This is a good date and happy hour place. The decor and atmosphere feels authentic and sleek yet warm. The service is good but the food is simply not up to par. There are a few dishes that are much better than the others. Most of the dishes here are stereotypical Americanized Thai in a somewhat upscale setting.
Most dishes here have an overabundance of the tri factor of cheap veggie fillers: onion, celery, red/green peppers. If you ever see these 3 things in dishes at a Thai restaurant, chances are; it is going to be the usual Americanized Thai variety.
Soups were not memorable as it taste mostly of fish sauce and lacked any real flavor and depth.
With so many seafood dishes, you would think that those would be solid but most felt thrown together. A frozen pack of costco seafood mix, some cut up cheap veggies, tossed in a wok with some oyster sauce or equivalent. Painfully amateur and execution felt akin to a sub par home cooked meal with tossed together frozen leftovers. The grilled ones felt no different, previously frozen and mediocre in general. The stir fried squid with salted egg yolk was way too watery, it diluted the dish way too much. To do salted egg yolk dishes well, one should keep it at the consistency of honey walnut prawns. I am guessing the frozen squid exhaled all the water when being cooked, what they should have done is partially cook the seafood to get all the water out and dump it before adding the salted egg yolk and for god sake's can we stop putting celery/onion/green/red peppers in everything?
Basically I was expecting something like this: yelp.com/biz_photos/sing…
But got this: yelp.com/biz_photos/isar…
The lamb dish was way over salted and lacked any natural flavors of the lamb.
I have to say the Hat Yai Fried Chicken was really good, perfectly crispy exterior with tender and moist interior infused with heavy garlic flavors. The sweet young coconut cream was good as well but I think that one is somewhat hard to mess up. None the less, those 2 dishes were much better than anything else there. The grilled meats were decent, not much charcoal flavor but not bad. The happy hour menu seems solid, between that and the few dishes that are not bad, it's worth going.
If you don't care much for authenticity or quality, than I suppose this is the perfect place for you. It does seem filled with the usual east siders whom have too much new money and too little taste. Sorry but real talk.