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| - Its 9:15 on a Saturday night in downtown Phoenix and the boyfriend and I are hungry. Thai food sounds good but one of my biggest issues with Phoenix restaurants is that they close too early. You are lucky if you can find anything opened past 9pm. I think I remember that Thai E-San is opened until 10:30 but I am not sure why I think that.
I have never been to this restaurant but I hear good things and have wanted to check it out for a long time. We get to the restaurant and check the hours. They close at 9:30. I hate getting a table at the last minute as I don't want to hold up the staff that have been there all day long and know that they want to go home. I turn around to get back in my car when a nice lady comes out and asks us to come in. Well, with that warm welcome, how can I refuse?
We get seated in a comfortable window booth and look at the menu. It is big with the usual menu items that one would expect at a Thai restaurant. We start with Thai iced tea ($1.99) the perfect drink for a hot Phoenix evening. We then ordered the chicken Satay ($9.50) Seemed high priced until the dish arrived. 7 large servings of grilled chicken breast perfectly grilled, served with cucumber salad and peanut sauce. For our main dishes we both were in the mood for curry. We tried both the Royal Curry, yellow curry in coconut milk, potato, onion and carrot (9.95) and the salmon green curry, coconut milk, bamboo shoot, green beans, Thai eggplant and Thai herbs ($14.95) Both servings were Tasty, although too large for us to finish but that did not stop us from ordering the Sticky Rice with Mango ($4.95)
The service was exceptional as the staff treated us like family. One warning, if you do not like your dishes spicy, do not order past a one star.
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