Chao Phraya

Chao Phraya was a nice neighborhood find. We just stumbled upon it and were glad we did. The space has a upscale feel – good for a special evening out. The food was delicious. I had a vegetarian dish with the right amount of spice for me (moderate). My daughter enjoyed the pad Thai. The food is traditional and you get what you expect. The ingredients were fresh and the veggies nicely cooked (not overcooked). Service was great!

My favorite Thai restaurant in Montréal. The place was completely full but the service was impeccable. The dishes were well done. Pad Thai and coconut curry was by far the best choices.

Like it here! It was very pricey to me though. I went here for a friends birthday and my bill was 50 $. I ordered the eggplant chicken with steamed rice. My friends and I got appetizers to share and split the cost and my bill was still very expensive. I really did like my main meal though. I found it very savoury and authentic. The peanut butter dumplings were yummy.

We went here on our first night in Montréal. I love Thai food and this spot did not disappoint! The prices are higher than your normal neighborhood hole in the wall. But the quality of food matches the prices. Really good flavors. We had a curry and a noodle dish and both were delightful. Recommend.

Came here for dinner after a flight into Montréal. I was famished so my friend recommended that we go to this Thai restaurant. The ambiance is nice, but not quite like Thailand. Actually, I am not sure cause I never visited Thailand before. We sat down and ordered a couple of appetizers. I recommend the dumplings with peanut sauce. It was delicious, but eat it while it is hot otherwise it does not taste as good. We shared 3 entrees and they were good, but nothing that I would recommend as a must eat. One thing that did peak my interest was the fried spinach. I have never had that before, and decided to try that. It was light and crispy, but it was too much to handle cause the portion size was huge. The service was prompt and good. A good place to go to hang out with some friends for a nice dinner (or a date place).

This is one of the best Thai eateries anywhere in the world. No matter where I travel I will try the «best» local thai spot. After looking for what was best in town this is showed up. And after a meal, I completely understand why.
For starters it’s always packed with locals who keep coming back for more. The spice levels were on point and they have chopped chili if you need more. The flavors are fresh. And then we were told that it’s cooked fresh, nothing is pre made.
The beef salad is a must. It’s real filet mignon unlike other places that use a cheap cut and heavily salt it. Grilled shrimp, green curry, and satay were some other choices and all good. Ask your server for recommendations, they are good what that.
The only thing they need some more attention on is the servers rushing around. Slow down!
I’m surprised there aren’t more Unilocalers reviewing this place. Anyway, if you’re looking for good Thai food, don’t miss this. It was the highlight of our trip to QC and Montréal.

Absolutely delicious!
Came here for supper and my mouth and I left very satisfied!
We were 3 and not overly hungry but we all like a variety of things to nibble on so we shared a few dishes. A spicy squid with chili and sweet basil, a seafood medley of crab claws, shrimp scallop and white fish in a curry coconut broth, jumbo shrimp with garlic, pepper and basil, spicy eggplant and pad Thai.
I’m not a fan of pad Thai so I didn’t have more then a bite of it but the rest of our meal was truly delicious. The shrimp was heavenly, sweet buttery, roasted garlic with basil that I will definitely be ordering again. The squid was fiery hot that kept building in intensity but I wouldn’t have had it less spicy, truly perfect. The eggplant was tasty but I will try somethjng else in terms of vegetable next time and the seafood medley was amazing. The coconut curry broth was the perfect balance of sweet and curried, nice sized scallops, crabs claws, chunks of white fish and shrimp.
We all thoroughly enjoyed our meal and were stuffed but decided to share the mango on coconut rice for dessert. The rice could have been soaked in more coconut cream for my taste but the mango was smooth, ripe and succulent!
Loved this place, I will be coming again soon!

Every time I come here I’m happy about it. It might be a dollar or two more expensive than it should be, but I have had some good thai food in my life, and this is some good thai food. On top of that, the service is really fantastic when you are here as a couple. Maybe even a little too fantastic, but I have to admit. it’s kinda nice sometimes.

Super Good Thai restaurant. There is .a lot of flavor in their meals. The service was marvelous! I took Chicken dumplings with peanuts sauce plus a good Green curry meal with basilic ! Miiiiiam!

Repas plus qu’ordinaire et service à l’avenant. Les plats aux saveurs typiquement fraîches et explosives étaient fades (même ceux marqués de 3 piments), tièdes et tristes. Accompagnés de carottes rapées et de persil fatigué, aucun n’avait de relief particulier. On nous a apporté le café avant le dessert, le serveur ayant à l’évidence oublié notre commande… et le restaurant était presque vide. J’avais l’habitude de fréquenter ce restaurant quand l’envie de manger de la bonne cuisine thaïlandaise me prenait… Plus jamais.

Meilleur resto thaïlandais je j’ai essayée. Le décor est chic et agréable, le service parfait, et la nourriture délicieuse! Je reviendrais avec plaisir!

I’d give this resto 2.5 stars, but in this case I have to round down. There were two major disappointments with our dinner: one was the price. It was very expensive for Thai cuisine, for example a tiny portion if sticky rice was $ 6. My second issue was the quality of the meat that they used. We ordered a sweat and sour fish and a pad Thai with duck. In both cases the meat was dry, rubbery and not too tasty. It really seemed like a quality of meat that you would find in the frozen food section of Super C. Given the aforementioned priciness of the dishes this surely is in appropriate.
We also ordered a tofu with crispy spinach and peanut butter sauce which was good. In all cases the vegetable, noodles and tofu component of the dishes were good.
With so many Thai options in the city I see no reason to splurge at Chayo Phara as there is better Thai food to be found elsewhere.

Love the peanut sauce and the tom yum with coconut milk

Food was excellent… authentic thai food! I strongly recommend the crab claw appetizer. Service is great and the ambiance is cool.

I’m confused about this place…
Have not been here in ten years. The place looks nice and all but the price is out of whack with regular thai food.
Anyhow, I do find the décor nice, and the service was very good and efficient just that the food is kind of blah. And yet when you have and listing of 5 best thai resto in MTL, this place is always on it…
My problem with this place is that everything tastes too sweet. When you go to and asian restaurant and the food is too sweet, you know something is up… this s*%!t ain’t for real right?
Thai food and everything at once, sweet salty spicy sour hot cold crispy bitter so on and so forth… all in varying combinations. Here we have some semblance of sour, or salt or crispy but it always ends with sweet. It’s very one note.
After two appetizer and two mains, I had had 3 water and one drink that I ordered. If this is what’s best in MTL, we are lacking in Thai food.
I really want good hoi tod!!! goddamnit!

Bön, frais et authentique.
C’est de la bonne cuisine thai. Tenu par des thaïlandais (c’est important: D)

One of the best Thai in town! I used to like it more back then when it was the old owners. I found the food was more tasty! Anyhow, it is still good.
I love their chicken wings with spinach leaves. They are one of my favorite. Love the duck, one of their specialty! The peanut chicken is not bad also! I love their tom yum soup, one of the best in town.
Prices are very reasonable! Service is good. This place gets crowded on the weekend so don’t forget to reserve!

Our experience with Chao Phraya, food wise, was spectacular. But overall, we were a little befuddled with their service.
Our appetizer was served very quickly. We had as much as we wanted as quickly as we could since we were ravenous, and wanted to get on to the next course. After that, we waited for 45 minutes for our entrees to be brought to us. At the 40 minute mark, I asked our server if there was a problem with our order, since we hadn’t received it yet, to which they expressed surprise since they thought we were still working on the appetizer (there were two spoons of it left).
While we were waiting all that time, we kept drinking water to silence our grumbling stomachs. Our wait staff kept forgetting that our water had no ice in it — whenever they would come over to refill the barely sipped glass, they would top off our warm waters with ice, and after we reminded them about the no ice, they would go change the glass. This happened almost 11 times (I counted).
After we licked the plates clean and FINISHED our entrees, we kept waiting for the staff to turn up for desert order, but no one did. Finally at the 15 minute mark, I had to climb down the upper level where we were seated, find our server, and request him to bring the desert that we wanted. Very weird. The staff was polite and apologetic, but since they did the same thing twice, I have a feeling that they did not understand the problem at all.
Again, the food was really really reallly good. Maybe the staff was jsut having a bad day?

Me and my boyfriend went there for Thai food because of the excellent review on Unilocal.
The ambience was really good with good décor. The service was great too, very friendly and lots of smiles.
Lastly the food. I like the food there. We ordered the mango salad with lobster, tom yum soup with fish, seafood with eggplant and red curry with beef.
The green mango was refreshing, but the lobster does not taste too fresh.
The other three dishes are great, good taste, but VERY small portion, and WAY OVERPRICED! You are paying $ 10 for a small bowl of soup, for an example.
Also we waited for very long between dishes even through there were very few customers in the restaurant.
We also ordered sticky rice with mango for dessert.
I would recommend going there with the expectation that you will get small portion for lots of money.
Overall, good food

This is hands-​down, the best Thai food I’ve had in Montréal! The décor is elegant, but effortless. The service is wonderful and warm without being over the top. It’s certainly not cheap, but it’s not overpriced either. This institution has clearly been around for some time, but they manage to keep the restaurante feeling exciting, fresh and interesting! If you go, try the duck Pad Thai! Mmmmm :) As other folks have said, the green curry dishes are also very good.

Didn’t feel this place at all.
Let’s start with the good news: the service was quite good. Nice service all around. Warm, friendly. You usually expect this from a Thai restaurant and they delivered on this very well.
Now onto the less stellar aspects. the food is bland. When I go eat Thai food I expect — and really want — to be slapped in the face with a giant hammer of flavor. I need to feel the pain! The spices! The flavor assaulting my very core from every angle. Not so much here… Very bland flavors that left me without any sort of teary eyes, runny nose or deep satisfaction when delicate balance meets raw power — which is usually the staple of great Thai food. The dishes should punch your guts in but gently, and politely. It usually brings along friends to accompany the spiciness. Here I got a long highway paved with pillows and elevator music.
Blandness.
No depth, no balance, not enough flavors. Yea you feel spiciness but that is never enough on its own.
We had 5 dishes and they ranged from being just weirdly put together like their cucumber salad with a sweet cough-​like-​syrup to being OK like their tofu with red curry. The spring rolls were under-​seasoned which to me takes out a few stars right from the get go. The sauce was quite poorly made — I could do better and I am terrible in the kitchen. You simply cannot serve food at your restaurant like that.
Sorry for the lack of detailed description but my meal there is a long lost memory of mine and Chao Phraya has been put in my «never go back there» stash. It’s not terrible but when there are dozens of other choices out there, why even bother?
The people working there seem really nice, honest people. i would suggest to consider changing some of their kitchen staff.
Vegetarian food: 2 un-​Thai-​like stars out of 5
Service: 4.25 out of 5
Value: 2.5 out of 5

J’y ai été 3 fois, avec ma femme et des amis, et tout y était
délicieux et frais. J’y retourne bientôt pour une Sortie de Gars.

Classy but casual, tasteful wood and art that’s just fine, not trying too hard, full of Montrealers, sun as it sets, friendly accommodating service all carrying around strollers for you, seating last minute guests without a reservation, and smiling gently making everyone feel calm and comfortable. The little things: hot plates delivered right before the mains are served, drink orders remembered and duplicated with ease, and yah. Delicious food. Everything is clearly homemade, the unique kick to the peanut sauce attests to it and makes me want to eat it with all dishes, every meal, for all time or at least a week. I love this section of Laurier for it’s cute shops and bars and restaurants and overall feeling of a small, slow French town, and I hugely recommend Chao Phraya.

I went here a long time ago and it sticks out in my mind as a heavenly experience. The service was fantastic, the restaurant was beautiful, and the food was beyond delectable. I had a fish dish that was possibly the softest, most succulent piece of fish ever.
Definitely a restaurant for a special night out.