Thaiphoon - Palo Alto

I grew up in the opposite, so I saw that many restaurants come and go to the university avenue. there is a reason why thaiphoon remains when so many (often really good) restaurants have fallen. they make serious good eating. always when I come back to visit, my family and I always make a point to go to thaiphoon. I have some menu items that I like especially, but I still need to be disappointed by a new menu item. this place is the best.

Good food. not bad, not great. good service. there are probably better possibilities in the opposite.

Eating in this restaurant is good. the curries are the best I have eaten in the opposite. the decor becomes old and must be updated. some of the server are good others not.

How can I return to a restaurant when the service is so terrible? After we ordered our food our server never returned. Someone else brought the food, but no one stopped by to see if we needed anything. We had to flag down another server to order more rice, to have our water glasses filled, to get back the cork for the wine bottle we brought but did not finish, and to ask for the check. (We also filled our own wine glasses, which does not bother me as it's better then their constantly overfilling them, but when I spend $15 corkage at an inexpensive Asian restaurant that has a small, lousy wine list (with no vintages listed anyway I should be getting something for my money. The food we like but there is no point eating it there.

Pretty good Thai but...food very slow arriving--one dish came 5-6 minutes before others. Pad Thai was great but the lamb in the lamb curry was very tough, almost needed a knife. Surprised the bill arrived before we were even asked about dessert. Ran out of the Stella draft (only one of two for a Thai restaurant?