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Jennifer N.
Location: New York
Blog Posts: 16
Member Since: 6/24/2008
Favorite Cuisine:
French, Japanese, Korean
Recent Eats
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Jul 18th
A Bit Much
After hearing so many good recommendations of this place, I was looking forward to an interesting culinary experience. Unfortunately, all I got was mediocre Thai food in a ridiculously decorated space. Are those fake doors at each table really necessary in a cramped space where no one seems to know this from that?
The service was terrible from the start. It took three different people to assess where we should be seated, and after 20 minutes of confused staff trying to sort themselves out, we were finally seated. As if the superfluous doors were not bad enough, this is a place where the tables are separated by 2 centimeters of space between each other. Only a slight exaggeration, it was not surprising that I caught more of my neighbour's conversation than my dining mates who, seated across the table, were much further away. The music was at club decibels, so our vocal chords got quite the workout when we tried to converse. Bleh.
If the food was good, all could have been forgiven. However, my Kee Mao noodles, which I requested extra spicy with chicken, arrived bland with beef. The special Pad Thai looked interesting, and after a taste from my dining mates' plate, I concluded that it's not nearly as such once in the mouth. The seafood tasted overly fishy and not at all fresh, and the egg just didn't do anything for me. The drinks, however, they did reasonably well.
All in all, it's a reasonable option for Thai if you're in the area and are more interested in drinking than eating a decent meal over good conversation with friends.
Room Service
166 8th Ave. (bet. 18th & 19th St.)
New York, 10011
Tel: (212)691-0299
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thai in fancy places has always disappointed me... i yearn for the old days of pam's real thai with BYOB...