Excellent Thai restaurant with a good selection of seafood and vegetables. This location near Yonge & Lawrence is bigger (both the restaurant and menu) compared to its sister location on Bayview Avenue, and has a darker interior. There is a small Thai market right at the entrance, selling Thai snacks, sauces, gifts, traditional Thai clothing, and a freezer filled with frozen curries that you can take home and use for cooking.
Lamai Thai Massage is located on the second floor (as well as the washrooms). They have "dine and massage packages" available.
Service was nice and friendly. Food came out relatively quickly.
Review of the dishes we ordered:
1) Grilled Corn Salad (grilled local sweet corn, mixed with lettuce, long beans, carrots, tomatoes, peanuts, garlic, and tamarind dressing) - I love grilled corn so I liked this appetizer. It was fresh, simple, and they were able to separate out the dressing (which was a bit spicy).
2) Grilled Octopus Skewers (charcoal-grilled marinated baby octopus served with seafood sauce) - The marinade was tasty; I tasted ginger. It came served with spicy seafood sauce (which we did not use... the octopus was already tasty without the sauce). The baby octopus was nice and chewy. It came as 3 skewers (2 baby octopus on each skewer), which was plenty to share in a small group.
3) Khao Pad Pla Tuu (deboned Thai mackerel stir-fried with egg fried rice, green onions, Spanish onions, and chilis, topped with another whole Thai mackerel) - Favourite dish! The fried rice was flavourful, especially with the mix of eggs, Spanish and green onions, and cut up Thai mackerel. The winner was the whole Thai mackerel (already deboned) that they put on top of the fried rice. Lots of protein and omega-3 in this dish! We asked for this dish to be made non-spicy, and they were able to accommodate.
4) Pla Lui Suan (fried whole branzino fish with fresh Thai herbs & mango salad in a tangy & sweet tamarind dressing) - "Pla Lui Suan" translated to "fish in the garden", with "the garden" being the herbacious salad (mint, cilantro, chilies, toasted cashews, sliced mango) with vegetables (lettuce, shredded carrot, cilantro). This was one of their signature items. It came as a big whole fish, and we asked for the dressing to be served separately.
5) Nana's Garden (stir-fried mixed vegetables (broccoli, Chinese broccoli, Napa cabbage, carrot, onion, mushrooms) with tofu) - They were able to make this without oyster sauce. The tofu was quite salty, but the rest of the vegetables were good and crisp. read more