Thai Tom
6 ratings since posting on Thursday, April 6, 2006
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If Tom is cooking, it's the best in the land! The place is small, but worth the wait. - Peter , posted 01/04/07 |
 Very often very crowded; but luckily very fast service and a full plate of very tasty food. - nels , posted 10/24/06 |
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I would say its very good. Even better the last time I went - amanitaman , posted 01/04/07 |
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Easily the best Thai food I have had in Seattle. The previous review pretty much said it all. The peanut sauce in the "Swimming Rama" is the absolute best ever. The "Tom Yum" soups are excellent. The prices are cheap and the portions are ... well I almost guarantee that you will eat your fill and take half of it home. They often open a half hour or more late and there almost always is a line. If you got the time, they have got the Thai. - Thomas , posted 07/14/06 |
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You will likely have to wait for a table (outside) but your patience will be rewarded with an authentic, complex, and remarkably delicious meal enjoyed in a tiny restaurant with a comfortable and enticing ambiance (even the menus and decor are brilliant). The service is fast and friendly once you are seated and part of what makes it so wonderful is that the prices are very reasonable (cheap eats). You will not find any bullshit crystal glasses or fresh linens here. They have two Tom Yum soups, one with coconut milk and one without, which are absolutely excellent. The "Swimming" Rama is the best I've ever had and the Panang Curry is so perfectly balanced that it would be a crime to try and compliment it with the usual pik nam plah (which they do not serve anyway). On balance Thai Tom is far and away the best Thai restaurant I've ever found here in Seattle and after 17 years I've been to most of them. (TIP: my favorite chef cooks mainly during the day - George.) If you love Thai cuisine you simply must visit this restaurant often and enjoy it while it lasts. It used to be that you could get AMAZING curry dishes at a little Thai place near Seattle Center & Mercer but they clearly lost their star curry chef somewhere along the way because their distinctive offerings only lasted a few years (the restaurant is still there but the curry dishes have not been anything to write home about for many years now). So for all of you Thai connoisseurs with discerning palates it is exciting to know that once again one can find exemplary Thai cuisine here in Seattle – right there in a humble little eatery on The AVE. - ЯªЪъįŧħęäĐ , posted 04/06/06 |
