Was surprised how good this place was! I was hungry for some good pad Thai.. their lunch special is great! I'm sad that price is going up in November. But this is still unbeatable. I will definitely visit again soon! read more

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This place is a hidden gem for lunch. They have some great lunch specials. Service is great and they don't seem to get too busy. read more

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Ordered a lad na dish but it came with deep- fried thick rice noodles. I was fully expecting soft noodles. First, the noodles were so oily and obviously been sitting out for hours and not fresh at all. They were so hard I could not even bite on them. The sauce was so salty I cannot even finish. I only ate the meat as I don't want to waste the meat. I can't believe the quality of food in this place is so bad!! Will not return!!! read more

Pad Thai was so dry. The noodles were super dry and low flavor but the chicken was really overcooked. The beef in the spicy basil beef, was also really dry and weak in flavor. ZERO spice! No jalapeños in there. All onions and sweet peppers. Even the baby eggrolls were not right. Mushy wraps! It was my first time and the price was attractive, but I won't risk it again! It was a wasted $40 read more

Ordered sesame chicken on takeout order. The chicken was extremely dry and chewy I called to complain and their solution was to offer 15% off my next order. Great business model. read more

I've ordered takeout from here multiple times now and love it. The online ordering process is smooth and my food is always ready when u get there within 15-20 minutes. You can also grab as many sauce packets as you'd like. The restaurant itself is small with few tables but I think it's good for a quick casual dinner before a Northwestern game or a weeknight meal. Not all the dishes are great though so choose wisely! My personal favorites are the curries especially red and panang. Among noodles I like pad woonsen and pad kee mao. read more

Pinto Thai is one of our favorite go-tos in the neighborhood. Everything is great and fast and affordable. We most often do take out but have dined in as well and its great. read more

Delicious food, super reasonable price, and great service. Wonderful to order from, never takes more than 15 minutes to get a great meal. I recommend the coconut chicken :) read more

Two thumbs up for an excellent first stop at Pinto Thai. Suffice it to say we are happy to have discovered it. We came for a weekday lunch and found the menu to be pretty extensive with a nice range of choices. We were greeted promptly and snagged the last table in the smaller, bright and very clean dining area. The woman working was hustling taking orders and serving food. We chose the chicken Pad Thai lunch special with baby egg rolls (very cute, pinky finger size) and the garlic chicken and rice special with the cucumber salad. The Pad Thai was really good with thinner noodles and a good amount of chicken, but they basically don't add any heat so I would ask for the spice level to be upped next time. And the sauce was not the sweet version that you get at a lot of places. The garlic chicken was very flavorful with a nice accompaniment of broccoli and carrots. The 3 baby egg rolls were crispy outside and tender, meaty inside with the good sweet chile pepper sauce. The cuke salad was simply good with crisp cukes and a simple, non-oily vinaigrette. The food came out quickly and piping hot. And can't beat the $9.95 price and portion-size for each of the 2 things we ordered! Can't wait to go back to try other dishes, including a curry. read more

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Our favorite thai- bubble tea, coconut chicken, green curry, golden noodles, Singapore noodles. ...all great. Special kids plates and silverware. Friendly and byob. read more

This was my first time ordering from this restaurant. The food was really good!! The ingredients were fresh, tasty and nice sized portions! I will be ordering from Pinto Thai often! read more

We love this yummy place. Everything we've tried here has been good. I like the spicy eggplant and basil with tofu. My kids love pad see ew with shrimp. The mango smoothie with boba is tasty. Great and friendly service whether we eat in or pick up. read more

I love this place! It is my one of my favorites to order takeout from. They have a great lunch special too! The staff is really friendly. Parking is on the street but it's normally pretty easy to find a spot. read more

Great food and great service! If you are craving Thai food in the northshore suburbs this is the place to go. The dishes are always flavorful and consistent in quality and the staff is very kind. read more

Lunch special is bargain. I had the green curry with chicken and my sister had the pad see ew with beef. Each lunch comes with an appetizer. Very generous portion. Service is attentive. The restaurant itself is very clean. Will return to try other items on the menu. read more

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Good food but the staff are impatient and lack manners. Will not be returning. PSA doesn't Apple Pay read more

Just moved to the area...their Panang Curry with crispy rice noodles and their Crab Rangoon are both incredible. I can't bring myself to order delivery from any other restaurant, I'm addicted. read more

Service: 5/5 Interior: 2/5 Food: 2/5 Waitress was really great. Not too overbearing, and the food came quickly. Prices were good. Crab rangoon was great, but the portion was very small. The pad thai was.. bad. Sorry. I've tried a lot of pad thai's around the country, and this one was very mediocre, tasteless, no flavors, no textures. The restaurant interior was very small and cramped. Still, I would try them again. read more

Food is good but packaging is not ideal. I ordered a Panang curry with noodle, and they packaged the noodle inside the curry even though I requested the noodles to be on the side. I had to paid extra $ for the crispy noodle and they thought it's ok to mix it in with the curry!? The "crispy" noodle was extremely soggy by the time I got home to eat it. It was nasty. read more

RATING: 8/10 Came here with a friend just in time for the lunch special!! They have a lunch special from 11-3 Mon-Fri and it's so worth it! It's $9-11 (depending on your choice of protein) for an appetizer and virtually any entree. My friend got the Pad Thai, I got the Panang curry, and we both ordered the egg roll appetizer. The egg roll appetizer was literally just one extremely miniature egg roll but was appreciated nevertheless. Our main dishes were slam dunks and came in HUGE portions so we both had leftovers to take home! I also ordered the thai iced tea which was delicious but got watery too fast because of the melting ice. Anyways, LUNCH SPECIAL LUNCH SPECIAL, LUNCH SPECIAL!!! A good Thai place in Northish Evanston! read more

Pinto Thai Kitchen - Panang Curry Lunch Special - Thai Near Me - Evanston, Illinois

So happy we tried this hidden gem. Pinto Thai not only has amazing food but, they have also been giving back a lot to the community. They have a wide variety of Thai food! Anything from curries, lard na, tom yum and much more. They also have large selection of appetizers, main dishes, rice, noodles, desserts, and drinks. We tried the salt and pepper squid, crab racoon, sesame chicken, and chuchi salmon. It was all amazing! I spent three years working in Thailand and my partner is from there and this is definetly the best Thai food in chicago area! Plus the salmon was the first dish that was finally spicy enough! Absolutely so excited to.come back and try even more dishes! read more

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I can honestly say that this is the best thai food that I have ever had. Even better than the outrageously expensive Lotus of Siam. It is a small space, but tables are always available ; the staff is small, but very attentive; the food is truly excellent, the prices moderate, the place is spotlessly clean, and the atmosphere is nice. Highly reccomended ! read more

Strangely enough, this review has nothing to do with food! However, I felt compelled to find this business to leave a review for them because of the remarkable work they are doing in my community, we have a Evanston group on Facebook for COVID-19 and people are constantly asking for help, and what I assume to be the owner of this business is ALWAYS offering to help, whether it be for people who need face masks to those that are hungry with no food. I hope the owner sees this and realizes we see your good deeds. The care and compassion you display for those in your community is astounding and a reflection of your business ethics! I plan on supporting this business! Thank you!! read more

Ordered for take out. Delivery and service was fast, which is great when you're starving! Yellow curry with veggies was good. I ordered it not spicy and they did exactly that! Yay! Pad say eww with beef - flavorful, but a tad bit salty. They gave lots of beef so that was nice! Tofu and veggie soup was good. I would order the soup again. I'd like to try other items on their menu. Overall, I'd order from them again when I'm in the mood for thai food! read more

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I ordered Orange chicken on Wed eve. It was too fibrous to chew. The pieces were small and only 1-2 were soft. The rice and veggies were good. The crab rangoon was good. I could not eat the orange chicken. It was 7 pm and looked like the scraps were left. I called back and lady offered me a 15% discount although I heard a lady in background say "20%". There was no apology and I feel like 15% off next order was not a good way to keep me as a customer. Sad, because they used to be good. Joan read more

I generally don't leave negative reviews without giving the restaurant a chance to make things right and in this case I did. We ordered take out from this place. I ordered a noodle dish and while I was chewing my food I felt something that was not dissolving/I could not chew it. I pulled the noodles out of my mouth to find a large piece of thick string. (Photo attached) I called the restaurant to let then know and they apologized and told us that the noodles come bundled in string and that the cook must have forgot to take the string off of the noodles. I then had to go back to the restaurant to show them the food in order to get my money back. I didn't think this was an adequate solution to chewing on dirty string. I said this as much to the manager/owner and she got hostile. We won't be ordering from here again. read more

Pinto Thai Kitchen - Pad Thai with a piece of dirty string. - Thai Near Me - Evanston, Illinois

ordered twice in one week for the first time the first was great phad thai, ginger beef very very great flavors second time very little portions sesame chicken stir fried and rama chicken the broccoli was chewy might be different cooks try multiple times for yourself. read more

This is a wonderful neighborhood Thai place. The staff is super friendly and the food is consistently good!

Order takeout from here often. Food is great and always ready on time. Love the rangoons!

Coconut curry noodles - the bomb.com yummmm. Highly recommend this business. Love that delivery is always fast and simple. I've tried many things on the menu and all are delicious. Kids like the mini egg rolls and orange chicken. Really nice owners and workers. read more

This is honestly the best Thai restaurant in Evanston! Everything on their menu is delicious and fresh!! All of their staff and their delivery drivers are always very polite and friendly! I order from here at least once a week, and I've never been disappointed! :) read more

This place is pretty decent. It's not too expensive, maybe $10/entree or so. Portion size is okay too. It was enough for dinner. They have lunch specials, and I'd be curious to try them. I got the pad see ew with chicken. I was fine with the noodles and the broccoli. The chicken was a bit dry though, and towards the end I was forcing myself to eat the chicken. I think I would try a different meat next time. I did find it weird that they have Japanese food here too (spicy miso soup?). I don't really think it's good for restaurants to mix two different types of cuisines. Quality tends to be lower. read more

The food is always on point. The food is so good and the workers are very nice as well. Always great Thai food.

I like their Pad See Ew so much. Tasty! Lunch specials are affordable and delicious, too. Eat in or take out, good service. Recommend!

I ordered lunch for delivery. My husband and I shared the shumai which was good but not the best I've had. My husband orders the Singapore noodles with shrimp and he loved it. I though it was ok. I had the pad khee mao with vegetables, it was delicious and filling. The spice level was perfect and I loved the sauce. I would order that again! read more

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I love this place so much! The bubble tea is so good and inexpensive but not so much the food. The food is good too! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The employees are nice and it's in a good spot right there on central! -------------------------------------------------------------------- read more

They do not close at 8:45. We walked in at 8:15 and they literally turned us away. We used to love this place. Never coming back

Don't recommended. I ordered Pinto fried rice, because I was expecting the pineapple inside. And there isn't any, it has tomatoes and raisins instead ( never seen them in other Thai fried rice in other restaurants). I asked the ladies when paying the bill, and one told me, why you didn't ask at the beginning? Okay, so still my fault. The yellow curry with tofu. I am not a picky eater, but literally anyone can make it better if you purchase the yellow curry powder from grocery shop and cook it at home. Just waste money. The service, nobody came to me during the entire time, even when checking out, I had to wait and wait. The dishes are just okay, but not a pleasant place to enjoy your meal. read more

The food is reliably good. We usually get the curry fish and a broccoli with shrimp dish. It's always good and ready on time. Nice when we don't feel like cooking. It's not the greatest Tai food we've had, but pretty good. Oh, the crispy veggie rolls are really good too. read more

Our favorite thai restaurant in Wilmette / Evanston area! Pad See Ewe is incredible, every curry is delicious, amazing lunch specials. The waitstaff are able to help with your order if you need to omit any ingredients for allergens. The restaurant is also always clean and nice to dine at. We come here once a week! read more