Leela Thai Restaurant

9725 Mission Gorge Rd, Santee
(619) 334-4019

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gregory adams

Traditional Thai resteraunt. Met friends and sat talking for a couple of hour. The staff was very gracious and made sure we were well taken care of!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The Craic Pirate

Nice service, clean restaurant. Ordered the Drunken Noodle to go. They asked what level of Hot I wanted on a scale from 1-10, I asked for a 10. It was only a little hot. It ain’t hot, y’all. I don’t know why they need a scale to ten. They may as well just ask what level you want from 1-3 because there was no heat.
And the food had grit, like dirt. The food tasted okay but that kind of grit may be from unfiltered water. I do not know, but multiple bites had grit.

Alex Yapjoco

Great place for Thai food. We ordered the pad see ew and spicy eggplant. Both tasted delicious and the serving size are quite big. The pad see ew was a bit salty so I had a helping of rice to help with that.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Chris Bentley

He good here is AMAZING and DELICIOUS i would definitely eat here again???

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Drunken Noodles with Chicken, Yellow Curry, Fried, Sticky Rice, Mango Curry

Ryan Bosia

zero flavor somehow. maybe i just ordered at an off time, but was very disappointed.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 5

savanah

i have no idea why this place isn’t more popular! like yes people like it, but it should be packed and line out the door. i’ve been getting food here for 7 years and it was great but never came to my mind that i should write a review. went there yesterday for mother’s day and it was phenomenal. i shared a drunken noodles, and chicken pot stickers. the drunken noodle is literally the same dish i’ve been getting here for 7 years and it was the best i have ever had it yesterday. cooked perfect with tender chicken, soft noodles and the veggies were glazed to perfection. the chicken potstickers were literally some of the best i ever had i had to order seconds. thai iced tea was also amazing, my mom was sipping on it and she doesn’t even like drinks like that. and lastly it was affordable? it’s weird to think this way in the stage of society right now but it really was. for 4 things with BIG portions all together it was 30 dollars. that’s pretty affordable. i feel i even remember this place being more expensive back in the day? either way im so glad i chose leela thai for some mother’s day dinner.

this isn’t negative more so criticism but with the potstickers they come with five, but it just confuses why? it would make more sense to have 6 because most people share them anyways so those people can 3 and 3 if it’s two people or at least have it more fairly divided. rather than fighting over the last one with 5, but yeah overall 10/10

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Drunken Noodles with Chicken, Pot Stickers

WOLVEN

i have no idea why this place isn’t more popular! like yes people like it, but it should be packed and line out the door. i’ve been getting food here for 7 years and it was great but never came to my mind that i should write a review. went there yesterday for mother’s day and it was phenomenal. i shared a drunken noodles, and chicken pot stickers. the drunken noodle is literally the same dish i’ve been getting here for 7 years and it was the best i have ever had it yesterday. cooked perfect with tender chicken, soft noodles and the veggies were glazed to perfection. the chicken potstickers were literally some of the best i ever had i had to order seconds. thai iced tea was also amazing, my mom was sipping on it and she doesn’t even like drinks like that. and lastly it was affordable? it’s weird to think this way in the stage of society right now but it really was. for 4 things with BIG portions all together it was 30 dollars. that’s pretty affordable. i feel i even remember this place being more expensive back in the day? either way im so glad i chose leela thai for some mother’s day dinner.

this isn’t negative more so criticism but with the potstickers they come with five, but it just confuses why? it would make more sense to have 6 because most people share them anyways so those people can 3 and 3 if it’s two people or at least have it more fairly divided. rather than fighting over the last one with 5, but yeah overall 10/10

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Drunken Noodles with Chicken

Ziya Castillo

The best Thai food I’ve ever had. Amazing service and friendly staff!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

0chevy0

This is still the best Thai place in town! 5 stars.

Vegetarian options: Their curries are great. You can pick mock duck or vegetables, I typically get both!

Recommended dishes: Yellow Curry

Ziya S.M

The best Thai food I’ve ever had. Amazing service and friendly staff!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Red Curry, Seafood

alex

Great place for Thai food. We ordered the pad see ew and spicy eggplant. Both tasted delicious and the serving size are quite big. The pad see ew was a bit salty so I had a helping of rice to help with that.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Master Blaster

Super chewy calamari, the chicken was

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 2

Service: 3

Sarah Heredia

My husband and I ordered the sampler and drunken noodles to share. The food surpassed my expectations. Most surprisingly was the Tempura shrimp, I'm typically not a fan of seafood. However their shrimp was cooked to melt in your mouth perfection.We picked up in Santee and drove 15 minutes home, everything was still piping hot. Perhaps best of all, the servings were big enough for lunch tomorrow ?

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Drunken Noodles with Chicken, Fried Spring Rolls

Brittany Gómez

Service was terrible when we got takeout. I placed an order directly from their site which I like to do because it gives the restaurant more money compared to sites that take a cut like DoorDash or GrubHub. After we place the order, it said it would be ready in approximately 30 minutes. When we got to the restaurant to pick up 40 minutes after placing the order, they said that they didn't have the order. We showed them the receipt and they said OK and started taking notes on what we had ordered. After a few minutes, they came back and said oh the order just came in. It'll be about 30 minutes now. We came back after 30 minutes and they said oh another 15 minutes. We came back in 15 minutes and they said almost ready. An hour after they took our order, which was an hour and a half, after we had actually ordered it online, it was ready. They didn't apologize even once throughout all the checking back in. I'm a pretty understanding person, and I would understand if they were slammed on a Saturday night, however, there were two parties which was a total of four people inside there. The people that got there when I was trying to get them to find my order ordered, got their food, and left before my takeout was ready. I only ordered 4 things. It's pretty crazy to wait an hour and a half for a take-out order. It's even crazier for them to not explain or apologize for why this would happen. I guess that's just how their service is normallysince they didn't seem apologetic. We definitely won't be back no matter how good the food is. There's not really any take out that should take an hour and a half, especially when they told you half an hour. 0/10 just based on the service.

Service: 1

Randy

Awesome pad thai and Avocado curry dishes were authentic and delicious!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Chicken Pad Thai, Avocado Curry

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