Reviews of Bangkok Thai Garden Restaurant (Gardener)

Renda Alq

Service is always friendly and polite. The food is delicious. I've been here many times as well as ordered take-out throughout the years.

M Gauthier-Kwan

Great food good prices for downtown

Tyler Cybulski

The owners were friendly and the food was excellent.

Kyrie W

Prawn soup was awesome and spicy. Pad Thai was kinda soft but still tasted awesome!!

Koojoh

Food is terrible. They served a soup that was coloured water. The main course had coconut base sauce that they watered down with water. Four of us ate and remarked the same thing. The portions were small. The eggrolls were tiny and tasteless. Very poor. I can count on one hand the number of times I have not tipped. This is such a case, in part because it was owner owned and we wanted to send a clear message. No value for what you pay. I hope that they pick up their game.

Zhiqiang Pan (Jason)

Great food

Anastasia Jovaa

This is a very quiet restaurant despite being on the edge of the market. I have dined-in several times and I’ve been the only person in the space. My understanding is that they do most of their business via delivery and special events. The owner is a wonderful man and generally includes extras in your delivery order such as soups or spring rolls. My only critique (and why I took a star off) would be that the food is a little on the oily side but if you want a yummy and quiet dining experience and need dietary accommodations, this is the place for you. *I am not not recommending this restaurant if you have food/dietary allergies. Eat at your own risk like you would at any other establishment*

Miriam Farkas

Great service and very friendly owners. Food was delicious as well. I agree with many of the other reviews that mention the issue with value for money/portion size could be increased. However, overall I feel the service and food taste more than offset that problem and I will definitely be back! If they only increased the value a bit, I believe this could easily be the #1 Thai restaurant in the city, yeah it will slightly increase costs but I'm sure this would be made up for by the increased business. Side note: The review about mandatory tip is false (unless they have just recently changed this), I was there yesterday and my total agreed to the menu prices plus tax, then I was provided the option to tip

Mark Weston

I rarely post a review but I decided to do this time. THE WORST THAI RESTAURANT I EVER EVER HAD IN MY LIFE!!!! The food doesn't worth money you pay for at all. Please avoid if you read this comment by chance. I went to the restaurant after reading the good reviews but after the meal I believe those comments are not trustful. They might be the comments from friend or staffs or maybe they already changed the chef or owner. BTW, ITS SO BAD and Im so disappointed about the foods. OMG...........

Jimmy Ryan

Coconut soup with shrimp was just right, and stirfry was great. Service was attentive, rice was fresh and fluffy. What's not to like?

Mohsin Bhujwalla

Very tasty food, small portions, prices not bad.

Ron Mecredy

one of the best mobile online order websites that I've ever used! easy, intuitive, and the estimated time for food was spot on! food was amazing reminded me of yummy street food on Khao San rd

Melissa B

Excellent food, pleasant and friendly service! The whole family enjoyed it!

Adam Faithfull

It is a good little restaurant in downtown Ottawa. I first went here as a teenager nearly two decades ago and I went there again recently and it hasn't changed much - if at all.

Walter Yu

Portion size a bit too small but once the flavor kicked in, WOW - it surely compensated. I went at lunch and ordered 'to go'. I recommend if you are eating there for lunch to go a bit early because - full house. I tried L7 on the menu, asked for the spiciest and was perfect.

Stéphane Simard

(Translated) Very good Thai restaurant. We really liked the evening formula at $ 19. A soup, two spring rolls with a little sauce, with a dish of your choice! The dishes are very generous! I really liked being able to choose whether we wanted the sweet, spicy or very spicy dish. It is therefore to everyone's taste! We recommend this restaurant! (Original) Très bon restaurent Thaïlandais. Nous avons beaucoup aimé la formule du soir à 19$. Une soupe, deux rouleaux de printemps avec une petite sauce, avec un plat au choix ! Les plats sont très copieux ! J'ai beaucoup aimé le fait de pouvoir choisir si nous voulions le plat doux, epicé ou très épicé. C'est donc au gout de chacun ! Nous recommandons ce restaurant !

Dana Tierney

great taste but, like the reviewer before me noted, the portion sizes are small. sticky rice portion size would just fill the teacup they gave me! all four of us left hungry. service was polite however.

Steph Boucher

very expensive for the food that you get. I took a papaya salad and hated it. It was extra extra salty, and had an horrible smell of fish ( way too much fish sauce). I told the guy I could not eat it as it was too salty . He took it back and brought me the exact same dish ( my fork was still in the plate). I told him I could not eat this. He then asked me if I had papaya salad before. I told him I did as I actually WENT to thailand and had that dish multiple times. It never tasted horribly like this one. He did not offer me anyhting else to compensate. I absolutely do NOT recommend. There was not other clients there as well. Everything is expensive and the quantity of food you get it not worth it.

Brooklin Watson

Food was flavourful and savory. I especially love their Pad Thai. Portions are well-sized and spice-level can be changed on almost all the dishes. Staff is very pleasant. The place is very ambient and homey. Our dessert, the mango coconut sticky rice, seemed a bit small for the price but all other dishes were exceptional. We'll definitely be back to try all other dishes

Selim Hossain

Very good thanks

Faneva

thai iced tea

N2T4

The green curry is delicious but the portions are too small for the price

Stephan Lukac

We had 2 soups on our order, both of them were only filled up half full. I called and he said that's just how much you get. 2 half full soups and a pad Thai for 30 bucks. Pretty unimpressed.. Soup is the CHEAPEST thing to make.. Why cheap out?!? I told the guy on the phone they may want to change their portions if they ever want repeat business. Despite the food tasting good, I will not order here again

Olive

Very reasonably priced, good portions and prompt service. I went in with my mom today and we each ordered their lunch special for $14 (soup, egg rolls and main dish). Everything was great. I really liked the egg rolls, wish they were a little bigger but they did come as a side to the main dish. The restaurant is very quiet - a little too quiet? A little background music could go a long way.

toni m.

Food is authentic, but little pricey for real orders

Daniella Caye

As with other reviewers, I did find it on the more expensive side, but no more expensive than any other similar restaurant I have eaten at since the pandemic. The food was delicious! I ordered a chicken basil sauce dinner (Pad Bai Gaprow, I think) that came with two vegetable spring rolls which were also very tasty. I ordered mine "medium" and it had a nice level of spice. My daughter had a curry dish "hot" and her nose was runny. There is an option to get "extra hot". I think next time I would order "hot" because I do like spicy food and I could have tolerated more heat in my dish. The portions were plenty as we both ate only half of our dinner, and we took the rest home (two more meals for her!). We also ordered desert, the deep fried bananas with ice cream-yum! This is not a very sweet dish so if you want sweet - order with honey. The server (owner?) was very pleasant and kept a cautious social distance. The website says "closed/open for take-out" so maybe they just started taking dine-in guests. The restaurant was not busy and it was perfect for us! We liked the atmosphere.

Curtis Bedwell

Great!

Isabella R

The food was good but the prices were high for a ridiculously small amount of food. I would not recommend it unless you want to starve. Never again!

Vinh Nguyen

Fried rice is very good, but the thai soup is not the typical one. I did not like it. The place is cool and staff super friendly! :)

Sack Sengthavy

The Tom Kha Gai and Mango salad were my favourites.

Eric Bagirubwira

Small portions and flavorless. I ordered take out and it didn't include any utensils or napkins.

Tony Sooklal

I ordered Thai Chicken Curry before from another place for take out, but here I found the portion to fill less than half the take-out container. Totally unsatisfactory!!! For close to $18 an order and such a small portion... NEVER AGAIN. The taste was all there and good. The Chicken Pad Thai was also cooked well, and the portion slightly better. Unfortunately the competition wins this time.

Edward Krynak

Very tasteful

Rodney Zecheng Qiu

Excellent service and most of all the taste is so perfect. It is my go to Thai restaurant in Ottawa. Great selection on the menu and the the staff is so nice. Plenty of seating and very clean.

Hani Diab

Awfully small quantities for the price. Food was fairly good, but I felt very rather ripped off when I saw the small plastic bag of food for $100. Not worth the price in my opinion.

Jeff Klause

Small serving sizes but good food.

ravi kumar

Food was just bad. Pad Thai noodles were like rubber. The curry was watery. And rice was separate. The prices are way too insane for Thai food.

K C

Tried a lot of new stuff, it was good!

Chris K

Fell sick after eating. Picked up and the food was cold and noodles were chewy

Personne n'est Parfait.

Excellent pa nang curry!!!!!!!

Tony

The best Thai iced tea I've ever tried

Melinda R

I don't normally leave bad reviews, but I can't help it - this place was unbelievably overpriced for the quantity of food, about half the size of what you could get for that price at other places of the same quality. I've seen so many other reviews on here saying the same thing yet giving 4-star reviews?? SO misleading ugh. But trust me, save your money and get more food elsewhere

Kelly-Ann Lapointe

It was closed on Saturday at 12:27 pm

Bet Antone

Not very happy with our experience. We ordered about $70 worth of food for delivery and did not receive this in value. Very small portion sizes and an ignored allergy alert. We indicated on our order that we had a peanut allergy and yet received our pad thai with peanuts on top. The food tasted pretty good though despite not having enough!

Natalie Larche

Would recommend their chicken pad Thai and any kind of soup!

樂樂

This is the worst Thai food I ever had in my life. No wonder why the restaurant was empty when I got there.

Joydeep Roy

Would like to try again, but hesitant as I can get more quantity and similar quality of food for same price of $17 before tax and tips. Rice also wasn't included (rice isn't an expensive ingredient).

E Elsa

This is a great place to eat! The food is flavourful and delicious, the portions are perfect, the owners are extremely friendly, and the menu prices are very reasonable!

Vanessa C

Good Thai and Lao food. Ask to make it as hot as you wish.

Amy Clanfield

No, pay a few extra dollars for better quality. This was the blandest Thai food that ever entered my mouth.

Julien Michel

Been a favourite of mine for about 20 years +

Alain Parent

(Translated) Nice menu, good variety but the dishes (green beef steak, soup) lacked a little finesse. Value for money ok but could be better ..... (Original) Beau menu, bonne variété mais les plats (carry vert au boeuf, soupe) manquaient un peu de finesse. Rapport qualité-prix correct mais pourrait être meilleur.....

bill may

(Translated) Very amazing Thai food (Original) Très incroyable Thai nourriture

Vatsal P

Great Thai restaurant. Combo meal for less then 20$ includes a soup, spring roll and pad thai.

Glen Goodwin

I go here often and I am always satisfied. Okay. Once it was too spicy but my tolerance is low. Their food is good and portions are good. I rarely finish what they bring me but I want to! So polite and the atmosphere is beautiful and quiet. I like eating here and sitting after just chatting with my friends or the staff. Lots of people say their portions are too small. I think they are perfect. Dude. Just order an appetizer as well. They have some very good appetizers and desserts.

Osmend Lee

Served with rotten peanuts, noodles are too soft... bad taste.

Garth Elliott

It kind of okay not great

Maxime Beaudoin

Overpriced food for the quality and quantity received. We were the only customers so I thought they would put a little more effort into the food, but they didn’t. If you have to go here, there green curry is probably the only thing worth it. (But tbh Thai Express is better).

Tomy Tang

Very large variety of authentic Thai dishes here, though I decided to try a classic Pad Thai and it was unfortunately too oily, imo. Might try again sometime though to see how the curries are.

YUSUN KIM

The pad thai tasted like cold metal heated in a microwave. The meal was costly for the amount of food that we paid as a group (came back to 30$/perso for a group of 5). This restaurant is definitely a pass moving forward in my opinion.

Courtney S.

Never ever go to this restaurant very bad service and charge 20% gratuity for 5 people and dont give the bill..service very poor and owner is vey arrogant. Pls avoid going..

Dmitri Koev

The vegan clear soup with Tofu has a bit of spicy kick and tastes wonderful!

Carl Farah

Best Thai in town BUT make sure you verify your order multiple times. The last 5 times we've ordered they've completely screwed up the order and forgot half of it. Extremely frustrating!!!!!!

Femi Idowu

Best Pad Thai I've ever had hands down, great family owned restaurant with plenty of vegetarian options.

Jon Allan

We ordered Pad Thai for lunch and it was really good.

Vann Chau

I almost didn't come here because of all the bad reviews about portion sizes and what not. But I'm glad I did. The portion sizes were fine, normal in fact. The serving of rice is per/person, and the soup comes in an appropriate sized bowl for one. I'm just in town for a few days, and tonight was my second visit. So far, I've had the pork spring rolls (yummy), the thom kha gai (coconut chicken soup) delicious, the bean thread noodles with chicken, tasted just fine, and tonight, the pad thai with chicken. The last of which was spot on, good side of normal. I'm a lover of Thai food, and can sniff out imposter thai food at a distance. Tonights pad thai, although minus the lime wedge on the side, was perfect in a standard pad thai sort of way. They even asked how spicy I wanted it when I ordered. Which is a sign of a true thai place (although, sometimes good thai restaurants will just bring out the chili flakes when they bring out your food, instead of spicing it up for you as they cook). This place is a mom and pop shop, I think I husband and wife run the place, both very friendly. Please come support them, eat some good food along the way.

VP

(Translated) A little expensive good service clean well maintained (Original) Un peu dispendieux bon service endroit propre bien entretenu

Al Moreno

Too expensive for not special food at all. Found a hair on food and the owner did not say sorry.. don't recommend this place.

Gena Sills

I ordered in, the portions are ridiculous (soup, thai rice, and green curry) compared to the price I paid. Delivery was somewhat fast, could've been faster if they didn't write down the wrong address and had to call me when they couldn't find it. The taste isn't something out of the ordinary, its just like the other Thai restaurants in the city that would offer bigger portion for the same price and the same taste...

Ryland Varcoe

Food was all plain and basically the same, what differed was the names of the dishes. Along with that the service was super slow, and even though we were the only ones in the restaurant, when we would call and ask for something such as water or salt and pepper, we would be pretty much ignored. We acquired our food around 30 minutes after ordering which is ridiculous for this kind of establishment. On top of all this poor service and bland food, since we were a fairly decent sized group, they charged us 18% for their services as tip, and then followed up with the 13% tax charge. In the end, each of us ordered through the lunch special and had to pay $13 for it, but with the enforced service tip and the required taxes, it was raised by 31% and we had to drop an extra four dollars for each meal. (Which is completely absurd) Once you have a group larger than six the service tip would usually be 15% but it also depends on the service and how satisfied we are as customers. In this case none of us were satisfied at all and we were pretty much disgusted by how this entire establishment was being run, so to end this fairly long review, I will be giving this place a generous 1 star rating.

Marie Le Floch

(Translated) Very good ! I recommend the red C-8 beef curry, very good. Quiet restaurant, not too spicy food just right. If the restaurant doesn't look good from the outside it's worth a visit. (Original) Très bon ! Je recommande le curry rouge C-8 au boeuf, très bon. Restaurant calme, nourriture pas trop épicée juste comme il faut. Si le restaurant ne paie pas de mine de l’extérieur il vaut le détour.