The Friendly Thai

This restaurant is now closed. :(
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First time ordering from this spot — and I’m a fan! Came really fast, hot and tasted fresh and flavourful. I had a craving for something slightly healthy tonight and found this gem online. I used to go to Spring Rolls, but now their food makes my physically ill — and I’m not really a fan of Green papaya or Lime.
Ordered the Thai avocado chicken and an order of sticky rice — and was really pleased. Opened the container of Thai chicken and it smelled delicious. Had a ton of vegetables — carrots, broccoli, mini corn, bok choy, mushrooms and almost ½ to ²⁄₃ of an avocado. The carrots, bok choy, avocado and chicken were the best. The sticky rice was a red rice — very different and super sticky, but it sucked up the sauce nicely.
The Malaysian curry might be a better deal because it includes rice and salad, but I’ll save that for another night. This place was a good deal with free delivery over $ 15. It came to $ 18 after tax and I was told 40 mins for delivery. It arrived in 15!

Last night was the second time I did delivery from this place. And I will never be ordering from this business again.
The first time the delivery room twice as long as I was told and they didn’t give me the rice I had ordered or a salad that was supposed to come with my dish. I didn’t bother calling. Mistakes happen.
This time, I called and ordered a hot chicken pad Thai, two normal chicken pad Thai and one Malaysian chicken curry.
During the call. I had said chicken pad Thai and the person taking my order asked if I wanted classic to which I said yes, not realizing that chicken and classic are different. Before hanging up I mentioned a shrimp allergy and that we didn’t want shrimp in our order. The man said okay.
When the food was delivered, there was one pad Thai with shrimp, one without shrimp, and the hot one, also without shrimp. (Again there was missing salad for the curry but we got free spring rolls and samosas).
We let the delivery guy know about the shrimp issue. He called the restaurant. The man was the same one I spoke to earlier. He did not seem to want to change the order but eventually said the driver had another chicken pad Thai in the car and would change it for us.
The delivery guy came back with what looked like a new box. My boyfriend, who is deathly allergic to shellfish like shrimp started eating. Only to realize there was shrimp in his container. At which point mayhem erupted in the apartment.
He called the restaurant to chew them out and have our order refunded. The man (same one I spoke to earlier) did not want to speak to him but to me instead. When we spoke this time, the man did not want to refund the order. Legit he said that we both made mistakes with the ordering and delivery of the food, that mistakes happen and it’s not nice to ask for a refund.
ARE YOH KIDDING ME?!! After being told in the order call about an allergy, and then being called and told again that a mistake happened and there is an allergy, you seriously want to fight on giving a refund for almost killing someone? My boyfriend was lucky not to have a severe reaction because he saw the shrimp and immediately stopped eating and attempted to counteract the reaction. But what if he hadn’t noticed and ate the shrimp? Or even just continued to eat the food that touched the shrimp? For a business to automatically not offer to refund and do everything in their power to rectify the situation is beyond ridiculous. To try to dissuade me from demanding for one after such a serious situation occurred is just disgusting. I wish I could give this business negative stars. Mistakes are not giving you the extra rice you ordered. Not serving someone food that kills them.

Horrible. I wish I had read a few reviews before trying it. We walked by and grabbed the take out menu, then went ahead and ordered several hours later after a day of helping paint someone’s house. The food was absolutely awful. The vegetarian spring rolls were so oily and the oil used for deep frying was OLD and STALE. The Red Beef Curry was the worst beef I have ever eaten. You literally couldn’t even swallow it. The sauce was fine but the beef was like leather. Two pad Thai’s were both so goopy. You could have eaten it with a spoon it was so mushy. There were no vegetables or any colour, just chicken and noodles with a small side of peanuts. No cilantro, no lime, no beansprouts! Terrible. My sister liked the coconut rice but I thought it tasted more like rice pudding. We had a ginger chicken and a mango chicken, you could barely tell them apart. Beside the way the ingredients were cut they both had all the same stuff. The chicken satay was also saw-​dust dry. Notice the chicken theme but my sister has a seafood allergy so we didn’t go there.
Anyway in short it was very expensive, really crappy and I wish zero stars was an option.

Fantastic atmosphere! Came here with a group of friends for dinner. Ambience was amazing. Server pleasantly guided us to order their appetiser plate, green curry, some classic pad Thai and crispy beef with coconut rice. Appetiser plate was massive! Delicious mango and the calamari was crisp fried to perfection. Their coconut rice is to die for! Will definitely be back. Hopefully next time we have place for dessert :)

This place is a favorite in our neighborhood. It is so unbelievably underrated; the food is great, maybe second only to khao San road out of all I have had in the city. The menu is varied, offering as much as Malaysian curry and avocado chicken: but their food is rich, and delicious. I order something new every time. The golden curry is my current favorite. It is also great value: the most expensive dish is $ 12, and as much as I am the storied meal finisher, I always take half home.

Ordered delivery for the first time from these guys. Red curry beef, spring rolls and jasmine rice. When I unpacked the food I looked at my red curry beef dish and didn’t see any beef.
Upon further close inspection I found exactly three tiny bits of beef in the entire $ 14 dish. To make matters worse the beef was tough and chewy. Like rubber and the diced bell peppers in the dish weren’t even cooked. I called the restaurant and asked for my money back. The owner drove back and dropped off the money for the dish but not the rest of the meal which was now ruined.
The place is owned and operated by Sri Lankans. Not that there is anything wrong with that but if you are looking for authentic or even good Thai food then this isn’t the place.

I had the pad thai; it was mediocre at best. The noodles were underdone and the chicken was… odd. Service was incredibly slow and not at all attentive. The bathroom downstairs was disgusting and not well stocked. I will not be back here.

4 of us had dinner last night with 4 dishes and 2 rice for $ 55. Great service, fresh, tasty food, very clean restaurant and really couldn’t have asked for anything more. Highly recommended.

I get take out from here regularly simply because its close by to where i live. I find it better than Thai Spicy House. It’s not the cheapest place, but is competitive with the neighbourhood so I suppose prices are fair.
Never really had a problem with service, though sometimes its a bit slow (they tell me 15 minutes and I have to wait awhile when i get there 15 minutes later).

A welcome addition to the Davisville/​Mt Pleasant restaurant scene, even if it is just a few doors south of another good Thai joint, Thai Spicy House. The upside of that is both places are hotly competitive, with discounts and house specials aplenty.
My wife and I have been to The Friendly Thai several times, and have been impressed with the food on every occasion. The portions are plentiful and faithful to original recipes, while the service is attentive and pleasant, as the name of the road would indicate. Highly recommended.