Thai Orchid Restaurant

06/30/09

New Restaurant

by flourchild at Citysearch

I was thrilled to drive down Sawmill Parkway and see what looks like a new restaurant almost to completion! It is near the intersection of Seldom Seen Rd. Because their food is so delicious, especially Tom Ka Gai and Chicken Phad Thai, I crave it a lot, especially in the cold days of winter. The wait staff are efficient and attentive, and I've always found the owners to be kind and gracious and remember their customers, even if a long time has elapsed. They are extremely accommodating. The biggest con has been the dying, depressing strip mall they are located in. Now, with the beautiful new restaurant, it will be a 100% pleasure to go there for dinner!

• Pros: Delicious Food, Nice Ambience, Good Service
• Cons: Strip Mall

01/07/09

Over priced sugar fast

by lovefood2009 at Citysearch

I love thai food for its fragrance, texture and delicate balance of taste. The food at thai orchid was overly sweetened tongue offender. The appetizer we ordered was a big heap of white crispy noodles mixed with some tomato based sauce, called Maggie. If you like this dish, go buy yourself a bottle of Maggie hot & sweet sauce at any ethnic store with a bag of white crispy noodles and make it yourself. It's much cheaper.

The thai fried rice we tried was also drenched in Maggie sauce and tasted sweet rather than savory as you would expect from a fried rice. Unfortunately, there was little thai fragrance. They should call this dish a Maggie rice.

The other dish we tried had beef and green beans in brown-red glaze. I can not remember its name, but I do remember it being incredibly sweet. The flavor would have worked so much better and I might have actually enjoyed this dish, had it been less sweet. The sweetness completely overpowered other flavors. It would have been also very nice if the dish had more beef than the green beans, but it was the otherway around.

The foods were expensive and were not worth the money.

Service was sub-par. My friend's utensils were dirty and needed to be replaced.

The decoration and the ambiance of the restaurant is obnoxious. Purple neon lights? Seriously?

Save your money and try some other thai restaurant.

• Pros: Plenty of parking space
• Cons: Too expensive, too obnoxious, too sweet, sub-par foods

12/20/08

Best thai in Columbus!

by foodandwineM at Citysearch

This place absolutely has the best thai food! Phad thai is excellent, Peanut sauce which you purchase as a side is fantastic! riendly quick service for take-out and a discount too!

Highly recommend for the thai food lover!

• Pros: quick service with take out, outstanding food
• Cons: only open limited hours