Golden Thai Restaurant

If I could do it again… I wouldn’t! It started off great– the environment is nice and there were beautiful orchids decorating the place. We were very excited. But then we met our waiter. He was incredibly short tempered with us. He seemed annoyed when we asked questions and was very unfriendly. The spring rolls we ordered were very tasty so we thought it was going to be a great meal. The pad thai I ordered came out pink in color and was covered in some sort of sweet sauce (maybe this is what traditional pad thai is like but I’ve never had anything like it). The shrimp curry only had 5 medium shrimp in it and the curry was like a gravy. Maybe we just ordered poor choices (the menu has nearly a million options) but I wouldn’t go back to test that theory.

Order lunch special not to crazy noodles for the price not to bad a guess. Next I will order entrée.

Golden Thai, thank you for being open late enough for my final dinner in Toronto!
This restaurant is very clean and their service is A+. I had peanut curry for dinner and a sweet and spicy salad. It was my first time having fresh lychee.

The food is decent. The service was sassy, the older server was unreasonable to my boyfriend’s mother when she asked for a box to take home the remaining food on her plate. Maybe the Saturday night rush was causing stress! A good range of options and interesting, traditional décor.

Everything was good but please keep in mind that the portions are too little. All in all very good

I stayed in a nearby hotel and was looking for a good bite to eat. I found this place and loved it. The décor was lovely. A great place for a romantic or social dinner with friends. The staff were friendly and helpful. I was looking for vegetarian options and they all happen to be vegan which was a bonus!
I recommend the spicy egg plant and Pad Thai. Mmm!

Good service and the food was yum as well.

Not one of the popular Thai places in town, and I don’t understand why. The décor is very classy and very Thai-​style. The space itself is spacious and you feel like you have some privacy, which is rare downtown. In terms of the food, started off with the the tom yum soup, satay skewers, and the lychee mango salad. The appetizers were tasty but my favourite dishes were the entrees.
The Pad Thai is amazing — had the tamarind version and it tastes like how a good pad Thai should be tasting (aka not made with ketchup). Sweet with a little bit of a kick. It also comes in a classic version and a curry version — I’d stick to the tamarind since it taste so perfect already.
The green curry was creamy with the right amount of spice. It’s so important to me to emphasize the fact that the curry wasn’t watery. It’s definitely a way to judge whether the restaurant can do Thai food right. The bowl of curry is on the smaller side, so you end up with more curry then rice since the rice (ordered separately) comes in a HUGE salad-​sized bowl.
Also ordered the Thai iced tea, which tasted like it was made with jasmine tea rather than Thai tea. So it definitely tasted different — a little reminiscent of bubble tea.

Appetizer for Two $ 20.95
Fried Grouper in Coconut Curry Sauce $ 23.95
Pad Thai $ 11.95
Mixed Vegetable $ 8.95
After a long day/​drive to and from Niagara Falls, my wife and I came here with a couple of her friends for dinner. The building from the outside looks very old but inside its very decorated with Thai antiques. The appetizer came with hot and cool spring rolls, calamari, chicken satay, shrimp satay, and green mango salad. Everything was delicious and well seasoned. It was a good enough starter for 4 of us. The pad thai was on the sweet side as it was tossed in a sweet chili sauce. The fish was great, nicely fried, and not greasy at all. The vegetables were nothing special and the portion was a little on the small side. Overall, I would say this place is a hidden gem in downtown Toronto.

This is becoming my go to lunch place during work week.
Their lunch menu is very diverse and had quite a few vegetarian options. The total usually comes up under $ 11.
I like their tempeh curry and spring rolls.
Note for vegetarians: Make sure when you order lunch deal to order just a plain rice since noodles/​rice in the lunch option have oyster sauce in them.
Coconut ice cream with pineapple is a delicious dessert as well:)
And I love love love the atmosphere! It feels and looks very upscale with the wooden dividers, heavy curtains, chandeliers and waiters dressed up in button ups. Makes me feel as if I’m an aristocrat:))

We came here for dinner on a Thursday evening. Note that if you’re here for dinner, there’s a parking lot right across the restaurant, a couple buildings down going south on Church Street, where parking is $ 4.00 after 4:00 PM (as of the date of this review).
We ordered the Phad Thai (Tamarind flavour) and the Mussaman Beef Curry, with an order of Thai Ice Tea. Overall, a pretty delicious meal. We really enjoyed the beef curry — really unique flavour. Sweet, spicy, earthy, with a tinge of tanginess. The meat was also very tender. Coupled with rice, it was definitely a delicious combination.
Our only minor issue was that, proportionate to the price (average $ 11-​$ 12 per order), the portion size was a bit small, compared to other restaurants for similar dishes (i.e. the Phad Thai portion here is, more or less, half the size of pad thai dishes at other Thai establishments in the city).
Overall, a pretty delicious meal (though, because of portion size, we were hungry an hour later). Service was excellent, the atmosphere is classy, and great for group dinners.
For two people, with tax, and tip, our total came to a little less than $ 34.00.

Like the décor there, super Thai-​style. Had Spicy Thai Noodles which was good.
Five of us ordered separately but they didn’t separate the bill in the end, so we had to divide into 5 and pay equally, given that someone ordered more and someone ordered less, I had to say it is unprofessional.

Awesome service, mediocre food. That about sums up my visit to Golden Thai on a Saturday night.
The service here is exceptional. Starting from the beginning with the hostess to the waiter to the food runner. Everybody working there is so nice and down to earth. It was busy, but our waiter still checked up on us often, refilled our water, and wanted to make sure we were enjoying our meal. My cousin wanted extra ice in her water, and the server quickly ran to the sink to dump out some of the water and add more ice, just so that he wouldn’t keep us waiting. Would come again to try other dishes because the service was that good!
Unfortunately, the food was a little disappointing. The portions were fine, but the taste was a little off for me. Everything was too salty or too sweet. We started off with the meat appetizer platter which was very good. Loved the fresh rolls as well as the calamari. It came piping hot and fresh from the kitchen. However, the portion for the appetizer was a little small compared to what I was expecting for the price. Next, we ordered the pad thai, but found that it was a little too salty and sour, followed by the crispy chicken thighs with thai sauce. It was OK. Not what I was expecting. Usually chicken thighs are juicy, but these were a bit dry and not as crispy as I would have liked. I also ordered plain egg noodles on the side that were tossed with oyster sauce, but I feel like they would have tasted better if they used less sauce. It was drowning in sauce and was too sweet.
The interior is lovely though. They have real candles at every table and the décor looks very authentic. It’s a very ambient space, and would be considered very romantic if not for the noise level. For a place with decently priced dishes, it’s actually very fancy!
Perhaps next time, I’ll ask the waiter to recommend one of their more popular dishes that have a little more flavour to them rather than just salt or sugar!

lychee and mango salad was good but ratio of mango vs other «filler» vegetables in the mix was low. Didnt like the coconut rice — didnt even taste the coconut and didnt like the texture. Pad thai (vegetarian, with tamarind sauce… there’s three sauce choices) was ok but tasted a bit too Westernized. Green curry was good. Had the fried rum bananas for dessert — good size to share between two ppl and that was good. Overall, I felt the thai food didnt taste very authentic and I’ve had better. Service was good and ambiance was good, though

Came in to try the lunch special and it was actually very good! I had the lime leaf beef and the ‘butterfly shrimp’ — yep, those quotation marks were on purpose. The shrimp had these wontons stuck through them like butterfly wings and I thought that was pretty cool.
The rice and noodles underneath were tasty and pretty great.
Buddy had the kale salad with tempeh on it and it looked great as well.
Cloase to work and I’ll totally be back…

There’s not much more that needs to be said about this place. The food is good, definitely one of the better Thai places in the city. Décor is charming and pleasant. Service is courteous.
I came by on a Wednesday night for dinner (around 6:30 PM). There was one large group and a few other tables but apart from that, the restaurant wasn’t overly crowded or anything (maybe about half full). I opted for the pad thai. It was good, but maybe I walked in with unrealistic expectations, so I wasn’t quite blown away by it. My friends opted for an eggplant dish and a curry. I tried a bit of both and found them to be delicious. The Thai-​style iced tea is also a very neat, refreshing beverage.

4.5 stars
Why? The food here is simply amazing. Get the tamarind version phad thai. Yes, that is how they spell it on their menu; phad. The classic is tomato paste — ewwwwwwwwwwwwww. The beef basil was also delic and overall the food quality is very high. Portion size was a bit small but fair overall.
The atmosphere is very lively and was quite packed on the night I went. Location is a bit out of the way compared to main stream downtown but I would venture to this area just to eat the phad thai again. 4.5 stars.

It has been years since I came here
Wonderful welcome at the door
Great setting
Coconut shrimps wonderful and the Tom yam soup yummy
And the reason I come here is the picture pad thai

This little local thai restaurant boasts white linen tables, large dining space, beautiful décor and great food to match.
Whether I’m sharing plates with a group of friends family style of having my own favorite dish of pad thai the food here is consistently of excellent quality and packed full of flavor.
Portions are large plates themselves are quite small and at time food ends up on the table. Cocktails are OK not something I would recommend (small glasses for the price) but to catch up with friends or for a date this restaurant is great!

I came for lunch during the week and apparently 1130p is a good time to go because the crowd started pouring in shortly after. The restaurant is big and the décor is nice and pleasant. The service was fast and friendly. They offer a special lunch menu with 8 main dish choices. 1 choice $ 8, 1 choice + Veg spring roll = $ 8.50, 2 choices + Veg spring roll $ 9.50, and 3 choices + Veg spring roll $ 10.50. All lunch specials are served with fried rice, noodles and salad.
Chicken Fried Rice $ 10 — The fried rice is decent and makes a nice quick lunch. It came out really fast.
Thai Iced Tea $ 3.50 — This doesn’t taste like your typical Thai Iced Tea. It has a strong flavor that I couldn’t identify what it was. It tasted good, but not the flavor I’m used to.
They take credit cards, including American Express.

Les restaurants style thaïlandais sont légion à Toronto pourtant aucun n’arrive à la cheville du Golden Thai: qualité, service et choix. Situé en plein coeur de la ville, au carrefour de Richmond et Church, c’est un restaurant qu’il faut fréquenter sans modération.