Kannika’s Thai Kitchen

The food is fresh and fantastic. My favorite is the Basil Catfish — tons of fresh basil and the fish is flaky and tender. The fact that you can BYOB is icing on the cake. No corkage fee or anything! The service is fair. I wish the lighting was a little dimmer. The harshness of the light kind of detracts from the atmosphere.

Fantastic food, real Thai with intense flavors and great presentation. Love it, will recommend to anyone that like Thai food. I will be back. Thanks!

Love the food and the staff! The food is always wonderful and the food is great. Eat there or take out several times per month for years!

I love that their gluten free menu has so many choices. Green curry will always be my go-​to but there are so many more awesome choices.

This place is AWESOME!!! If you like Thai food you will love this place. I’ll be going every time I’m in the area.

The service was REALLY awful… I wish we had gotten the server’s name who had an attitude from the word go! We had to ask for utensils to eat… he proceeded to spill our food on the table when he was serving us and didn’t offer to clean it up or even bring any napkins or a rag to clean it up. He just wasn’t a very pleasant person. Maybe it was because we had a baby??? The baby was fine and making typical baby noises… nothing he shouldn’t have been used to by being in this line of work. The other servers were very sweet and helpful. I want to add that it was not busy at all. We went on a Sunday afternoon around 4 with my great nephew who is a 9 month old baby and the server didn’t seem happy and it showed in our service.
Now the food on the other hand was wonderful as always. However they had none of the desserts that we wanted and that was a bit of a disappointment. After going back to edit this below I am starting to wonder if they wanted us to leave because of the baby and just said they were out of all the dessert choices we had asked for. I would have said that I highly recommend the food here, but I’ve had a change of heart. I will NEVER eat here or suggest it to any of my friends. This is NOT a kid friendly establishment. My niece who was paying for the dinner has been in this business most of her adult life and has always been a generous tipper (at least 30%), however tonight we didn’t even leave 20%!
Revised: It’s 10:05pm the same evening and my niece and I decided to eat our left overs. But, when they decided to pack up the leftovers they took hers to the kitchen and must’ve put extra hot peppers in her dish because it’s now spicier than when she ate it in the restaurant. I was handed a box for my leftovers and didn’t have a problem.

If you like Thai that tastes like it was from a microwave dinner then you will love this place.

Delicious spicy Thai! I was delighted with the Panang Curry and so glad I stopped by for their lunch special, which included a vegan fried spring roll. This is no wimpy watery curry like you will find at some places. It is a rich and thickly spiced Panang Curry.
I ordered it spicy 8 on a scale of 1 – 10 and was delightfully surprised to actually break a slight sweat (rare for me). I had mine over tofu and veggies, and it came served with a side of aromatic steamed jasmine rice.
The spring roll was delicious, with a sweet and spicy glazed pepper dipping sauce, and the Thai Iced-​tea ranks up there with some of the best I’ve had.
To top it off, I ordered coconut ice cream, expecting a tiny portion in a teacup as many places serve, but was rewarded with a huge tumbler of delicately light coconut bliss.
Will definitely be back!

Pretty weak. No beer or wine, but you can carry your own in. Food tasted ok, but seemed more like a fast food place. Went out of our way to go there and prolly the worse Thai we have had. Don’t waste your time on this one. Probably better Thai in the Mall. Service was good though.

Came to have lunch on 07÷26÷15 because we had previous beautiful experiences. Actually 5 visit within a week.
On this day I ordered a seafood spicy soup that tasted really good but towards the end of the I found a piece of finger nail and I showed it to the waitress. And another waiter returned to say the chef/​owner asked us leave and that we couldn’t receive our remaining entrée. We were asked not to pay for the soup and tofu side orders.
Though angry at such customer service, insisted to see the chef and that they brought our orders out. Which they did.
No formal apology was received or tendered. For a place that we had boasted of having delicious and well prepped food to friends this was just a terrible experience service wise.

Great little gem of a restaurant hidden in a small strip mall. Food was awesome. Enjoyed everything we had.

Beautiful, romantic, & clean atmosphere. Bright yellow walls with gorgeous Thai artwork. Waiter was very knowledgable about menu and didn’t mind all our questions.
Basil rolls $ 4.00 were very fresh tasting and had delicious dipping sauces. A hot mustard style and a thick, sweet, peanut-​soy one.
I’d order it again but I’d like to try all the other appetizers… like the frog legs! (When I’m feeling brave)
The Gaeng Panang curry was very delicious and good portion size, I had half leftover for dinner. It was the main curry recommended by our waiter. Creamy coconut & savory spices. $ 10.95
I tried my friends Thai tea $ 3.50 (1 free refill) which is similar to an iced chai but much more flavorful and creamy, definitely worth getting if you have a sweet tooth!
The banana brule $ 6 was a perfect way to end the meal. Bananas sliced, covered in hardened caramelized sugar surrounding a huge scoop of icecream, we chose coconut, so good!!! The waiter brought us a sample of his favorite, the coffee… delicious!

Came in on a quiet Tuesday night. My server was an older gentleman who I assume was the manager. Very nice and helped explain some of the sauces since I was having trouble choosing which dish to go for. I got a cup of Tom Kha, Chicken Mussaman, and some shrimp garden rolls (looked very similar to summer rolls). Spice level 8 out of 10 ordered.
Overall I was very pleased with my dishes and the service. Everything had a very fresh taste. the shrimp in the soup tasted fantastic. Didn’t taste like that cheapy buffet shrimp so many places use.
The mussaman had a great smooth peanut taste with pieces of cashew, onion, and potato. Portion was nice and large with a very good balance of meat, sauce, and vegetables.
Only cons: The Tom Kha felt a little heavy on the coconut cream and the mussaman’s potatoes didn’t taste like they had a chance to soak up the sauce. it would not hold me from coming back though. On the contrary, they have several more dishes I’d like to try! I think the spice rating was more like a 5 but then again I have a fire tongue nowadays. Still had a kick, more like an afterburn.

This restaurant has my favorite thai in Greenville. I have been coming here for many years, and it still top notch. The lunch special is a good deal as you get a spring roll along with your lunch.
I usually get the green curry. Very good. The pad thai is also delicious!

Ended up here about an hour before they closed — very accommodating and polite, beyond reproach.
I love dumplings. Their Thai pork steamed dumplings are great! Lots of flavor, their sweet soy sauce was bomb!
Then I had the fried noodles with vegetables, REALLY wish it came with more fried noodles but it really was the perfect amount, I just wish I could eat more of the noodles haha. Had it at a level 5 spice (medium), I swear easily but it was perfect.
I’m assuming that the young white guy was the manager as he had on manager/​chef uniform, really polite & professional, it was an all around great experience and if you like Thai, I definitely suggest this place.

This is a great place. The space is nice, but the food is fantastic! We had the Tom Yum with vegetables. The broth and vegetables were delicious. Also we had the curry noodle with chicken and it was very generous, spiced perfectly (requested 5 out of 10) with good noodles, good curry mix and sufficient sauce to to swish through those noodles.
Excellent, good service, couldn’t have been more pleased!

Great spot with great food. It is hard for me to choose what I want to eat; I can’t eat all of it for dinner!
The dumplings are great. The Pad Thai is top notch. I am always satisfied with my meals from Kannika’s. I encourage you to find this hidden gem.
I have only taken my food home so I cannot comment on dining in the restaurant, but it is always clean and quiet when I pick up my food. And there is always someone in the dining room. A restaurant with people in it is always a good sign.

I have to say that my lunch experience today was awesome… I decided to «Über» down for lunch by myself as i was having a hankering for some fish sauce and lime. This place made my day with food that almost had me drunk with excitement while I was eating it. I stuck to my Thai lunch play book and ordered the Thom Kha Gai to start, followed by the Green Curry and Jasmine rice. I absolutely adore these two dishes. Each has a singular flavor that quickens my heart for the Thai palate and I can’t seem to ever order anything else.

This was our second attempt at Thai food during our new stay in Greenville. Tuk Tuk Thai was the first. That place had the funkiest pad see ew we’ve ever tasted. It was a last minute order before closing and they must have put the leftover fish sauce for the night in it instead of dark soy sauce, which it should’ve had. We threw the whole thing out. I guess here they fry the «spring rolls» too, which in the West Coast they are the fresh garden rolls stuffed inside rice paper that we are used to.
So fast forward to tonight, where we first tried Royal Thai, but we ended up walking out since no one came to greet us after several minutes of waiting at the door. So we ended up at Kannika’s Thai Kitchen in the end, since it was close to our hotel and got good reviews. I am giving this place three stars mostly for the awesome BYOB policy, which is a great deal if you like to drink a beer or two with some spicy Thai food.
Unfortunately, the food here was not even spicy at all! We even asked for 7’s and 8’s on the spicy level meter but it was mostly sweetness that pervaded each dish. My larb gai was not how I am used to seeing it, which should have the meat minced more, have more lime juice and a decent amount of chili flakes. My girlfriend’s pad kee mao had zero spice as well and was too sweet. The tom ka gai didn’t have mushrooms or galangal (or tomatoes), but it did have some chicken with gristle and the broth seemed watered down as well. The flavor was good though and it at least had some decent heat to it.
On the plus side, the place had a nice ambiance inside and the service was very good and attentive. I am beginning to think that the South just might not have good Asian food or something, at least compared to cities in the West Coast that have the large Asian communities living there. I guess we’ll have to get used to BBQ out here instead.

Kannika deserves a top rating for the food. Soups are good. Appetizers come in small sizes, but are tasty. The entrees come in generous amounts along with white rice.
Not much has changed after they moved to this new location.
P. S. I would think, they are bit understaffed which increases the wait time during rush hours.