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| - Deja Vu. I remember coming to this place 20 years ago, before we moved to Vegas, when a friend of my parents invited us to see his Chinese restaurant. Flash forward to the current occupant, Thai Grill.
After meeting Judd L @ Big Wong, we asked him for his opinion on his favorite Thai place and he recommend that we try Thai Grill. Keep in mind our all-time local favorite is Pin-Kaow and Archi's.
To make a simple comparison when trying out a new Thai place, we always order the following:
1) Beef Namtok salad
2) Yellow or Green Curry dish
3) Pad Thai
We arrived @ 10:58 (sign reads open @ 11) in the morning to find the place closed and at 11 am, two young men opened the restaurant and told us that the chef has not yet arrived. Not a good sign. You need to open a restaurant early to turn your equipment on and prep for the day.
We placed our order for the three items as listed above and requested that everything arrive at the same time. I remember reading Dan P's review to request to not make it "Americanized" and the waiter told me they only make it one way, the "Thai way." Ok. It took a while for the items to start coming out (lack of coming early to prep). The items came in the following order: 1) Curry, 2) Beef Namtok salad about 5 min after the curry, and, 3) Pad Thai dish came about 9-10 min after the salad. Not really acceptable since we were the first patrons there.
Everything ordered at a spice level of "5."
Yellow Curry w/Tofu-Our favorite dish. The curry sauce was very smooth and flavorful and the fried tofu chunks were a little chewy outside and tender inside. Delicious and one of the best in Vegas. An improvement would be to add a little more potatoes and oninons (not really expensive items) to bulk up the dish.
Beef Namtok salad-Plenty of beef here and not enough cabbage. We asked Wayne, the owner, for more cabbage and happily given us more. The flavorful beef was cooked a bit well and not the normal medium I am accustomed to so it was a little bit tough. Next time I'll request medium.
Pad Thai w/Pork-We were already almost full from eating the first two dishes and it is too bad that this last item came 10 min later (15 min after the 1st dish). The Pad Thai is sweeter than what I am accustomed to. Judd happened to call me back after I texted him and he said that the sweetness is authentic Thai. Who am I to argue? I just know what I like from eating this dish at many different places over two decades. So this is subjective on my part.
Remember the chef came late? That came to bite back because the rice wasn't fresh but a rather soggy reconstituted leftover rice. Also, since there were two of us, they only brought us one small bowl of rice. Now, we like to eat our curry with rice and why would you only bring the two of us one small bowl instead of two?
I really wanted to stretch and give Thai Grill a solid 4-Stars. But, the issue with coming in late, not cooking the rice fresh for the day, only giving us a single bowl of rice to share (they did bring more as we asked), and items coming out slowly, I have to resort to 3-Stars.
Perhaps this is an isolated incident due to some unforeseen circumstance causing the owners to come in late. Till then, I'll reserve the higher updated rating on a future return trip.
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