Thai Spice has excellent food and the atmosphere is very relaxing. Their curry blends are as tasty as they are aromatic. I highly recommend eating here if you are anywhere in the area! We eat here often. I recommend calling for reservations on the weekends. I will also call ahead when I am out shopping and swing by to grab an order of mango and sticky rice on my way home. Yummy! read more

update after last few tries: service is good (4 stars ) - food is not (2 stars). our kee maw noodle was just not right today - watery, slimy, missing all possible flavors and spices. Soups were almost ok but tom kha soup had some very mild rancid flavor which we were able to detect. read more

Pretty good. Large portions. Tasty and flavorful. Great service. Only negative, they don't take AMEX. LOL.

Have eaten here many times while visiting my folks in Poughkeepsie. It's always consistent. They have a varied menu with lots of good choices! I will be back next trip to Poughkeepsie. Oh and for dessert the Thai Coconut Pudding is very tasty! read more

So this was my first visit to Thai Spice. Really good Beef Satay.........And that's really all I can comment on food wise. I had lunch earlier and was only there with my bud and fiancee' who didn't. So it was small for me. It was fabulous and flavorful. The decor was okay. Nothing spectacular. Simple and understated. However, the main reason for this review was the really bad service we had. It was lunch time and it wasn't busy. So you would think employees would be a bit more cheery not having to wait on a ton of people....WRONG! We felt unwelcome almost immediately, treated almost like a nuisance cause we chose to eat your restaurant. The waitress was not friendly at all and seemed to be very annoyed that we weren't ordering drinks other than water. Again, food was okay. But it means nothing if the service is in the dumps. read more

Great spot for Tai food in Poughkeepsie area. All the rice dishes are really good. Love the Tai beers that they have to offer. Recommend this place for your Tai food fix! read more

Nice little place on Raymond avenue. Nice staff. I am still exploring the menu - so far I've had the pineapple rice with chicken, Rama chicken, Thai salad, pad Thai...all very good. Great place for a date or a quiet lunch. read more

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Fantastic!!!! Our new favorite Thai restaurant!!! Highly recommended!! The pineapple fried rice was awesome! read more

Thai Spice - Pineapple fried rice-very very yummy!!!! - Thai Near Me - Poughkeepsie, New York

I was going to order something but the lady claimed I needed to spend 50 dollars in order for her to make a 3 mile delivery. Not playing that game. read more

This is an amazing place. It's a nice spot for a quiet dinner or lunch and the curry options are all so delicious. My favorite restaurant in the area. Service is attentive, and the food will fill you up. Curry puffs are smaller portion for the price, but the full dishes themselves are moderate-large in size. It seems like a boujee place, but it's welcoming and the food is amazing. Always get the Kang Karree and the pineapple fried rice. Tastes amazing!!! read more

Good really good, the presentation of the food is awesome. You can order how spicy you want the food. Oh and they are reasonably priced. You can't go wrong by coming here. read more

Quick and delicious Thai food. Thai Spice has all of the staples. We usually get a shrimp app, chicken and tofu pad Thai, and panang curry. We've also tried some rice dishes with basil and the vegetable options. All are rally good. When it gets busy they can be understaffed but they try really hard, and it shows. Give it a try. read more

Pro - Curry Puffs Con - Wait time, not enough meat in my basil fried rice. Will go back and try other dishes. read more

Very authentic and delicious every time. Favorites- shrimp mermaid rolls, tom yum koong soup (tons of flavor), combination fried rice, and mango coconut rice for dessert. Delivers well. read more

I've been coming here for years. Food is great, servings are plentiful- service is subpar at best! There is a waiter/hostess that should be placed in the back of the house non customer facing. She always looks miserable to be there. Extremely bothered. Never smiles. Inattentive, you have to wave her down for service and once you've gotten her attention she seems very annoyed to have to "work" and kills the vibe. You must wave her over she won't come and check on you and see if you need anything. She's been here for years and other yelpers have echoed the same point. They are selling themselves short by something that can easily be corrected. read more

Service was terrible! Wow were they rude... Pad Thai tasted like fish sauce and the sauce was way too strong. The pad see yew was great but the overall service was so bad that I do not want to go back again. Asked for refill for my drink and the waitress "forgot". Threw the menu on the table when being seated and simply walked away. Listen, I don't expect a lot for service but giving us an attitude and being rude to us was no okay. read more

I've been here 3 times. The mock duck is great, as is the curry. I always ask for my mock duck to be painfully spicy, and they generally oblige me. Tried the noodle soup today - stay away from that. Pretty tasteless. That said, the mock duck makes up for it. Not the best Thai I've ever had, but for Poughkeepsie it's pretty good. read more

This place has decent food and huge portions. If you're really hungry it's real recommended

Food here is pretty good and the prices and quantity of food cant be beat. I've eaten here many times now and my top picks for this place are Pad See Ew, Tom Yum kha, and the pineapple fried rice. They also have a lunch special menu that comes with a slightly smaller portion of an entree and soup of the day for $9, although I prefer the dinner portion ;) read more

The lady who takes the order (I am sure she is the owners wife) is absolutely rude and have no manners. Have zero patience and just cuts you off even before you say what you want. This place is so close to our office and suits the need of all the coworkers food choice and spice preferences so we placed large orders (12+ entrees) here quite frequently. We specifically mentioned it's for office and requested utensils and few hot sauce and soy sauce packets on the side for those who want some spice. She gave just one each of hot sauce and soy sauce for the whole order of 12 ENTREES and said we need to pay extra for more hot sauce and utensils while one of the coworker went for picking up. That's absolutely ridiculous. Guess people get greedy. We are never going to this place again for work and for personal. read more

Service was excellent; food review is mixed . The soups were great ; the vegetable soup served with the lunch menu was light, fresh and clean .The Tom YumSoup also was a winner . The Pad Thai With chicken was a bit gloppy and heavier than one might expect but when we used the lime provided and the bean sprouts , it brightens the dish considerably. Portions are very generous. read more

Unfortunate that the only Thai place in town has gone downhill so quickly. Recently visited here with my sleeping daughter and was told I couldn't bring the stroller inside. There were only 2 tables seated, tons of room, and she told me we couldn't stay with the stroller in case they got busy....so we left. read more

Wow ! What's a nice surprise. I walked into this place not expecting much , meaning I assumed it was a take out joint because I frequent the Chinese spot next door and I consider that a take out . So I walk in , it's actually a quaint little restaurant. Nice layout, cool ambiance. Service was attentive and genuine. The food was AMAZING and priced right !!! What more could you ask for ? Highly recommended.. read more

I've been here at least 30+ times, and rarely have I regretted it. I almost always get the kang massaman with shrimp, which is a gigantic portion (as is everything there). The pad thai is also pretty good and the toong thong are by far my favorite appetizer, right after the fried squid. The reason for 4 stars and not 5 is based solely on the aloofness of the waitresses. They are very attentive and are great about filling up your glass with water, but they never look happy which makes for awkward interactions. read more

Thai Spice isn't a 5-star restaurant, but for what it is and what they serve, I think they deserve 5. Small space with maybe 20-ish tables, many of which are comfortable booths, nothing fancy. Sort of a quasi-asian decor, no lucky cats haha. The place always seems to have a good amount of students/customers but I've never had to wait to be seated and it's not rowdy, lots of serious hipsters with bookbags. Having eaten there many times, this is many visits rolled into one. The bar only serves wine and beer, no hard stuff. Apps range between $5 and $7, entrees are all over the place, as most can be ordered with your choice of chicken, beef, pork, shrimp, like most asian places and prices according to which protein you choose. Thai spring rolls, chicken satay, spare ribs and curry puffs all very very good, served with sauces ranging from traditional peanut sauces to vinegary as well as ginger onion. Service is quick, quiet and friendly, diminutive. Memorable entrees include of course Pad Thai, but I've only had that once since when I started to explore their menu further, everything has been so good I haven't wanted to go back to the old thai food standard. K1 Kang Daeng red curry - I think there's crack in it, it's so good. Mild but spicy, loaded with chicken and bell peppers. M2 Pad Khing is excellent, C1 Kai Yang is a generous helping of fantastic chicken, C7 Rama Chicken spicy and can't-stop-eating-it and volcano chicken which was set on fire haha. That was more of a gimmick than anything of course, but the chicken was still excellent. The rice is very good, but like any asian place, pretty standard. If you can't have decent rice in a thai place, there's a problem. I've never had room for dessert. The entree portions are very generous, there's always plenty to take home for a regular appetite. I've never understood the parking there, it seems like there's a lot beside them but it might also belong to the church? I've always parked in the lot between them and the church and hoped for the best. There's street parking but good luck getting any on a weekend evening. Listen, the place isn't fancy, but it's neat clean, the prices are well worth the value, the food is always hot, fresh and crisp (and delicious) coming out of the kitchen, service is quick. It's easy to dine there as a couple or as a group, there's plenty of privacy if you want to find a corner for a cheap, intimate date but bright enough for a study group to pass around notes. Worth a visit. read more

Strangely fishy-tasting curry, without the rich creamy taste and texture that I associate with it. The portion size is definitely huge, which would be awesome if the food was any good, which it isn't. I went with my family and all of us were underwhelmed, even though we got a diverse array of dishes. Still looking for good thai food in the area. read more

Great food and very cool atmosphere/decorations in the restaurant. We have been there twice. The service is VERY hit or miss and they do not have non-thai children options which makes it harder to eat there. Our waitresses were a bit challenging to communicate with and we have experience order errors. Food is great, but we will probably get take out next time or eat at a different restaurant. read more

This is a very nice restaurant with a very nice management. Really good food at a good place. Im going to keep coming and bring more of my friends. read more

Not bad for small a college campus, but I just felt like the food needed more depth in flavor and heat. I'm guessing here, but I think it needed more fish sauce. The portions were enormous (possibly aimed at broke college girls looking to stretch an order into multiple meals?). Overall service was fine, and the decor is kind of fun. read more

Ew. Last night on the way home from the train station my friends and I wanted to grab Thai. Lemongrass was our top choice but they closed early because of the snow. I had been to Thai spice before and it was ok but figured it would do the trick. We ordered Thai basil, pad Thai, and green curry to go. The pad Thai was ok not amazing. The green curry was not green and we have no idea what the dish was supposed to be... Same with the Thai basil. Neither of the two resembled any Thai dish we have ever had! It seemed more they threw together a mix of what they had in a container an gave it to us knowing it was a blizzard and we wouldn't come back. Lemongrass around the corner is 100x better!!! So much for giving Thai spice a chance! read more

This restaurant fluctuates with me. Sometimes I have a really great meal there and other times it is only okay. I like the fish cakes which come with a Thai chili sauce and the chicken pad gra prow (pretty much chicken in a basil sauce). It does get pretty busy when school is in because it's right near Vassar so it's good to reserve a table during those months. read more

I ordered a papaya salad, green curry, and a thai ice tea. The thai ice tea tasted great and the rest just went downhill. Papaya salad is probably the worst one i have eaten ever since i came to new york. I can taste mostly only coconut milk in the green curry. The price is cheap but not gonna come here again read more

amazingly ordinary Thai food cooked, and served by Chinese folks. The reason i know this is cause I made small talk in mandarin with the waitress, and got the info. Close to Vassar, and the students are their audience. read more

Best Thai in Arlington. Pad Thai is huge and well-priced. Thai Iced Tea is very tasty, perfect sweetness. Only qualms about this place are that the people could be a bit more kind and the spring rolls are over-priced for their size. read more

The food is pretty good. Nice straight forward Thai food. Our server always kept the water filled but beyond that she was definitely not into serving us. She spent a good amount of her time watching something on her phone and when we tried to get her attention after she sat down, she made an obvious sound of annoyance. Not okay. read more

This place has a great deal for mimosas 2 for $8. Mimosas were the highlight of the meal. I got the pad thai with tofu. Tofu was gross; don't get the tofu here. But everything else about the pad thai was pretty good. Hugee portion but thats never a bad thing. The fried banana dessert was a disappointment. The banana were overcooked and tasted like nothing. Ive had this dessert before in CA at a Vietnamese restaurant; the heavens opened and I could hear the angels singing with every bite of that sweet banana. This one was like eating abc gum off of the bottom of the desk. Not that I actually have done that. read more

A word to the wise - please don't say this place is the best Thai in the Hudson Valley simply because you think there is simply little to no Thai restaurants in the Hudson Valley. The food here is always good, and I usually end up ordering their Yellow Curry, but their yellow curry is missing something that I just can't put my finger on. I go to this great Thai place in Carmel with my coworkers sometimes and she uses a lot of fresh and sustainable farm ingredients so maybe that's why Thai Spice falls short? Also, I used to like them a lot more but the last time I went, he charged me for a full glass of soda every single time we requested a refill. Who does that? They never used to do that in the past - and I feel that's so classless and unprofessional. Lastly, their service - whether they are busy or slow - is pretty bad. I usually get the waiter who is bilingual and he really doesn't have much of a personality nor does he come to your table enough so you end up having an empty glass of water for most of your meal. I haven't been back since I was charged for each soda refill - lo and behold, there is other thai (and better tasting with better service) in the Hudson Valley read more

Now I remember why I don't go here. Very bland food. Pad Thai was greasy. The beef looked old and the place smelled bad. I should have walked out before I even placed my order. read more

I really like coming here. The food is pretty good and the service is all right, but the decor is FANTASTIC. I love sitting in the booths with the little roofs and icicle lights. A great date restaurant for the romantic decor. The only negative experience I had here was because I was with a group, and they don't really have the space to accommodate large groups. Not really their fault. read more

I passed by this place maybe 1000 times and always wrote it off as a hole in the wall not worth my time... I couldn't be more pleased to have been so wrong. We had a party of 4 and wanted to try a little of everything and it was all delicious and fresh. Just one not so minor compliant... never order the desserts here. They're either ridiculously small or disappointingly poor. That aside, I can't wait to go back for lunch or dinner. read more