Thai food

No more Thai Spice for her

adamg — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:53:08 -0400

From now on, when West Roxbury's Tammy needs Thai food, she's going with Phuket instead of Thai Spice, because Thai Spice can't get its act together: Last night, she and some friends ordered food at 5:15 and it didn't arrive until after 7:

... We only had 2 dinners, 1 rice dish and 3 appetizers. The food was good, it was still warm (no piping hot) and the adults survived (barely)... but the kids were in a tizzy and stuffed themselves on Go-gurts before the food even arrived. If you have children, you understand what a 4-yo with low blood sugar, surviving on a sugar-ladened dinner can be like. Let's just say it wasn't pretty. ...

Thai food returns to Hyde Park

adamg — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:54:04 -0500

Or maybe it was there all along and I just didn't know about it - until I happened to be sorting the mail the other day and noticed a menu.

In any case, Hyde Parkians don't have to go all the way up to West Roxbury, JP or Norwood for Thai anymore - unless they want a large menu to choose from. The unassuming Asian Thai Eatery, 1084 River St., is really mainly a Chinese restaurant with a few Thai dishes thrown in - don't even think of stopping by if you want pad Thai or golden cups, for example.

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Pad thai ice cream

adamg — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:37:15 -0400

Pam braves all four of JP Licks' new Thai ice-cream flavors, which, yes, include pad thai:

... The ice cream is filled with short noodles, slices of green onion, chunks of peanut, and specks of cilantro. Is that a hint of garlic as well? This ended up being my favorite of the bunch because of how well it pulled off the unique combination of ingredients. I would never order this as a dessert, but for a savory snack, it was pretty tasty. ...

A Thai restaurant with an unadvertised special

adamg — Tue, 22 May 2007 07:53:14 -0400

The Herald claims it may be an urban legend, but Harry Mattison wonders which Thai restaurant in Allston has a basement refrigerator stocked with new stem cells.

Arrivederci, Salute

adamg — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:57:44 -0400

Seth Gitell reports that Saluté, Roslindale's latest cute little Italian bistro, has been sold and is now Geoffrey's, Roslindale's latest cute little American bistro:

They will also offer a weekend brunch menu, which is something the Square could use.

Roslindale Ed. note: Brunch? Did somebody say brunch?!? I am so there.

Gitell also has news of chef/menu changes at Bangkok Cafe.

Now you can Thai two on in West Roxbury

adamg — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:08:14 -0400

Who'da thunk it? Centre Street in West Roxbury now has two places to get Thai food - Thai Spice (really more of a take-out place than a sit-down restaurant) and Phuket, which recently opened where Cafe Le Royal used to be (1856 Centre St.).

Nancy and I went to Phuket for lunch today. It shows promise, but could use a bit of work.

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How much longer for Thai food in Roslindale?

adamg — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:13:35 -0400

The last few times I've been to Bangkok Cafe, there haven't been very many diners. Today, I went to order some chicken massaman curry for lunch. There was nobody in the dining room. When I went back 15 minutes or so later to pick it up, still no people. Unless they're doing a land-office catering business, that's not a real good sign. Oh, well.

Some people say the quality's gone downhill since it opened (see the last review); the limited number of dishes I tend to order (basically, chicken massaman curry and more chicken massaman curry) still taste good.

At last!

adamg — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:47:55 -0400

Bangkok Cafe is, finally open, and now my Rozzie experience is complete. Stopped by tonight for some takeout - chicken massaman curry and golden cups. It's only been open since Saturday and yet the place was near full - shows you how truly desperate we were for a Thai restaurant (OK, OK, I shouldn't project my eagerness onto the 29,999 other people in the neighborhood).

The chicken massaman curry was everything you could ask for - rich and curryish. Sweet potatoes instead of potatoes. I could've used more rice to sop up all the sauce, though. Even more of a shortage issue with the golden cups. It consisted of two smallish containers of ground-up vegetable stuff with these tiny taco-ish cup things. There were only enough of the taco cups to scoop up the contents of one container - really should've had more of them.

But in general: Yum! Now if only Rozzie could get an Indian restaurant ...

Bangkok Cafe Web site.

Civilization finally coming to Rozzie

adamg — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:31:45 -0400

Those of you who live in more enlightened neighborhoods (i.e., JP and points north) would probably be shocked to hear that Roslindale doesn't have a single Thai restaurant. I know, I know, it's been just a terrible burden.

For the past several months, a genteel "Bangkok Cafe" sign has taunted us above a storefront on Poplar Street in Rozzie Square. It was beginning to look as if the place would never open (that maybe they'd spent so much on the sign, they had nothing left for pots, pans and cooks).

Now, I'd promised Greta we'd go out for lunch today. As we were wandering around, trying to come up with something we could both agree on (her: no Albanian, no Middle Eastern, no West African, no Chinese, no pizza; Me: no Friendly's, no Applebee's), I noticed the paper was gone from the windows of Bangkok Cafe and the lights were on.

Of course, we pulled over as soon as we could and walked over. No, they're not open yet, but there were workers in there, um, working on things. There were Thai Buddhas in the windows. There were tables covered with maroon table cloths. THERE WERE PLEATHER-BOUND MENUS ON A STAND BY THE DOOR!

Oh, this is looking good!

Then we went to Wapo Taco where I got a burrito and taco chips and after that, we drove over to Burger King for a chicken kid's meal for the kidlet (BK fries are not half bad when doused in cheddar-cheese sauce).

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