Real Thailand Restaurant

The new location is right across from Honest Ed’s, and it’s much bigger than it used to be. Family friendly, wheelchair friendly, even date friendly.
The food is consistently good, prices are reasonable, and the service is just fine.
The only reason why this restaurant gets ⁴⁄₅ stars is because they badly need an interior designer to help update their look. Honestly, it’s like eating in a board room. This new location has the same shrine and art as their old location, but it kept none of its former charm. Every time I eat here, there are more take-​out than eat-​in customers, and I wish it wasn’t so. With the right music and design, this place would be filled with customers again for sure.

Tried out this restaurant buffet for the first time on the weekend and it was absolutely delcious! I will definitely be a return customer!

Came in for lunch today with a friend. The lunch specials are reasonably priced — $ 9 for pad thai, a meat or fish side, spring rolls and soup or salad. The spring rolls were decent but cold in the middle. The soup was lukewarm. The pad thai was bland and the tofu was rubbery. I had the fish as my side and it was actually pretty tasty. There are much better options in the area.

Some of the very best Pad Thai you can find in the city, superior cold rolls, and a top notch red curry (chicken or vegetable).
Quick delivery in the Annex and great customer service.

Yummy Thai food! The veggie drunken noodles are delish and so is the veggie curry. I’m vegan and I unfortunately found out that the curry has fish sauce and the sauce is ready made so they can’t make it without :(

We have enjoyed Real Thailand for years, originally at the location near Spadina and their new location just west of Bathurst. But tonight we found ourselves really disappointed by the quality of the food. In the past we always found the dishes delicious and well worth the price. Tonight however we found ourselves unable to justify paying for the food at all. What we were served were dishes that lacked any kind of depth of flavour. As anyone who enjoys Thai food knows, the food is about depth of flavour. The dishes we ordered tonight tasted sadly like the food one expects from a fast food kiosk in a mall. Everything tasted the same without any difference or delicacy in flavour. The overpowering taste was sugar, like we were eating food drenched in a store bought sauce. Sadly, it is sad to see this neighbourhood institution serving food that does not measure up to what ate there in the past.

Went for a late dinner, it was fairly quiet when I was there. The food was decent and the dishes were served reasonably quickly. The service was reasonable, but nothing extraordinary.

We ordered from Real Thailand last night. There was some mixup with our order and it took two hours to arrive. We called the restaurant and they were unhelpful and rude.
The food is okay– but there are lots of okay Thai places in Toronto. For reasons of bad service we will not order from Real Thailand again.

Friendly staff and very big place. Washrooms are on the same level for lazy peeps like me that don’t wanna go downstairs.
Food: some hits and some misses.
Thai ice tea: don’t order. It tasted like tetley, sugar, and milk. Not good.
Street pad Thai: this was pretty good. They have a house pad Thai that uses ketchup and some tamarind sauce and the street pad Thai uses only tamarind sauce. This was good, not Pi good, but good for $ 11.50. Though, there wasn’t a lot of shrimp in the dish, the meal was plentiful. I had leftovers and it tasted good the next day!
Eggplant and rice: very good! Eggplant was cooked right.
Fresh spring rolls: really liked this. A lot of ingredients and very filling!
If you want filling meal at a good price, come to this place, but don’t expect Pi or khao San road quality. I think they have a lot of potential though!

Sample of 100 meals:
MUST TRY:
1) Kang Massaman Lamb
2) Special Appetizer Platter (2 shrimp cakes, 2 chicken satay, 3 cold rolls, calamari)
RECOMMENDED:
Nuer Yang /​Grilled Beef
Cashew Nut Chicken. [Another reviewer said there were no cashews. I’ve had this over 50 times and there are always lots of cashews]
Radnar Talay (seafood + rice noodles)
Pad Woon Sen (glass noodles)
+Coconut rice side order
OK:
Green Curry
Pad Thai *** I encourage you to order something else. It’s not bad, but it’s not nearly as good as the other noodle dishes
I’ve been coming here for 15 years. The food is very consistent at dinner time, and you will always be full after a meal here. Yes, the lunch special is a good deal, but the dinner options are definitely better. (I have yet to try the lunch buffet, but it sounds more promising than the old lunch specials)
Service is attentive and friendly.
Real Thailand is excellent for the price point. It’s good for group reservations, as they have a large seating area.
BONUS: It’s perfect for take out /​delivery, especially for a group where you can share different dishes.
Note that the review has been updated for the new location. It’s the exact same quality food and service.

I came in for dinner. As I walked in — I was shocked to see how HUGE this place is on the inside. The décor isn’t the best. It’s very ‘buffet restaurant’ — esque (which it is during lunch). I order the calamari as an appetizer, green curry (chicken) and my friend ordered the chicken fried rice.
Calamari — eh, I’ve had better.
Green Curry — Small portion, taste was okay.
Fried Rice — HUGE serving, more on the bland side.
Maybe I missed it but I didn’t see many Thai curry options on the menu? There are other Thai food options that are more affordable and tasty. On the plus side — the service is great!

I went in for a lunch buffet and it was good! The food was cooked fresh and had a good variety like rice, vermicelli, chicken, pork, salad, fruits, and soup.
Thai food is often spicy and I can’t handle it, but interestingly this place the dishes are not spicy except a select few. Whether intentional or not, the mixed vegetables, rice, and spring rolls really reminded me of Chinese food.
The interior décor has a brown colour theme and pictures of people, life, and highlights in Thailand. Overall I’d say it the restaurant is good value and a comfortable place to dine.