Lada Thai

Great food service was awesome! my Tom yum was perfect and my drink glasses were never empty!

So. took advantage of a groupon here. I’m normally not one to try me places but when a $ 10 groin credit was going to expire I picked up a 15 for 30 (including alcoholic beverages) for 5 bucks. Not bad. First course was the appetizer sampler plate. Everything was fried. :/​Everything was light in color so at least its fresh. It was ok. Nothing amazing. Ordered the Penang curry and Thai basil… extra spicy andit came just as a asked. I
It was better than average, especially for the price. A tad to sweet for me personally, but the freshness definitely made up for it. I recommend for someone who likes American style Thai, bit this is somewhat far from the real thing.

We just loved this place. We moved out of CH a few months ago and were going to make a trip back up across town for a meal. Sad to see they have closed. They had my favorite Pad Thai in town.

Sadly this place seems to be out of business. It was a good restaurant that was usually bereft of customers.

Awesome red curry, feisty and fun service! They’re eager to make sure you leave happy. I’m glad we have a good Thai restaurant in the neighborhood! I’ll definitely be back! Apparently they make phở too… I’ll try that next. ;-)

Delicious food and great service! I highly recommend the crab fried rice, chicken pad thai and the sticky rice w/​mango. Oh… and who could go wrong with a thai iced tea. :-) Portions were a bit smaller than I expected, but the food was delicious!

This is my favorite Thai restaurant in the area!
The service is always amazing and the food is delicious! We’ve been here about 20 times and will continue to go back! My man’s favorite dish is the Pad Kee Mao (Drunken Noodles) and mine is Thai Basil or Eggplant Delight. The curries are great, too!
We also always order a large Tom Kha soup (sweet and spicy coconut) with shrimp along with an order of Broken Heart sushi rolls or Fresh Spring Rolls.
And for those who like true Thai Hot — this is your place! :) Just ask and they’ll make it spicy for you!
The food is fresh and not greasy, too, which is sometimes a problem at Thai restaurants.
All in all — give it a try and I know it’ll be one of your favorites, too!
gina~
weight-​loss celebration coordinator and health guide

Eh, not so much. We had a Groupon to use. The service was OK, but the food was bland! I wouldn’t come back here again. We got a curry and pad thai. Again, it was OK but bland but if this were the first time I were having Thai, I would not be impressed. And because I know that there are so many amazing Thai restaurants in the area, I’ll stick to the ones that I love!

Best Tom Yum Ever! Not greasy and its cheap! Every time I go in its the same sweet lady, she says its her and her husbands restaurant which I think is adorable. The food and customer service is exceptional, def recommend! We need more restaurants like this!

A pleasant surprise here! New clean décor, friendly service and decent food. We ordered crab fried rice, thai fried rice and pad thai all were average. We also ordered the yellow curry with chicken and potatoes and that was quite good. The thai tea is also home made and not the bottled variety. Not great but solid.

The service this time was slow that’s why I gave only 3 stars, but the mango salad and Tom kha soup were good. I didn’t like the papaya salad and pad thai!

Im SHOCKED that this place got so many 4 star ratings. Im guessing it must be people with so-​so tastes or the owners friends. because this place was not very good. Yes, the owner and serves are friendly, they do get 4 stars for being polite and having good service. but when it comes to food quality, they are lacking. The mushrooms in ALL our dishes tasted like mothballs (old!) Im guessing they start out dehydrated, then they soften in the dish. They do have a shelf life though. it ruined every dish with mushrooms, really. The beef salad had chunks of steak that were gray in color (NO JOKE!) and they were slimey. wish I was making it up! They do offer big portions, for cheap prices. but with this place, you get what you pay for!

My sister & I had dinner here not long ago, another Groupon experience. We ordered tempura, crispy spring rolls, & cream cheese wontons as appetizers & we both ordered Pad Thai for entrees. The service took forever, even though there were only 2 other tables at the time. There appeared to be only 1 waitress & it was a little frustrating that it took so long, but we finally started receiving some food.
The appetizers were all ok, but how difficult is it to screw up deep fried food? Our favorite was the tempura. It seems like the sauce was the same on all 3 of our appetizers. The sauce is sweet & not bad, they sprinkle crushed peanuts on it before serving which I haven’t seen before. The dishes that they serve sauce in are tiny, so we ran out of sauce fairly quickly & our waitress was nowhere to be found. The Pad Thai was pretty large with very thin noodles & hardly any chicken. It ordered it not spicy & it was really sweet, too sweet for me. Lime couldn’t save it. It had hardly any texture & I barely ate any of it.
I was hoping for better food & service. I was disappointed. Won’t be back.

My friends and I had drove by this place a few times and saw that a Thai place was now serving sushi. Eventually one day we were craving sushi and decided to try this place. I ordered sushi (which was really awesome!), but made it a point to look through their whole menu. All their entrees and appetizers sounded amazing. Everything I have gotten from here was delicious. They have great serving sizes and prices as well.
Their service is great, they are really on top of things. Not to mention they are super nice. I like the atmosphere of this place, I love all their decorations.
I am very happy I finally came here and tried them. For all the people who give this place a review off one dish, I think you should try a place a few times before deciding you don’t like it. Every place you go to will have their own spin on their food. So maybe you just didn’t like that one thing.
Reading about the incident with the homeless man below sounded like an unfortunate incident. But it honestly makes me like this place better to hear that owner would exchange services for food for a homeless man. It really speaks to their character.
Overall this place is super awesome, and I signed up for Unilocal so I could give them a great review.

Came here cause I bought the groupon.
I love Thai and been a lot of good places. This was not one of them, sad to say.
We ordered crispy spring rolls, thai basil/​eggplant/​tofu, sweet and sour w beef and pad Thai with chicken.
Spring rolls good. Thai basil was pretty tasteless and the mushrooms tasted weird. The pad Thai was nothing out of the ordinary– not bad not amazing. Eh. Sweet and sour beef was okay too. The vegetables were fresh and crispy which was good. And the noodles in the pad Thai was good. But my sticky rice came out cold and hard? Whatever.
The worst part was the service. my Thai basil went to the table next to me after it already took about 20 minutes for us to see any food at all. The people next to us overheard me asking where my dish was and asked if this food was mine-​so we solved the mystery… not the restaurant. So this was after they had told me my eggplant was still on its way out to me… so I guess they weren’t telling the truth b/​c it had already been sent to the other table.
bottom line: not awesome food. not awesome service. won’t be returning.

I wanted to like this place because its a family owned restaurants and I’m supportive of local small businesses. However, I’ve had a ton of Thai food far better than this place. I’m not a local so perhaps, this is the best Citrus Heights has to offer.
I ordered a Panang curry and as soon as the plate was brought over, I could smell nothing, but corn. I’ve never had panang curry with corn, but that wasn’t the issue, it was the fact that there was too much corn. Thankfully, the taste wasn’t as strong as the scent itself. The taste of the curry was okay, but the chicken was a little rubbery. I was surprised that the waitress did not ask me how spicy I wanted my curry. I would think its common practice in a Thai restaurant to see how spicy their customers want their food.
The water tasted funny, DON’T ORDER WATER here.
The service was decent. The waitress was genuinely very sweet and you can tell she is trying to provide excellent service for her customers. I just wish, the food was about half as good.

In a hurry and called ahead, got seated right away and the food came out within minutes and was fresh and hot. The pad Thai was pretty good, a 4.5; the tom kha gai was sweet and tasty, though I prefer a mine a bit more spicy, still a 4; the lemon grass chicken was a 3 because it was just a breaded chicken cutlet with some sauce poured over it, though the vegetables were good; the chicken satay was average but good portion size, probably a 4; they did have brown rice which was nice.
I guess that on Fridays and Saturdays they have a band come in about normal closing time and who knows what happens next, i.e. the restaurant sort of turns into a club is my guess, wouldn’t know because I didn’t stick around.

If I had based the restaurant on the most popular Thai dish, I would have written off this restaurant. I hated the Pad Thai. I thought it was terrible. But, I also had spring rolls that day and it wasn’t bad.
So, I tried it again and I feel like 3-​stars is the way to go. Their Tom Yum is spicy and the menu will note 1 asterisk spicy or two asterisks spicy. I was never asked my preference of the level of spiciness. More spice in this soup would have been good. I’m sick.
The exterior of the restaurant doesn’t look very inviting. It’s apart of a strip mall next to a nail shop and dental office on Greenback near Auburn. Surprisingly, inside was nice and cute.
LIKE:
Spring Rolls
Roast Duck Fried Rice
INDIFFERENT:
Lada Thai Noodles
Tom Yum
DISLIKE:
Pad Thai

This place is wonderful. Not much to look at from the street, but step inside and you are a world away from Citrus Heights. Very tasteful décor, gentle music, excellent customer service and tasty food!
We love to get Pad Se Ew when we go out for Thai food and I think this is the best we have ever had! The noodles were done perfectly!
We also tried the Pad Prik King and the beans were nice and crunchy and it had a great hot spice!
All around this place is wonderful.

My girlfriend and I took a chance on this place last night for dinner, and walked out very satisfied. The restaurant itself looked really nice on the inside, and had more room than it appeared from outside.
The menu is HUGE, so it might take longer than usual to find what you want, especially considering that practically everything on there looks awesome, or at least edible. We went with the Thai friend rice, lemon chicken, a noodle dish, and an appetizer combo.
Just speaking for myself, even if I like the quality of the food at a restaurant, I’m less likely to come back if the service sucks, but I’m happy to say that this was not the case at Lada. The lady helping us probably sensed that we had no idea what we wanted, so she made some suggestions to us based on what kinds of foods we liked. She was also very funny and down to earth. And on top of all of that, they even gave us $ 5.00 gift cards. Our bill was slightly more than I had thought it would be, but considering the amount of food that we got and the large portions, it was a fair price.
The food itself was also awesome. The ingredients were fresh, and it didn’t leave me feeling like I had just ate a solid block of MSG (Panda Express, I’m talking to you). The only thing I noticed was that the spring rolls weren’t as crispy as we would have liked, but everything else more than made up for it. I also have to add that the peanut sauce they have here is probably the best I’ve ever had at a Thai food restaurant.