Food was delicious and fresh.I had the Pla pad kun chai at the recommendation of the waitress. It did not disappoint! It was crispy with the right amount of spice.The homemade Thai tea ice cream is also delicious.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Boris Nikitin
Been to this restaurant a number of times. The food is always top notch with delightful flavors. Absolutely best Thai cuisine in the greater Boston area!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Chicken Wings, Khao Soi Brisket, Tom Yum Soup
Fito H
Lovely little place, with street parking, decent collection of good dishes and nice service.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Green Curry
M S
This place is amazing! I’ve been here over 20 times and the food is consistently fantastic. Wait staff is so nice and professional. It’s hard to work at a place that typically gets one huge rush a day but they are so great and the food always shines.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Corn Cake, Curry Puff, See EW, Khao Soi Brisket
Alex Vargas
Cha Yen Thai Cookery is exactly what you’re looking for if you want quality food at a good price! The food came out very fast and hot, despite it being a busy night. We ordered the See Ew and Green Curry with Tofu, both of which tasted amazing! I’m not a food connoisseur by any means, that being said, the food was delicious by our standards! It is located in a small spot in Watertown, so the seating arrangement wasn’t necessarily the best. We got sat near the door, so we had to eat with our coats on. Service was okay, but we did get what we needed, when we needed it. The restaurant itself isn’t aesthetically “traditional” either, but let be honest, we were there to eat! The food speaks for itself. Cha Yen is definitely a little gem in our backyard, can’t wait to be back!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Tejal Patel
Just ordered a vegetarian pad Thai for take out. It was delicious! Will definitely order again and would recommend.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Diana Nguyen
Decent Thai place. Some of the dishes were great, some of them were not. I highly recommend the drunken noodles and fried rice. I had the drunken noodles with duck and it was super good. The corn fritters were also great but the dipping sauce was too sweet/syrupy.The quail eggs weren’t anything special. It tastes exactly how it appears: like a small fried egg with soy glaze. The roti was super good and flaky but unfortunately the curry dipping sauce was cold — not even lukewarm but refrigerated cold. It would’ve been great had it been heated up. The papaya salad was missing dried shrimp like it traditionally should have.We ate here for lunch and the server was hard to reach at times. Overall, not the best thai food in Boston but there were definitely some great dishes. I would order from here again since its close by to me.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 3
John Charles
Good Thai food and good
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Nathaniel Broderick
I love Cha Yen! I go here at least twice a week for lunch and the food is great! The staff are very nice as well and they’re very quick. Thanks for the tasty Thai food!
Simon Adamson
Incredibly consistent and solid Thai spot. Service is always great ? the food tastes top notch. I love the khao
This is a really good well priced Thia restaurant . We got the red curry, beef brisket, pineapple fried rice and spring role. Every dish was well made and very filling. The service was also great
Baber A
Amazing Thai Food, some of the best I've had, the servers are very polite and the value is unbeatable.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Chicken Wings, Galangal Soup, Beef, See EW
Victoria Aranda
One of the best Thai restaurants we have eaten outside of Thailand! The Khao Soi is delicious. Ate here three days in a row while visiting Boston.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Boat Noodle Soup, Khao Soi Brisket
Whiskey M.
We ordered delivery and it took 2.5 hours to get to us. We called the restaurant several times (4) to check in the status of our order and they were "still working on it" nearly 2 hours after we placed our order. Unfortunately, the food was absolutely not worth waiting for. Indeed the ginger stir-fry with chicken and it was very bland and dry. The wings and shrimp were unimpressive. I absolutely do not recommend ordering from this restaurant.
J A
We have visited 3 times and the first two times were great. Ordered green curry and pad thai for my daughter. Eggplant for my mom. Service was ok. Second time we ordered sticky rice and it never came. So we csnxelled it. Gave the place 5/5 still. The third time we went on a Friday night and it was a totally different experience. Ordered the short rib which were delicious in flavor and super tender, but so salty I could barely eat them. In contrast the pad thai was so sweet and mushy my poor daughter could not eat most of it. My 12 yo daughter has never refused pad thai. It is her favorite food. We could not even complain about it because no one ever came to check on how the food was. I was about to cancel the sticky rice order because we wanted to leave so badly, but my poor child was so hungry she was happy to eat her sticky rice to offset the sugar in her pad thai which she did not even want to bring home. Not sure if the weekend cook is a different cook, but the service and food was so disappointing I had to change my original review. Not sure if I want to come back.
Food was delicious and fresh.I had the Pla pad kun chai at the recommendation of the waitress. It did not disappoint! It was crispy with the right amount of spice.The homemade Thai tea ice cream is also delicious.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Been to this restaurant a number of times. The food is always top notch with delightful flavors. Absolutely best Thai cuisine in the greater Boston area!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Chicken Wings, Khao Soi Brisket, Tom Yum Soup
Lovely little place, with street parking, decent collection of good dishes and nice service.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Green Curry
This place is amazing! I’ve been here over 20 times and the food is consistently fantastic. Wait staff is so nice and professional. It’s hard to work at a place that typically gets one huge rush a day but they are so great and the food always shines.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Corn Cake, Curry Puff, See EW, Khao Soi Brisket
Cha Yen Thai Cookery is exactly what you’re looking for if you want quality food at a good price! The food came out very fast and hot, despite it being a busy night. We ordered the See Ew and Green Curry with Tofu, both of which tasted amazing! I’m not a food connoisseur by any means, that being said, the food was delicious by our standards! It is located in a small spot in Watertown, so the seating arrangement wasn’t necessarily the best. We got sat near the door, so we had to eat with our coats on. Service was okay, but we did get what we needed, when we needed it. The restaurant itself isn’t aesthetically “traditional” either, but let be honest, we were there to eat! The food speaks for itself. Cha Yen is definitely a little gem in our backyard, can’t wait to be back!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Just ordered a vegetarian pad Thai for take out. It was delicious! Will definitely order again and would recommend.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Decent Thai place. Some of the dishes were great, some of them were not. I highly recommend the drunken noodles and fried rice. I had the drunken noodles with duck and it was super good. The corn fritters were also great but the dipping sauce was too sweet/syrupy.The quail eggs weren’t anything special. It tastes exactly how it appears: like a small fried egg with soy glaze. The roti was super good and flaky but unfortunately the curry dipping sauce was cold — not even lukewarm but refrigerated cold. It would’ve been great had it been heated up. The papaya salad was missing dried shrimp like it traditionally should have.We ate here for lunch and the server was hard to reach at times. Overall, not the best thai food in Boston but there were definitely some great dishes. I would order from here again since its close by to me.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 3
Good Thai food and good
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
I love Cha Yen! I go here at least twice a week for lunch and the food is great! The staff are very nice as well and they’re very quick. Thanks for the tasty Thai food!
Incredibly consistent and solid Thai spot. Service is always great ? the food tastes top notch. I love the khao
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Khao Soi Brisket
Restaurantji Recommends
This is a really good well priced Thia restaurant . We got the red curry, beef brisket, pineapple fried rice and spring role. Every dish was well made and very filling. The service was also great
Amazing Thai Food, some of the best I've had, the servers are very polite and the value is unbeatable.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Chicken Wings, Galangal Soup, Beef, See EW
One of the best Thai restaurants we have eaten outside of Thailand! The Khao Soi is delicious. Ate here three days in a row while visiting Boston.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Boat Noodle Soup, Khao Soi Brisket
We ordered delivery and it took 2.5 hours to get to us. We called the restaurant several times (4) to check in the status of our order and they were "still working on it" nearly 2 hours after we placed our order. Unfortunately, the food was absolutely not worth waiting for. Indeed the ginger stir-fry with chicken and it was very bland and dry. The wings and shrimp were unimpressive. I absolutely do not recommend ordering from this restaurant.
We have visited 3 times and the first two times were great. Ordered green curry and pad thai for my daughter. Eggplant for my mom. Service was ok. Second time we ordered sticky rice and it never came. So we csnxelled it. Gave the place 5/5 still. The third time we went on a Friday night and it was a totally different experience. Ordered the short rib which were delicious in flavor and super tender, but so salty I could barely eat them. In contrast the pad thai was so sweet and mushy my poor daughter could not eat most of it. My 12 yo daughter has never refused pad thai. It is her favorite food. We could not even complain about it because no one ever came to check on how the food was. I was about to cancel the sticky rice order because we wanted to leave so badly, but my poor child was so hungry she was happy to eat her sticky rice to offset the sugar in her pad thai which she did not even want to bring home. Not sure if the weekend cook is a different cook, but the service and food was so disappointing I had to change my original review. Not sure if I want to come back.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 3