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| - Let me preface this by saying that this is by no means a fancy restaurant. Thai Kitchen is a place for Date Night, not a first date.
The location is the size of the average Bay Village closet, which is to say around 1000 square feet. You will hear other people's conversations; you will worry that you take up too much space simply by sitting down. But if you're comfortable trading a little razzle-dazzle for some truly exceptional food (especially for this price range), prepare your palate for the symphony of flavours offered at Thai Kitchen.
Celiac disease robbed me of the ability to properly handle gluten, so asian restaurants are a special part of the landmine that is dining-out. But Thai Kitchen? Totally groovy with that. The staff are well-acquainted with what gluten is and where it's found, and will steer you clear of potential hazards. Even better, the GF options are something other than salad, rice, and rice salad. I feel like a real person, and not a public nuisance, when I ask for GF fare, and that makes all the difference.
Though I'm a woman of simple tastes (I am regularly hassled for ordering Pad Thai every single time, but it caresses my taste buds with such exquisite delicacy!) I have tried a great many dishes offered here: there's a yellow curry that tastes like the sun dancing across the side of a building on a warm summer evening as the scent of wildflowers hangs in the breeze; the basil fried rice kicks the tongue as it goes down, delicious even the more for its heady spices.
I've only been disappointed twice: a cashew, chicken, and rice dish that was essentially those ingredients sitting brown and unadorned on plain china, and one memorable event where I chose to put spice on an already spicy dish (it overwhelms the flavours, rather than enhance. Poor choice.)
Spice, of all things, is what Thai Kitchen does best, and when used carefully and in consideration of existing spice in the dish, can make a meal tremendous. The spice scale is 1-10, 10 being "Thai hot." What they don't tell you (but you soon learn) is that the number is directly correlated with the number of thai peppers sliced and added to your meal.
Patrons have been known to go higher than 10; I myself briefly held the record for 41 peppers in the (delicious at any level) Thai Kitchen Tom Yum soup. It took an entire pot to fit the arsenal of peppers, but it was an experience both invigorating and terrifying--though the latter only because I didn't think I could fit a gallon of soup in my body. (The fallout, such as it were, was not as drastic as one may have thought.)
Absolutely recommended to anyone looking for a new place to try in the Lakewood area, or for that matter anywhere in greater CLE.
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