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| - Thai Cottage would seem like a better restaurant if a great Thai restaurant hadn't just vacated that space in Regent Square. We stopped in for lunch yesterday, and while the food was solid and the service was good, it's a step down from the Green Mango, at the same price.
My Thai beef and sticky rice salad (a special) was advertised as being served on spring mix greens, but came out over romaine instead. Since we were at lunch, the server offered a choice of soup or salad to go with the meal - sadly, the salad was simply average, just romaine and a tomato that was very out of season. The two bright spots were the steamed dumplings (delicious) and my husband's curry - sweet, as curries often are in Pittsburgh, but still well done. The service was fine and very polite, but our server seemed to have a cold(!).
Would I go back? Sure, but I might stick with the standard menu rather than the specials - my guess is that the kitchen does its best work in its comfort zone. And with time, any missteps (like the wrong lettuce or a missing knife, or staff with the sniffles) might work themselves out. But I am keenly aware that great Thai food is the same distance from me in the other direction at the Green Mango location in Monroeville.
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