Great food, good service, decent prices & clean bathrooms! They were able to make our meals without eggs, making it dairy free & were super nice. read more

Green Peapod - Thai Near Me - McHenry, Illinois

I love the building this place is in. It is set way back from Green street with a few nice trees out front. The inside is nicely decorated to (track lighting...whoo) We went for lunch. I had vegetable soup which was basically fresh vegetables in a hot broth. Good stuff, a little salty but definitely fresh and not too unhealthy. My entree was the "cashew" with rice. Pretty good, not too spicy though (awww, bummer). The food was quite good. The service was quite slow. So be sure you are not in a hurry when you go here. Also note that there were stairs at the entrance but no ramp so I don't think this is good for wheelchair access. read more

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In the midst of a recession we were told that they would no longer be serving the lunch specials. Initially no explanation at all, upon asking why no real reason was given. After stating that our company had been ordering from them in large amounts and ordered for a few years, we were told very sarcastically and rudely that they'll offer their food to people who don't mind paying their prices, and was hung up on. Not willing to be disrespected to eat average Thai food, nope I'll pass! If I could give a 0 I would. read more

I'm so glad we have the green pea pod in town for some if the best lunches and dinners around. Definitely recommend this place

First of all Covid is over, open the damn restaurant. Secondly, I ordered my take out delivered food at 4 pm for a 6 pm delivery and it showed up at 7:30 and cold. I'm done with this place and will never order again. Staff was very unhelpful when calling to find out where food was. read more

Two stars for poor service. Half of the order was ready and had to wait over 20 minutes for the rest. The first half was cold. Kid taking orders was very confused. Why would they have a 10 year old take orders? Suppose there are child labor laws being broken. Overall service is frustrating. Food still tastes good, but I have doubts how much longer they can stay in business. Sadly because there is no other Thai option for many miles around. read more

Tryed this place last year and keep coming back. They have something on their menu that I have never seen on a Thai menu"Apple salad" Granny Smith apples served over mixed greens with red onions, cashews , and toasted coconut. It keeps me coming back for it over and over. Love their spicy basil chicken. The restaurant is very clean and the servers are very friendly. read more

Green Peapod - Apple salad - Thai Near Me - McHenry, Illinois

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Great food, friendly service both in the restaurant and for take-out. The Pad see ew is my favorite, and the spring rolls are always fresh and delicious. Thai rice and a bubble tea are my occasional extras, and always worth getting! Delivery is also available, so i have been able to enjoy my favorite thai food at home during COVID-19. read more

My family and I dined here last weekend and it was phenomenal. My oldest son has been going here for years and I was finally able to make it because I live in Chicago. The food was excellent, the drinks were great and the service was incredible, our server Belle made some drink suggestions that turned out to be right on the money. We can't wait to come back. read more

Best Thai food around! My favorite is the Pad Thai! Always hot and on time with delivery!

Mussoman curry...fantastic!!! Don't forget the bubble tea that many people come to pickup. Great place happy it exists.

Have been coming here for years , and they messed up my order and really did everything not to take care of us. Will not be coming back again. Lady was rude and would not correct the order. Lettuce was soggy for my salad , food was not spicy like I asked for. And proceeded to tell me it was my fault they messed up my order. Excuse me I don't cook the food. And then accused me of trying to get food for free , um no !!!!! I want my food made right like how I ordered it. I've never been treated so poorly by a restaurant, I'll make sure to tell all my friends and family. read more

After 2 and a half hour and after calling and being told food was "on his way", I find out food had never left the restaurant for delivery. I got a refund, but I still think that is UNACCEPTABLE behavior. I am never ordering from them again. read more

The food is fresh, hot, tasty and delicious. If you want to have a fun time, see Belle. Belle is the best! We absolutely loved her!

The Thai iced tea will change your life. Also the coconut milk pudding will too. As for entrée food, everything was super great, very flavorful and very inclusive. read more

This is one of the best Thai places we've ever eaten at. Really one of the best takeout options in McHenry. Fantastic pad thai and their egg rolls are amazing! Delivery can take a while Friday/Saturday night, so be sure to call in your order early. But the food is always on time per their estimate and hot with great delivery service. read more

Phenomenal food, you can taste the integrity & the love. They truly know what they are doing, best Thai place around if not the whole state. Super fast quality service too, if you're new to this type of food don't be scared & order that pad Thai immediately! Support this hidden gem :) read more

Crab Rangoon every time! Pad Thai is always great, even takeout! My husband loves the Seafood Rice dish and the spring rolls with that amazing sauce is a perfect lunch. Only been going for a year, but we haven't gone anywhere else for Asian food. Great staff! read more

Excellent food and delivery service. Highly recommended!!! Try the Tom Kar soup. The red snapper is delicious.

Hands down the best restaurant in McHenry. I Have tried almost everything on the menu and have found nearly every dish to be delicious. Don't miss their Tom yum & Tom kar soups, jumbo fried shrimp app, pad Thai, and drunken spaghetti. The chicken satay appetizer is literally the only thing I've ordered that I've found to be below average. Friendly staff and fast delivery. Highly recommended. read more

Great little restaurant. Clean, modern, with great service. Cucumber salad was healthy and fresh. Also had Pad Thai and they brought me to spice rack on request to season to my liking. So glad this restaurant is local.... Nice break from all the chain restaurants. read more

Green Peapod - Cucumber salad, so good - Thai Near Me - McHenry, Illinois

Delicious food! The owners are wonderful and are often out greeting guests. Food is always prepared to perfection and arrives in a timely fashion. The restaurant is clean, staff friendly and the atmosphere is most enjoyable. read more

Green Peapod - Thai Near Me - McHenry, Illinois

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I've been frequenting GPP since my 18th birthday, 17 years ago! This delicious Thai food restaurant has the sweetest owner, the best tasting food, and the neatest atmosphere. I have tried the majority of entrees on their menu and they're all excellent. Highly recommended!! read more

Really good, and has boba tea. Okay okay I'm sorry buddy I just got pulled over in the car and I got pulled over and I got pulled it out and I didn't want to go back home. read more

Great food and excellent service! Their spring rolls are excellent, the cucumber is a good touch for crunch and flavor. The server was very attentive and made sure everyone at all her tables was having a good time. I would recommend Green Peapod for good Thai food. read more

Service is always very good here. Some of the items I ordered last night were rather bland... the cucumber salad and soup I ordered were lacking seasoning but the pad Thai and ginger chicken were really good. Bread pudding was also delicious. read more

Food is amazing, staff is amazing! I always order the teriyaki chicken and rice and it's so good. The staff is super friendly! Sometimes it can be a little slow if it's a busy night but the food is totally worth it! Highly recommended and one of the gems of McHenry's restaurants. read more

Green Peapod - Teriyaki chicken and rice without vegetables. - Thai Near Me - McHenry, Illinois

Absolutely my favorite restaurant in the area for fresh and authentic Thai food. The lard nar is a must try.

Worst customer service ever. Ordered pad see ew, couldn't even eat a bite off a it. Taste like meat that is spoiled. And they would not accommodate at all. Still had to pay for the meal. Also ordered the mango tea, that taste nothing like mango, it was all milk and sugar. Wish I could give zero stars. Don't waste your money here. Preferred Thai food place...please...so not true... read more

Have come here several times and have ordered the pad wod sen. Prices are very affordable and the food is great! You have the option to spice up the dish or ask for the spice rack at table side. Highly recommend. Night atmosphere and staff is friendly read more

My co-workers ordered from Green Peapod for lunch. I had NEVER tried Thai food before. In fact, I was very nervous and almost didn't order anything. I'm not very adventurous when it comes to trying new food. My co-workers suggested the drunken spaghetti. I am hooked. I wish I could eat here every day! I would love to venture around the menu a little bit more, but for now, I am sure loving the drunken spaghetti with chicken. The crab rangoon is great, also. Love the tangy dipping sauce. I got carryout the other day after work and they gave me a take away menu. The delivery area is very confusing. Would someone like to explain it to me? I thought maybe a local could understand it, but my husband has lived/worked in this area over 35 years and he couldn't make heads nor tails of it. I'd also love some suggestions about other meals to try. Anything other than shrimp. I seem to have an allergy to shrimp - but not crab. read more

Don't go in here expecting Chinese or Teriyaki; Thai food is as different from those as it is from fettuccine alfredo. Avoid the crab rangoons, not because they're bad, but because they're an American invention and you're not coming here for that. Things you SHOULD try: the basil or ginger beef, the drunken spaghetti (don't expect spaghetti), and the Pad See Ew. The beef salad is also absolutely lovely, though its flavours are a little more alien to the standard Midwestern palate than the other dishes mentioned thanks to the abundance of raw mint, and the chive dumplings are wonderful, especially with the accompanying sauce. For curries, I like the Panang (hard to go wrong with that one) and the Jungle. If your sense of adventure starts to fade, try the eggrolls; they aren't going to be what you expect from Chinese takeout, since they use more authentic flavours from East Asian cuisine, but they're tasty. Walk in with an open mind and no expectations if you've never had Thai, and you'll walk out a fan. As for the restaurant itself, it's clean and well-stocked. It is family owned and run, so, yes, the kids hang out there. They aren't loud or obnoxious, and if they want to do those things, they always go out on the patio to play. They're from about five ish to maybe ten, and are all the sweetest and most well-behaved children I've ever encountered (though they are still kids, so sometimes they do odd kid things. If you're going to have a problem with nice kids in the restaurant, then a proctologist might be able to help you with that stick). Service can sometimes be a little slow, but the longtime waitresses are very nice and usually try to do whatever they can if the kitchen is poky. The waits usually aren't too bad, but don't bring along anyone you don't like to chat with. Bubble tea is also lots of fun on hot days as long as you're a milk person; I like taro flavor best. For those wondering what a taro is: it turns out purple, the root looks a bit like a sweet potato, and it tastes a little coconutty and hazelnutty. The first bubble feels a little gross, but after a few sips you get used to it. Thai tea or green tea flavours are very nice, too. read more

After eating dinner in what appeared to be a nice restaurant....I discovered a long black hair underneath the piece of salmon I had ordered. After nearly throwing up being completely disgusted (this hair had to be 7-8" long ) I pointed it out to our waitress who painstakingly finally told who appeared to be a manager or possibly the owner. He came to our table, I assumed to apologize but NO! He tells me that none of his cooks have long black hair so how could that have happened. Like my balding head or my girlfriends platinum blonde hair would ever be mistaken for an 8" piece of horse hair. Not only is finding hair horribly disgusting but trying to put it on me was very poor taste which was only surpassed by charging me for my meal too. McHenry DESPERATELY needs quality restaurants! read more

This is THE place to get Thai in the burbs.. I've gotten a few diff entrees from here and they are always the BEST that I've had. Red Snapper with Chile Relish-- SO DELICIOUS and FRESH! The peppers gave a great kick and it was so colorful, really a joy to eat. Pad Thai - A huge pile of noodles and veg, all served with a delicious sauce and just comforting and yummy. Jungle Curry - In my opinion, the healthiest entree on the menu. It comes with a slurry of fresh vegetables, all in a spicy clear sauce with rice on the side. Tom Yum Soup - The quality of vegetables really makes or breaks Tom Yum Soup for me and this was great. It wasn't a package of frozen peas and corn tossed in the soup, they had fresh mushrooms, baby corn, all in a delicious hot a sour broth, and served beautifully! read more

Not to diss any of the other restaurants in McHenry, but on the whole, I found most of the food in the area to be pretty bland - it catered to a mainstream sensibility. For someone who was raised eating local food all over the world, this was pretty close to culinary purgatory for me. Started by a couple of visiting University students who found themselves out of work after the dot-com bust, Green Peapod is an island of flavor in sea of bland. I only wish I had more opportunities to eat there when I was on assignment in McHenry. I didn't get to sample too many items on the menu, but those that I did were excellent. Their Pad See Ew is as good as any I've had outside of Thailand. On my first visit, several of the staff members watched me in amazement while I scooped on spoon after spoon of hot sauces from the condiment tray to my dinner. I'm pretty sure they were expecting me to run screaming considering the amount of hot food I consumed. They assured me that the next time I visited; they would prepare something "Thai Spicy" for me. The staff all seemed very nice and I know the owner's daughter was more than a bit surprised to meet a "farong" who spoke Thai. Green Peapod is definitely the location of choice if you are craving a bit out of the ordinary in McHenry. read more

The food here is fantastic. Quite the find this far out into the sticks. Trouble is, the service here is beyond bad. I've eaten here probably a dozen times and not once have I received even halfway decent service. Which is a shame, because if they'd fix that I'd recommend it far and wide. The pad thai here is the best I've ever eaten, so even if you'd normally turn your nose up at pad thai in favor of more "deep cut" dishes, you should give it a spin. read more

We love Green Peapod! With children with gluten & dairy allergies, this is one of the few local restaurants we can eat at or get take out from. The restaurant is clean, the atmosphere is nice and the waitstaff has always been friendly and most importantly, the food has always been great! There are two issues holding me back from giving 5 stars. 1. For a restaurant that advertises gluten and dairy free options, the waitresses have never been knowledgable enough about the menu to answer our questions wether certain dishes can be made gluten and dairy free. They always have to go back and ask several times. While I am happy they double check, its something I think they should be trained on. 2. I wish they had a child menu or would make half orders (at half the price) for children. They only make fried rice for children. It makes eating here cost prohibitive for our family of 5 when we have to order 5 entrees. read more

My Husband and I LOVE Green Peapod. It lets us eat out and there are still options for our small children. (Don't think Kids Menu, think chicken satay, cucumber salad, edamame.) I found that all of their "famous" Thai dishes are great. As a previous reviewer recommended, the beef salad is the best! Certainly my favorite. My husband loves the basil beef, it's also a favorite with my dad and brother. Other reccomendations include all of their curry, pad Thai and pad see ewe. They also have bubble tea, so if you are picking up a carry out order, get there a bit early to enjoy one! The atmosphere is perfect. sleek, but not too overdone. Staff is very friendly as well. read more

It's been years since I've eaten here, mainly because I rarely eat out when I'm in the area, but this place still stands-out as a favorite. The Pad Thai is fantastic as is the Red Snapper (and I don't like fish!). Most of McHenry is all chain restaurants, so it's pretty awesome to see an independent restaurant like this do so well in little ole' McHenry. read more

I ordered the same dish 3 Fridays in a row. Each Friday it was served differently. In the past I ordered the same dish and I really enjoyed it. Your menu is neither large or complex. In the restaurant business consistency is a key factor and customer service is a close second. According to you "The Customer is Always WRONG!" On average we spent around $300.00 a month in your restaurant and I often recommended to friends and clients. I didn't really lose my appetite until you came out from the back of the house and insulted me in front of my guest and the entire restaurant. I have been in Zagat rated and 5 star restaurants all over the United States. Not to mention the fact I am a trained chef. The bottom line is that your arrogance has lost my business as well anyone I can talk to. read more