I eat a lot of Thai food. It’s easy to make substitutions, the dishes are usually made per order, the ingredients are fresh and flavorful and it’s usually reasonably priced. I have certain dietary restrictions, so eating out can be a definite challenge. As Nathan’s review said, Thai Kitchen is pretty standard fare/atmosphere. I enjoyed our Tom Kha Gai, however it was overfull of fresh button mushroom slices. I’m all for fresh ingredients, but they were raw and I prefer the straw mushrooms normally used. Also enjoyable are onions in this flavor combination but except for two stray pieces, it was oddly absent. The broth was rich with an excellent lemongrass flavor, however I have had better at several other places. We ordered this with three stars and unfortunately as a lot of thai restaurants count on the peppers added that sink to the bottom, the spicy was missing from this dish.

My entrée was the garlic chicken. It was that…garlic and chicken with cabbage. For ordering 3 stars, I was very disappointed as there was no heat at all to the dish. I thought the menu description also listed rice, but I was apparently incorrect. They lost points with me for not including rice with an entrée, which seems a normal assumption that they would have included it. Service lagged a bit for having only 5 tables full and three waitresses working. While our server was polite, she seemed to be rushing us through our orders. After seating she immediately asked us for a drink order without giving us time to peruse the menu—unfortunately an annoyance to me.

All in all, I’m sure we’ll go back since it’s 2 blocks from our apartment, but I’ll definitely be seeking out some of the other dishes (and possibly trying four to five stars) on the menu in hopes there may be a hidden treasure somewhere.