Thai Café

Food alway tastes fabulous. Salt and pepper martini!Servers are attentive. Relaxing place.

Atmosphere: Thai Cafe is a spacious restaurant with plenty of seating. A good casual spot for when you're craving Thai food! Service: We came with a reservation for a big group, and the service was still quite efficient. Food: We ordered the Beef Spicy Basil Leaves and Chicken Pad See Ew. The spicy basil (medium) was solid but could've used more heat, so next time we'll bump up the spiciness level. Similarly, we were hoping for some more flavor in the Pad See Ew. It was pretty one-dimensional but still palatable. Overall: Thai Cafe serves up decent Thai food, but our orders weren't outstanding. We hope to come back to give them another shot in the future, but we generally prefer other Thai food options in Durham.

Thai Café is a centrally located comfortable meeting place for conversation, cocktails, Thai cuisine, and dessert. Service is prompt and friendly.Tried the spicy coconut soup with tofu, which was tomato-based with a little kick. Tasty.Ordered the chicken satay skewers with extra peanut sauce - my favorite! Added fried rice with chicken, which came in a larger portion than before. I generally order the chicken Dumplings. Be sure to order them for the table as they are delicious.Next visit I'd like to try the coconut cake; I run out of room for dessert at this joint because the food is so plentiful.Food is consistently good. Be aware that if you're headed in for a late lunch, they close at 3 then reopen for dinner. After a glass of delicious rice wine, we lost track of time and was caught off guard so my friend and I walked to the other end of the shopping center for a beer at Boot Room to continue hanging out. Be sure to check it out to to have a pint and watch futbol .

Came here on a friend's recommendation and was not disappointed. The staff was very friendly and the owner even came out to check on us. Tried the coconut soup. Delicious! Also had the fried tofu and the spring rolls. They were amazing. We then had Yellow Curry with chicken and Green curry with chicken. Some of the best curry I've had. The bonus was that everything but the spring rolls were Gluten free. Which was great for my daughter who's gluten intolerant. Lastly they brought out a gluten free coconut cake which was to die for. Just when we paying the owner brought out some coconut and mango ice cream to try. Also GF and delicious. The place has a great feel to it and was cozy. Will definitely come back when I'm in the area.

I really don't know what to give this place, we arrived at 8:40pm and the hostess tried to get the waitress toCome over to us, the hostess finally said they were done taking orders and the kitchen was closed. I was very disappointed that we could not eat here. Maybe the website should have when the kitchen closes but it is Saturday and the website said 930 the door says 9 something needs to be updated so no one else makes this mistake! We were going off the websites hours, the place did look cozy.

I thought this was good! It was quick and nice. First, I love a big menu. The menu is big! There are lots of options for people with different spice levels. I didn't drink but they had a good drink menu too. The service was good. They kept the water coming! and they were nice about my peanut allergy. There are lots of things on the menu that do not have nuts. Actually, most things don't have nuts. I liked my duck dish! The duck was super tender, which is good!!! It seemed really well cooked. I also liked the pineapple and vegetables that were in the curry. I love a green bell pepper!!!!!! My minor complaints are: 1) id love a bigger bathroom! There is a single person men's bathroom and so I had to wait for a few minutes. 2) my curry was just a little sweet for me. I'm just not a person who likes sweet that much! Maybe a lime garnish or something would help cut it.

I got a soft shell crab with asparagus sauce - it was very good. The asparagus paired really well with the crab. Not the largest portion for the price, but it did come with rice and was a tasty dish.I had plenty of room for dessert and ordered mango sticky rice. This was also really good, not overwhelming sweet, and was a good way to finish off the meal.

The food was great, but I was disappointed because I ordered a take out , prior leaving the resto we already gave a tip on the bill, but one server waited for us to finish using the restroom and came up to ask for another tip on the take out saying that it is mandatory to think that we already gave one! It blurred out my food experience!

I rarely review restaurants on Yelp. But I rarely have been so disappointed in a restaurant as I was with my takeout from That Cafe. I am relatively new to Durham (just over a year) but not to Thai food. My recent go-to here has been Twisted Noodles, which I have been pleased with. But I thought I would try something new tonight.When I saw that Thai Cafe had squid salad (properly squid yum) on their menu I decided to give them a try. I also ordered two Thai takeout standards--green curry with chicken and drunken noodles with beef. The squid yum had a tasty dressing--the only tasty element of my meal. But sadly the squid was not particularly tender--in fact it was quite chewy. When I opened the drunken noodles, which I ordered hot, I saw that their way of increasing the heat was to sprinkle chili pepper on top before closing the container. If that's what it means to order it hot, I can do the same thing at home. You would think they might be able at least to mix it in to the dish, which itself was close to tasteless. There were no flavors of Thai spices in the noodles. A total disappointment.The green curry followed suit, beginning with the red chili pepper sprinkled on top. Like the drunken noodles, this dish was almost tasteless. Again the flavor of green chili paste was almost non-existent. Bland bland bland.I don't know if the chef/owners don't know what Thai food is supposed to taste like or if they have decided that Durhamites want bland food or don't know what Thai food is supposed to taste like. The large dining room was almost half full, and people seemed to be having a good time. So maybe they have judged their audience correctly. I, however, am not a member of that audience.

Tonight we had the worst Asian food in our long lives. We played it safe ordering spring rolls and pad thai. The pad thai was simply noodles and the spring rolls were the worst.