Re: High on Thai at Restaurant Thaïlande

High on Thai at Restaurant Thaïlande
Posted by Andrea in Montreal » Places To Eat on 03/Mar/2008

With few exceptions, I never order anything that I can cook well myself. Thai is one cuisine that I would love to wow guests with. Its distinguishing feature is the use of coconut milk, lemon grass, peanuts and chilli peppers in harmonious constellations for consumption. But sadly, I've never actually done anything about studying it, maybe because I am a regular at Restaurant Thaïlande. Let's face it, we're a lazy species, and if others can do it better, why not go to them?

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http://www.sitebits.com/2008/high-on-thai-restaurant-thailande.html

I adore thai cuisine as well, but does anyone else notice a lack of thai places in montreal?

I've never tried Restaurant Thailande (but will hopefully do so in the near future) but aside from Red Thai on St. Laurent and Thai Express (which i'd rather avoid) it seem that the selection is pretty slim....maybe i'm just not looking in the right places?

Ree, I totally agree. Just recently somebody stopped by my place and we were sitting here trying to pick a restaurant to go to. The thought was - there's got to be some Thai places in Chinatown!

Well, we spent 20 minutes online trying to find a good review of a Thai restaurant in the area. SiteBits has no Thai listings at all (I guess I can only blame myself for that),so we went to Montreal Food and looked through their reviews:

http://www.montrealfood.com/thai.html

But after looking through these listings, we concluded there were no worthwhile Thai places in Chinatown (our preferred neighborhood).

There are, I think, 4 Thai restaurants on Laurier between Avenue du Parc and St. Laurent, all high-end. You can be like Goldilocks and try them all. One does more Thai fusion, kind of like a Californian version. Another is more pretty than it is authentic. I'll let you decide for yourselves, but I stand by my recommendation.

What a strange phenomenon. I'll be trying your recommendation as soon as I get a chance, for sure. My favorite place actually used to be in the Eaton Center food court, before it was taken over by Thai Express.

Red Thai is delicious but a plate of pad thai (albeit delicious) is something like $30!

$30? Yikes!

I have vague memories of having passed a couple more Thai places in Mile End, which seems to be the area for them. It'd be worth a wander to note them down seeing as the internet has failed on that point!

pad thai -shrimp or chicken ,very spicy.I think the thai people might prefer the other coast or maybe MOntreal is just too cold for them .