I so love it when a business does everything so well and so correct that I'm able to write a good review.
Here we had an experience in cuisine elegance and a welcome respite. Although Thai cuisine is well known for its yummy spiciness, it is the careful balance and blend of five flavors: sour, sweet, salty, bitter, and spicy that results in all these complex tantalizing tastes we so love about Thai food. Bangkok Cuisine was adequate at that. Which is saying a lot as that isn't easy. When it comes to business, amateurs practice until they get it right while professionals, like here, practice until they can't get it wrong.
A Thai salad is often one of the spiciest Thai dishes, and is generally made with with chili, lime, and fish sauce. My favorite is Yam Neua (Thai beef salad). Thai fruits are heavenly and they include the familiar: banana, pineapple, watermelon, and papaya, as well as the exotic: dragon fruit, chompu, durian, and jackfruit.
Their yelp advertisement and their link at yelp to their website are both helpful.
We were adequately greeted.
Their food price and variety, customer service and cleanliness were adequate.
The access here is disabled-friendly.
Their menu was nicely varied and not overwhelming in size.
They helpfully explicitly state "ABSOLUTELY NO MSG!!" on their menu.
Comments around our table as we ate were: Has food that enriches life, a happy selection of spices and fresh ingredients, food was fresh, yummy and beautifully presented, a happy marriage of spices, fresh ingredients, cooked to perfection, aromatic foreplay for the taste buds, another jewel of Thai tastes, luxurious, happiness is homemade, an oasis of pleasure, oh, wow, that's tasty, it's more than food, it's a cool experience, Ummmmmm um.
We all agreed here was no pretension. No matter how busy, and they got busy, here never let a customer see their service people rush or sweat, and never allowed their service people to rush the customer out-the-door. They minute-by-minute mitigated operational issues with smooth and suave planning, training and corrections. They delivered well intricacy; attention to food detail; texture; color; taste; and the use of ingredients with medicinal benefits, as well as good flavor and care being given to the food's appearance, smell and context.
The combination of the savory food and good customer service meant we lingered a bit longer over our meal, smiled a bit more, pondered food, and just relaxed.
Noisy not in a negative way. More like a loving-family kitchen way.
Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living. --Sikh Guru Nanak. This business was truthful with us.
No automatic gratuity was demanded for my attendance here.
The bill matched their posted prices. (It's an illegal Deceptive Trade Practice when the bill doesn't match posted prices)
No one at this business took my picture without my permission or publicly posted it without my permission.
No one at this business offered to commit fraud to reward me or pay me or compensate me for posting 5-star reviews of this business. FTC forbids the use of fake testimonials as are illegal under Section 5 of the FTC Act (15 USC 45 as they are using unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce.
A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference. -- Eeyore
Over and over 95% of current and past Military and their families say that they notice when businesses are "Military-Friendly" or "Veteran-Friendly" and that an Active Duty and Veteran Discount is what gives an immediate and positive first impression to any business. That also means 95% of current and past Military Personnel and their families notice when companies are NOT "Military-Friendly" "Veteran-Friendly" and when companies don't have an Active Duty and Veteran Discount and that gives an immediate and negative first impression to any business.
The owners of this business like their Freedom so they have a Military and Veterans Discount as a thank you to Veterans with a publicly disclosed daily Veteran Discount which provides resource to ensure Veterans (rare 7% of the population) and GIs (rare one-half of one percent of the population) opportunity to participate in American Dream Veterans and GIs' sacrifices have made possible for 100% of the population. That earned 'em another review star.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. --Mother Teresa. We left happier than we arrived.
I'll be back. For my Customer Rule is: Always visit again a business that has treated you okay AND supports Veterans and Active Duty with a publicly disclosed daily Military and Veterans Discount.
I rate 'em 3 stars. According to Yelp ratings' definitions, that's "Ok". Ok is NOT a negative review. I added another review star for their having a Military / Veterans Discount.
P.S. Don't message me because in spite of my several complaints to yelp, for years now I am unable to open up any messages in yelp to me :-( read more