Leela Thai Restaurant

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

Recent Reviews

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

Randyce W

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

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Chicken Pad Thai

Vanessa Kei

Unfortunately, they don't know how to do an egg drop soup anymore. I basically had a whole egg dropped in that was overpoached. Not appetizing at all, especially for $14.The broth itself was satisfactory.Their spring rolls, noodles, and curries are good.

Food: 3

Service: 3

Michael Wechter

Pleasant shopping center restaurant. Clean, friendly service with excellent food. I asked for 7 level and got exactly what I wanted (avocado curry)

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Florida Sunshine

I got Thai Orange Chicken and husband got sweet and sour chicken. I probably won't get the Thai Orange chicken again because it's breaded and I feel it takes away from the taste of the sauce. So maybe to compensate for that, they can add more sauce to the chicken. I'm not docking them a star for that because I knew the chicken was breaded when I ordered my meal.Husband said that the sweet-and-sour chicken was pretty good. but nothing will compare to the sweet-and-sour chicken he gets back home in Florida. But he knows that wherever we go, dishes are prepared slightly different.Overall, I'm giving them five stars because service was quick, meal came out in a timely manner, our server was very nice, and it's a nice atmosphere.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

dwfr

Came for lunch and enjoyed a shared spring roll appetizer, a ginger entree and had 2 Thai ice teas. Friendly service. Cute decor. Plenty of parking. Reasonable prices. Quick service. If you found this review useful, please click the like button.

Jon Stein

Food was great! Pad Thai was just right, not too sweet. They have some good vegetarian and vegan options including mock duck and mock chicken. Portion sizes are substantial.All the wait staff were attentive and friendly. Cute little place tucked into a shopping center. Definitely will be back.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Justin Stanley

Thank you wonderful people for making the best curry fried rice I've ever had! So amazing. It's somehow even better when I eat the left overs cold. So good!

Matthew Kwiecinski

Great food, made quickly. Cheaper to pick-up yourself than any if those delivery services.

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