Talay Thai Restaurant

We have visited their location at Rancho Mirage 2-3 times but then they closed down. However, they reopened at Palm Desert recently, on Feb 3, 2025. They serve vegan options and wr have to tell the wait staff for no fish sauce, no oyster sauce, make it vegan. They understand. If ordering with tofu they will ask if tofu to be fried or fresh. We ordered Pad Prig Khing and Green Curry. They portions are large. For 2 people we barely able to finish. But we ordered 2 brown rice too. They are taste is pretty authentic. We love to come back with a group so we can try othet things. The price is high but I think it is due to location and high rent. Their new location is pretty strategic with a lot of visibility. Thus, I hope they will survive.

Sad to see they closed.

Hope you reopen soon in your new location!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Drove off the I-10 for a family lunch - Talay was worth it. The mango curry was excellent. Everything else was good. Service was immediate and unobtrusive. Parking was easy and free. Paid $35/person with fancy drinks.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Crying Tiger, Pad Thai Noodles, Mango Curry

Good food portions are decent I like the place if you order something and you don’t like they don’t take it back means you have to pay which is bad

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 3

Recommended dishes: Pad Thai Noodles

The food was not nice. Lots of it, but every dish tasted like tap water from decaying pipes. We ordered two different curries dishes, the pad thai and two tom kha talays - it all just sat there after a few bites. I just wanted to get away from it. No doggie bags please. Very disappointing. The bill was over two hundred dollars - not a problem if the food is decent, but... The male server was unbelievably rude the entire time. I'm not exaggerating, he made no bones about exhibiting what a miserable, tortured soul he was, it was crazy; he would throw the things on the table and look the other way, he refused to make eye contact with any of us. Never in my life have I had the displeasure of being served by a more angry borderline aggressive server. Full twilight zone experience.

Food: 1

Service: 1

What a great find! We just found this restaurant and the food was soooo good! I’d call it some of the best Thai in the Coachella valley!

I’m sad to hear that they are closing down and they said the owner is looking for a new place.

We had the Chicken Larb, Tom Kha soup, and the Thai egg omelette…it was all soo good! I loved it!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

We came here because of good reviews.We arrived at around 8 , they close at 9. Everyone seemed agitated, they told us last food was at 8:30 which is understandable and we ordered ahead of that time. Food was okay compared to other Thai place at valley. We ordered shrimp appetizer, mango curry, drinks and pad es saw with shrimp and chicken. Portion size were not great for the price but that was not the issue. Horrible customer service . We asked for the drinks, and ordered one for my kid after tasting first one we realized our little one would not like it and if it could be canceled. We wanted to cancel before it was made and we made request within 30 seconds with the server whoever was close by. The guy server was so rude , he basically said figure out with your server . We didn’t argue. By the time our server came in table , drink was prepared . We didnot say anything. Whole time both servers were rolling eyes and were agitated. we were so confused I felt sick to my stomach eating there. Never ever I have not finished my food from my plate. I could not after how we were treated. We wanted the dessert cause it looked good in the menu but we decided it’s gonna make us more sick. When we were leaving they didnot even say goodnight.
We tried food all over the valley and go back to our favorite. never again in this place that’s what I told my self. Since its location was in Rancho mirage I was expecting better customer service than this. The employer needs to train these people if he wants to keep running business efficiently, his workers are costing him.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 3

Service: 1

We arrived at 8:15 P.M. The server notified us and let us know the kitchen closes at 8:30 to 8:35 in a nice tone. At first, i was enjoying the atmosphere with the family. But, there came a point where i ordered the Apple soda and asked my little one to taste it. Within 30 seconds of placing that soda drink order i asked one of the workers there to please cancel the drink for my son. He yelled and was abrupt and super rude and pointed at me and me to go get our server myself. I was in shock. He then went onto communicate something to her and both our server and the guy were extremely rude the rest of the night. When our food was brought out he yelled at me and told me to move my plates from the table so he can place everything correctly. It was ridiculous...

I have NEVER EVER LEFT A NEGATIVE REVIEW. This is the FIRST NEGATIVE REVIEW I leave with one star. Worse experience ever me and my family did not enjoy our meal at all. I regret coming to this place.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 3

Service: 1

Delicious cuisine…

We arrived at 8:15 P.M. The server notified us and let us know the kitchen closes at 8:30 to 8:35 in a nice tone. At first, i was enjoying the atmosphere with the family. But, there came a point where i ordered the Apple soda and asked my little one to taste it. Within 30 seconds of placing that soda drink order i asked one of the workers there to please cancel the drink for my son. He yelled and was abrupt and super rude and pointed at me and me to go get our server myself. I was in shock. He then went onto communicate something to her and both our server and the guy were extremely rude the rest of the night. When our food was brought out he yelled at me and told me to move my plates from the table so he can place everything correctly. It was ridiculous...

I have NEVER EVER LEFT A NEGATIVE REVIEW. This is the FIRST NEGATIVE REVIEW I leave with one star. Worse experience ever me and my family did not enjoy our meal at all. I regret coming to this place.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 3

Service: 1

Where’s the meat ?We Order chicken pad Thai hardly any chicken in the dish , ordered chicken curry 2 pieces of chicken only order beef n broccoli 2 pieces of beef.. We won’t order fish again from here

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 4

On March 27, 2024, I ordered three meals and two drinks to be delivered through GrubHub. When I got the delivered order, the GraPow meal that cost me $22.00 had a small, half portion in the container. I called the restaurant to complain about the portion size. The lady that answered the phone was not helpful, rude and basically told me that its not her problem that I needed to contact GrubHub even though it was her restaurant that packed the small meal portion size. She said food is expensive and hung up on me. I filed for a refund on that small portion meal which GrubHub refunded my $22.00. I would not recommend that anyone order any food to be delivered from this Thai restaurant, Talay. They are rude and its apparent that their delivery portion is much different then their dine-in portion. I think this is terrible in these times that this Thai restaurant charges high prices and refuses to make sure their customers are happy.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Great food deliciously prepared. It has a great atmosphere. The service is good and the food ? comes out fast. I was very happy. I went in a big group and we all enjoyed our orders .

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Amazing spicy fried rice. Excellent service and my new favorite place.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Mango Sticky Rice