Thumra Thai

I'm fairly new to the area, and this place has quickly become a favorite lunch spot. The restaurant is small and quiet and has a friendly, family vibe. The food is great -- fresh and flavorful and interesting. My go-to is the Drunken Noodles, which are a really satisfying lunch, with just the right amount of spice. I'll be coming back regularly! Highly recommended.

Small and quaint, but overpriced and not authentic. Lunch specials are just full priced entrees posted on a "lunch" menu. Yellow curry is made with curry powder, not traditional curry paste...there's a difference! Red curry was tolerable, but the chicken tossed into it was severely overcooked and difficult to chew, possibly microwaved. Only things I can recommend here are the pad Thai and Thai tea, which were tasty, but not made to our order specifications. Overall, service is slow, not particularly welcoming or inviting, and the prices are rather high for the quality of food you get. I doubt I will go back. UPDATE: I appreciate the owner's response, but it's not an honest reply. I've been eating Thai since I was a child, I have Thai friends that are as close as family, and I even had my honeymoon in Thailand! I cook Thai dishes myself and make my own curry paste at home. I can pick apart spices in dishes like few can. If you don't use curry powder in your yellow curry, then I don't know what was going on the day I visited! Perhaps you had a substitute cook who didn't fully understand how to prepare your dishes? Perhaps you didn't make the curry in-house? Either way, it was not a proper "Thai" style yellow curry. Also, I'm very familiar with Turmeric, as I cook with it regularly and also drink it mixed with ginger in a glass of orange juice every morning! That is not the flavor that made the yellow curry so disappointing. Also, regarding the chicken, there's a difference between "properly cooked" and "overcooked". Not only am I a cook myself, but I am also a ServSafe Manager, so I understand food safety and the appropriate degrees of cooking necessary in order to minimize health risks. Your chicken wasn't just "safe", it was cooked to the point of nearly being inedible!

I'm sorry to have to post this review. DON'T Waste your time or $$. Way better Thai options in town. Unfortunately, the owner wasn't able to understand her own menu, which clearly states, "All Lunch Items include soup of the day, rice or noodle, and salad". The owner couldn't communicate well about the menu, kept referring to her daughter putting this info on the menu and it seems that 95% of the items on this menu come with rice, no choice. If your NOT going to offer what your menu clearly states, Change your menu! The salad was a piece of lettuce with a dolop of dressing on top (see the cashew chicken photo). This dish comes with rice but after much discussion she brought it out with plain rice noodles, no sauce, very unappetizing. My dining companion said the chicken is like rubber. My salad was ok, but for $12.50 at lunch and very sparse plus only 5 shrimp, definitely NOT worth the price, and it did NOT come with the aforementioned rice or noodle or, obviously salad. The shrimp also weren't cooked through and tasteless! I asked for #4 spice, barely tasted like #2. Very poor service and not friendly. We even observed other diners serving themselves water. Small dining area. In a strip mall with free parking. Seems like regulars are ok with this place, maybe they know the drill and what to order to get the bang for their buck. We left unsatisfied and at least in my case (salad) still quite hungry.

Either we came on the wrong night, or some of the other reviewers never had good Thai food. Sorry. This was a very disappointing experience. I always try to write about the positives of an experience, but the best I can say is it's a clean and quiet restaurant - because there was no one there. Even the server kept disappearing for long periods of time (but when she came, she was on the phone most of the time - yes, having a long conversation while serving out food). We had two dishes: * Bangkok Chowder (described as "Hearty Meat, Vegetables, and egg flour Soup with Cilantro"). I thought it was a typo and should be "egg flower soup", but no.. it was a bland (yet salty) chicken broth, heavily thickened with flour (the main ingredient), with shaves of boiled chicken, about a dozen hair thin slices of carrot (how did they cut it this thin? couldn't even taste it!) and two (2) cilantro leaves. There may have been some egg-whites mixed with the flour - I couldn't tell. My grandmother's Polish chicken broth (before adding vegetables and Sleazeballs) had WAY more flavor than this. * Panang Curry (described as "Very creamy and spicy dish includes your choice of meat, coconut milk, bell peppers, basil, and lime leaves"). It was in fact a very watery and spicy liquid that contained very few pieces of meat and two (2) slices of red bell pepper - each less than 1/8th of an inch thin!

Good food. Catfish dish was fabulous. Used gluten free soy sauce, & took time to proof it 👍Understand what gluten free means. Must show your vaccination card, which is much appreciated. Pricing is moderate per dish. My lunch was with appetizers, Thai tea & main dish, so seems pricy but not for 3 itemd