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| - Been going out for Thai a lot lately. Just went to Restoran Malaysia (Review for that coming soon) and was very satisfied there. Leaving Linda's last night, I felt it could of been better.
Pros:
Very nice decor
Good Service
Cons:
Not much variety on the menu
Portions could of been better
Hidden automatic gratuity?
I've been told that this is the more upper class sister to Salad King. Located in the new upscale plaza at Don Mills and Lawrence, it certainly tried to match the ambience of it's location. Coming in you notice the beautiful decor that have going. They really did a good job in that regard.
As we sat down, we were greeted by a lady who not only introduced us to the place, menu, and specials, but made some small talk with us as well. She was pretty funny and made us feel very relaxed before we got started. I really should of have gotten her name now that I think about it.
Opening the menu, the first thing you notice is there's only a couple of items to choose from. I would say, a total of 20-25 items on the menu. I was expecting to see some of my favs from Salad King but that was not to be. I love the Siam noodles and was really looking forward to that. We ended up ordering the following:
Beef Panang
Half Rack of Ribs with Peanut Sauce (Special for December)
Baked Cocunut Fried Rice
King Oyster Mushrooms with Soft Tofu
Phud Thai
The beef panang was easily my favourite. The curry was excellent and not to overpowering. The ribs were ok, a little dry at certain parts but the peanut sauce was great and more than made up for the dryness. The oyster mushroom dish was decent, not too bad, nothing special either.
The phud thai and coconut baked rice were very disappointing in my opinion. This was shared by the 4 other people at my table. The phud thai was a little on the sour side for me. It came wrapped in an egg omolet. This was a good and bad thing. For presentation, it was good, for portion size, bad. The omolet was about half the size of the plate it was served on. There really wasn't a lot of food to be honest. The rice was even worse. Again, presentation was nice and fun being in a coconut, portion size, horribad.. Some of the dishes we ordered came with a bowl of rice. There had to be half that amount of rice in that coconut. To get half a bowl of rice, 3 shrimps, and 2 scallops for $19, Fail. Honestly, I liked the plain rice they gave me better than the fried rice in the coconut. One of the reasons I like Salad King is because their portions were very good for their price. This was not the case here.
At the end of the meal, we were surprised to see that we were dinged with an automatic 15% gratutity. We were only 5 people so it was a little shocking. A check back at the menu didn't reveal anything stating such a practice as well. I wasn't really happy about this one. I don't mind automatically gratutity as long as I know ahead of time its coming. In hindsight, we should of asked them about this but we were in a rush. If this was just a mistake on their part and not everyday practice, I will update this review as such.
So yeah, a little more on the disappointing side for me to say the least. It's still a good place to eat, but I will take Salad King (for a quick fix) and Restoran Malaysia (For a sit down) any day over them.
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