I wish I could write a positive review but so many things went wrong when we went for lunch today. I'm not sure where to start.
For starters, the service was not good. It was slow, haphazard, and potentially overwhelmed as well. It was a very busy lunch with a fair number of tables. There was 2 waitresses. They were not rude at all... if anything, they were courteous but just not aware and they made errors on other tables. They gave people soup when they ordered salad, they delivered items to the wrong tables... just a bunch of noticeable small things.
The food is where lots of things faltered. I first got my salad and wow, it was really disappointing. There was maybe 12 iceberg lettuce leaves and half of them were limp and pink edged because they were OLD. I have a picture of it on my phone but I won't post it here because it's unpleasant looking.
In terms of the actual entree, the spicy Thai basil with shrimp was flavourful. It was plated fairly nicely but the size was eye raising as in disappointing. I may have gotten only 5 shrimp on the entire plate. There was maybe 1/4 red pepper, less than half a carrot, and maybe 1/2 cup of green beans. I couldn't believe how little food there was. I looked at other tables and they were the exact same except they had a ridiculously giant portion of rice (I asked for no rice). It's clear they use a lot of filler rice and rice noodles in their lunch portions to get the person full.
My husband's order didn't fare any better. He had the green curry combo that came with fish cakes and papaya salad. The salad portion was big but there was very little papaya. It was mostly cabbage and carrot. The 3 fish cakes were tasty but they weren't very large (notice a trend?) and his green curry was ridiculously small. It was in a tiny soup bowl with zero vegetables and maybe less than 1/3 cup of chicken. The largest thing on his plate was the rice... it was probably 1.5 cups of rice.
I did try his curry and it was very tasty and flavourful. So I will say that this restaurant is talented but they're cheap and they have poor quality. The other reason for saying that aside from our substandard meal was that the table beside us found a HAIR in their curry. Ew! I cannot recommend this place to anyone in good conscience. It's too bad as I think they do make great tasting food but not good meals.