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| - If you're not doing take-out, Thai Kitchen is a very very small restaurant with probably 6 or 7 tables that can seat 12 to 14 people max, though I can't imagine it being safe to serve food while stuffing that many people into that small of a space. If you're looking to dine and there are more than 2 of you, I'd strongly consider either figuring out a plan for take-out or finding another establishment. The bathrooms--which appear to be community bathrooms used by building's tenants--are out the backdoor.
The food is decent overall--I think a tiny step above what you would get at cookie-cutter take-out place. I liked the Thai Kitchen Fresh Rolls with the basil, cilantro, mint, and lettuce wrapped in translucent rice paper with your choice of vegetables, chicken, or shrimp. The peanut sauce for the Chicken Satay was also pretty good, but the actual pieces of grilled and marinated chicken were cut a lot thinner than I've ever seen for a chicken satay. Our order of a large bowl of Wonton Soup was screwed up, and instead we got some sort of large ramen noodle soup with pieces of barbecue pork. It tasted okay but wasn't what we ordered (though we were too hungry at the time to wait for a replacement). For entree dishes, we got salmon in a nice brown curry that came with a side of white rice put directly on the dish. I was skeptical of the salmon/curry combination but it goes to show you really can put that curry sauce on just about anything. The shrimp Pad Thai was probably the best dish of the night--particularly because it was not as oily as you often find at other take-out places. Our last dish was the Khao Goon Chieng, which was fried rice with onions, maybe a small amount of other vegetables, and Chinese sausage. Together with the satay and the soup, the fried rice was one of the more disappointing dishes of our visit.
Some things to remember: Thai Kitchen is cash only, and there are no refills on drinks (including your $1.75 glass of Sprite half full of ice). Overall, I went with two stars based on (1) the space, which is admittedly intimate and cozy in a hole-in-the-wall kind of way, but can quickly spiral out to claustrophobic and impractical and (2) the food, which, as I mentioned before, is probably above a standard take-out place but had a few misses on its own.
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