Pad Thai Cafe

We arrived too early to eat as they close between 3 and 4 pm for a break. We came back and I'm very happy we did. The service is great. Everyone is very friendly. The food is amazing. Delicious flavors. I loved everything we tried. This is my new favorite place for Thai. The Thai iced tea was very refreshing. Fried Tofu with the sauce was very tasty. The Papaya salad was great. Really enjoyed this little place.

Pad Thai Cafe is the best Thai food we've found in Albuquerque, and we've eaten a lot of Thai. I got the Pad Thai with tofu, mild, and it was savory and delicious. Everything was cooked well, including the broccoli that had the slightest crunch left to it. The menu's description was: "Stir-fried rice noodle in chef's Pad Thai sauce with tofu, bean sprouts, green onion, eggs. Served with ground peanuts, and fresh limeon the side." There was nothing to critique about the dish, and it was well worth the $13.95. My hubby got the Thai Green Curry Fried Rice, which was stir-fried with green curry paste, coconut milk, green peas, basil, and kaffirleaves. He ordered it mild and it still had a kick to it, which was a welcome surprise. Again, well worth $13.95. The service was friendly and our drinks were kept full; we never ran out. We had our go-to spot before, but this is going to be our new one. I highly recommend it.

The restaurant is extremely clean! When you walk in the door, every table is set beautifully and the atmosphere feels very warm and inviting for being a smaller restaurant tucked away by the exit doors ofthe Talin market. Each member of the staff that I encountered was just as nice as the previous. Very welcoming and greeted us with a smile.Their prices are reasonable, and the food was absolutely fresh.They used white meat chicken in my drunken noodles, and their green curry with chicken was absolutely delicious ! You will be very happy that you tried this restaurant because it is probably one of Albuquerque's best kept secrets !

not closed! yelp is incorrect. i ate here weekend of january 10. good homestyle thai food. family run

Hands down favorite pad Thai in the city. Not the best ambience but the flavors more than make up for it. Their food is on the hotter side, but totally enjoyable. Conveniently located next to talin Asian market.

I reviewed this gem 3 years ago. I continue to eat here and it remains one of the best restaurants (not just Thai restaurants) in town.It is a cozy little spot, so a big group is not advised. But it's perfect for a small lunch group. The servers are sweet and friendly and get to know you quickly. The only problem is they know I love the Drunken Noodles and when they see me, they assume I want them! I have to slow them down sometimes because the rest of the menu is great, too!Any of the noodle dishes are incredible. I like the Thai Basil, but that's a taste preference. The soup is really good as well. The vegetables are very fresh and tasty!And they handle spice well, which is always an issue with Thai. Their mild is mild. Medium is fairly labeled. It has burn, but it doesn't kill the tongue! And hot, well, they mean hot. Thai chefs do not mess around!And such sweet service! Tip well!

Was very excited to try this place after reading all the stellar reviews, especially for the pad thai and the drunken noodles, two of my favorite thai restaurant items.I called in my order over the phone and was happy to hear that it would be ready in 20 minutes early on a Saturday evening. It was ready when I picked it up and it was easy to pay and head back home.I ordered drunken noodles, pad thai, and green curry. I was excited that all the curries come with keffir leaves. I wasn't impressed with any of the dishes. So many reviews talking about how "authentic" the food is, which makes me wonder if the owners are from a different part of Thailand. Both the noodle dishes were unrecognizable to me as being like their namesake.The pad thai I ordered medium spice, but it was hotter than the other two, which I ordered as "hot" level spice. The noodles had a dark sauce and mostly just tasted like the spicy oil that was added. Not terrible, but lacked the tang that I associate with pad thai normally. For some reason it came with broccoli and carrot? The drunken noodles also did not have the flavor that I normally associate with this dish. Usually this comes with tomatoes, but it didn't. Instead it came with baby corn (like the canned kind), celery, and the veggies listed on the online menu. At first I thought maybe I'd gotten the wrong order but I came back to yelp and saw that yes, this unusual set of veggies is normal for this place. Obviously some people dig it but again, this "drunken noodle" dish is not similar to the standard you will find in most Thai restaurants. The green curry was fine but the coconut flavor was not pronounced and the broth was thin. It tasted watered down. Again there was an abundance of vegetables beyond what was listed in the menu, which is nice I guess. The keffir lime leaves were in there as full leaves, but they imparted little flavor or aroma to the broth. Overall the whole thing was pretty meh. Maybe I was more let down because of all the rave reviews. But given that I ordered the two things people love most on yelp and was deeply underwhelmed by both, I doubt I'll be back. I concede that the portions are enormous (each dish was basically enough for two meals) but I'd rather get a smaller portion from somewhere like Orchid Thai and substitute quality for quantity.

I have always enjoyed my visits here, no complaints about the food, great service, and reasonable prices. I really like the fact I can walk here from my place.My new favorite dish is papaya salad Lao style extra hot. I enjoy the extra spicy. The apmoshere is very welcoming. Great portions. I would recommend it for a lunch or early dinner. It's not in the best location, but I have no problem walking around the neighborhood.

Called for takeout. The lady on the phone said it will be 45 minutes. Are you sure you want to order? We ordered.The restaurant itself is located in a interior area of shopping area. It was a bit scary since there was a homeless person getting arrested in the parking lot. We went inside the restaurant and it was half empty.We ordered Tom Young soup with chicken and stirfry vegetable with tofu. Medium spice on the soup was spicy. Medium spice on the stirfry was not spicy at all. The soup had a lot of non-edible items in it. I'm used to it with the lemon grass, However, there were other non-edible items too, that I could not recognize.Overall, the food was OK. Service was just OK,. And I would not recommend going to the location at night alone.

Everything was super salty. One would need a dialysis after eating here. There were 5 of us and none of us liked the food here.