The Garden Thai Restaurant

210 N Aviation Blvd unit d, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266, United States

The Garden Thai Restaurant
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Diner Review №2

This place is extremely wonderful! I come here regularly when I am in the area. The food portions are great, the service is fast, and the employees are very wonderful. I always ask for a cup of ice for my cola, and they do it! :) they also provide accurate orders, unlike McDonalds, which always forget something. The Hawaiian Fried Rice is beyond what I can describe. I am tempted to eat it daily ha ha

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Bet good food, I had the rice noodles, the wood was very polite and prompt, cozy, clean, atmosphere.

Diner Review №5

Really good fresh Thai food, reasonable prices, friendly service and pleasing atmosphere.

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Small and charming, delicious and fresh. Kind service. Love our neighborhood Thai kitchen 🙏

Diner Review №9

Ordered garlic and pepper beef. The beef was very rough.

Diner Review №10

Delicious. Definitely my favorite Thai place right now! Hope they are around for a long time. Food was perfect. Usually order spring rolls and fried rice. So good.

Diner Review №11

This place always has great food. It's hard to go wrong with any choice on the menu. Love the Kai Kua, but don't forget the sauces! Chili Lime and Cucumber. Both are great. $2 extra, but so worth it!

Diner Review №12

Food is always tasty. Recommend the duck salad.

Diner Review №13

Honey I don't even know you and I care about you too much to let you eat here. I got so sick that my stomach fell out of my butt. They put some fish sticks in the panang curry and I have not been able to eat Thai food since. You know how that one terrible experience will ruin a dish for the rest of your life, It happened here. Never again will I eat it again, and it was literally my favorite. This place will be legendary because it ended my love for panang curry and salmon fried rice. *tears. I am always honest about my reviews so I will say that the orange chicken is safe (my daughter's order), the presentation was nice with the orange slice garnish and she loved it. God in heaven knows that the panang curry came for my neck though.

Diner Review №14

Do not recommend. I used to order regularly. However, had a couple of instances where they goofed up their order and they didn’t want to do anything about it and were just plain rude. Stay away. There are several other good Thai options in town.

Diner Review №15

I have spent many years in Thailand and have eaten a lot of Thai food. This restaurant has the authentic taste, made by a Thai Chef who understands the correct Thai flavours. For those who love Thai food this restaurant is a must. Do yourself a favour and get there!!

Diner Review №16

Great Thai food, great service, great portions. I’ll be back

Diner Review №17

Yellow curry was so sweet and delicious!

Diner Review №18

Great to go at lunch during weekdays

Diner Review №19

Food was okay but not authentic tasting - definitely more americanized. Prices were also high for what you get. Curry doesn't come with rice and you have to order it separately which is really weird. There's a plethora of good Thai restaurants in the area and I suggest you try one of those instead of here.

Diner Review №20

The mango sticky rice is delicious👌👏🏻😊, and the salmon salad is mouthwatering😂😁😊

Diner Review №21

We loved the food here although the waitress is a bit rude. We also asked for vegan option and another vegetarian option with no egg. She didn't take it correctly, but thats ok. Apart from that the food is great. We got TomKha soup, 2x Pad See Yews.

Diner Review №22

Not the best Thai value spot in the area. I ordered a garlic pepper chicken dish with rice and it was $20 for take out. The portion for the chicken dish was very small compared to other Thai restaurants in the area

Diner Review №23

Great food, fresh and well presented. Very clean and airy

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Delicious curry! Spicy level was perfect, veggies crispy and the broth was just the right amount of thickness

Diner Review №26

I usually order penang curry, drunken noodles and pad Thai with extra sauce. The veggie spring rolls are awesome! I order from this restaurant once every few months. Double check your order. Yesterday I ordered a tray of pad Thai with no onions and no bean-sprouts for my kiddo , and they still put it.

Diner Review №27

Like eating in a 7 11.

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Awesome Thai restaurant

Diner Review №30

Food and value for food excellent!

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Tom Kha soup had no flavor - like drinking hot coconut milk. Mandarin duck was dry and very salty - could not eat it.

Diner Review №34

Great local neighborhood Thai restaurant - lucky for me I love Thai food and my tofu, eggplant stir fry and brown rice was fresh and tasty. Lots of veggies and a mild spicy and fresh basil herb flavor profile made eating it almost everything easy. No dinner tonight, I won't be hungry.

Diner Review №35

Great food and freindly staff!

Diner Review №36

Food taste : not that great.
Price : out of their mind!! Understand inflation but seriously their price is astronomical compared to others around
Service : regular not that special
Would i come back??? Not in a million years
I'll drive Hollywood any day. Cheaper food and taste 300% better.

Diner Review №37

We have been going to this place for 6 years now. When I asked my son what he wanted to get for dinner the night before he left for college of course it was Garden Thai. Family run and they care so much about quality food and service.

Diner Review №38

I went there a couple of times and the food was good... today I was disappointed. The food it's not the same. The soup I always order was not good at all, the fried rice was sticky and without any flavor..... I am not going back there.

Diner Review №39

Great Thai food at an excellent price

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I ordered the Thai fried rice, I would not recommend this to the public, or this restaurant in general it is overpriced and the rice has almost no flavor, stick with making white rice yourself at home, they're not much different

Diner Review №42

Delicious food, and very non-greasy for the LA area. The staff were friendly and attentive, even when we ended up staying for a couple hours.

Diner Review №43

Food is really good and menu has different options.

Diner Review №44

Just ok. Felt like they added sugar to make up for lack of flavor

Diner Review №45

When you order a curry, it doesn’t even come with rice~ really the first seen you order a curry but not come with rice. Like…. What?

Diner Review №46

Zero Stars for The Garden Thai restaurant. There is so much sugar in everything, every dish is so sweet. I ordered the massaman/ pad see ew and Tom yum. It was disgusting. Massaman was dark brown and tasted of only the 5 spice powder, it had no coconut flavors to it, there was not a single potato or carrot either. I ordered Tom yum chicken soup and all there was in it was mushrooms and super sweet No tang. I’m not expecting anything exceptional but just edible and pleasant tasting. These are simple dishes but went horribly wrong, what a waste!

Diner Review №47

I was on a journey to find Orange chicken with Fried Rice from a Thai restaurant. I called multiple places and they didn’t have it, but this place was the only place that had the Orange Chicken. So, I called in my order on a Friday night, and within 10-15 minutes the order was ready for pick up. I didn’t experience dine in at this location, but it was nice inside and the service seems to be good. The food wasn’t the best Thai food in town, but for what I could get I was happy. The noodles tasted like it was from a few hours ago and the orange chicken wasn’t really an orange chicken. Overall 3 stars.

Diner Review №48

So far so good. Great taste. We go here weekly and always love the food.

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Looks like a family business and the mom is adorable. Good food and reasonable prices for the area.

Diner Review №51

Tiny local resaurant. staff was friendly. Ordered Thai shumai, Pad Thai and Duck curry. loved the food. Had to order 2 more Pad Thai to go.

Diner Review №52

I am a weekly customer here and they either got a new chef or a new owner....

The green curry is NOT the same. More watery, lighter in color, and way too big pieces of eggplant. I miss the green curry you had :( please fix whatever is now broken.

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Excellent. The Tom Kha Chicken soup is excellent. Careful, the yellow curry is a bit spicy. It is a Thai restaurant you know.

Diner Review №55

Been craving some Thai so today we filled that spot. I had the pork Thai fried rice. It was really good and the portions were on spot. When you are in the mood for some great Thai stop by.

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Not sure if this place has gone downhill or what but me and my wife both agreed the food wasn't up to par with other thai restuarants. Best items were the chocolate cake and mango sticky rice... but the noodles were not that great.

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Really satisfying Pad Woon Sen Noodles. Flavorful but not spicy, fresh veggies.

Diner Review №60

Great Thai food.. always friendly service

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Spicy Pad Thai Noodles are soo fire.

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Kind of spendy and when my food total came out to $50.01 and she made me go to the car for the penny ...which is whatever ...but when I gave her a dime and she didn't give me the change till I asked...and said you really want your 9cents back ..after making me walk to my car a get a penny .. I was dumbfounded by that

Diner Review №65

Best pho in manhattan beach

Diner Review №66

Food was not very good. Had the pad thai and pad see ew. Also took quite a while for it to be ready for pickup.

Diner Review №67

I ordered the panaeng curry and it was seriously the worst I’ve had, I was super bummed. The curry was WAY too sweet and had stringy pieces of maybe red pepper in it? No vegetables, too think, and like I said, so sweet. I had it for takeout and couldn’t eat it. I wish I could have sent it back.

Diner Review №68

Meh, cheap food.

Diner Review №69

Super friendly and the Kang Karee Curry is one of the best things I have ever eaten! I am not exaggerating! I do not know how 'authentic' it is as I've never had it before having it here but it is AMAZING!

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I recall not being satisfied with this food. We got some kind of seafood noodles which featured super tough, inedible calamari rings. Pineapple fried rice is my go-to thai food option and this place was by far the most bland (how can curry flavor be bland??) one that ive ever had! I had to re-cook and doctor up the leftovers just so i didnt feel like we wasted our $50. There's too many good Thai food places in So-Cal to spend my money here...

Diner Review №72

Love this place! We ordered a mix of Thai, Vietnamese and Malaysian small plates, it was amazing! Def coming back for more!

Diner Review №73

My favorite go-to pho place. Excellent service and delicious food. I have come here multiple times and am never disappointed. Would definitely recommend this place to everyone.

Diner Review №74

Great food and service. Never disappoints.

Diner Review №75

A great place to satisfy your Thai, Vietnamese AND Malaysian cravings all in one meal. We came here for dinner at 8pm on Sunday and sat outside. The staff was very welcoming and friendly.

Diner Review №76

Discovered this place through grubhub and has been my favorite Thai place since.

Diner Review №77

This mine and my boyfriend’s favorite restaurant in the area! We go at least once a week and always enjoy talking to everyone that works there — it’s such a welcoming and warm environment! The food is by far the best Thai food we’ve found in LA— especially the spicy fried rice, Tom kha, garden rolls, and pad see ew. And their happy hour is great too ($3 beers)! Can’t recommend The Garden enough!

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Good restaurant

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Delicious! Casual atmosphere, well prepared and presented dishes and fair prices. We loved the crab noodles and pumpkin curry.

Diner Review №81

Great little Thai restaurant good fresh Thai food friendly service for a small place very very well maintained Great Cooks in the back go by enjoy a great lunch or dinner Norwalk Raider out

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Great food!

Diner Review №84

We ordered a wide range of dishes to share at the table. My favorite is the crab fried rice. Having worked in Thailand, I often crave for the authentic flavors and simplicity of Thai food. Some restaurants try to do too much - here, it’s simple and easy.

Diner Review №85

Probably my #1 favorite Thai Place. Best Kang Karee curry around, but I've also tried their other dishes and have NEVER been disappointed. Fairly priced and family who own it are always friendly and attentive.

Diner Review №86

Great, fresh tasting food and reasonable prices.

Diner Review №87

The best Thai restaurant in MB.

Diner Review №88

Second time there (and last) The food is ok but the costumer service is awful. It's the first restaurant to charged us 18% gratitude automatically for 3 adults and 2 kids (2years old). The waitress has a really but attitude.

Diner Review №89

Great

Diner Review №90

Low key. Good food and prices. Pumpkin curry is good stuff.

Diner Review №91

Best beef Panang curry I've ever had, and I've been to A LOT of Thai places. Not to mention, the portion size is pretty large. I usually don't frequent places that make you pay extra for rice with curry, but it's so good that I suck it up and pay the extra charge. Also really enjoy the Pad Thai. It's a big saucier than other places (which I love), but heads up in case you don't like it that way.

To the person complaining about no military discount: Restaurants don't owe you a discount. To expect one is an insult to those who joined to actually serve.

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Diner Review №93

I found blonde hair in my food. I think it was the girl that gave me attitude at the register... I think her name was Cali or something.

Diner Review №94

I ordered red curry chicken with brown rice. 4 stars for the taste of the food and the portion size. 2 stars for the price ($14) and not offering a military discount. I will continue going to Bamboo Thai Bistro where they do offer a generous military discount and their lunch comes with a salad and egg roll.
Overall, I give this place 3 stars for not being a good value IMO.

Diner Review №95

Their yellow curry is excellent.

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Diner Review №97

Great place to eat. Loved it

Diner Review №98

Ordered a postmates order from here, was sent a completely incorrect order. Missing my chicken satay, and wrong pad thai protein. Tried the pad thai, and it was way too sweet, and the chicken was cooked long past done.

Diner Review №99

We had a Green Curry and it was truly delicious! Iced Thai Caffe was also great.

Diner Review №100

Delicious food, attentive and friendly staff. Loved their pad thai and chicken with yellow curry with thai iced tea. Restaurant was clean as were the bathrooms, nice ambiance. We will definitely come back.

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Awesome curry and friendly staff! Delicious!

Diner Review №104

We tried crab fried rice that recommended by people who had before, but I don't really like it and I don't think it's really good. Pad see yew was even worst, this is the worst taste I have ever tasted. I can recommended another Thai restaurant which have good taste, you guys can try Subhannahong Royal Thai Cuisine, they really make the food taste good. It's worth to pay a $14 crab fried rice there than here. The service here was not so good either.

Diner Review №105

Delicious food. Happy hour until 7pm, including Saturday night.

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Diner Review №107

First time having Thai, they pointed me towards their pad Thai, and it was delicious. Definitely a fan of Thai food!

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Had the yellow curry, it was extremely flavorful.

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Tasty and very fresh Thai options.. Really great curry and Thai Iced Tea..

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Some members in my group said the meat used is tough and unseasoned, major gripes, but two of us had red curry and that was good, I tasted the Pad Thai and it was good, but after eating authentic Thai food in Thailand and North Hollywood Thai Town, this place does not get five stars

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Great food and atmosphere.

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Great happy hour. Avoid Friday dinner unless take out or delivery. Very reasonable prices for quality Thai.

Diner Review №122

Delicious.

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Excellent food

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Really flavorfull food! Just a lil spicy so if you're not a fan of spicy food order the mild version.

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Just siscovered this little gem. One of the best Thai restaurants in the South Bay (Redondo). Must try if you like Thai food

Diner Review №134

Very pleasant atmosphere. Clean and comfortable, but with a cozy family-owned feel. The Chuchee Salmon was excellent

Diner Review №135

great food

Diner Review №136

I love this place. It would be 5 stars in any city but NY or LA. It is not the best in LA, but it is in the top tier. Worth traveling 30 minutes. Note- when you ask for heat- they give it to you.

Diner Review №137

Cute as well as decent prices . The food was quite good.

Diner Review №138

Great food, reasonable prices, friendly staff

Diner Review №139

Love all of their Currys and the brown rice is amazing !! I always order take out and I highly recommend ❤️

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Good food!

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Consistently good

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Great Food!!

Diner Review №148

Came for lunch. Food was awesome. Nice presentation and excellent flavors.

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Good food. Good service. Good value.

Diner Review №151

Absolutely delicious..my new favorite Thai restaurant...great food and service

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Diner Review №155

45 minutes for Pad Thai. I was told 25 minutes. When I approached them at 25 minutes, no one could find my ticket. I had to produce my receipt and wait, again. During my wait I witnessed terrible table service, disorganized staff, and over crowding in this tiny restaurant.

Diner Review №156

So damn good. Had the eggplant and the cashew chicken.

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Diner Review №158

First timer eat here. The papaya salad is very good. My husband and I are fighting for the last bite. The crab noodle is disappointing. The noodle is all mushy and little crab. I will skip it. Pan See We is good. We have the fried Tofu. Love it. Lunch menu is Mon to Fri. I have they will extend it to Say too. Otherwise, I will come back for papaya salad again. P. S... Lunch menu has papaya salad 🍴

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Delicious Thai and super well spiced. Just the right amount!!!!! I'll be going back over and over.

Diner Review №162

Very authentic Thai, great flavors and quality ingredients. Highly recommend!!!

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My kids and I have been waiting for Thai Garden (this particular ones) to open for quite sometime, finally, they did,...yeah!
we dine there last night 7/30/17...OMG, worth the wait!
Ambience is cute and cozy, true family friendly style, food were yummy, we started out with pork dumpling (Shumai) cabbage role, Papaya Salad, hot pot beef soup, baked shrimp with vermicelli noodle (special order), Tom Kra chicken...no room for dessert but we definitely will come back for the homemade Coconut ice cream!
Love it...you must try!

Diner Review №165

This place is brand new. They are still decorating. The food and service is fast friendly and efficient. This is a family buisiness and they take pride in it. I had the Tim Kha with chicken. They definitely put a good amount of chicken in it. Everything tastes super fresh and perfectly seasoned. I will be comming back soon. I hope yhey are able to keep up this exceptional level of service and quality.

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  • 165 reviews
  • 4.2 Health Rating
  • Contact: +1 310-318-0032
  • Website: https://thegardenthai.com/menu/
  • Location: 210 N Aviation Blvd unit d, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266, United States
  • Map: 33.8806819, -118.3792503
Menu Highlights
  • Thai restaurant
Opening Hours
  • Monday: 11:30 AM–8:30 PM
  • Tuesday: 11:30 AM–8:30 PM
  • Wednesday: 11:30 AM–8:30 PM
  • Thursday: 11:30 AM–8:30 PM
  • Friday: 11:30 AM–8:30 PM
  • Saturday: 11:30 AM–8:30 PM
  • Sunday: 11:30 AM–8:30 PM
Service options
  • Delivery: Available
  • Takeaway: Available
  • Dine-in: Available
Highlights
  • Fast service: Available
  • Great tea selection: Available
Popular for
  • Lunch: Available
  • Dinner: Available
  • Solo dining: Available
Accessibility
  • Wheelchair-accessible car park: Available
  • Wheelchair-accessible entrance: Available
  • Wheelchair-accessible seating: Available
  • Wheelchair-accessible toilet: Available
Offerings
  • Alcohol: Available
  • Beer: Available
  • Coffee: Available
  • Comfort food: Available
  • Happy-hour drinks: Available
  • Healthy options: Available
  • Quick bite: Available
  • Small plates: Available
  • Vegan options: Available
  • Vegetarian options: Available
  • Wine: Available
Dining options
  • Lunch: Available
  • Dinner: Available
  • Catering: Available
  • Dessert: Available
  • Seating: Available
Amenities
  • Toilet: Available
  • Wi-Fi: Available
  • Wi-Fi: Available
Atmosphere
  • Casual: Available
  • Cosy: Available
Crowd
  • Family friendly: Available
  • Groups: Available
Planning
  • Accepts reservations: Available
Payments
  • Credit cards: Available
  • Debit cards: Available
  • NFC mobile payments: Available
  • Credit cards: Available
Children
  • Good for kids: Available
  • High chairs: Available
Parking
  • Free parking lot: Available
  • Parking: Available