Mong-Kut Thai

Not too many Thai places on the Danforth. I’ve seen a few come and go in the last few years — not an easy place to make money with Thai food. Mong-​Kut thai is your average Thai restaurant with all the average staples. I was there around lunch time and their lunch menu is very decently priced, but most dishes are veggies and chicken is $ 4 extra. Not a big deal. The flavor is OK, pretty standard, not bad, but nothing to get foaming about. Good bet for a quick lunch.

Greasy, bland, strange flavoured Thai food. Don’t eat here. A real let down. They need a new chef or at least need a complete makeover to their cooking techniques.

Friendly service, great flavours and better options than the typical Thai restaurants in the city. Very consistent! It’s our go-​to for delivery as well.

It was getting late at night, our stomachs were rumbling, we wanted to try something different along the Danforth…
My friend ordered the Tom Kha Gai, and I had the Vermicelli with Golden Curry.
Both were… leaving us wanting a heck lot of something else.
The Tom Kha Gai had little-​to-​no chicken and was wayyyyyyyyy to limey.
The Vermicelli with Golden Curry was really oily, generally tasteless and the vegetables were basically raw.
Restaurant size:
Being along the Danforth, the restaurant is an OK size! However, the heating grills in the middle of the table take up serious feet real estate. As a person with long legs, I had a few new bruises that night… and I didn’t even have fun.
Portion size:
You get a decent amount of bland disappointment.
Service:
The restaurant was really, really, quiet on a Friday night… but that didn’t stop the staff from being nearly non-​existent until it was time to pay.

Came to have lunch here a few days ago and got combo #1 from their lunch special menu.
It was beef with rice + soup
The food was alright. Very small portions for the price.
However I enjoyed my meal and my company of course! The store was empty. We were the only ones there, and it was dead.
Give it a try If you’re thinking of it… But if you don’t it’s ok you’re not missing out on anything crazy. I might come back in the future to try the actual menu

Been coming here for the lunch special every Saturday for the past few weeks now. It’s usually pretty empty, but the food is tasty and fast, and the owner very friendly. Don’t expect anything too fancy, just simple honest food.

The worst thai food I have had in the city. They really set the bar low. The panang noodles tasted like crunchy peanut butter was mixed into it. The noodles were still in the shape of the packaging and clumped together. The coconut soup was so sour.
I have rated this restaurant a generous one star.
I am a foodie. I love my food. I walked into this place without reading reviews before hand and regret it. It looks nice in terms of décor and the outter detailing of the menu was impressive. But the experience ends there.

We really loved our visit there on Sunday evening. We were hungry and wanted to try something different. Their menu offers a great variety of interesting options to choose from. Many gluten-​free options as well.
We were quickly seated to a nice booth. One thing though, there was something blowing lots of cool air to our toes, so therefore we were freezing and couldn’t take the jackets off.
We had Pad Woon Sen with shrimps and a Salmon in Panang Sauce. We loved the food, all was very tasty. I was so amazed by the Pad Woon Sen, would order that any other time. We wanted the fish to be grilled or baked, but it was deep-​fried, therefore not completely.
Service was good and fast by the server, who kept out glasses full of water. Food came pretty fast.
Definitely a place where would love to go back again.

My hunny took us here last night for Vday dinner. Delicious fresh mango salad. Tasty Tom Ka soup. I had the Chu Cha with beef — great! My guy had the broccoli and beef — tasty sauce.
The service was excellent. We’re not drinking so they kept filling our water glasses without being asked.
Comfortable booths. Good value for the money.
I’d return!

Discovered this place walking along the Danforth. Loved the feel of the place. Ordered the MK meat appetizer which was great. And also the Chicken Pad Thai which was ok. Will be returning to try the other yummy items on their menu.

I like that the lunch specials are served until 4pm and are available on the weekend. However, the spring roll served with the lunch special was pretty bland.
My go-​to dinner dish is the Kra Poa Khai Doa, the first item from the homestyle Thai section on the last page of the menu. The ground meat is full of flavour and I definitely recommend it, especially if you like garlic.
I did not care for the green curry, as the flavours were not balanced and lacking in depth. It was too sweet for my liking and overly rich, which could have easily been addressed with the addition of fresh citrus and/​or (more) galangal.
They do not seem to be able to handle more than a couple of tables. Once when we had been waiting more than 20 minutes for our dinner, we were told that the delay was due to them having only have one wok (there were only 2 other tables of 2!)
Of the 3 times I have visited, I have did not see anyone using the table grills; I don’t recall seeing it as an option on the menu and they just take away leg room :(
The service is indifferent, but not unpleasant. The dining room and bathrooms are clean and there is a small sidewalk patio. 2.5 stars = very average, cannot recommend without caveats.

I only tried one dish (spicy fried rice) and it was enough to convince me to never return, especially considering Sukhothai is only 5 minutes away. Poor value — in fact I could have done better on my own.
If you’ve only ever eaten at Thai Express in malls, then it’s not very different.

Better than Friendly Thai, not as good as Khao San Road (but then, what is?).
For east end delivery, I’ll order them again. The shrimp fresh rolls were generous (although needing more dipping sauce), and the mixed pad thai ok – while nary a tomato in sight, it could use with more chicken, shrimp and egg than it arrived with. I forgot to ask them to make it spicy, so a healthy dosing of sriracha was required.
Delivery took about an hour at 7pm on Friday night; I was under the $ 20 min order so paid $ 3 extra for delivery, next time will grab the shrimp chips ($ 3.95) to push me over the minimum.

Extraordinary Thai food! The mango salad is fresh and a great compliment to the savory satays and noodle dishes. The portions are gigantic and the prices are reasonable. There is an option to grill your own food, like in a Korean Grill House, but I’ve never seen anyone do it and I’ve yet to do it myself. Friendly service and a casual environment combine to make this one of my favorite restaurants in the city, and among my favorite Thai restaurants east of Yonge.

Definitely the best Thai restaurant on the Danforth, in my opinion. The back page of their menu has a couple great unique dishes on it (I recommend the first dish listed –don’t remember what it’s called — and the Kai Yad Sai (sp?)), and you can’t go wrong with their Tom yum soup, cold spring rolls, and spicy Thai fried rice. What I love about the place is that if you ask them to make a dish spicy for you, they actually will! (coming from a person who can handle a lot of spice). So yay!
The service is friendly and fast for the most part.
They have an amazing dessert, deep fried coconut ice cream, but it hasn’t been available lately :(. A million sadnesses.
The only bad food experience I had was with their hot and sour soup — had a strange and bland taste, but it could have just been an off night. Their Tom yum and coconut soups more than make up for that one though.
Also, place has a good number of booths and nice décor. Makes a great date night dinner.

My favourite spot for Thai food — love their fresh spring rolls, spicy fried rice, and deep-​fried coconut ice-​cream (when it’s available). The ‘traditional’ dishes on the last page of the menu are also a highlight — especially the Khai Yad Sai (I am probably butchering the spelling of that one) — seasoned pork wrapped in egg.

Dinner tonight at Mong-​Kut Thai was delicious, hot and fresh. While portions were generous, ingredients were a little skimpy in some dishes. Wonton soup had tasty wontons but there were only a few small ones in the bowl, and fresh rolls with shrimp had very little shrimp. Cashew shrimp, on the other hand, had lots of plump tasty shrimp. The room is nicely decorated and comfortable. Worth a return visit.

I know gas prices are soaring. If only we could use excess cooking oil to run our cars. If that were the case, mong-kut’s food would fuel a trip from Toronto to Bangkok. Geez, man! The spring rolls were still dripping with oil. I decided to go for something different than the standard pad thai. Adventurous, that’s me. I like living on the edge, y’know? So I tried the chu cha noodles (vegetable). They’re yellow noodles in a thai garlic sauce. No easing up on the oil here either. The noodles tasted like cheap udon noodles that were rehydrated in oily water. My husband ordered the pad thai and was treated to some eggshells in his dish.
I had to pour on the sriacha sauce. Still bland so I had to add some garlic red chili sauce. This dish seemed resistant to taste.
I think I’m going to retreat into a shell and tone down that «hey, let’s try something different for dinner tonight!» for awhile.

The owner is rude and pretentious. Won’t ever eat there, don’t care what the food tastes like because if you can’t get customer service right and be polite to people, I can’t imagine you’re going to do much better cooking a meal for me.