Pot Pan

Delicious! This is now
my favorite Thai place, and I’m VERY picky about Thai food. Food is on point. Fresh and flavorful, great quality of meat too. The prices are extremely reasonable. Friendly service. Creative presentation. And all in a cute and clean restaurant. What more do you want? Go here now.

So much regret. Delivery review.
1) Ordered BBQ rice. It came in a strange, pink sauce and the meat was fatty. Super unpleasant aftertaste and literally ate two bites before deciding against having a stomach ache for the rest of the day.
2) Ordered spring rolls. These aren’t spring rolls. These are some sort of papery, tasteless bite-​sized slices of what once hoped to be a spring roll. One bite and threw them in the garbage.
3) Ordered potstickers. How do you even mess up potstickers? They’re fried! Anyway, they sucked too. I ate two of them.
4) Ordered Tom Yum soup. This is the only thing I wasn’t disappointed with.
I would also like to note that it is new years day, I am extremely hungover, STARVING, and would eat almost anything. But, let me be clear. I am not hungover enough to eat this. I’m going to the grocery store and getting stuff to make lasagna.

Delicious food with great prices. My friends and I were looking for a short, inexpensive stop with high food quality. It is great for what it is, I ordered Spicy Noodle and my friends ordered Pad Thai and Bamee Barbeque Soup.
Everyone was well-​pleased. I typically eat out once per week, and I wouldn’t go out of my way to come back. But I enjoyed my experience here was good without anything super exceptional like I was hoping I would get in Wicker Park.

Adorable service, be careful with checks, they tried to cheat us. So, it was my first and last visit

Pot Pan has been our go to Thai place in Chicago for 10 years. BYOB. We’re both vegetarian and fans of them having vegetarian wontons. Both the kee mao and panang curry are as good as I’ve had anywhere in the city.

This has become one of my favorite Thai places for carryout!
Yummy pad sew ew, egg rolls and tom yum soup. The spicy noodle is also good, having more vegetables in it than the other versions I have tried.
Recently dined in for the lunch special, the décor is very pretty and the owner is kind.

Friendly and fast service. Delicious food. Love this place!

Ordered the basil fried rice and the tom yum soup– both delicious! Tom yum soup is made spicy here (which I loved) and not in other Thai restaurants I’ve been to. Wouldn’t go as far to say this is the best Thai in the Chicago area. Environment and service both great.

Unfortunately. I chose this place based solely on finding a parking spot in Chicago. Weird. Not good. What is that baby powder smell? Is he playing video games? Yes, you do look creepy eating that brownie while staring at us. I’ll pass on the coupon for another visit. But thanks!

Honestly just not very good.
Service is off. Food is off as well. There are better options for Thai in the area, don’t waste your time.

I still cannot wrap my head around how bad this place was.
We went in at 6:30pm on a Saturday night, and it’s completely empty except for us. Boyfriend gets the pad thai, I get the «potstickers» and a spicy noodle dish with shrimp.
I wish I had taken a photo of the «potstickers.» I took a bite of one and found that — huh, that’s weird — there’s no meat it in! We all know what a potsticker looks like yes? Wrapper outside, something identifiable as meat, usually mixed with some vegetables, on the inside? This thing was instead half-​filled with a pure-​white mush. Since it was the exact same color as the outside, I laughed for a second and said, «haha, I guess they forgot to put filling in this one! It just looks like undercooked dough inside, woops.» So I bit into a second one. SAME THING. I’m completely baffled. I hail the waitress and — get this — they tell me there IS meat; it’s shrimp ground up with vegetables. I think I just stared at her with my mouth open for awhile. Folks — there was NOTHING identifiable in that as shrimp. Absolutely nothing. It was literally a bland white mush.
So I tried the noodles, and I find the shrimp is completely raw — not «sort of on the rare side» but literally gray, slimy, and raw. The sauce is thick, sickly sweet, and awful. At this point, I am just so sad. Why would anyone do this to Thai food? Did Thai food run over the owner’s grandmother at some point?
Boyfriend is three bites into the pad thai at this point and has to stop because it’s so sweet that it’s making him feel sick.
This is literally the WORST Thai food — perhaps the worst food in general — that I have ever had at a restaurant. A spattering of folks below gave this place 4 or 5 stars, and I can only imagine that they are either related to the owners, have been eating bricks all their lives and this is their first foray into people food, or are really freaking drunk.
P. S. The service sucks too. If you want Thai food, go to Sticky Rice on Western.

I was craving pot stickers really bad when I was walking down Milwaukee Ave and stumbled upon this cute, little place. The name sounded promising so I stepped inside and decided I wanted to eat here. We were told that the restaurant is BYOB so we walked a half block down to the Walgreens, which was very convenient, for some drinks. They were very accommodating. It was towards the end of the night but the service was excellent. Of course I had the pot stickers and they were not dissapointing in the least bit! You can tell their food is homemade because they use unique spices in their recipes and the soy sauce was pleasantly sweet. I also had the sweet and sour chicken plate which was delicious, although my boyfriend wishes the plate was a little bigger, it was the perfect amount for me. We just found ourselves a new Thai spot!

Simply delicious food in a casual environment. Byob really makes it a neighborhood gem. Get the panang curry and the pot stickers, you won’t be disappointed!

Reporting back on a disappointing first experience here. I recently ordered some late-​evening veggie pad Thai for pick-​up, having been dreaming of it all day long. It only took 15 minutes from phone call to pick-​up, but the meal I received was mediocre even by takeout standards. For one thing, the tofu was missing (I’m a vegetarian! I need my protein!) – but there were also some unwelcome additions. There were vegetables in here that I have never before seen in pad Thai: mushrooms, baby corn, peppers, and even – blech! – cooked tomato. For reference, these do not combine well with the more traditional ingredients. All served with a sad little desiccated lime slice on the side.
I won’t lie, I ate the whole thing, but I did not enjoy it. I’d like to chalk the quality up to the late hour (45 minutes before closing) and try Pot Pan Thai again, but I can still taste the soggy tomato in my mouth…

This place is open on Christmas, which gives it an extra star in my book. No one needs to be open on Christmas, Christian or not, but they were the only open restaurant in a sea of closures on Milwaukee, so they were our beacon of hope on a holiday.
The food here is pretty good. Big menu, classic dishes, good tastes, nice spices… definitely a Thai place a cut above the rest. Definitely not mediocre delivery food. We were all happy with our entrees. Service on Christmas Day was a bit slow, but there were only cooks and one server, so that explains the delay.
Plenty of room to sit and I could see this place getting a bit loud if every table were full, but that’d still not be that bad. Service was friendly, parking was ample outside, and we enjoyed our food choices. Prices seem standard for Thai food and the inside of the restaurant was comfortable enough. They deliver, have carry-​out, and tables for dine-​in.

Wifey and I were heading to an art show nearby and wanted to get a bite before the event.
Pot Pan Thai, yes, you are getting 5 stars, easily.
And here is why…
We conveniently found parking in front of the restaurant and decided to go in, we were seated by a very friendly waitress. The place was quiet, wasn’t full. There were lots of tables available. We were given water, a menu and time to look through it.
Our waitress came back, we ordered our food. She brought our appetizers, we ate some… a little after, she brought our entrees. She checked back made sure everything was good. We ate were satisfied. We were asked if we wanted desert, we kindly declined, we paid and went to our show!
If that is not how a perfect meal should go, I don’t know what is.
The place is quaint, the décor is simple, the table was clean, the menu was simple to read. They had just the right amount of items to choose from.
I typically start off with crispy tofu, there is only one place I like crispy tofu from and Pot Pan Thai knocked them down to 2^nd place. yes, I know its just fried tofu, but the batter was light, the sauce was very tasty. I enjoyed it very much. Wifey got the crab rangoon, which i had to help her finish. They are nice and big, a bit too much dough, but they were good none the less, nice filling.
For entrees, i went with the pad see ew beef and spicy. It had just the right amount of spice. It was very flavorful, the broccoli was crunchy and cooked just right. Beef tender and juicy. It was one of the best pad see ew I’ve had. Wife went with the pad thai with chix. i had to have a bite, this pad thai tasted very nice. The noodles were not dry, the dish had a lot of nice flavor, we asked for a little hot sauce and it was spot on.
The meal was just great. I say do it! It has been some of the best thai I’ve had in a while.
I don’t understand the griping reviews, they are all over take out… go to the place, sit and eat away from the TV… If i wrote a bad review over every bad take out experience, I think i could write a book twice.

I ordered the pad woonsen with chicken. The dish comes with thin noodles, variety of crunchy veggies in a flavorful sauce. It was pretty good, nothing spectacular. Good service and affordable.
Small space with booths lining the walls and a few tables and chairs to fill in. Pretty casual and laid-​back.

Woof. Worst curry I ever had. Soupy-​thin and molasses-​sweet.
Just no.

First time here, Im in love! Pot stickers & Vietnamese spring rolls
very good. My date ordered the tempura shrimp it came with vegetables which were delicious. We were also able to share a main dish before doing whiskey shots next door. It was very quiet& laid back despite the fact that they were featuring a few bands next door. Our waiter was very attentive & very sweet. Overall I enjoyed my experience.

This place is a mediocre thai restaurant. I ordered the pad khee mao and egg rolls. Egg rolls were not fresh at all and tasted old. The pad khee mao was good, but the chicken tasted sort of funky. All in all, I would not order from here again.
Also — when I got delivery the guy called me and asked me to come down because he didn’t want to park his car. What??? I paid extra for delivery because i was in PJs and didn’t want to go out side in the rain. I mean cmon now!