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| - This is a tough review because I am torn between two opposite sides - the quality of the food vs the exorbitant pricing. I am usually one where pricing wins out. In this odd case, I guess I will side with the food.
Ordered the following - Thai Money bags $11 (8 pieces), Jungle Curry with squid $17, Green Curry with chicken $16 and Pad Thai with chicken $16. This added up to pennies shy of $60. Priced the same items from a competitor in Rocky River and while they didn't have the Thai Money Bag appetizer I substituted pot stickers and their bill would have added up to $46. So was this place $15 better or what? Aggh, that is so tough to decide. To be honest, you would have to do the comparison. In other words, your mileage will vary and you would come up with your own opinion.
Here is what I could tell you. The Thai Money bags were basically 8 filled (pork filling) and fried won tons. Total size of each was about a quarter-sized bag. Taste was very good. Came with a sweet chili dipping sauce. Was it worth $11. Oh no ... In fact, hell no! They were good though. I'd say they should be priced similar to the competitors appetizes $6.
Note: Most of Cravings appetizers were right around $10. A bowl of Tom Yum soup is $10, a cup $6.
Entrees - Wife had the Green Chicken curry and thought it was outstanding. I tasted it and agreed. I had the jungle curry and asked for it extra hot - 10. Thankfully someplace made their dish hot. Spice level was a 10. Two comments - My jungle curry was watery and I was expecting something a bit like sauce, not soup. My wife's green curry had a nice thick coconut like texture to it. Secondly, there was very few squid in the jungle curry. In fact, very few vegetables either. But it did have an extraordinary amount of spicy hot liquid in there.
I thought the pad thai (chicken) was very good. Entrees were the typical plastic or Styrofoam container size.
Overall, seeing a $15 difference, I have to ask myself - "Self, how often will you return to Cravings vs the competitor?" It's amazing to me that if this was priced similarly I would probably return every other month. With this priced so high, probably once or twice a year. It's too bad Cravings ownership doesn't see that. It's almost like they took this location next to the fancy Beachcliff area (the location is an old coffee shop and they do showcase coffee/teas/pasteries esp. during the morning) and figured everyone has money there so we could charge $3-$4 more for every dish. Nobody will notice it nor care.
Good food, but very pricy!
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