, and I really love spicy foods. I’m becoming quite impressed with this place.

Been coming to Thai Orchid for about 10 years at their previous location. however haven’t been in the past few years since the new owner took over. Was always my standard for good Thai food until now.
Their Massaman Curry now has too thin of sauce. Very watered down compared to other places, which doesn’t bring out the flavor as much. The chicken satay has a slightly different spice, but still standard satay. Golden rods are still great (tempura fried sweet potato appetizer). They definitely have changed the peanut sauce recipe, as this was more watered down as well.
Service was good as it was pretty empty inside. They forgot to add something to my order, so they were nice enough to give us 10% off. Overall, not bad, but not the best I’ve had.

Typed in «Indian Food Mentor» in Google, and this place came up. Failing to actually read the name of the resturant, I arrived at «Thai Orchid», only to realize there was no Indian food to be found. While dining, my mind was continuously occupied by the ceiling, which I desperately wanted to turn upside down and skate in. If you’ve been there, you know what I’m talking about. I got the «Red Curry» with «Seafood», which consisted of «shrimp», «calamari», and some other creatures that live (Lived. Ha.) in the sea that apparently have shells which «are not edible.» Anyway, despite it not being Indian food and the non-​edible shell incident, the food was fantastic. I will be back.

Been here a few times now and every time it’s always very good. I tried the spicy string bean with chicken, it was so good I never looked up from my plate. Of course I over ate again. ½ to ²⁄₃ of this dish would have left me plenty full. Being fairly new to Thai cuisine this place makes it very easy to broaden my horizons