Silom

I stopped into Silom a couple years ago with my mom for a quick lunch. It was absolutely amazing. The place is cozy and the food was fantastic. It’s to the point that anytime I mention Thai my mom immediately brings up Silom. I can’t wait to stop in soon.

Really excellent Thai, I wandered in here with friends and was pleasantly surprised.

One the many convention visitors to town, I looked for a place that seemed least likely to have a slew of the Javits-​ites and to provide something light and tasty for dinner. Silom didn’t disappoint.
It’s clean and has some sense of décor, but it’s not fancy or even Asian chi-​chi. Clean and basic. Plenty of tables for two and a few for four, but I’m sure they’d put tables together to accommodate a bigger party.
It’s a family-​operated place. One of the sons waited on me and of course he knew every dish on the menu and helped me make a couple of great choices.
I started with the fish cakes. Plenty for two to split, and a very healthy portion for one, these are bite-​sized cakes. Dip them into the provided sauce and soar a bit of iceberg lettuce chips for a bit of crunch. Different, and a great way to start.
Next was the panang nuur, a panang curry with thinly sliced beef. There was a sense of cinnamon in the curry, but halfway through all the other flavors were being more prominent. The beef was cooked properly and while not filet mignon (fortunately), it had the right amount of chew and was itself flavour and beefy.
$ 31 for these two dishes, a beer, and a good tip. I’d like to go here again some day.

Really good food. The waiter was really nice, patient and helpful. I had the Thai Iced Tea (best I’ve had) and a couple of things I can’t pronounce or spell. The appetizer was shrimp rolls with a really tasty dipping sauce (tasted like coconut). For my entrée I had the duck and it was cooked perfectly. It had crunchy skin with tender meat. Seasoned well and came with a bunch of veggies and a small bowl of rice. I left full and happy.

Silom is awesome. Beautiful restaurant. Exceptionally attentive service. The food was absolutely delicious. They have dinner boxes at $ 19/​box that serves 2 entrees, appetizer bites and a desert. Date got boxed D. Basil beef and honeyed pork of which were delicious and brought out some wonderfully thai flavors. The dessert part of the box was a little bit off – slightly salty red beans with some condensed milk to make it sweet.
I had the lychee martini and pork belly sliders which were amazing. The pad thai I got was also very good but if I come back i’d probably order more sliders as a meal or try something else. Considering we got 2 beers, a cocktail, a dinner box and a pad thai dish for $ 68 incl tax I’d say this place is a steal. Will be back!

In a word: Nom.
A great spot for omnivores & vegetarians alike. Their accordion menu can be confusing, but flip it over for the veggie menu and specials of the house (non-​veggie).
The guy swears by their Special in Honor of the King, while I chow down on their noodles, curries and soups. Turnip cakes and tofu todd are both excellent appetizers.
Although we tend to go there for a late late lunch or early dinner, there’s never been a wait for two and dishes come out quick.
Minus one star for cold sauces on hot food — specifically the guy’s favorite dish mentioned above, whose sauce is sometimes served cold at the dish’s expense.
There was also an unfortunate incident involving a new «Rice Bowl» menu that seemed to advertise a small soup as part of the meal — turns out the soup wasn’t small or included, but the same size and price as the rice bowl. So we ordered what we thought were two $ 12 lunch specials but wound up with a ton of food and a $ 48 check. The server explained the misunderstanding but didn’t alter the check, which kind of cooled us off the place for a minute, and when we returned the menus had been fixed.
Solid Thai with no wait keeps us coming back for more. Thanks, Wave!

Great choice for Thai food.
Just ask for recommendations or your favourites and they will help you.
Never gone wrong with choice here!
Tom Yum
Kai Kra praw — chicken w basil
Moo long — grilled pork
Yum!

Not worth a star. Came in tonight at 10:25pm for dinner. We were greeted with a hello and then we are also notified immediately that the restaurant would be closing at 11. He then proceeded to say that the door closed at 11:15. At that point I asked the server if that meant that the kitchen closed at 11 and that they were closing or that we needed to be out of the restaurant by 1115. The server proceeded to say that we need to be out of the restaurant by
that point we turned around and walked out of the restaurant because it is not a inviting environment for anyone to be in to be told that you need to be out of the restaurant by a certain time is very rude and very on hospitable. With the amount of time restaurants in New York City you think that competition would be tough and clearly it is but with service like this it’s very inappropriate very bad. Try another thai restaurant.

The best thai food in nyc!
Duck with tamarine sauce andPasta noodle curry sauce is so goooooood

Authentic Thai in Chelsa! Everything was delicious! The deco is modern & trendy. they have new noodle dishes which tasted awesome! I will keep coming back!

Every appetizer in the lunch set was amazing. The fried tofu, spring rolls and vegetable dumplings were so good! Pad Thai and spicy basil were perfect. This place is authentic Thai. You know it especially when the waiters speak English with a Thai accent. The lunch set is only $ 8 for an appetizer and main — can’t beat that. For price and quality of food this is 5 stars for me.

I’m not usually the hugest fan of Thai food. I like it just fine, but usually it’s not the cuisine that I would choose
Silom was cool. Service was pretty good, ambience was trendy (low lighting, sleek menu, etc).
And the food was excellent. Everything we ordered was awesome and I was definitely pleasantly surprised. Really good Thai food. It didn’t feel incredibly authentic (not that I would know, lol) but it was flavorful, tasty, and terrific.
Not sure if I would go here again in the near future considering the number of fabulous restaurants in this area (and this is probably not the best), but I would definitely recommend Silom!

I love this place. They are the best service.
My favorite food is spicy shrimp soup.
It’s really cool inside… I recommend if someone looking for good food and good place :)

This place is AMAAAZING. I do want to make the disclaimer that I’ve only been once and had one appetizer and one main dish, but they were both terrific so I’m going to take the liberty of extrapolating and believe that everything on the menu is just as terrific.
Came here for dinner and it was very sleek and chic inside… my kind of place already :) Started off with the classic fresh spring rolls, which were good but fell more on the standard side. The rice wrappers were slightly tough and I couldn’t quite taste the mint, but all the ingredients were well-​balanced inside the roll, and the peanut sauce had a spicy kick to it to make it even better than normal peanut sauce! I am so obsessed with peanut sauce.
Ordered the Hobo Noodle with shrimp and oh my god it was the star of the show. Like, of any show, including Broadway ones. The noodles simply had perfect texture — chewy and substantial, but not so gummy as rice cakes — I could eat those noodles forever. Sauce was incredible as well, and I wish I’d asked what was in it because it was so divine. The string beans were rather undercooked and still hard, but I got a generous amount of shrimp, which I was very pleased about; it’s always such a mood dampener when restaurants are stingy about their seafood. And speaking of, portion size was pretty large too. All in all, this dish by far canceled out any negs from the spring roll. I’d give 5 stars just from it alone.
Service was the other big component of what made dinner so great — there were probably too many servers for how many people were in the restaurant with me at the time and I sometimes felt like I was being watched, even if I wasn’t, but all of them were so unfailingly kind, polite, and discreet the entire time. Can’t stress that enough.
I’ll definitely be back! I’m actually almost even a little afraid to just in case the second time around won’t be as great as the first and my memory of those perfect noodles will be tarnished, but… I’m going to say this is a safe one to risk.

Everyone is so so friendly. I accidentally ordered the wrong appetizer and they replaced it with no problems.
Their customer service rocks! Food is affordable and amazing. The atmosphere and the ambience is relaxing. I will definitely come back again.
Great job!

Dear Silom staff,
I was sooo hungry so I decided to stop here for some Shrimp Pad Thai. As with most Thai places, the pad thai comes with a slightly beaten egg. Yummy, right? No. As I scarfed down the meal, I swallow a wonderful surprise — seemingly disguised as a piece of fried egg white.
Thanks for the mint chewing gum in my pad thai. It was refreshing. Expect a health inspector at the door.
Love,
Peter K.
PS
A follow up disturbing thought, gum just doesn’t randomly *fall* into a hot wok.

Nice atmosphere, small and cozy, not overdone, friendly staff and good food.
I’ve been to Silom three or four times, and I’ve always been very happy with the food and service. I often get tofu-​todd (fried tofu with a sweet peanut dipping sauce) as a starter in every Thai restaurant I go to, and it’s hard to make it extraordinarily great, but Silom’s is solid. I had a summer roll once here, and the ingredients were nice and fresh.
One menu item I had at Silom that I’d never seen anywhere else is Yum Pluk, steamed vegetables soaked in lime, mixed with a bunch of spices and chili, served at room temperature. It was really good, light, and full of flavor. I’ve also had more regular menu items there — tofu kra prow (excellent) and red curry (also very good).
I’ll definitely continue to go back. Good atmosphere, good staff, good food, good location.

Haiku #4
Chelsea and Thai food
Like Starbucks in Manhattan
— One on every block
I tried 4 places
My top pick was Room Service
But they had closed down
Silom sits on top
Of Thai places in Chelsea
Let me explain why:
Silom is cozy
It’s gently lit for dinner
Space for twelve tables
Try the «Penang Nuur»
Beef, peppers, and white onions
Spicy/​sweet curry.
No Calimari!
Rubber texture gently fried
With bland dipping sauce.
Why rate it 4 stars?
Efficient service and staff
Always on their toes
Not to many frills
A typical Thai menu
Typical prices
Here is a quick tip:
Thai people don’t use chopsticks!
Their main tool are forks
A Stereotype
If a place offers chopsticks
Refuse politely

I went to Silom with a few friends last night and we had a fantastic time. The restaurant is a decent size, with maybe 6 tables or so. We were seated instantly on a Tuesday night and proceeded to order cocktails (their happy hour ends at 7, just a heads up) which were all pretty good.
Our waiter was really patient and came at the right times, so the service didn’t feel pushy or underwhelming. We all ordered different appetizers and small plates since everyone had eaten earlier and it was perfect, price wise and the portions were great for sharing.
If I’m in the area, I’d love to come back for drinks etc.

I really enjoyed the ambience, service and wine, but the noodle dish I had was just bad — lacking flavor, and bad meat quality. Maybe my trips to Sripraphai and pok pok ny have spoiled me a bit.
:(