I really love Thai food. I also really wanted this place to be five stars. It might be but not on this trip. In fact on this trip it was two star. So why did I give it three? Let's dig into my lunch.
Tea: Jasmine pearls. Nice tea with delicate flavor. As bagged teas go it was really quite good since it not only used the super flowy bags and had nice Jasmine pearls inside it that opened up and made for a tasty brew.
Lunch: I ordered the chicken with Thai basil, rice and a fried egg. Ironically the easiest thing killed my experience. The chicken dish tasted fantastic. It was spiced exactly at I hoped for which is really unusual for Poland where chefs underseason as the norm likely because the Polish palette isn't really used to spicy food. So far everything was perfect. My waitress was attentive, the food was great, unfortunately there was something on top of my rice, an indecipherable mess of brown grease and dense yellow substance that used to perhaps be an egg. Sorry... This just won't do. When you put a fork to an egg on top of rice should break the yolk and it should flow out like the perfect, beautiful, simple sauce that it is. This one needed a knife to cut it and even that would have just made flakes of dry egg yolk. Bleach! After taking a moment of praise to reflect on the situation I decided to address the issue directly. I asked the waitress to please have kitchen re-fire the egg as this one was clearly inedible (or at least very unappetizing.) She didn't hesitate to comply and within a couple of minutes I had a perfectly cooked egg on top of my rice and the previous egg carnage was removed from the table. Oh, so he can cook an egg? Yes she says.
I finished my lunch and then popped the big question. Well, actually two of them: 1) Why did the chef burn the hell out of my egg to begin with? 2) Why did the waitress serve it? It was obviously not right. The answer to both questions is that they were to busy. To busy to pay attention to basic quality isn't a good thing in a food service environment. Get it together please. I'll try again because the food quality and the taste was great otherwise.
Also, to end on a good note and explain why I'm giving this place two stars when my review was more indicative of less, I ordered a Sok Mango (Mango Juice). It was fantastic! Really really great! Worth the whole negative experience just to drink it. The waitress made it on the spot and I loved it! Get it! It's worth at least one star on it's own! read more