Lemon Grass

As a Lao person who misses home cooked meals, I like to try all the Viet and Thai places in the area. We've been here once before and I didn't love it, but my bf insisted we come back since he likes the crispy duck. This time, they didn't have duck on the menu and we ordered curry pad Thai, pho and Thai style beef salad. Hear me out. Usually when they have beef salad on the menu at a Thai restaurant, they serve laap, which is beef, with a bunch of herbs (mint, cilantro, green onion), fresh chili with lemongrass, galanga, Lime leaf, etc, and you eat it with sticky rice. But it was literally a salad that you could buy at Fortinos with grilled beef. My bf and I looked at each other in disbelief when it was served to us. The pad Thai was mediocre but the pho was good. The place was so busy. We prob should have known it was catered to white ppl and was not at all authentic when we saw the crowd. So moral of the story, if you are looking for authentic Thai food, this is not the place. But if you are not very adventurous in your taste buds, this place seems to be the place to go.

Was surprised to see how full the place was at 1205 (they open 12)! By 1pm all tables were full which is always a good sign! I order the well-done beef and rare beef pho and it was okay was a little turned off by the not so fresh bean sprouts but otherwise it was okay. My friend ordered the shrimp fried rice which came with a hot and sour soup - this was the star of the meal in my opinion - and he enjoyed it.

Went to Lemongrass with close friends to celebrate 2 birthdays. We hadn't been there since before COVID and we were excited to return. Our excitement wasn't unwarranted. Everything was delicious. Even the sound of sizzling food and the wonderful aroma was great as we walked in. It's nice to know that some things don't change. We enjoyed ourselves immensely. Lemongrass is top notch Thai cuisine.

I have always really enjoyed this restaurant however since the pandemic it definitely has become a takeaway place. The servers are so busy with Doordash and customer pickup coming in and out of the restaurant they don’t have time nor do they seem to care about their dine in customers unfortunately pickup is through the restaurant that is small to begin with with all the orders piling up on the bar~ my Chardonnay warm I was going to ask for ice and a glass of water but I couldn’t get the servers attention and when you do it’s like you are bothering them. My crispy chicken one breast was good the other way too crispy I didn’t even bother to take it home. Similar experience the last few times I have been there I will not be back and will not order from there again.

Ordered 205 vegetable pad Thai and 212 vegetable cashew, both were disgusting,  the dish 205 tasted like noodles and ketchup with a mix of vegetables and the vegetable cashew just had a slightly different flavor of ketchup.  Actually use to like this place and was open to them making it up via a credit they previously issued, but today when we tried to use the credit they refused to honor it saying the person who issued it was no longer employed with them. They eventually said they could honor half of the credit ( without any rational) . The lady who called herself the supervisor then picks up an attitude over the phone and repeats "are we done here". Honestly the service is just as bad as the food maybe it's good we didn't give them a chance to make it up to us. Save yourself the trouble,  and order from any other Thai restaurant (even Thai express). Very poor poor customer service, it’s mind boggling businesses like this exist and survive .. so sad for you.