thai bamboo restaurant

one of my favorite places to eat. the atmosphere is so relaxing, you feel yourself calming and staring at the pretty ceiling. thefoodis delicious and the staff is friendly. highly recommended.

comparing thai bamboo with a few other thai places in spokane might not be a good idea as the famous ones are mom 'n' pop family styled eateries and thai bamboo is kinda established restaurant .. but just like any other place across the globe (a lot of times) it has been found that the family styled places somehow serve more deliciousfood.. stands true here as well
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the place is huge btw .. neat clean tidy - yes .. service is good too .. the menu is having a vast array offooditems .. a section dedicated to vegetarians as well which is nice .. everything, to be honest, is great except thefoodwhich could draw mixed reactions.

we ordered the vegetarian spring rolls to start with and the famous sodas .. the spring rolls were bland, bland to the scale where you forget to put anything in thefood.. no salt no spice .. i have had 'em earlier too but they were pretty nice back then.
we wanted mango sodas but they weren't available .. ours were raspberry and didn't have much flavour ..

the food, yet again, was just sweet sweet sweet .. asked for less sweet but apparently their sauces are based with sweetness and they can not change it, which is okay .. (made me think, if the quantity of the sauce could have been adjusted) .. the hotness of the gravy was all the same .. 2, 3 choose anything ..

i had this chicken hot garlic with veggies .. except chicken and veggies everything from the description was missing .. garlic, hot and spicy - nope. the chicken was dry too.
the best was in the order was the massaman curry which was vegetarian btw.
the other good thing was the quality of tofu they used .. which was better than anywhere else i have had in recent times ..

all in all, thefoodwas just good at its best, given the decor and all i expected thefoodto be really really good .. and not dangling between mediocre and good and a miss here and there.

ps - surprisingly the mains do not come with a side of noodles or rice or anything which should not happen.

this is the best of all the spokane locations. they have goodfoodand generally good service. the only time i've had bad service was during off hours and the server was a little too personal with us. that and when i sent back my tofu and veggie dish due to the veggies being warm but raw, the server told me that the raw veggies are good for nutrients and that other vegetarians don't send it back. he must have been a rookie...

overall they have good service though. this was the one time it wasn't that great.

yum yum yum. it doesn't matter which of the four thai bamboo resteraunts you go to, valley, south hill or north division you are in for soem greatfoodand great service. i highly reccomend this restaurant to everyone; and have treated many of my friends here!!!

great restaurant!. i went there recently with my boyfriend for dinner and it was our first time. we absolutely loved the ceiling! thefoodwas excellent and our waitress was very helpful. we had no idea what to order and she knew almost everything on the huge menu! i love all the options they have and that they have many gluten free dishes. i will definitely go back!

my husband and i visited on a saturday night. they were busy, but it seemed terribly understaffed. it took 10 minutes for us to be greeted by our waitress who brought us waters, and didn't give us a chance to order drinks. our appetizer was almost thrown onto our table by thefoodrunner, no one asked if we needed anything with it, we did. ourfoodcame and mine tasted delicious, but my husband had basic phad thai and he said it tasted off, sour almost. after not refilling our waters all night, it took forever for her to come back with our credit card. we won't be back.

great service, decent thai. my dh and i visited the new location on north division at noon on a saturday. it was busy, but not crowded. our service was great and thefoodwas not too bad. note that their spicy level is less than what we've experienced with thai on first. i ordered three stars and it was barely spicy. my dh loves curry and ordered his very, very, very spicy and thought it came just to his liking. portions were plenty too. the dh stated we'll be back. :)

didn't even stay long enough to try thefoodthe service was terrible!!

i prefer the old thai bamboo. as a frequent patron of thai bamboo at its former location (just one block south on divison from where it is now), i was excited to try the new, modern restaurant upon its relaunch. sadly, i was disappointed with the direction it has taken.

while it is great that this restaurant is doing well enough financially to afford a much larger facility, i felt much more at home in the original, small building. the new restaurant has almost a cafeteria atmosphere, whereas the older restaurant booths seemed much more private. when i visited the new thai bamboo location with several friends, i noticed that the portion sizes were quite a bit smaller than they had been, and the rest of my party agreed. thefoodstill tastes good, but many things just seem a bit off with this new restaurant.

love thefooddoesn't like service. we went there last sunday night. our blonde server was always busy on the phone and didn't seem to bother taking care of us. where is all the good servers you used to have??? we came here so many years and it seems like most of the good servers that we love are gone. we want someone who really knows thefoodand treat us nice.

food was cold. not impressed. my chicken arrived cold, with hardly any sauce--it had good flavor but was dry and hard to choke down. our "sticky rice" wasn't just sticky--it was like glue! cemented firmly in a little bamboo basket...just one big cold lump. it was fork and spoon resistant so we ended up ripping off "chunks" with our fingers. not happy about paying $40 for coldfoodthat i have to eat with my hands. overpriced, horrible food. this place is gross and it smells weird. sorry...not a fan.

i used to love coming here but over the years thefoodand service just got bad. besides the pad thai, all the otherfoodtaste like low quality chinese food.

oh yummy. thai is my favorite and this is the best in town. for about ten bucks you can get enough lunch to have leftovers for dinner. i have eaten here maybe a hundred times -- at all 3 locations. never a complaint on thefoodquality or the outstanding service. i highly recommend this place.

best thaifoodi'v had in years