I went here for the summerlicious dinner for $25 with some friends. The restaurant especially dining area looked nice from a distance. The space looked bigger with mirror finish on the walls. You can see lower and upper level seating as well as the stair case and birdcage motif. There is a lot of monotonous dark wood finishes though and not so pleasant looking dark green granite tables. The lighting wasn't very good either, especially at our table. Hard direct incandescent light made the food not so appetizing for the camera.
I ordered:
Grilled Vegetable Salad
Warrior beef Curry
Banana Fritter with ice cream
The salad was disappointing for me. The taste is typical thai flavour of sweet sour salty fish sauce dressing with some spice. I should have known better but this taste was not what I was expecting. There was grilled vegetables but it didn't seemed grilled that much. More like marinated in sauce. I noticed there was a big juicy lemon slice and it kind of made the salad more sour... Not necessarily better. I felt the chicken wings looked a lot more worth it than this.
The curry more than made up for the lackluster salad. It looked very plain especially compared to the duck dish but the taste was heaven! The coconut creaminess with soft thin beef slices accented by fried shallot oil was so satisfying. I thought there might have been too much sauce until I eventually put the all my rice in the curry. by the time I finished it, there was nothing left.compared to the other dishes available, this one is definitely recommended.
For dessert, I ordered banana fritter with vanilla ice cream. By this time i was already stuffed from the main course but I had room for this as the proportion was modest: A simple small piece of deep fried banana and a small scoop of ice cream presented very nicely. Very much like comfort food as expected. I was satisfied. Compared to the mango sherbet served with tart fruit, I'm glad I got this.
The service could have been better. Being in a group of five, each serving came relatively the same time although particularly one dish always came a few minutes after everyone else's. Knives didn't come with the cutlery which was a concern because the duck dish was especially tough. The waiter checked up on us once although other than that, he was hard to find. Our cups of water were never refilled. When it came to the bill, the waiter did not ask us how we would like to pay for the bill. He just gave us a combined bill. Even after requesting for separate billing, he would assert that it would be fine like this (he did not confirm it was not possible to do this). When picking up the payment he was also not ready for any credit card payments either.
Overall, I don't think the Summerlicious promotion was worth it but I definitely would get that delicious curry.