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Local neighbourhood Thai in Henley Beach and it does a good job of it. Expansive seating, it looked deceptively small on the outside but its a tardis …
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10 Reviews on “Thai Orchid Restaurant”
As other reviewers have mentioned, this place is not cheap Thai.However, I found the serves to be large and of extremely high quality. We had a group of 9 and a wide variety of food from the menu. The service was pretty good too.The position and views are extraordinarily good. Great restaurant for a special occasion or as a treat to yourself !!
The worst Thai Food I have ever eaten!! The ambiance was frantic and very noisy with chaos everywhere. The staff serving us were lovely however the manager ELIZABETH was atrocious! The food is very overpriced for what it is. $30 for a Red Curry Duck which was a bowl of coconut cream with 4-5 slices of duck drowning in it, one small cauliflower florets and a few pieces of bamboo shoot. My Mums Lemongrass Prawns, was also more of a coconut cream soup. $10 for a few florets of broccoli. Meals came out one at a time curry but no rice then rice but no curry for another. Everyone had finished and one meal still had not arrived. Enter ELIZABETH!! Rude beyond belief. A liability to the business. Arrogant and dismissive, we decided to cancel the last meal. Rather than a polite apology she huffed off leaving us uncertain about whether she had canceled it or not. Upon enquiring Elizabeth rudely tried to excuse the complaint by saying oh well we are busy. As I explained to Elizabeth.. if She cannot manage a busy restaurant dont book it. The bill was $150 ! For terrible food and horrible management. If Elizabeth is not the business owner then the owner really needs to think about replacing the Manager. Henley Beach is stunning so this restaurant gets a free ride with customer volume, in a side street it would struggle. Eventually Elizabeth told us not to come back which was the final motivation to actually leave a review and hopefully widely advise people to go somewhere else where you can get good food, good service and a beautiful setting.
The price is extremely overpriced and unecessarg, in my personal opinion I think it shouldn’t be worth the price that I paid for. The lemongrass chicken was soaked in a bath-tub and flavourless soup and was as bland as it could get. The only memorable dish I come close to like is the peanut chicken and it was consumed with the overpriced rice that was quite soft and wet. Overall I didn’t like it at all and didn’t enjoy the dishes. Would not recommend it to new comers but regular visitors may disagree with my opinion
The venue is in a prime position and that is where it ends.The food is average at best, we ordered with two other couples and the entrees could not come out together with 10 mins between all being placed on the table, when my wife got her soup she advised it was not the Galanga soup she ordered but she got told that is what she ordered(funny my wife would not have ordered something that she was allergic too.!) When the mains came out they again could not get all the dishes out together and my dish needed two prompts to waitresses to ask them wher it was. The chilli chicken was not even worth the wait very average food all round. The venue is extremely noisy as around a table of 6 you really could not hear what your friends were saying other than shouting it out. When the bill came out they could not even get the correct bill for the table again when we asked for the right one ( which was more than the one we received) they questioned it. When I went up to pay you do not even get a question of how was your meal just grab the card and put it through the eftpos machine. No care, no service no good food.
Thai Orchid is situated in the prime position of Henley square so you’d think it must be pretty impressive. From the outside you aren’t sure what to expect but once you go inside you’ll quickly realise that this is no traditional Thai restaurant. I guess you could describe it as a dining hall serving Thai food. Tables are packed full of diners eating stock standard Thai cuisine. The service at times is poor but that’s because they are so busy and there are so many people. Because they are in an amazing location I think they draw the tourist crowd during the summer months. The food is nothing special and there are loads of other restaurants offering similar cuisine in the western suburbs that I would return to before heading back here.
Went to Thai Orchid restaurant last night for the first time- table for 2 seated quickly without reservation even though the restaurant was packed! Prompt friendly service with great view of the sunset. The food – pad Thai was disappointing (bland- even for a pad Thai!), with minced chicken and literally one single prawn. Choo Chee chicken curry was much better; good flavours but really nothing to rave about. Good serving size of both. Price reflects the location/view but won’t be in a hurry to return- for me food takes precedence above all else!
Quick takeaway service. Dreadful food. Fried rice consisted of oil and egg, I’m not joking. Steamed rice I could lift out in one lump out of container. Tasteless, oily Pad Thai, the only saving grace was that the Massaman Beef Curry was tender, but for $18.90 it should be. Steer clear and head to Chinatown.