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Freshly Thai
- Hours:
Mon-Thu 11 am - 9 pm
Fri 11 am - 9:30 pm
Sat 1 pm - 9:30 pm
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Wi-Fi:
- No
- Good For:
- Lunch, Dinner
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Noise Level:
- Average
- Ambience:
- Casual
- Has TV:
- No
- Caters:
- Yes
One review for Freshly Thai
1 review in English
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Review from Jannies L.
Brampton, ON
5/17/2011 7 photos
The 3 star rating is definitely for service (4 stars if it was only based on service)
When we first walked in the sign reminds me a bit of "poutine dare to be fresh" down the street, same neon green. It is west of main on queen and has its own tiny little parking lot (5-6 cars). Not a big place, maybe 7-8 tables and some were filled when we came in sans reservations (although it was a Thursday night, it did start to fill up by the time we left)
One of the waitress greeted us as soon as she saw us, and prompty seated us. the decor was nice, they have gold/black table clothes that felt very authentic. Minimalistic was the way they went with the decor, little touches (little Buddha, smaller pictures, 1 small red flower in a little candle holder that just made the ambiance a bit nicer to dine in)
The menu is vast for a thai place, with many sub headings, listed as pad thai, curry, soup, friend rice, all coming with choice of vegetable, chicken., beef, pork, tofu. This for me took away the authenticity of the place, it made me feel like I was ordering the same thing but in a different form, with everything falling under a category it didn't feel like each dish was made individually, just add the meat to a bowl in the back. Kind of like fast food... and I've never seen pork curry before :s
We had thai chicken spring rolls $5.95 to start, order came with six small ones, the filling is hard to describe since you can not identify any meat or any substance, it was black and mushy, no taste I can distinguish. The sauce that came with it helped carry it down.
I asked for spicy on my hubby's chicken pad thai ($9.95), it was not spicy at all and the portion was a bit smaller than other places we've been.
I've had my share of Thai curries and what came out when I ordered the spicy beef green curry ($9.95) was neither spicy nor curry, very watery and the taste was lacking due to the excess water.
A friend had the red curry with beef and it came out similar to mine.
The other had the thai bbq chicken $10.95 (didn't know this existed) and in the words of my two friends "they know chicken and that wasn't good chicken" came out with a nice presentation but didn't smell like thai herb roasted chicken, couldn't smell it at all actually.
We had a bottle of white wine 9they had to check if it was in stock, which makes me think they just run next door to buy one from the lcbo) They had to do the same with each beers my friends ordered, and they ran out of the first one after 1 bottle and recommended a second one. I understand small businesses keep their inventory low to avoid wasting food, but alcohol doesn't expire in a month or two so they shouldn't have their customers drink 3 different types of beers, based on recommendation of which ones they have.
Another side note was the server spilled a beer on my friend, apologized and helped to wipe everything but there was about 1/6th of the beer left and she charged him full price for it. Which I didn't think was appropriate.
However like I said the service was great otherwise, we were old friends catching up for about 2 1/2 to 3 hours and we never felt any pressure to leave.
I would go in if I was in the area and had a strong craving for thai (although bamboo garden is down the street) but won't trek my way west for it.
*** Tip
They also have lunch buffet, so you can go and try out most of their dishes. Also they have a pretty big patio so for $4.50 beers it wouldn't be a bad place to hang in the summer.
