Suda

The barely warm food was probably heated by their broken microwave that took them forever to prepare. Servers had strange and unfriendly attitudes. We asked for water at least 4 times, the server literally walked back and stood there like deers in headlight. If you like microwaved food and serving yourself while burning money (wasting), this is the place.

Food was subpar very average Thai food however it truly stands out as a terrible truly terrible service I actually had get up during meal and take a pitcher of water from the bar as the service was so very slow. Avoid

Visited last night unsure of where to go for drinks. My friend had recommended the cocktails here and she was right. they were delicious and not too strong. The staff were friendly and the service was quick.
We enjoyed it so much we decided to stay on for dinner. Suda has quite a vast menu with pictures to help. With two cocktails, two mains and two sides the total came to a total of £50. I ordered the seafood rice bowl with the only downside being that it was too dry. Nevertheless, an enjoyable evening.

A great Thai restaurant tucked away in St Martin’s Courtyard, the staff are extremely friendly and the food is lovely. We made the most of the lunchtime menu and had the chicken satay followed by green curry for approx £10. Generous portions and one of the best chicken satay I’ve tasted, none of your normal dry overcooked stuff on a stick. The only downside was that the mains were delivered to our table before we’d finished our starters. Overall, would definitely recommend.

For a minute I thought Gordon Ramsay would walk out of the kitchen apologizing for how completely inept they are here. I made the mistake of going here for lunch today. The food seems alright, but at this pace I could have hopped a flight to Asia to get it from there. It’s not just the speed of the kitchen which is glacial but the bar, wait staff, and even the air seems to move slowly in this place. Not a place to go on lunch break often if you’re interested in keeping your job. I’ve been here nearly 40 mins and still no stir fry. I mean. It’s stir fry. Wtf!
P.s when I finally got the food it was… Wait for it… Cold!

Service was really bad. No attention paid to the table and we had to wave to call for the attention to get table service. That ruined everything, especially when the food was only so-​so. It was also over-​priced.

Having returned to Suda Thai a number of times since my first visit it would only be fair to downgrade the rating to 3 possibly even 2. Both due to the decline in the standard of food but particularly the drinks. Previously the fruit shakes were fresh and flavourful, these are now bland and contain considerably more blended ice than any fresh fruit causing the drink to separate.

Suda Thai is smack bang in the middle of St Martin’s Courtyard in Covent Garden and I came here for my second meal (i.e. it’s free!) through Cityhawk.
There is a lunch menu costing £10.95 for two courses, and we picked the Thai Style Calamari, Lemongrass golden fried chicken wings as starters, and you also get free Thai Crackers if you like them on facebook. All three came with a sweet and sour dip. Although the calamari was average, the 3 chicken wings were very meaty and also very hot (heat wise, not chilli wise), which I really liked.
For mains we had Chicken thai green curry with rice and I believe I had the Stir-​fried chicken in chilli & basil sauce with rice (unsure — see photo). I only had two pieces of chicken, albeit quite large, one potato and one onion in my sauce which came in a small bowl on top of a plate of food. The taste was ok although I needed more sauce for the rice!
The décor is very chic and polished, this place would be good for business lunches and in fact we saw a lot of people who obviously came to eat from the office, or tourists coming to eat in between shopping.
The one lamentation is that they do not have a dedicated receptionist at the front and you may be left there to wait and may even get annoyed that no-​one is greeting you at the door, leaving you to stand there in uncertainty. I spoke to CityHawk about this and they said that usually the manager would do the meet and greet upon arrival. I believe they should really improve on this because the manager is not there all the time and not only were we left there to wait impatiently, but we saw several groups of people doing so likewise during our brief one hour lunch stay.
We also had problems with our Cityhawk booking which was supposed to give us the free meal but the manager had to go upstairs and check their email, before getting the bill and telling us we had to pay £10. We had to show them our cityhawk email before he would let us go! This is the first time I’ve had this experience, and I hope they do get this issue sorted out in future because I do not like being treated like a thief!
Decent food, but nothing exceptional here. You will definitely be full though from just a starter and a main course here.

We came here with their 2 courses for £10 deal. The place was very nicely decorated. Food and derive was good. Really like the refreshing smoothies.

Good location in the middle of covent garden and the interior is attractive and beautiful. Like their starters especially the chicken satay with peanut sauce. The beef curry was good as well but i really hope they can cut the beef smaller LOL. We had pad thai as well but Im not so sure about that. I dont know why but i just dont like the tofu in it. All the cocktail seem to be really cute and nice. We three people spent around 70 including drinks.

This is a aesthetically beautiful restaurant, but the food and service let us down. During our visit, the restaurant was packed, but only two waiters were handling about 20 tables. There was a woman, who looked like a manger, but she just stood at the bar looking bored. It took a while to place our drink order and again a while to get our drinks. I ordered a cocktail (Strawberry Lovers) that had strawberries and champagne in it, and it tasted good except for the fact that it was room temperature.
Thai food is by far my favorite cuisine, so this was a bit of a let down. We ordered Tom Kha (Tom Kha Gai) soup, which is supposed to be spicy, but theirs was bland. I ordered Pad See Ew (Guay-​Teow Pad See-​Iew Gai), and it looked beautiful, but again, it was bland, and the noodles were overdone.

A modern Thai Restaurant with excellent service & absolutely outstanding food.
It is the only Restaurant outside Chiangmai, Thailand that serves Kao Soi as it should be, with crispy noodles on top.
chopped shallot, pickled mustard greens & chilli paste served separately so you can mix it to your own taste.

Nice staff. Excellent food. At 9 pm we waited 40 minutes for our appetizer they told us the ticket machine in the kitchen was broken so we asked them to skip our appetizer and we just had our meal.

In an area rife with tourist traps, I’d say Suda is pretty solid.
Now, would I deliberately make the journey to intentionally go to Suda on the regular? Probably not. In fact, we ended up here because the wait for Dishoom was well over an hour. It’s got trendy décor, it’s gigantic. The services is not great, but not bad. And the food is decent. Tasty even. But it just seemed to be lacking… something. Perhaps «authenticity» is the word I’m looking for. I’ve never been to a Thai restaurant that had little wooden goats/​cows/​donkeys on every table with a £25 price tag hanging ’round its neck, for example. Hmm.
That being said, I ordered a lemongrass chicken wing starter and some sea bass sitting in red curry sauce. Both were fairly tasty. I don’t have any gripes about the food except perhaps that maybe the sea bass was on the edge of a little fishy which leads me to believe it wasn’t the freshest fish ever. But the red curry sauce was fantastic and more than made up for it. I dumped all my rice into the plate after said fish had been consumed to mop up all the spare curry.
The price was a bit more than it probably should be, but that’s kinda to be expected in the Covent Garden/​Leicester Square area. Consider Suda if you’re in the area and need an escape from the regular tourist trap. Otherwise, eh. It’s ok.

2 years ago when it was first opened, I wanted to have my birthday there but ended up going somewhere else. 2 years later my friend decided to celebrate her birthday there.
It is in a very nice location and a very trendy atmosphere. The service is a bit slow but it didn’t bother us because we don’t want to be rushed and would rather be left alone once order is taken and food is served.
The cocktails were really good. I have to recommend the Butterfly Kiss. It was delicious! Everyone else were also pleased with their cocktails. We saw a sign towards the end of the night by the toilet that if you check in on Facebook, you’d get a free Thai Iced Tea. So we all go our free Thai Iced Tea… happy days for us!
The food was delicious too. The portion was right and the level of chilli for certain dishes were good. It wasn’t watered down. One thing we always do is to test out their chicken satay and if a Thai restaurant failed to make a good chicken satay, we would have no hope in the rest of the food! But it didn’t fail us :)
Although some people had a bad experience here, I’d come here with a group of people as we had a really good time. The price is the usual West End/​Busaba price and yes you can get cheaper Thai food elsewhere but a little treat to Suda Thai for a celebration is ok.

This is an interesting place for a quick lunch or a coffee on my way to work. The service is fast and I can say these are the friendliest people I’ve seen.

One of my favourite Thai restaurants in London! Service is great and very fast and lots of space so great for evening parties or a quick lunch.
The biggest plus for me here is the variety of non-​alcoholic drinks available. I don’t like the taste of alcohol and I am often only left with either soft drinks or orange/​apple juice at many other places. The drinks menu is delicious, I have tried almost all of the smoothie/​non-​alcoholic cocktails there, and they are all yummy!
Chicken Satay is one of my favourite dishes and many Thai restaurants in London have got it wrong, or have overly westernized such a simple dish. Suda Thai does a great job with this.
I have been many times and will continue to do so. I have also recommended to many of my friends who have all enjoyed going.

Am surprised by the general negative reaction to Suda. Yes it’s style is completely hollow and has less to do with comfort than going for a ‘look’ that doesn’t really have any purpose.
But we’ve been a few times and have enjoyed the food a lot. The service is friendly and open. Cocktails are probably one of the better ones in London (a good mix between potency and taste). And the food is also of the better variety for Thai in London. Definitely better than its sister restaurant, Patara, in Soho and it’s cheaper.

Bad service! The food was average. They gave us the wrong order, and when I ordered Thai Iced Tea, the waiters gave us something else. Bad mistake!

Very disappointing. I was expecting it to be fresh, tasty and fabulous but it was just a boring old thai which was overpriced even with the 50% off food.
The duck roll house dish (£5.95) portion was terrible and the dish was served cold. Would have been nice to put this on the menu. Crab spring rolls had lots of cartiledge in them. Also, out of the 7 desserts on the menu, only ONE dessert was available. Waiters and waitresses also didnt know much about what was in the food but were quite smiley.
Portions are small and its very bog standard thai food. The pad thai was tasteless and boring. The interior is pretty though and the setting is nice in the courtyard.
Avoid.