So I guess all efforts of customer service go out the window when your dining party is 6+ because of the automatic gratuity that's added to the bill. I had to flag down someone to get water and the waitress rolled her eyes as if I was inconveniencing her. No one has come by to refill our cups and 4 of the 6 cups are empty. The food is average, not bad by any means but not anything better than the ol' run of the mill Thai/sushi establishments. The one upside is that the food was somewhat prompt?? read more

Really like this Thai restaurant. Lunch is so affordable and comes with extras like ice cream and spring rolls. I've never gotten something I don't like here and I can take my 4 and 6 year old to experience something different. This has become my favorite Thai place in town. I love their drunken noodles and their panang curry. Will probably start making this our Christmas dinner tradition. read more

Great place. The staff is attentive and friendly. The ambiance is beautiful and cozy. The food, delicious. Nice portions, great flavor and good prices. I usually go with my daughter and she just loves Pad Thai! They always treat us very kindly and go above and beyond to make us feel special. I only gave it 4 stars because I have had some truly phenomenal Thai food so my bar is set quite high. We will certainly return again and again. Keep up the good work. Thank you. read more

Duck pad Thai had little noodles but tons of crazy good duck and veggies. Crab soup was simple clear broth with crabmeat and veggies. Curries were all good. The larb gai salad was to die for! read more

Stellar service, made sure to keep the waters full and the table clear! wonton soup was a little underwhelming, but by no means bad. Thai curry was very well executed and delicious! My brother had the basil sauce chicken which was quite spicy but fantastic! recommended! read more

My boyfriend and I are HUGE foodies and I was super excited to get to go here with him! It was on a lunch break, so we only had about 45 minutes and we were able to relax and eat with time to spare :) the sushi is so fresh there, we enjoyed some spicy tuna with our entrees, even were brought a dessert on the house that we will definitely order next time around! read more

We love Thai food, which my husband prepares at home frequently. He spent time in Thailand during Vietnam war and felt the food here was typical of Thai street food. In a few words, our meal was excellent. He had green curry with chicken and vegetables. Mine was a chicken dish with brown sauce. We splurged on sticky rice and Thai custard for dessert. We usually have this with mangoes, but the custard was wonderful. Service was great. We are frequent visitors to Gainesville and will definitely return here. Would recommend that the spice of the dishes be amped up a bit. read more

Incredible food, great service, good prices. We had such a great experience our first time here. One downside, no kids menu. My son ordered the fried shrimp app as his meal, which was amazing because it came with fried veggies too. Crazy tuna roll and mussaman curry were great. Loved it, can't wait to go back. read more

The restaurant is a great place to dine and meet friends. The food is fresh and authentic, the restaurant is owned by a Thai family and the atmosphere is casual and relaxed. The food is terrific. I am a vegan and have no problem whatsoever eating there. Check it out. read more

I've been five or six times with family, and enjoyed everything I've had. I really enjoy the coconut soup - lots of umami, with a little sweetness to back it up. I'm on a gluten-free diet, so I'm limited to the curry section of the menu for entrees, but there's enough variety there that it's easy to find something to enjoy. The amazing sauce is aptly named! The vegetables and meat have been very fresh, the staff very polite and present, and the atmosphere is very bright and clean and welcoming. I did get gluten exposure on one visit - in their defense, I didn't specify on that visit that I needed the meal to be G-free. They'd have five stars from me if the dishes were more consistently flavored. The coconut soup has the same great flavor every time I get it, but the other dishes vary slightly from one visit to the next in terms of the more subtle flavors, and the spiciness is all over the place. I asked for a dish to be served "hot" on one visit and got it pleasantly near the edge of my comfort zone; on the next visit, I ordered the same thing and it was so mild that the spice didn't pull ahead of the other flavors. Overall, I've enjoyed every dining experience I've had there, and I'd definitely recommend the place to friends! read more

I went there for lunch and was pleasantly surprised. Three course for about 10 dollars. You really can't beat that and the portions are pretty generous in my opinion. read more

Food and service are great. One of our most favorite restaurants in Gainesville FL

It was our first time after since we moved to Gainesville in August '15. We're totally impressed by everything once we opened the door. I love all the decorations, the atmosphere, the service and of course the delicious Thai food! We were there for lunch special. I've got Ladna and my husband got drunken noodles and everything was delicious! I love that it's not a big portion and we love the coconut ice cream. It was so good! We'll definitely come back again and I'll make sure to spread the word to all of my friends ; ) read more

Had lunch here early on a Sunday. It was fantastic. I've been waiting for 10 years for Gainesville to get a good thai restaurant and I'm very happy to see we finally have one. I saw a few poor reviews of this restaurant related to service. One thing that's interesting about Gainesville is that despite the relatively decent size of the town and number of restaurant choices, Gainesville residents absolutely SLAM a new restaurant it's opening week. Excluding chain restaurants with heavy corporate training programs, I've seen a lot of new places fall apart in their first week because they weren't prepared for a mad rush the moment their doors opened. Then lots of people usually experience bad service, assume that's the norm for the place, and do not return, write poor reviews, etc. I'm hoping that won't be the case with this place and it's one of the reasons I gave them a few weeks to work out their kinks before I stopped in. My service experience was wonderful. They even brought out a child plate/silverware for my toddler which she absolutely appreciated. Their lunch was a great deal. My wife's lunch was $8 for pad see eew that was very well done and it came with a Thai egg roll and a small cup of a very tasty garlic chicken and rice soup. My wife always order noodles at a Thai joint and I almost never do but this dish will make me reconsider on my next visit. I had massaman curry which I order at Thai restaurants across the country. You can tell this place makes their own curry paste (and anyone who has done that themselves knows that's a sign that they truly care about their food). Sometimes when I travel on business I'll yelp a thai restaurant have a very good but not great curry dish. After one does this a few dozen times you start to notice that the curry eaten at a Chicago Thai restaurant this week tastes identical to the curry at a Thai restaurant in Dallas you went to the week before. I think there are dozens if not hundreds of Thai restaurants littered around the country that rely on store bought pastes and sauces which is why so many taste the same and not much better than what an enthusiast can make in his or her own kitchen. Given the complexity of Thai ingredients, I doubt any 2 Thai dishes made from scratch in separate kitchens would ever taste so similar. Bangkok Square tastes uniquely home made. The massaman curry was what it should be, but also had wonderful hints of almost a pumpkin spice warmth which makes it uniquely theirs and very very good. It also came with the eggroll and soup. In addition I ordered a bowl of Tom Kha soup which was also wonderful and scratch made. It had large slices of shallots in the bowl which I had not seen in this type of soup before and gave it such a nice flavor. In all, id say this is easily the best Thai in Gainesville from a food standpoint based on the dishes mentioned. I sincerely hope the quality of the food allows them to survive the few stumbles in service people wrote about during the typical Gainesville first-week tsunami of customers. read more

I have been tremendously excited about this restaurant opening since I heard about it a couple of months ago. In fairness, I should say that they have only been open for about a week, and our visit was on Valentine's Day, which is always a challenge for a restaurant. Even given that, however, the only way to describe our experience was an utter disappointment. I had such high hopes. For starters, I went in several days earlier and made a reservation for 6:30 p.m. We arrived at approximately 6:30. No one was at the hostess station. Indeed, there were several other people standing there as well, all of us being ignored. There is a clock on the wall, so it was easy to know the timeline. It was 6:50 (twenty minutes after we arrived) before anyone even spoke to us. Prior to that the hostess had been running around frantically trying to do everything else in the restaurant. But, once we told them we had a reservation for 6:30, we were shown a table almost immediately. At 6:55 we sat down for our 6:30 reservation. OK, chalk it up to Valentine's and let it go. But, we were seated at a plain, empty table. No silverware or napkins, nothing on the table. Once we were seated, we waited, and waited, and waited some more. We were completely ignored. Finally, at 7:25, a full 30 minutes after we were seated, our "server" stopped at the table, said, "Sorry" and asked for our drink orders. We placed our food orders at the same time. It was another 10 minutes before the drinks actually arrived (and we only had water and iced tea). We ordered an appetizer. A long time later I saw the appetizer, delivered to a different table. It sat there for a few minutes until the people told someone it wasn't theirs. The server then tried to serve it to two other tables, unsuccessfully. Finally he took it back to the kitchen, only to emerge a few minutes later with our now cold appetizer. No explanation. Just plopped it on the empty table. At that point, I pointed out that we had no plates or silverware. He promised they would be forthcoming. They were not. We ate the cold appetizer with our fingers. We did ask two more times for table service Third time was a charm. The silverware and napkins arrived about five minutes after our entrees were served. I ordered one of the house specials...a Panang Curry dish with shrimp and chicken. Priced at 17.95 it seemed a little overpriced, but sounded good nonetheless. I ordered it "Thai Hot" (you are asked to choose between mild, medium, hot, and Thai hot). It was served so mild it was almost bland. It had two shrimp and a little chicken. The rice side was two tiny scoops of rice that made for about six bites of rice. Pretty sad for a 17.95 dish. My wife's dish was similar and had the same pitiful two little scoops of rice. To their credit, the vegetables in the dishes were seemingly fresh, cooked perfectly, and delicious. The two shrimp in my dish, however, were obviously frozen shrimp, and were bland, freezer burned and almost flavorless. Even still, I was hoping the whole evening would be redeemed with dessert. You see, I love Thai Sticky Rice desserts and this place had one on their menu. I had looked forward to it throughout the whole meal. Atfer sitting in front of our empty entree plates for at least 10 minutes, a man we had never seen before approached the table and said, none too kindly, "Are you finished?" I replied, "We had hoped to order dessert." "Oh," he said, seemingly irritated that we wanted to order dessert. "What do you want?" I told him and he disappeared. A full ten minutes later he returned to say, "So sorry, we are out of sticky rice." Seriously? How is it possible for a Thai restaurant to run out of sticky rice? So, we asked for the check. I'm sure you can imagine, it was another 10-15 minutes before we received the check. All around us we could hear other people having the same problems. Comments such as, :"Well, they seem to be trying at least" (though I have to say if you can't get water to the table in less than 30 minutes, it hardly constitutes "trying". Another customer said, "Well, I always give new restaurants two tries before writing them off...but the next try better be a huge improvement over this one." Well, he's a better man than me. I can't imagine trying them again. They did bring over some cards as an apology for the terrible service, it offered us a free appetizer or dessert (assuming they actually had the desserts) on our next visit, provided that visit was in the next two weeks, and only with the purchase of two full dinners! To be honest, with the poor quality of the overall food experience, the pitifully small serving sizes, and their seemingly overpriced entrees, I can't imagine coming back to purchase more. If you want Gainesville Thai food, try Rice Thai instead. The food is twice as good, twice as large on the portions for half the price. And they know what they are doing. read more

Service was quite slow. It wasn't necessarily the wait that makes me give this 3 stars, but the disorganization of the service. We had several servers walk past and ignore us for about 20 minutes before we were asked if we had been helped (to sit down). I think usually there's a notebook where you can write your name down, but this notebook was closed and on the bottom shelf of the table by the door. Meanwhile, about 5 tables had been turned and were ready to be seated while a group of about 15 people had gathered waiting outside. Then a table that sat after us was attended to first by a server. Waited about 30 minutes for food. Nonetheless, the pot stickers and Panang curry were good. I did not like the pad Thai, but maybe I've just never had authentic pad Thai. Would try this place again, but maybe not on a Friday night. read more

Best lunch deals...so easy to order, can mix and match, pick your protien, curry sauce and rice or noodles. I've been a few times to BOTH locations and both are equally consistent with their service and deliciousness! You can't go wrong with either location. The ambiance is beautiful and makes for a great date spot! read more

Every dish I've tried this far, has been cooked to perfection! Authentic and amazing! Highly recommended.

We went to this place for dinner on 31st december. Not only the food was bad, it was overpriced and low in quantity. The dish has barely any sauce and vegetables were quite dry. We asked to get some more sauce so we can eat with rice. After getting some more sauce, it was barely eatable. It had no taste. We had to constantly wait for server to look at us even to get water or chilli sauce. After nearly one and half hour, we left the restaurant with almost empty stomach, went to nearby restaurant and had another dinner. I definitely do not recommend this place especially for vegetarian read more

Just opened up, the food is good. I've been looking for a good place for pad thai and i thought it was very well made here. The service is a little slow and could probably use some more people. Overall though i enjoyed my experience here. =) read more

Had dinner here tonight with my family of 4. The place was crowded when we arrived, but we were seated promptly. Unlike some others, I thought service was quite good. We got some water and our drink order quickly. My wife and I split the tom ka soup with chicken. It was quite good, but perhaps a little sweet. My children had the beef and chicken satay which they both enjoyed. I had the duck panang and my wife had the duck red curry. Min was excellent with good spice and crispy duck in a creamy panang sauce. My wife said here could have been a bit warmer, but had great flavor as well. We substituted brown rice which was also good. My son had the beef pad thai which he enjoyed and was as good or better than other asian places in town. We were seated near the register and while we had a lot of traffic running past our table, the waitstaff was readily available. Having lived in Gainesville for 18 years, I'm glad we finally have a good Thai restaurant so I don't have to go to Ocala for a fix. read more

Love the Tom Kha. Outstanding service and lovely presentation. Pad Thai, all the curries and the Pad Prik Khing all fresh and exploding with flavor. Menu allows you to create your own combos which is great. Very crowded on weekend evenings as to be expected. The lunch menus are fantastic and the coconut ice cream is a great finish. Some of the best Thai food I've ever had and hands down the best in Gainesville. read more

Dined here on a visit and liked it so well we went back the next two evenings. Food was very well prepared, menu is rather extensive, and service was polite and snappy. We stayed with the Thai menu; they also have sushi but we didn't try that. read more

Our party of 11 all ordered different meals and all declared it delicious. Very friendly staff, too! It was fun evening. Can't wait to go again! read more

My favorite Thai place in Gainesville although not up to my Thai wife's standards. She doesn't mind me getting take out for her to eat though! Friendly staff and convenient location for SW Gainesville. I'm a regular especially for take out. A little pricey especially some dishes but very tasty. read more

Wonderful! Called ahead for lunch to see if reservation necessary (Pharmacy School Commencement) and was told no. Had our table waiting for us anyway. All enjoyed their meals, Drunken noodles, Sautéed Chicken Basil, Pad Broccoli. Appetizers, Pot stickers and steamed dumplings (especially good) were great. Lunch soup was wonderful and egg roll good. Would go again if up in Gainesville. read more

Bangkok Square gets does just about everything right. Very elegant and comfortable decor, one of the better Gainesville options for Thai food, very good curry, and a price point that is a reasonable value at dinner and an exceptional value for lunch. Our server did a commendable job with a large party of 10 for a Sunday lunch. The layout of the restaurant allows them to easily put two rectangle tables together for a large party. Our meal was followed by a complementary mini-scoop of Coconut ice cream a very nice touch. If I could give half starts this would be a 4.5 star review. If I lived in Gainesville, I would be a regular here. read more

The best Thai restaurant in Gainesville, particularly for fried rice and curries. I have dined there often and have not been disappointed. My favorite is the "two friend panang" read more

delicious food, cozy atmosphere, and friendly staff. the lunch special is served with their soup of the day, a spring roll, and some coconut ice cream after your meal. i will definitely be returning! read more

Eaten here a few times and it's generally solid. Egg rolls/spring rolls are too small. Dishes are generous. Pad Tai, curries, and golden cashew are all solid. Tofu should have more options and be better prepared---marinades and especially a deep fried SOFT tofu option. I asked about this and the waiter argued with me about what soft tofu was, just talking over me irritatedly. Pan sautéing firm tofu instead of frying it is still not fried soft tofu. read more

First time there tonight so went with tofu pad Thai at Thai heat level, will get more adventurous next time. Also had the veggie egg rolls and fried tofu appetizers. Food was excellent, pad Thai especially good. Will be back, easily the best Thai in Gainesville. read more

Excellent food. Good service! Kind of warm and muggy because it's a small space but it won't stop me from going back again. Would highly recommend if you like Thai food. read more

I drive to Gainesville just to eat at this place once a month. The food is great, I love the Thai food. The service is always great, and most of the time they are always busy. If you like Asian food, you'll enjoy this place read more

Had the massaman for take out. The quality of food was average but the portion was very small. If it costs me 15$ I would like to at least be full... It was over priced in my opinion. read more

the decor was nice, staff was friendly and the pad thai was good. but my fellow companions had a subpar experience. i sampled there sweet chili sauce with squid and the sauce was quite generic.. it tasted out of the bottle with no extra added spices. the seafood in general my opinion needed to be charred a little more... this included the shrimp and scallops. it was quite one texture througout the whole bite. the sauces were however decent. i reccomend their basil thai house special sauce. but if your a big eater like me you might need to order something on the side, because i felt a need for more food afterwards. the complimentary soup, eggrolls, and desert was quite nice. i would go again. read more

This place is great. Good portions. Delicious, fresh food. Stylish yet comfortable atmosphere. Great service. Will definitely return!

Enjoyed it very much, have been looking for good Thai food for awhile and happy to find this place. Food was excellent atmosphere and service good. Went for lunch, very pleased with prices, will go back soon! Highly recommend! read more

I always get the red curry chicken whenever I go here because it is so good. I could probably eat it every day. The staff is always very friendly. read more

Fabulous Thai food. The massaman curry is so thick & rich. Tofu cooked to perfection. Some of the best Thai I have had. Highly recommend.

I ordered the Pad Thai with Shrimp to go. It was almost 15 bucks for 5 shrimp and poorly seasoned. The rice vermicelli (odd noodle selection for pad thai) noodles were over cooked. I had to add fish sauce, lime juice, sriracha and green onions (that I luckily had in my fridge) to make it have any flavor. Pretty disappointed. Doubt I'll go back, I can make better Thai food myself. read more