Galae Thai

Galae Thai is a clean and spacious restaurant with friendly staff. I visit mostly for lunch to enjoy their delicious Thai cuisine. Today, I had the spicy Tom Yum soup with shrimp. Though the bowl was small, it was packed with flavor and had just a few shrimp, perfect for a light and tasty starter. The Nam Kha salad was another highlight, featuring plenty of grilled beef that made it a satisfying and flavorful choice. Galae Thai is consistently a great spot for lunch. Highly recommend!

This was our first visit to Galae Thai, and we quite liked it and will definitely return.Galea has visually appealing decorations, tables and chairs. We were the first dine-in customers when we arrived yesterday evening. We were promptly seated and provided menus and water. Service overall was excellent.I like that you can select your choice of meat for your entrée: chicken, pork, beef, shrimp, combo, duck, seafood or salmon. I ordered the khao soi (my current go-to Thai dish) and JP ordered the Galae noodles. For an appetizer we ordered the Crispy Wontons.I picked pork for my khao soi and the khao soi was delicious. I liked the size of the pork and noodle portions as well as the slight sweetness and moderate spiciness of my dish. One of the best khao sois I've had in the DMV.JP picked seafood for his Galae noodles which contains an assortment of vegetable including carrot, green bean and bamboo shoot. The Galae noodles were spicy and excellent.Much less stellar were the crispy wontons. The menu bills these as deep fried chicken and shrimp wontons. I didn't observe or taste any chicken or shrimp. All we got were circular hollow burnt crackers. The dipping sauce was good though.Parking after about 5:30pm can be problematic in the tiny parking lot up front.

Me and a girlfriend came before the movies for a quick bite. We didn't want to get stuffed because movie popcorn is a requirement. I LOVE their big mugs for their tea. Wish I had these at home. We started with some gyoza and we both had soup. The Tom Yum was so yummy! And it was perfect for the cold rainy day we were having. Service was great! Very attentive and patient with us. We'll definitely be back to have an actual meal. Everything looked delicious!

Every time I visit my friends in Alexandria, we stop for take out from Galae Thai. I always get the pad Thai and it is delicious!! I especially love their Thai tea. If you're dining in, they have a boozy version which is kind of fun. There is a waitress (whose name is pronounced like "Jeep") who is so friendly. It's always a pleasure to see her smiling face when you walk in!

Not impressed, and quite honestly disappointed. Ok. So there's free parking but that's probably the highlight. We were greeted pleasantly and seated but after that I feel service went dry. I will say the ambience is very nice but the food did not cut it, and for the price I expected much better. My wife's $19 curry was more of a soup (and a small one at that) with essentially no meat. We counted 2 tiny pieces of red bell pepper for vegetables. She was extremely disappointed. My recommended galae noodles were nothing to boast about. For appetizers we got the garden herb rolls, which were just vegetables rolled in rice wraps. To be fair, that's what showed on the menu so I can't complain.

Ambiance/environment: very aesthetically pleasing and clean - the only surprise was that it was empty during lunch hour on a weekend...Food: generally good, I got a massaman curry and found it to be more sour than sweet which I am not used to with a flavor profile. Might depend on where you get thai/how you make it, but I wished it was sweeterService: super fast!

I love the food here! It's a good spot for a meal before catching a movie across the street. The service is fast, and food is very flavorful. I've been here a few times and have never been disappointed. The decor is really nice. The restrooms are always clean. The chairs are a little in the high side. If your legs are bigger than average, they will touch the underside of the table.

The drunken noodles were good and so was the mango and sticky rice, but the portions were just extremely small for the price... they skimped especially on the sticky rice and mango I would go somewhere else, very disappointed in the serving sizes.

I visited this restaurant last night and ordered the Pad Thai with beef dish. There was a little uninviting smell from the beef and the taste overall was not good. I believe there was to much MSG in the sauce which was very overpowering. I did not enjoy my entrée. The atmosphere and the spring rolls are the reason I gave them at least 2 stars.I hope everyone else has a better experience.

Unfortunately forgot how pathetically small their portions are and ordered here again after a few years. Just wasted $60 on another pathetically small meal. What a joke. The crab rangoons were $12 for 5 tiny pieces that came with enough sauce in a single ketchup packet. The shrimp green curry was $21 and only had 5 shrimp. That's $4 each. Pathetic. An order of drunken noodles was $20 and was half the size of order restaurants. Save your money and go somewhere else.