Thai Bistro (Venice, FL)

537 E Venice Ave, Venice
(941) 484-8458

Recent Reviews

Maxine Reck

Service was terrible. Concentrating more on their take out orders while dine in customers sit for an hour waiting for their food. Plus the order was not what we ordered. Not going back. Then waited another 20 minutes for our bill.

Jeanne M

Vegetarian options: You can customize your orderParking: No problem with parking.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Rolls

Joseph Wohlander

Great food with wonderful flavor.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Brian Gadowry

Loved

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Coconut Soup

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Awesome awesome awesome my favorite Thai

Atmosphere: 5

Recommended dishes: Chicken Pad Thai

Ariana N.

As other reviewers have mentioned, the service here is ... unusual. The approach of the wait staff to customers is quite abrupt. As an example, we asked to keep a menu, and the waitress told us no. She said if we decided we wanted to order something else later we could ask her for the menu and she would bring it back. We also asked for silverware to eat our dessert because it looked delicious, but was too hot to touch, and she said that wasn't appropriate because the dish was meant to be eaten with your hands. This is a fair comment, but it's just a little unusual in terms of the service industry in Venice, Florida. If you come to eat here early, they also are definitely trying to rush you out to make room for the diners later in the evening. Service is very efficient, but I think the expectation is that you'll be in and out in less than an hour. Happy crab: this is a whole fried crab with tasty sautéed vegetables surrounding it. I ate the whole thing and had no leftovers, even though it was a giant portion. A word of warning, I don't mind when fried things get soaked and sauce, and then somewhat mushy, that is what this will taste like to you, so, if you don't like your fried things to be smothered in liquid, order a different dish. Comes with sticky rice that was also quite good. 5/5 Cashew sauté: this was not great. Very few cashews, and the flavor was a little lackluster. Vegetables were cooked OK but as I said, just a bit flavorless. 2/5 Parking is very easy, this restaurant is in a strip mall so if you make it to dinner early, there'll be no trouble with parking. The dining room was empty on a Thursday at 5:15, we had made a reservation anyway, but it was definitely full by the time we left at 6 o'clock.

Holly Carlson

Service was perfect and the food (green curry for me, red for my husband) was outstanding! It was best I’ve ever had anywhere. The place was a bit noisy, but the packed dining room is telltale of a great place to eat. After your meal, you must treat yourselves to the fresh homemade coconut ice cream. Another best ever, anywhere.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Thai Curry

Alexander Gugger

Food was terrific some of the best Thai I've ever had! Also the service from Kwan and the whole team was great on a busy night!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Samantha Munson

Ordered take out. Busy place. My parents have eaten here prior and highly recommended it. Everything we ate was delicious.

Food: 4

Therese Rooney

All the food I've tried is very good. My fave is the Tom Yum soup. It's hard to find a good Tom Yum in this area and this didn't disappoint!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Pineapple Fried Rice, Drunken Noodle, Rolls

Sammy G.

I ordered takeout of green curry and red curry and they seam to have forgotten to put any coconut sauce in it. It was running and had no flavor. What a rip off. I would not recommend this that restaurant.

Dora H.

The food is excellent - service, needs work. I ordered food to go, and I waited well over an hour. I was told it would be about 34-45 minutes. I don't care much for having to wait, though, i I was told they serve those in the dining room before working on to go orders - which, I paid over $100 for my food, (well worth it) but to be told someone that ordered food the same moment as me, paid the same amount, yet I am not priority is a bit disappointing. I have worked in food service in the past and while I understand there is very little control a host has of the kitchen and predicting the night, I hope management establishes a better system for take out orders to expedite, and not feel like a second class citizen paying the same, waiting double the amount of time initially told. For all other reasons, it deserves 5 stars, but this needs attention.

Buzz Anderson

Their green curry is out of this world and their coconut soup is really good too. I heard another guest say it was the best thing he’d ever eaten when I was there. The ladies are so sweet who work there. Very enjoyable experience and beautiful inside.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Montague S.

Eight years ago when we were new Here we tried this place - we tried it . Closed on a Sunday night closed on a Monday too. We waited a few weeks and tried an order - they were very busy ! Long wait . No delivery . Sad.

Nikki Lumpkin

We ordered to go. The prices online are not correct. Our bill was $30 more because prices on Google menu are incorrect. The food itself wasn't that great. It was okay but I've had better Thai. Also my husband ordered coconut soup and it just tasted off all together.

Food: 2

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