Thai Monkey Club

New to Denver and was close to our hotel so I ordered the drunken noodles with tofu and it was amazing! Everything was perfectly cooked and could pay with card over the app. Getting it again tonight!

Tried to order. They wanted to charge me a delivery fee because I was staying at a hotel a mile away and «there’s traffic and parking issues» downtown. I explained there was a place to park and they should be clear about fees, they wouldn’t waive it. Seemed arbitrary and really discouraged me from giving them a try.

We had the Red curry and Green curry. Although I haven’t found much great Thai food in Denver, I would not eat here again.
In addition, if you order at an apartment building, they will not deliver to your apartment door.
The curry was a good portion size, but a very small about of rice.

It’s not very good. Don’t be fooled by the number of people dining here into thinking that it’s a good restaurant. It only recently opened on Upper Colfax and, like a lot of other mediocre restaurants in the area, are only doing well because of the recent uptick in economic activity and recent transplants who don’t know any better. The food doesn’t taste that amazing, portions are small for the high prices, and the service stinks. Ate here once and never coming back.

I love my Thai food and this place is one of my favorites in the city! The dishes always have lots of fresh veggies and are perfectly spicy. Be careful with the spice level though or it will hurt ya! We like spicy food, but I never go above «medium level» here. The panang curry, green curry, and drunken noodles are excellent! I order through the eat24 app and usually get a coupon that covers the delivery fee.

Very good food, consistent quality, fast service. Others have said it’s Best Thai in Denver. Haven’t had enough from others, but it’s quite good.

Had lunch here. I really enjoyed the coffee and boba. Great service. I wish the sushi chef was working. I guess that’s a good reason to go back. I recommend this restaurant to anyone that likes Thai food.

Great food, great selection, and fast delivery.
We found these folks through Unilocal a while back and have started ordering delivery from them pretty much once a week. They have a good selection of Thai dishes, and their appetizers are great as well.

Great in a pinch! Not totally authentic but it will have to do. The mango sticky rice was… well it kind of tasted commercial made, not in store.

Love getting delivery from here. Massaman curry and pad thai. Yum.

Had delivery from here recently, and the experience was just ok. Very nice person on the phone, easy to order. Ordered 3 different entrees, and it was a total mixed bag. One had no flavor, the Pad Thai was nothing special, and the soup was actually quite good.
Not going to order from here again anytime soon, as I’m still trying to find my go-​to Thai place here in Denver.

It pains me to write this review because I’ve been a Thai Monkey Club loyalist since I first moved out here 5 years ago, but this past weekend I’ve never had such a bad customer service experience in my life. My friend and I decided to go the delivery route on Sunday night, being that we didn’t feel like moving from the couch and called up Thai Monkey Club –Colfax at 6PM to place an order. They informed me that it would be 45min-​1hr delivery time, pretty standard, I thought.
After an hour and 20 minutes go by I call the restaurant inquiring as to the whereabouts of my food. The woman on the telephone, clearly frazzled, seems unable to recall my order and doesn’t have record of my name or me calling. No big deal… I used to work in the restaurant industry and I know these things happen, people forget to ring up orders for the kitchen… although I will admit this isn’t the first time they’ve screwed up a delivery order of mine. She said that the order was up and the driver was on his way…
After another 40 minutes (2 full hours after the original order was placed), I called the restaurant again and asked the same woman whether or not I needed to cancel my order and look elsewhere. She said no, the driver was actually outside and they were just about to call me.” So I go outside to meet the delivery driver except hes not there… I wait another 20 minutes and call the restaurant back one more time. I spoke to the same woman and expressed my disappointment, explained how I’m a repeat customer and have never had to wait 2.5 hours for food. This is where the customer service deficiency really kicked in. No apology, no corrective measure, no offering to comp the meal or even offer to take off the appetizer that we ordered. Instead they person on the other end of the phone simply said «Well, I guess tonight wasn’t your night» and hangs up the phone. I promptly called back and cancelled my order and went to Chada Thai down the street.
The food has its moments but you don’t treat customers like that. Unfortunately I wont be visiting this place again, there are plenty of thai places in Denver that offer up just as good if not better fare who actually appreciate the repeat business.

Food was pretty tasty here. The area is kinda sketchy on Colfax at night, and we ate in. Still a nice experience. Had the thom ka, a noodle dish, and two curries. Everything tasted yummy. Spice level is legitimate. They had some pop music on TV, which I wished was weirder Asian music videos. Another restaurant that puts broccoli in the curries, there are a couple without. I like broccoli, just not in my Thai curries.

Stayed at the Sheraton for an oncology conference and I was really craving some Thai food. I didn’t feel like ordering in-​room service (again), so I went with Eat24.
I ordered egg rolls, pad see ew, and Thai iced tea. Man, the reviews weren’t lying about the heat level. They didn’t have a ‘no spicy’ option when I ordered via Eat24, so I figured, mild wouldn’t be too bad, right? Oh my goodness. My tongue was burning. I was sipping the Thai iced tea like crazy. Other than the spice level, the noodles were just okay. Had this strange vinegar-​smell to it that I’ve never smelled on pad see ew before. Unpleasant.
Thai iced tea was pretty standard, but it was so sweet that I had to water it down with 1.5 cups of water before it was drinkable.
I don’t know when I’ll be back in Denver again, but I probably won’t eat here next time.

My husband and I ate here because of a good Unilocal rating while visiting Denver, but the place raised red flags for us as soon as we walked in the door.
This is a Japanese and Thai restaurant. The old adage of do one thing and do it well definitely does not apply here. We only had Thai food, but it was probably the worst Thai food we’ve ever had.
We both ordered a curry medium. While the waitress said it was spicy (which why does a medium need a spice warning?), what it did not prepare us for was the fact that it was a spice that doesn’t fit with a Thai flavor profile and totally over-​powered the rest of the dish, in the worst way.
Thai spice should be a sweet, flavorful spice, generally from fresh chilies or a paste. This tasted more like a powdered, dry heat more commonly used in Chinese cooking. We could both handle the heat level, but the taste was revolting.
The Thai Iced tea and coconut water we had were fine, nothing special. The appetizer (chicken satay) was low quality meat with bland satay sauce. Everything was ok, not great though, until we got to our curries, which we couldn’t even finish, it was so bad.

She did say the medium was hot. And boy was it ever! I got the chicken stir fry — level 4 because I do love me some heat, but didn’t want to be soaked in sweat while working from the office.
I walked in looking for some take out, the women politely pointed out their specials and made a suggestion. I went with what I was craving, some spicy chicken stir-​fry. The taste was amazing, and the heat sneaks up on you pretty quick. I broke a sweat and loved it.
Also had the shrimp spring rolls. The peanut sauce with it is fantastic. I would make it a tad more spicy, but excellent none the less!

East Colfax really needed a new Thai place. Thai Monkey Club is the perfect addition to my favorite stretch of land, and has become my go to place for addicting food ever since Emilio’s closed (RIP).
I like their levels of spicy: mild, mild+, medium, medium+, hot, and Thai Hot. Because I think I more in the middle of medium and hot. I love my hot food and I love my Thai hot food. Shall I dare try the Thai Hot here? Stay tuned.
I was not a fan of their appetizers (my favorite Americanized crab cheese wontons tasted like they had been sitting under the heat lamp for a while), but who needs appetizers when you have tasty Thai food? My test of good Thai food is their curry, and this place has damn tasty Green Curry. Chock full of veggies and spices, with just enough rice to mix in. Yum.
The sushi (sushi? At a Thai place? Surely, you must be mad! Don’t call me Shirley) is decent. They have a great lunch special that comes with 4 pieces of nigiri with big honking pieces of fish on top, 4 crunchy rolls, and a sashimi seaweed salad. Good deal and fills me up for less than 10 bucks when I need sushi fast.
I usually order take-​out on the Eat 24 app, and it is a cinch to order. It’s what made Thai Monkey Club one of my new go-​to places when I don’t want to cook.

We ordered:
–pad see ew spicy and medium: comes with soup of the day (today’s is tofu soup). The soup is really good, nice tasty clear broth. They don’t joke around with the spiciness level.
–seafood Tom yum: nice and tangy, but the saltiness overwhelms it.
–fried fish lemongrass: tender and juicy. I actually like the sauce it comes with, but it’s just too salty.
Everything here so super salty! It’s not so bad once we mixed it with some rice.

Note to self: Be on the look-​out for Thai monkeys having sex. Why? ‘Cause those Thai monkeys are proliferating like bunnies having had too many drinks at a Bill Cosby sleepover. There are now 5 Thai Monkey Club restaurants in the Denver area (and it would have been 6, but the one in Golden recently closed).
The one I went to today was spectacular. It’s located literally right across the street from the front doors of the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception just up the street from the Capitol. And Holy Mother of God is their food spicy and delicious. The place was empty when I came in at quarter to 1 p.m. for a late lunch, and that’s too bad because no other place in the area serves Thai food in the same class.
Had the Drunken Noodles with pork, ordered medium hot. I was warned that their «medium hot,» for a farang like me, prolly equaled more like what I might think of as «purty damn hot,» but the sweetheart of a server didn’t know she was dealing with someone who for years has partied with many Thai monkies (see, e.g., my review of the S. Bdwy TMC).
The Drunken Noodles they delivered were perfect. That along with a sinful Thai Iced Tea raised the bill to around $ 13, but it was way more than worth it (they also have several luncheon specials that include soup for $ 8.99). So you should check it out. They appear to need the customers and you’ll do yourself a favor in getting some of the best Thai food in the Capitol Hill – if not whole Denver – area.
So rock on, Thai monkies, rock on!
Yours truly,
David «Medium Hot» M.

Best Thai food I’ve had outside of Hawaii. The Panang was great!
Great, friendly service and a clean, nice place.