thai bamboo restaurant

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 delicious food .. stands true here as well
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the place is huge btw .. neat clean tidy - yes ..serviceis good too .. the menu is having a vast array of food items .. a section dedicated to vegetarians as well which is nice .. everything, to be honest, is great except the food which 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 the food .. 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, the food was just good at its best, given the decor and all i expected the food to 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 good food and generally good service. the only time i've had badservicewas 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 goodservicethough. this was the one time it wasn't that great.

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. ourservicewas great and the food was 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 the food theservicewas terrible!!

decent, but not great food.serviceis good. atmosphere is fun at the new restaurant on north division.

i used to love coming here but over the years the food andservicejust got bad. besides the pad thai, all the other food taste like low quality chinese food.

amazing curry dishes. i love going to thai bamboo for the curry dishes they have....they are consistent and delicious. the other dishes they have there are decent, but the curry is where its at.

the prices are a little high for thai food, but theserviceis always great and the location on sprague is nice and small if you want to go out of the way for a more intimate dinner.