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Bangkok Palace
2829 De La Vina St, Santa Barbara
Phone: (805) 687-1828
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Reviews by the General Public
We Keep Coming Back!, 8/20/2013
Reviewer: Nancy
from Santa Barbara, CA
This place holds a very special place in my heart! The food is just the best Thai food my husband and I have ever had. The service is friendly, fast and family owned so we now feel like part of the family. The atmosphere is warm and simple and I always feel like I am returning to my Santa Barbara Thai home! We keep coming back to this wonderful, magical little eating spot. Out of all the fancy restaurants in Santa Barbara this place is just one of our favorites. The take-out is also wonderful when we are tired on a Friday night.
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Great Small family run restaurant.
Reviewer: MIKE
from Santa Barbara, CA
The Picture of this restaurant need to be update . Santabarbara.com admin should go and take new picture of this place. The food and service is very good. I would recomment this place.
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Delicious Pad Thai & Tom Kah Soup
Reviewer: Tom
from Santa Barbara, CA
A great neighborhood place for good food.
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Good Food, Bad Service
Reviewer: Stephanie
from Santa Barbara, CA
I placed an order to go at Bangkok Palace and when I got home it was not the correct order. I called the restaurant to let them know of the mistake and the lady rudely told me that I had ordered the dish that they made me and that I was wrong. I know for a fact I ordered correctly and the lady got it mixed up. She never apologized or did anything to rectify the situation. The customer service is terrible but the food is decent.
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Going Downhill
Reviewer: Tyler
from Santa Barbara, CA
This used to be our favorite Thai restaurant in town. The last few times the food has been very disappointing. We never used to have to specify spice levels when ordering because they always leaned towards the mild side (like most American Thai). Recently dishes have been on fire even when requested mild.
That aside, this place doesn't do anything especially well except for the Tom Kha soup. None of the noodle dishes or curries are worth ordering.
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Good Food Intimate Restaurant
Reviewer: Glenn
from Buellton
This seems more like a hole in the wall place with good Thai. There is not a great amount of seating or parking but its good.
Food better than Your Choice and Quality is about the same as Pattaya(not as good as Meun Fan in my opinion). Great Thai Ice Tea and Pad Thai(though they should probably take the tails off the shrimp).
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Supreme Thai
Reviewer: Siena
from Santa Barbara, CA
At noon on a Tuesday, a tiny, yet endearing place on De La Vina Street opened its doors for lunch. As I entered the quaint Thai restaurant, a sweet woman in a black dress and white apron greeted me. She showed us to a table by the window and returned almost instantly with ice water with slices of lime. The table had an intricately woven tablecloth with a beautiful design that seemed to be an original Thai piece of art. A fresh flower arrangement sat in a decorated ceramic vase on top of the table, adding a sense of familiarity.
We ordered Thai iced teas and when they arrived, the taste was incomparable to any Thai iced tea I've had. The cold tea flooded my tastebuds with sweet glory and made me smile. While I enjoyed my Thai iced tea, a salad composed of iceberg lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers, red cabbage, and an authentic Thai dressing appeared before me. It was the perfect amount to whet my appetite for the next course: Tom Kah Coconut soup with tofu.
The waitress brought a pot of the hot and sour soup to our table and ladled it into three bowls. The mixture of coconut milk, limejuice, lemon grass, and galanga in the broth activated my taste buds more than the iced tea. Other items in the soup were: mushrooms, bamboo shoots, carrots, chicken, and scallions. The combination of these ingredients added a wonderful texture to the soup.
My entree came next. My plate of Tofu Pad Thai had a side of rice in the shape of a star along with fresh vegetables. The noodles were cooked to a chewy, yet soft consistency and soaked in a delicious sauce.
After finishing up my filling meal, the waitress gave us our bill and I was surprised at the small amount we had to pay for the large quantity and high quality of the food we received.
I would recommend Bangkok Palace (located on 2829 De La Vina Street near Trader Joes) to anyone wanting to try something new. The food has just the right amount of flavor for a memorable meal, but not an overpowering one. Compared to other Thai restaurants in the area, I would definitely say that Bangkok Palace is supreme.
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Superb flavorings
Reviewer: Jinelle
from Santa Barbara, CA
I admit I am in a Thai food rut. I always order the same thing no matter where I find Thai food in the world, but this does let me discern favorites and Bangkok Palace soared to the top of my list in Santa Barbara last night. We had our standard coconut-galanga hot pot soup and me, my Pad Thai, while partner had his standard Musulman curry. I said we are in a rut. Wish they offered pork with the Pad Thai, but only chicken and tofu with a few shrimp, or more shrimp for an extra cost. Yes, the chicken in the soup was a bit tough, but the broth was perfection. Lapped up every last drop.
All choices had wonderful, rich, yet delicate flavors. Enjoyed everything, but I do need to branch out into a more representative sampling of their entire menu some day. Which after last nights wonderful meal, may well be very soon. Sweet, friendly service, very homey atmosphere, with the staff busy at a table in the modest but typically Thai-style dining room busily stringing a box of sugar peas.
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Very Tasty
Reviewer: Kumar
from Santa Barbara, CA
This is a great place for thai food, check out the shrimp with garlic and pepper sauce curry...and the coconut ice cream...
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Good food, reallllllly bad service.
Reviewer: Bekka
from Santa Barbara, CA
Entered the restaurant with a party of six at 6:30pm. The place wasn't too busy, yet we waited to be seated for about 20 minutes. Once seated, we didn't even get waters until another 20 minutes later, when our waitress finally took our order. We ordered chicken satay (which was very good with the peanut sauce), wonton soup (which looks flashy but had only 3 wontons and 2 pieces of shrimp), the seafood curry (which was okay), a beef noodle dish, and a pathetic excuse for honey duck...which looked more like a small salad with a few pieces of spare meat...(for a whopping 17 bucks, it could barely serve two.) The dishes all came at different times. The chicken satay came 30 minutes after we ordered, 10 minutes afterwards the soup, and the duck and curry took an additional half hour to be brought. The waitresses are inattentive, and they even took 15 minutes to bring us our check. The food tastes good, but I'd never eat inside again...perhaps delivery?
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Average food and decent service
Reviewer: Yoshi
from Goleta, CA
Quality of food is average and portion is small. I had a Honey Duck and it was not fresh and very small portion for the price. The noodle was cook with ketchap and did not taste good at all.
Spicy seafood curry was good, but rice was on the massy side. Tom Yum shrimp soup was the best out of all. Overall very flat food and there are better choices in Santa Barbara.
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These folks must not have ever had good Thai
Reviewer: Steve
from sb
Sorry..nice people here....but the quality is just not even decent. We can go to the refridge and put in some of the asian spices into a pan with chicken...do some nice Cal-Rose med. grain rice from Von's and it would be twice as good. You should just try ONE dish if you do go here....don't be discouraged by blowing a whole dinner out.
A fair challenge...go to Ellers donut on State, and take home their Red Curry(one for two people will stuff you both(order it med. spicey if you like ...it will be a revelation(plus 3 times the quantity--but Ellers is a depressing place to eat...take it home)-I'm just trying to do you a favor...wish someone had a warning here earlier so wouldn't have wasted the bucks.
To the restaurant owners..I think YOU ought to go to Ellers donuts secretly...and learn from them.--Your atmosphere in your restaurant matches your good service and wish you could raise your food to that level. just telling the truth.
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