Nara Thai Kitchen

3931 Portola Pkwy, Irvine
(949) 822-8799

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Ann Supatkitmongkhon

Beautiful interior / ambiance. Green curry and Pad See Ew were great, quite authentic. Great service. Live music on Sunday night. Overall was a great dinning experience.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Green Curry

Ewan Giles

Walked in at around 5:30pm placed a pickup order with the hostess and it was ready in 20 mins. I had the chicken satay, panang curry, and thai iced tea it was all very delicious! Hostess was super nice will definitely be back here soon.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Charlie Bennett

Really fresh ingredients, every dish we tried (papaya salad, drunken noodles, green curry, beef jerky app, sticky rice dessert) was delicious! Nice vibe

Andrew Lanterman

Nara is a top-tier experience! The food is authentic to the true flavors of Thailand, and every dish is rich and layered with flavors.

It’s clear that every detail was highly considered, from the atmosphere of the setting, to the authentic Thai dishes, to the presentation of each plate. And the team is amazing! Fiona and Michael are wonderful hosts, Joel is a humble and skilled chef, and Sofia and Tara are a lovely, attentive, and beautiful presence. I will absolutely return again!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

R Nassif

This place prepares the most heavenly Thai food!

The flavors were delicate and well balanced. The presentation was a top notch example of the Thai culinary artistry.

Reasonable amount of salt, no bad oils and no MSG.

I was very disappointed by some of the unhappy reviews. Not sure what’s going on there!

I found the quantity to be quite satisfying. My guests and I still had leftovers.
Besides, quantity is not the way to judge Nara, the quality is really where the focus should be and that’s where this place shines. I also believe the pricing was quite reasonable for the quality of the food we got. I found it consistent with similar qualities out there.

This place deserves better than those reviews. It, actually, deserves a proper recognition.

Dear foodies and connoisseurs, please speak up.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Bryan Nou

Was skeptical coming here the first time because of the reviews and ratings. I ordered 4 items from the menu totaling $100. The food quality and quantity was worth the price. And everything was delicious, I ordered everything at the highest spice level and it did not disappoint. Writing this review as I’m here for the second time because I’m convinced at this point that previous negative reviews were made by bitter some people after witnessing a customer giving someone a hard time and they were more patient than I’d ever be.

Food taste authentic the ambience is beautiful and is extremely cozy inside. It is a bit small and tight but there isn’t much they can do about that. Easily a 4-5 star restaurant

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

Ivy H

Lots of hidden fees

Nate Cheng

I saw several instagram ads, thought would be a good place, but the food is fine, but consider the price, it’s a little bit overpriced. The server is friendly for sure. But they obviously short staffed and very slow. And order pick up is hard than expected, have us order on their website, but it’s totally not available, but if I make a reservation I can book basically in 30 mins. No one pick up the phone. It’s just a little too hard. Overall, I tried twice, the experience in diner or pick up were both not pleasant

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 2

Eve M

The food was really delicious! However, the service is a little slow once the tables started filling up. I think they’re a bit under staffed for a week day. I think the food makes up for the wait because it is really good. Overall, I think the service was great and I’d definitely come back again to try more dishes!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 3

Haleigh Wellrich

This place is so beautiful inside. I think people have the expectation that it'll be another hole in the wall Thai Food place. This place is more like the Javier's of Thai Food. I had the cashew chicken and it was one of the best things I've eaten in a while. It was pricey but was very good.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Guolin Wang

Give yourself some respect, coming in this place will guarantee to have regrets. Awful service on my face, how could place like this are still able to get away? No reservations no seat, for to go then, no bathroom usage, no water cups unless you explain in detail why you need to have water cups to the manager, This place scores high on my never again list. They charge $3 for to-do dipping sauce for satay chicken, please. I don't think the owner wants to run this restaurant, they over charge and make sure customer will have a unforgettable miserable experience.

The owner replied, not only you don't recognize how ridiculous your service was, you started to blame your customers throwing money at you. my family take out order was over $100, we have two families total of 9 people ordered food from your restaurant. I asked 8 cups for ice, one dipping sauce to go, oh you reminded me, you told me your place will charge for take out dipping sauce, and I asked you how much you are going to charge, you replied, you don't know. After a couple of mins searching on your screen, $3 dollars. Great business for scamming customers. Stop pretending your place is a fine dinning, you didn't even try to be one. Disgusted and disappointed.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 2

Service: 1

Anson

Really good thai, just a bit on the pricy side.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

henry qian

Friendly staff

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Danny Pang

Amazing food. Been here almost 10 times in a year. The vibe is amazing

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

wei p

The food wasn’t terrible but it’s probably the worst Thai place I ate at. One out of the several pieces of peppered beef actually has the taste of beef. The rest of the pieces taste like the sauce. The texture was very soft. However because of the lack of beef taste, I felt like I was eating tofu. The drunken noodle is a bit too salty. The peanut sauce for the chicken satay has a weird hint of sourness to it.
There was only one server serving many tables.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 3

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