royal thai

royal thai in heath ohio. my husband and i visited the royal thai restaurant today for lunch. we did not realize they actually close for a couple hours between their lunch hours and their dinner hours. even though they should have been closed, they did not hesitate to welcome us in to have lunch. we were very impressed with how clean and how nice the atmosphere was. and our waitress, manny, ( i hope i spelled that correctly), went out of her way to give us the best service and make us feel welcome. we started out with an appetizer of gyoza ( fried pork dumplings) which were very good. for my entree, i chose the panang curry. i could not decide between chicken or shrimp, so they gave me both! my husband chose the crispy duck, which was served over a bed of steamed broccoli, cabbage carrots, snow peas bell peppers and sweet beansauceand rice. excellent ! you choose if you want spicy or not. we chose medium spice. it was perfect for us, spicy, with a kick, yet did not burn your mouth. for desert we chose coconut ice cream ( they make their own ! )... and manny brought it to us along with their black sticky rice. out standing ! the sweet black sticky rice was warm, a bite of that with the coconut ice cream... so good !!! thank you manny for your suggestions and your sweet personality to make us feel so welcome. and please tell your mom, she is a fabulous cook! we will be back !!! we highly recommend this restaurant ! rated 5 stars plus. chuck and patty, from mount vernon.

royal thai-great family experience. this restaurant has new ownership within the last 2 months--restaurant was clean, and food was served much faster, even though the cook ("mom") was making specialty gluten-free dishes for us. they said they were going to get some gluten-free soysaucein the restaurant, and also that people can bring their own if there is a special soysaucethey like and they can cook it up. our three kids (4, 6, and 9) also had a great experience, and servers/owners were very personable and like family, really. we ate every.single.bite. the portion sizes were good though--i agree with other reviews that the last owners gave very stingy portions. we had modified pad see-ew (with a garlicsauceinstead of soy since they did not yet have any gf soy sauce), red curry with chicken, and a delicious chicken and coconut milk soup that we ladled over our 4-year-old's side of rice noodles. we will definitely be back!