Chili Club Thai House

Very good food if you like spice, however their pricing is highway robbery! Seriously – $ 24 for a small portion of crying tiger!!! ²⁄₃ locations have closed down and this last one is soon to go if they don’t adjust either their pricing or serving sizes. This place could be a #1 hit if the owner started paying attention to feedback. Great food, terribly expensive, and the WORST, most rude service when you call for take out or reservations. The owner needs to walk a bit down the street to the Himalaya restaurant and take some notes!

I came to this place based on a high recommendation from a friend and I must say it did not live up to the hype. The food wasn’t awful but at the same time wasn’t anything to write home about. We ordered two of their most famous dishes, «crying tiger» and house noodle dish. Neither fish was great, and lacked flavor. Again, this wasn’t awful food but I would never choose to go here again. On the plus side, the service wasn’t too bad and the complimentary ice cream they give you at the end of your meal is delicious. The prices and food portions are both decent, not great, but decent. Overall just a very average restaurant.

Chili Club Thai House has been promoted to 5-​Star status in my world!
They have consistently been good. The price, the service, the food, the ambience, everything about this little gem is lovely.
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Outstanding meal. Visited as a pregame meal for 7pm Flames game. Service was excellent and the Entrees were amazing. We will be back for sure.

This place is tiny and quaint. We ordered the yellow curry and the pad thai. I would say that I enjoyed the yellow curry more. It was delicious. The pad thai was quite standard — good but nothing extraordinary.
I love that this restaurant serves complimentary coconut ice cream for dessert. It’s such a nice touch and is the perfect ending to the meal.

Love this place! Always reliably fresh and delicious food. The curries are delightful and I recommend the shrimp rolls. Love the coconut ice cream for dessert! I was part of a group of chatty ladies that stayed waaaay after this restaurant closed, but the server allowed us to hang out without making us feel like we were in the way. A really lovely night!

My friends and I frequent Chili Club fairly often, it’s one of our favorite go-​to restaurants. It is a small restaurant, so you have to make reservations on the weekend or you’ll never get in. The service is always attentive, though food takes a bit longer to come out on weekends. I always get the Swimming Rama (Peanut sauce, spinach, chicken. Yum! Can’t go wrong), Pad Thai and their coconut rice. The food is always very flavorful, and I love the complimentary coconut ice cream and fresh fruit at the end of the meal. It’s a nice touch. I definitely recommend this place. Yes, it’s a bit on the pricey side, but it’s a nice treat every once in a while.

Seems like they slipped a little in quality. Our food was just OK overall — vegetables were overcooked, and the duck curry was a bit bland, too oily and mostly sauce.

I love this place! Coconut rice, curry and pad Thai rule! Smaller restaurant so they do a lot of take out. But it’s so good!

It deserves 5 stars. We usually get take out as it’s a little cozy. Every time we go back it is the same high quality experience.

Not worth it for the price. I got the coconut rice which was tasty, but the other food was below average IMO. I had the crying tiger as my main course, and was very disappointed in it. It was too much sauce and the flavor was just too strong for me. Another thing I did not like about this location was how it looked from the outside… it honestly looks like an old 2 story house you are walking into. The inside is alright, much better than the outside, but nothing too special. Its a very small space, and was quite crowded.
Overall, I was not too impressed with this location and food and will not be going back here or recommending it to a friend.

My boyfriend and I have ordering from this place for years, and yes while it is on the pricey side it is delicious and worth the money! We love spicy food and have dined in and done take out MANY times. The outside looks like a dive and there is not alot of parking (you can park at the McDonalds) but inside is small and quaint. The service has always been good and we have taken others here for meals when they come in from out of town. The only thing I would caution is pop refills are NOT free (the pop portions are on the small side and usually have a lot of ice). The portions seem small but my BF and I usually do 3 dishes plus rice and have enough for 1 person to have leftovers the next day.
We have tried almost everything on the menu but our favorites are:
Green Papaya salad (very spicy),
Masamun Beef Curry, Sya Rong Hai (Crying tiger),
Panang Duck Curry,
Moo Dad Diao (Pork),
Swimming Rama (Chicken), Gai Bhed Med Ma Maung (Chicken), Kaeng Kheir Wan Gau Tua (Chicken)
Kao Mun (Coconut Rice)

Excellent service, great atmosphere and the food was as good as I have tasted in Calgary… Recommend this place highly.

Really enjoyed most of the dishes here except for the pad Thai. I can’t explain it, the pad Thai was so blah and wouldn’t ever order it again. The curries are really good though. Only other comment is that the price is way too high for the portion sizes.

Excellent. Excellent. Excellent.
Beautiful thai flavours with dishes that range from flavourful to spicy and delect.
Favourites are the snap pea green curried chicken. Papaya salad, crying tiger beef.
Don’t hesitate to visit this gem of a restaurant! We’ve been eating here for years.

So far this has been the best Thai food in town I’ve had. I’ve only had take out once from there (which seems much easier as they are CRAZY busy with no parking most nights) so it’s definitely popular.
I tried some of their signature dishes like the Lemon Pepper Vegetable Curry (under vegetable section) and the Chili Club’s Vegetable Curry as well as Tom Kha soup.
Everything was very unique and flavorful. It was a definite departure from regular Thai curries to have a lemon pepper curry but it had great flavor in itself and I can see why they put it on the menu. Definitely try it, it’s so unique!
The Tom Kha was delicious, full of flavor and vegetables just the way I like it.
The Chili Club curry was a little too spicy for me but my bf loved it.
This might just be our favorite Thai place so far so definitely going to try them again. But perhaps try to make a reservation or go early, it’s quite a small place!

The worst Thai food in town. I’ve had better Thai food at the Chinook mall !!
They don’t even butterfly their shrimp, they like to leave the poop vein inside.
As far as I’m concerned thats as lazy as it gets. Slice the back of the shrimp with a knife and take the poop out.
Very quick and simple technique to make Shrimp taste 10 times better… especially this far from the ocean.

This is my favourite Thai restaurant in Calgary. I’ve eaten here 6 times… last night would have made it 7 but I forgot to make reservations (Friday nights are just madness here).
Tip #1: Make reservations at least 2 days ahead. They are busy regularly, so if you want to dine here with no fuss, just call ahead :)
My favourite thing to eat here is their Red Curry with Duck & Eggplant; OMG if you love a little spice (well, you are going to a Thai restaurant after all) and want to eat some succulent duck and eggplant, order this dish. its #19! haha
Tip #2: Cancel your dessert plans and wait for a special treat at the end of your meal.
The second favourite thing about eating here is that you get free dessert! Coconut ice cream with those chocolate vanilla wafer rolls and fresh fruit! I want some right now! hahaha
Tip #3: Bring a date or a group of friends. This place is romantic and its fun eating all their delicious food.
I love Chili Club Thai House Restaurant! I’m coming for more soon!

Yes, it’s priced on the higher side — although not as pricey as the crap hold called Ruan Thai — but definitely worth it.
Again, it;s hard going to a retaurant that serves food for 150 times what you pay in Thailand itself, but whatever. I don’t think I’d make most of these items at home.
We ordered out, and ordered too much food for the 3 of us.
We started with the Som Tum, a papaya salad with prawns, not bad, but needed more fish sauce. Then we had the Coconut soup which was amazing, and spicy enough to cause my eyes to water after the first bite (I was fine after the first 2 minutes).
Then the pad thai, again, mediocre, which I find in most Thai places, yet it’s one of the most common and seemingly easiest dishes to make. The noodles stuck together and didn’t have enough peanuts or other ingredients to make it really great.
Then there was the Crying Tiger marinated beef. It was less spicy thatn I had anticipated, but as good as well.
The highlight of the meal, the Panang Duck Curry. Oh my god! Oh my! Amazing. Duck is fatty, and therefore tasty, and the eggplant was so amazing, I would’ve eaten it alone. It was so spicy, yet didn’t take away from the flavor of the food. You know when it’s so spicy you can’t taste anything anymore, and you end up just shoveling it down quickly to get it over with, with a glass of milk to help.
If you eat here, I absolutely recommend this dish. Next time I go, I’m ordering two, and not sharing.

Great for pick up or to stay! The service is always friendly, and the food always surpasses my expectations. One of my family’s faves, we always over-​estimate how hungry we are, and order so much food, but it’s great to heat up the next day.
The. Swimming. Rama. Oh boy! Their menu marks which items are spicier than others and their selection is extensive and varied. Their take-​out orders of rice are best for no more than 2 people, which can be good to know if you’re ordering for several people.
Prices are decent, and the food is fantastic, but beware of their poorly designed parking lot. Besides that, everything at Chili Club Thai House is wonderful!