Thai Restaurant

Yum! The Thai food here is great and the Thai tea was a little too sweet but still fantastic! I ordered the pad see ewe (I think that’s how you spell it) with the shrimp and it’s enough for about four servings. That meal was fabulous. Our waitress was very sweet and attentive. Great place to come and get your Thai fix. Small hole in the wall but don’t let that fool you. Those seem to be the best.

Awesome, delicious, authentic Thai!!! Best addition to our list of favorites! Thank you Pi! Gonzalo

It’s OK as far as Thai goes in SA. There are way better options out there. Had the Pad won Sen and there just wasn’t much flavor. Asked for a 9 on the spicy level and food was not spicy in any way. The hot and sour soup here used to be great but today’s was flavorless.

3.5 stars.
This joint has been open for as looooong as I can remember. I grew up a few blocks away and I literally don’t remember NOT seeing Thai Restaurant there. So I figured it must be pretty good and I finally ate there several months ago.
Old, but clean interior; nothing fancy. The staff is nice and service is prompt. She’s remembered us since our first visit: good memory. I LOVE and keep returning for the wings and the red curry with tofu. Yummy, crave worthy items. I did like and would order again [one day] a beef and eggplant dish we had a few visits ago.
I’ve had other stuff that’s pretty tasty… some kinda garlic beef in a gravy [yeah, gravy, at a Thai place], a jazzy pork dish where everything was good but the pork [way too dry], pad see ewe that I didn’t care too much for, spring rolls. All not bad, but not great and items I wouldn’t order again.
Did I mention it’s fairly cheap, too? Give it a whirl and I hope you find at least one crave worthy dish on your first visit like we did!
Oh and BYOB, yeah!!!

We just got back from dinner at this place. We were very, very disappointed. My they said the level of spice is from 0 to 10. My husband ordered a 6, I ordered a 4 and we ordered a 0 for our 6 year old granddaughter. All 3 dishes were as bland as bland can be. I don’t think they cooked with any spices what-​so-​ever, not even garlic! If we didn’t want some heat, we wouldn’t have gone for Thai! Never again.

Food here is really great. Fast, fresh, and super delicious! Will definitely be going back again

Ive heard this place whispered about, in the kind of lackluster strip mall at Babcock & Callaghan, with the unassuming generic name, «Thai Restaurant». Inside, its small and quaint, and the food is deceptively good. Ive been for lunch specials twice so far (pad thai and pad woon sen, with appetizers) and both times I left delightfully satisfied.

Up until yesterday I thought this to be the best Fried Rice in the city, but when I asked the waitress if it was the same cook in the kitchen she informed me it was under new management and new cook!!! The fried rice was so blah with absolutely no taste. I was so disappointed. My hubby’s Beef salad was good but I don’t think we will be going back there anymore.

This is still my favorite Thai place. I have been going to the Thai restaurant for 20 years. The same people still work there and remember me every time including my favorite orders. I have had a couple of bad meals there to go and when I call them they are very apologetic and replace my meal immediately. Prices have gone up recently so I think they are pricing themselves out a little for dinner but the food is good and the people are great so I continue to go even having to pay the extra.

I am addicted to the Thai beef salad here. It is absolutely wonderful! The service is very fast, friendly and efficient. The building is not the best, smells kinda moldy. Overall, food is excellent!

Where is the good old food? I think the owner has been changed, so does the coking.
May be the previous cook should be hired back.

Really embarrassing Thai food. The Green curry was bitter — I asked companions to taste it, so it wasn’t just me. Soup ordered at spice level 2 was totally bland. Service was barely civil: «you want steamed tofu? Why?» «More water? I filled you 3 times already. You like tea?» Won’t be back.

I’ve been going to this place since I was 5! They have the best Thai food anywhere in San Antonio!
I always get either the Pad Woonsen, Pad Thai, or Beef and Broccoli!
Their soups are so flavorful and hearty and to top it off they have homemade coconut ice cream!!!

Has been one of my favorite Thai restaurants in SA since the mid 90s (used to eat lunch here in HS!). The hot and sour soup is amazing and the Pad Thai is always fresh, delicious, and perfectly prepared. Definitely worth trying, especially for lunch — their lunch specials are a super good deal!

It is in a weird location or area but near the medical center. I think most Thai places have an interesting outside feel compared to their typical inside interior design. The staff was wonderful to cater to our large group. They welcomed us and set up the table for us in an efficient manner.
I got the chicken fried rice and thoroughly enjoyed it! I don’t know if it’s because I am from Dallas but I thought the portions were small. I was able to finish it even with a semi — full stomach. It was definitely good and maybe that’s why I cleared the entire plate!
This place is a hole in the wall but I will definitely be coming back whenever I am in town.

Heads up! The awesome menu on Unilocal is NOT their menu. They said «oh yeah, we don’t know who that is… that’s not our menu.» What a disappointment. We were actually unable to eat the food and left early. My husband joked «fallback men!» as we left. (He’s great at lifting my spirits when I was soooo disappointed.) After reading the Unilocal menu and reviews I was so stoked to go to this restaurant. However… the food and environment is awful. Example: Spring rolls made of raw powdery flour wonton wrappers rather than clear stretchy rice paper? The filling looked like old egg and random old veggies. The chicken satay tasted old and had some white glistening substance on it… mayo? Seriously thought I was in an episode of Gordon Ramsays Kitchen Nightmares. I was relieved to wake up without food poisoning. Good thing we didn’t eat much of it!
The one star is just that the staff was kind when we asked to pay for what they had already served us and NOT all the items that we had ordered.

Aptly titled, Thai Restaurant is delicious. Looks like it’s a little hole in the wall (and well, it is!), but the food that comes out is delicious! Have been going here since I’ve moved to the medical center area and haven’t been let down yet. Prices are good, service is quick, and they always remember your order!

Maybe it’s the fact that I’ve been coming here for years and during that time at least one of the staff has been here that long. She’s the type that remembers you and your family– asks about them and such. So I give it a 4.
The food is solid — I usually have the vegetable dish (you can add chicken for a dollar or two) on the lunch menu & it’s served with steamed rice or fried rice. The fried rice doesn’t have much flavor so I stick with the steamed. The plate also comes with a fried roll. You also get a soup with your meal — veggie or hot & sour (depends on the day. Their pad Thai is really very good as is their panang. This time they forgot my (fresh) spring rolls but as old friends– I already forgave them.
They don’t have a liquor license — so no booze. I think they let you BYOB though — just check before.
It’s routinely busy during lunch since it’s in the med center but I have had plenty of time to order/​eat and be on my way well within my lunch hour during all these years.

Came here with the bf just last month as part of his tour of San Antonio Thai restaurants. At each one we try, he always orders the same items to ensure that he is comparing them fairly: Tom kha gai soup, beef pad woon sen, Thai tea, and of it’s available, a sticky rice dessert.
After reading the reviews here before we left, my entrée of choice was the chicken pad Thai.
Somehow, prior to all that, we tried the fish cakes as our appetizer– they were great. Just the right amount of crispness, and the accompanying salad/​sauce was amazing. I wouldn’t mind having this as an entrée in the future. According to bf, theyre not found too many places either.
The Tom kha was new for me, and I ordered it based on the reviews here. I tried it and loved it, and it was so rich that I believed it to be cream based rather than coconut milk. Oddly though, I have tried it other places since and it tastes quite different elsewhere. Then again, at other places, there has been way too much ginger for my liking, so I think I’ll just say that I prefer the version this restaurant puts out.
By the time my pad Thai arrived. I really wasn’t very hungry. It I will say that it is an enormous portion (but, as others have said, served with way too many bean sprouts) and it was quite tasty. The leftovers the next day were good, too.
Bf’s beef pad woon sen wasn’t particularly remarkable. He ordered a high spice level, of 7 or 8, but even I found it downright bland– there was absolutely no spice whatsoever. I could tell he was quite disappointed.
The dessert was a new thing for me to try. The sticky rice and coconut ice cream was tastier than I expected, but I don’t know if I would have it again necessarily.
In short, tasty place to go and we will be back.

Smushed in between a dry cleaner and a karaōke bar with an inconspicuous sign to boot, Thai Restaurant is very easy to miss! Contrary to the consensus, their dining area is actually not very small at all. I’ve come across much, much smaller restaurants in SA that keep pretty busy (e.g., Dough on Blanco and Burger Boy on N St. Mary’s st). What makes it seem so cramped is the dim lighting, low ceiling and lack of windows. When I say lack of windows, I mean there are absolutely no windows to this place whatsoever. The only natural light (if any) comes from the entrance door which is tinted. All factors combined kind of make you feel like you’re in a cave. So if you or anyone in your party are claustrophobic, you might want to take note of all this.
Oh, but the food! It more than makes up for it. They have some of the best Pad Woon Sen and Pad Thai I’ve ever had. Meat is always tender, flavorful, and never drowning in sprouts. Good thing too because it’d be kind of funny if their food sucked, given their name. Their spicy level ranges from 1 to 10 and I usually get a 2. I’m a wuss, I know! Service is excellent, quick to refill your drinks. The ladies that work here always seem to be in a pretty good mood.
4 and ½ stars. Overall, this place is a must-​try if you’re a Thai food enthusiast.