Sawasdee

Friendly staff, quick seating and the menu looked great... But when my peanut Thai rice arrived, it looked pretty unappealing. Flavor was lacking and the vegetables looked like they came out of a frozen pack. My partner's food smelled like dog food. For their drink options, I wanted to try their Jasmine tea, and it was $2.50 so I assumed it would at least be some loose leaf tea, but no it was a tea bag in a little metal pot. Now this meal cost us $13 dollars each, so I can't even give them that. Overall, we won't be coming back and will not be recommending this place to friends.

Don't let the near-empty place put you off, especially when its summertime and classes are out. This has one of the tastiest and freshest Pad Thai noodles I've ever had short of the street food in Thailand itself, made fresh and not just a warmed up clump of noodles like most other places. Quite a variety of authentic Thai items to choose from, come to find out the friendly manager is also the chef and actually Thai himself. Prices for both dinner and lunch are decent for being right near the corner of central Chapel Hill. Parking is normal for downtown, get lucky at a nearby street spot - otherwise park in the public pay lot behind the place. Service was good and on point. We'll definitely be going back to try the other plates.

We are from out of town, so won't be back anyway, but this was the worst Thai food we've ever had. We ordered shrimp Pad Thai and fresh spring rolls. Total bill was around $24 - between the Pad Thai and the 2 spring rolls we got 5 small shrimps. The spring rolls actually had 1/2 shrimp each. The Pad Thai tasted very strange and had a ton of overcooked eggs, and after serving it out on our plates we found a bug in the container. Overpriced and gross. Really sad.