Thai Cuisine Boulevard

5 Reviews on “Thai Cuisine Boulevard”

• Sulahoney

  Nice ambience, excellent customer service and food was very tasty. Loved how the food was presented. Nice place to visit with family or friends. Overall a great experience.

  June 25, 2020, 2:35 am

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• Jithen De Silva

  Highly overrated. Food was average. Service, below par.The Chocolate fudge pudding is not recommended as it lacks any fudge whatsoever and is more of an overheated cake.The food is overpriced and lacked flavour.Props for presentation! A pity that the food consistently looked far better than it tasted.

  May 12, 2020, 2:35 am

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• Nikki Shah

  The food was mind blowing. Full of flavours. The Chu Chu Prawn dish is amazing. The service was very good. The staff is very friendly and polite and made@& sure we were comfortable and always served. Must go place to all Thai food lovers ❤

  October 20, 2019, 2:35 am

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• Sharan Choithramani

  I visited Thai Boulevard after looking up a few Thai restaurants in the city and trying to decide which would be best for my first Ghau meal. Ultimately, I stumbled upon a blog post (https://www.yamu.lk/cuisine/thai) that clinched the decision in favor of Thai Boulevard. Things started well enough as I downed the Mango Mango (made from pineapple, passion fruit and mango juices). The drink stuck an exquisite balance between sweet and tart and had a delightful crunch of passionfruit seeds.I ordered what I thought was pla neueng manoa,a classic thai dish with (usually) steamed whole fish in a sauce of lime, chilli and garlic. This was exactly the description in the menu, the difference being that the fish was grilled. I asked for jasmine rice to accompany my dish, and sat back in anticipation. It was my first meal in 20 hours – I had traveled all night to get to Colombo on a red eye and spent the day sleeping in my hotel room.The fish arrived in the form of fillets of pan fried (not grilled) snapper the outside of which was visibly greasy. The so-called sauce was green in colour and had the consistency of a relish (note that the real deal has a yellow sauce, mostly composed of lime juice, palm sugar, cilantro, chopped birds eye chilli and chicken stock). The sauce was bracingly acidic, unpleasantly spicy and had a long bitter, vegetable finish from the ground green chillies. Not only was it a pairing that was wholly unsuited to the delicate sea bass, I could not imagine a scenario where one might want to eat it at all. And above all, this was a wholly different dish, completely unlike its Thai counterpart. It arrived with local steamed rice and not jasmine rice I had requested, to boot.I pointed out the discrepancies to my server who insisted repeatedly that I had been served jasmine rice that the restaurant imported from Thailand and that the fish was their best seller, and that that’s how they made it. Not seeing the point in arguing the matter further, I decided that hunger was the devil I needed to quell first. I focused on the sea bass, which, aside from the greasy layer that had been in contact with pan, was fresh and delicious. Thankfully, the odious sauce was served on the side – I wondered that choice was by desing, and that they knew that it was inedible.Having put away the fish, I asked for the check which was brought by the manager. When he asked about my meal, I narrated exactly what had happened and the reaction of my server to my complaints. I explained that incompetence was forgivable, but blatantly lying when called out on it as the server had done about the rice was not. He apologized and offered to bring me a desert. I politely decline.The manager returned shortly after I had presented my card saying that they had accidentally charged the bill of a different table to my card, and I had paid 4 times what I owed. Several minutes later he returned having fixed the issue, this time sounding genuinely contrite about my experience. He offered to make me a meal to go. Instead, I chose to get a desert – the mango with sticky rice. The desert turned out to be the real deal, and even though it was too sweet for my liking, I appreciated the manager’s attempt to make my experience a little better.Nonetheless, I’m shocked that Thai Boulebard botched the dish so badly, that they did not have jasmine rice, that they did not have bird eye chillies and used a local substitute that was wholly inappropriate,that they passed of a pan fried fish for grilled, that their first line of customer contact was so irksome, and that they did so little to remedy my concerns. When I asked to speak with the chef, the manager said that she was traveling.I wouldn’t have minded a Sri Lankan-ized Thai meal. This, however, was simply terrible food.

  July 20, 2019, 2:35 am

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• Anushki

  Loved it!! Excellent food. Excellent service!!! The papaya salad was yummy. Quick service. Atmosphere was great. Shall certainly come by again soon. Recommended

  March 15, 2019, 2:35 am

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