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| - Located in the ridiculously busy Chinatown shopping center off Spring Mountain & Valley View, Chada Street is the second restaurant from the minds of Chada Thai & Wine. While I've never been to the original, I've heard great things, and definitely wasn't going to turn down an invite to check out this new spot for opening day.
The space itself is pretty big. There's plenty of seating if you plan to dine-in only, but with the menu style and how they set the place up, it looks like they might be catering more to the hang out crowd. They not only have a pretty good size bar, but also a lounge type area with big couches and tables. It's just a really nice space with a neat setup, and I can see them being crazy busy when things start rolling.
With only one page, it might look there isn't much to the menu...but looks can be deceiving. There's actually a decent amount of things to choose from, and a lot of variety as well. Soups, salads, meats, seafoods, desserts. It's all there. Everything is said to be inspired by Thai style street food and served small plate/tapas style, so it's perfect for sharing too. Pricing isn't bad either. Our table of 5 ordered a pretty good amount of food, and only spend about $80. Drinks not included of course.
Out of everything we ordered, there really wasn't anything I didn't enjoy...but quite a few things stood out too. One of my favorite items was the Moo Tod Nam Pla (fried pork belly). It was the perfect combination of tender and crispy at the same time, but had great flavor and is served with an excellent Thai chile dip. I was also a huge fan of their two styles of Pad Thai. One is more traditional, while the other is made with stuffed crispy wontons. Both are big on flavor, with the wonton version bringing in an interesting concept with textures that I've never had in Pad Thai anywhere else. Other standouts were the Larb Moo Tod (larb meatballs), Sai Oua (house made spicy sausage) and Sa Tay (chicken skewer). Another dish I have to mention is the Tod Mun Pla (spicy fish cake), which was served with crispy basil leaves that were crazy addicting. I liked that everything had bold flavors, and nothing was overly spicy, at least for my tastebuds. The portions were quite a bit bigger than I expected too.
The service was alright, considering it was their first day, but we did have to ask for some things more than once. And for whatever reason, we had to ask for an order of the Grilled Corn Butter a good 3 or 4 times, but it still came out very last and wasn't worth any sort of wait anyhow. Oddly, they were also out of a few items. We really wanted to try the chicken wings, but they had none. Then when we went to order 1 of their only 2 available desserts, they were out of mango. Considering they were only officially open for about 2 hours when we came, that was really surprising.
At the end of our meal, the chef came out to introduce herself and ask us about our meal. It was a nice touch and overall, I really enjoyed Chada Street. I can definitely see myself coming back.
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