thai spoon

not that great.. there's a lot of hype for this restaurant but i've been there twice now and don't find it all that great. had the spicy basil tonight -- it had 3 to 4 pieces of chicken it and some panfried onions, green and red peppers. it's expensive, too, compared to other restaurants. they also don't refill drinks, which bothers me. if you want somegoodthai food, try the thai restaurant on noblestown road. it's also very cramped, especially on weekend nights. you end up listening to the person who is sitting next to you's conversation, which distracts and detracts. definitely not worth the money.

simple but good. dormont has been graced by/with this thai restaurant fortunately and i live very near-by so i've been trying various dishes out and liking most of them .
the soups are a bit on the thin side but tasty in any case.
they have a lunch special pricing deal which is more reasonable than their dinner prices which i think for dormont are a bit too high . apparently they also own "thai cuisine" in bloomfield which recently was renovated thru and thru . i have only been moderately impressed with that restaurant maybe in part because i haven't liked the feel and ergonomics of the former space. i've yet to try it out since they re-opened .
thai spoon is on the cramped side so , if you're claustrophobic, you'd best avoid it .
not the complex gem that a nicky's thai kitchen is but ...goodsolid entry level thai food ...

reallygoodpad thai. just thought i'd give this awesome restaurant anothergoodreview. the people who work here are so nice and my boyfriend and i always enjoy getting some take out. the pad thai is awesome! love this place! will miss them in june/july!


-----19 feb, 2012-----

yumyum. very good. i got the bangkok seafood and it was great, lots of different flavors and textures. tons of veggies and the sauce was really good. my boyfriend got the curry duck and he loved it, the waiter is very nice and informative. awesome to have this right across the street. definitely going back again.

great!. i live in dormont so we eat here frequently. i think its verygoodoverall. to the blogger who criticized the curry: i understand. my mother-in-law always gets mildly spiced yellow curry and it tastes like coconut milk. i always get at least medium spicy, and as a result its very good. i would put thai spoon up there with the silk elephant and bangkok balcony in squirrel hill, as well as the former green mango in regent square. we also have gotten the pad tai frequently and i also think its quite good.

just ordered chicken pad thai and one order of thai spring roll for pick up. i ordered at 6:53pm. my order was not ready until 7:56pm!!! i was pissed. the cashier gave me my food, he assumed i already paid. i could have walked out but i didn't. i told him i did not pay yet. he said $17.02! i told him, do you realize i ordered this an hour and 6 minutes ago, can you help me with a discount, the person on the phone said it would be ready in 20 minutes!. he went in the back to get someone and she offered me a 15% discount. talk about insult to injury. i reluctantly took it. the food quality isgoodbut due to this incident i will never go here again.

i am never disappointed when i come here. every dish on the menu is delicious! the food is consistent and memorable. service is alwaysgoodand the expansion looks great.

i absolutely love this place. it is fresh and delicious and wonderful. the service is great and i can't say enoughgoodthings. the tom yum soup is to die for. we usually eat here and get extra to take home because we love it so much.

the food served at this resturant is not at all impressive.  there is another thai resturant in dormont that is much higher quality with kind and humble owners.  i will not name that place within this review, but you can easily look it up.  i did enjoy the food at the sister company to this one in bloomfeild, but now i can not dine there and have told many friends who previously dined there about the moral and ethical code of this company, and they also will no longer frequent these absusive people.  no people with agoodsocial conscience would!

disappointing. i ordered take out pad thai with shrimp. i thought the dish was bland and only had 7 small shrimps in the noodles with very few bean sprouts. i thought the price ($12.95+) was expensive. i will probably give the restaurant another chance because the reviews lookgoodbut will not try the pad thai again.

msg, fatty duck, why?. ever since we moved to the deep south hills area of pittsburgh, i've had to drive long distances to find reasonable togoodthai food. so, when a colleague mentioned to me that there is a thai restaurant in dormont, i resolved to try it out and that brought me and my family to the thai spoon on a recent friday night.

the place is very small with ten or so tables and parking can be a challenge on potomac avenue, but there is a municipal parking lot around the corner and we lucked into a table for four without reservations. (people who came in right after us were told that they would have an hour wait for a table!) the decor is nothing to write home about, and the place is byob as we noticed when almost every other table brought their own wine bottles with them.

the menu is pleasingly large and appears to have a wide variety of items on it. while they had some of the traditional thais dishes - like pad thai, tom yum, colorful curries - i was puzzled by the lack of some other common dishes like lar nar, mee krob, and phat see ew. there was also a list of specials, but no indication of how often those change. we ordered three appetizers including the special corn cake, a chicken dumpling and tom yum soup to share. then, for the main meal, we shared the thai hot pot, duck on board, and spicy noodles. as is usual at thai restaurants we were asked how spicy to make our dishes on a scale of 1 to 10. not knowing the tendencies of the kitchen staff, we asked for everything to be at level 6 - but because we do like very spicy food, we also asked for the hot sauce or powder so we can amp it up if necessary.

the corn fritters were deep fried and extremely greasy. luckily they came with some sort of yellowish liquid with peanut chunks on the side whose acidity cut the greasiness by quite a bit. unfortunately, besides the grease, there was no distinctive flavor to these fritters and they were very disappointing. the chicken dumplings were similarly bland, but the soy sauce based sauce that came with them at least solved that problem. the tom yum soup was satisfyingly hot and had many vegetables and chucks of tofu in it and was tasty. as far as spice level goes, we saw the red powder floating in the broth, but did not notice much of a spice kick to the soup itself.

we chose the duck on board because the waitress assured us that this is the version of duck that would be least fatty. as it turned out, this was one of the two most disappointing things about the meal. the duck was so fatty that we took almost all of the chunks out of the dish and discarded them. they were inedible. this was unfortunate as the dish itself is served with thin noodles in a bowl with a curry based broth that was actually very good. i would have liked more vegetable in there, and, of course, some duck pieces that i could eat, but the base was good.

the spicy noodles were not spicy - they were very salty and had lots and lots of fish sauce as the main flavoring component. too much for my taste. the thai treasure hot pot was another broth based dish which was also very salty, but at least had more different flavors than just salt. all of these dishes were very bland on their spice level. i would characterize them as a 2 on that 'one to ten' scale and we made liberal use of the condiments provided.

we saw one of the other tables get a dessert of black rice and what looked like ripe mangos and decided to order that as well. when it came the rice was significantly undercooked so that it was still crunchy on the inside. the rice was covered by a sweet coconut milk and sugar sauce which lent it much sweetness which was needed to cover the saltiness of the rice. what we thought was sliced mango turned out to be some sort of custard. what it was, i cannot tell you since there were no flavor hints to judge by.

as you can see from my descriptions of the food, the prevailing flavor was salt. one of our members is sensitive to msg - gets headaches from eating it - and by the time we got home, the headache was raging. all of us gulped large quantities of water both at the restaurant as well as when we got back home - another clue that msg was used very liberally.

i guess that when i am in the mood for thai food again, i will still have to drive long distances as thai spoon will not be on my list of places to revisit.

verygoodthai food. no frozen vegetables here! the tom yum was exceptional.

good and worth it. had the drunken noodles w/ beef as my first experience at thai spoon today. the dish was quitegoodand had very pronounced flavors while the vegetables were fresh and bright which was a refreshing side that was needed there.

i would say my first experience was positive and i look forward to trying more on the menu. the spice's get hot for me even as low as 4 but thats my personal taste so judge on your own.

delicious dinner. i had dinner at thai spoon on tuesday evening and very much enjoyed the food. i am a first time customer just passing through the area and looked it up on urbanspoon under thai food. it is small and cozy inside. i had a delicious chicken pad thai that was perfectly spiced (4 of 10). i also really enjoyed the sticky rice with mango as a sweet treat- the mango was just ripe and juicy. the young male server was verygoodand talkative. will definitely be returning!

yummy addition to the south hills!. my husband and i really enjoyed our first visit to thai spoon this past saturday evening. we are so excited that the south hills finally has a thai restaurant so we don't have to drive to shadyside or the north side. my panang curry with chicken was excellent. i ordered a spice level of five and it met my expectations. it is byob so we brought a wonderful bottle of reisling to accompany our meal. our dinners were very affordable. we loved the summer rolls with peanut sauce as the appetizer. the restaurant is very clean and cozy. our server was friendly. it is a small restaurant with only about ten tables or so. the restaurant was always full during our dinner. the only drawback was how close one sits to other customers due to the small size of the restaurant. therefore we didn't have much privacy during our evening away from the kiddos! the one couple to the right of us were very quiet. however, the table to the left of us chose to talk about their love lives in explicit details during their meal which would have been fine if i didn't feel like i was sitting with them! their discussion almost cost me to lose my appetite. then one of them answered his phone and began talking very loudly! but, the food was sogoodand that made up for their inappropriate behavior. we wll be back for sure!

awesome soupy curries. the food is just so so so good. the green curry and thai iced tea is to die for. i've yet to try other curries because i'm just stuck on this one, but i know the other ones are just asgood(the duck curry is fantastic as well). i come here every week for lunch takeout. yum.