Bangkok House

I brought my mom to have dinner there last night. We had Prix fix. It's $18.95 including soup,sald,appetizer,entree and dessert. It's very good deal! We both had Tom Yum Shrimp soup and Dumpling as appetizer. I tried Pad Thai with Shrimp and my mom had Chicken Basil sauce. We had coconut ice cream and fried banana as dessert to share. I just want to say it's perfect! Also, the service is very attentive and fast. Waitresses are very helpful and friendly. My mom was very happy and she would recommend her friends to visit Bangkok House when they're comming to the City. I would to go back again soon next week before my broadway show. See you soon, Bangkok House

Pros: Excellent Food and Service

Cons: So far... Nothing

Posted 07/11/09

Everything was super salty, even I could not handle it (and I love salt!) Pad Thai was sour, too much lemon or lime juice. Spicy Shrimp soup was pure salt! Even sticky rice for dessert was topped with some salt! I will not return to this place. Ponsgri Thai was better foodwise as I recall.

Pros: Location, fast service, price

Cons: Food, Not very clean

Posted 07/10/09

My newest pre-theather spot offers a pre-fix for $18. I've always been able to get in and out in plenty of time to get to the show. The food offered in the pre-fix is good, with average portion sizes but a weak salad. In the past, I've ordered the cashew chicken or ginger shrimp entree and was not disappointed. However, my expectations are never that high. With my Thai iced teas, dinner for two is about $50 total.

The restaurant's decor is not much different than any the other places on restaurant row. You might feel cramped with a group larger than four, however the wait staff is helpful and accommodating if you come early enough to get a large table.

Pros: Value for the money, many options of entrees as part of the pre-fix

Cons: The new flat screen tvs are a bit distracting, bathroom is REALLY small (try to hold it)

Posted 09/27/07

I visited the Bangkok House with my family, ages 13 to 73. We ordered 7 dishes from the prix fixe menu and everyone loved the food. Our only disagreement was which dish was best. The service was excellent and the prices were very moderate. We traveled for 16 days and never had a better meal.

Pros: Excellent food

Cons: None

Posted 07/10/07

My girlfriend and i went here for dinner last night. This is one of the best meals I've had in a long time. The food was amazing , the service was excellent. I LOVE THIS PLACE!

Pros: great food , great service

Posted 03/18/07

I love Thai places. I come for the food and the atmosphere. This place had an average food plates, nothing special. The food was as if I grabbed lunch during a weekday at work, in a hurry. Not a place for a weekend night. The place had no atmosphere. Peep and Room Service have a nicely organized inside. With lights properly dim, and the lounge type decoration. However, this place looked cheap and kinda dirty. The bathrooms were disgusting. Lamps hanging down right above your head had visible dust. And finally, when the check came and we paid, we were $3 short from the SUGGESTED gratuity. The waitress came back and would not leave until we paid the $3 of the SUGGESTED gratuity. Am I incorrect, or is it up to the customer to leave a tip and the amount. Ok place for lunch, not weekend night place.

Pros: Cheap Eats

Cons: Nothing out of the ordinary, stingy about tips

Posted 01/08/07

I dined at this establishment last night. One of my friends asked the waitress if she would be allowed to recharge her cellphone (a Verizon Wireless 'Chocolate'). The waitress agreed, and took my friend's cellphone into one of the back rooms. When my friend went to retrieve her phone, she discovered that her phone's memory card was missing! Naturally, the waitress wouldn't have gotten away with stealing an entire phone, so she took the next best thing. She obviously didn't expect my friend to notice the absence of memory card right away. Several minutes of searching the distance between our table and the back room proved that the memory card did not simply fall out (as the waitress claimed). It took my friend's threats to call her father - a lawyer - for the missing item to miraculously reappear!! The waitress is a big, fat pickpocket and a LIAR. My friends and I don't intend on going back... On a side note, the food wasn't that good either. There are better places in New York to eat.

Pros: polite staff

Cons: theiving staff

Posted 01/04/07

Its easy to miss this location as its located in a very non-flashy part of the border of HK/Theatre District just steps away from Columbus Circle. While the place is not large, its an intimate spot to catch a quick bite from a very solid establishment with good service and prices.

Pros: Value, Delivery, Food, Service

Cons: Parking, Crowded

Posted 12/29/06

this is a decent Thai restaurant to go to in the city for what you pay. the food is pretty good, service is alright, location is convenient, prices are reasonable. i tend to go here just cuz its easy, but if you want a serious Thai experience, i'd recommend doing a bit more research.

Posted 10/28/06

In all honesty, this is not the type of place you'll plan on going for days. Is more the type of restaurant you stumble into, which is the reason why my friend and I went. Nothing exciting really.. Small but welcoming. Good martinis and appetizers.

Posted 10/27/06

I was a little weary to arrive at this joint and find it on Restaurant Row, which, as any NYC local would know, is very honkytonk and touristy. We caught the tail end of pre-theater so the restaurant was about a third full. Despite my misgivings, the food was good and the price slightly higher than similar nearby Thai restaurants not located on the "Row" but certainly not expensive. The atmosphere is bland and non-descript and the service is fine. Not much else to say.

Posted 07/19/06

I tried this restaurant couple time and overall, the Pad Thai is excellent compare to other thai restaurants in the area. Service is always very accomodating!! Recommended!!

Pros: Good Thai food and value

Cons: busy on Weekend, may need reservation

Posted 07/04/06

The service was full of smiles here and very accomodating. I always order my thai basil noodles with light oil cause to much always takes away from the flavor. No one ever does it right but this place did, my food was delicious and the adorable servers put a smile on my face the second I walked in.

Posted 05/12/06

Once I loved this restaurant, because its taste, service, price and volume were all good. However, for these day, taste and volume are falling down unexpectedly. As it may depend on the cook's skill and policy, next time, I will try its sister restaurants.

Posted 03/06/06

Me and my friend had the prefix dinner. It was well worth the money we paid for. The food was delicious. And the service and ambience was excellent. We were able to try different things on the menu without spending too much money. I definitely recommend you make a reservation in advance.

Pros: Food, Service, Ambience

Posted 02/18/06

Great place for delivery.....have never been to the restaurant but will try to check it out soon. Prompt service, friendly, and the food is delicious and reasonably priced.

Pros: Food, Service, Value

Posted 11/04/05

Accept no imitations! In a neighborhood that is frankly saturated with Thai restaurants, Bangkok House is really the only Hell's Kitchen option that's worth going out of your way for. The atmosphere is mellow and relaxing, the food is tasty, light and inexpensive, the service quick and attentive, and the waitresses, for lack of a better word, are hot-- a not unimportant consideration when it comes to Thai restaurants. Also, it's a good spot for a date-- classy, but also not a wallet-buster.

Pros: Price, Taste, Hot Waitresses

Posted 07/09/05

I've been to the Bangkok House over 20 times this year. The Coconut Soup is excellent! All the soups are great. The mussles are a very good appetizer, I love the sweet and sour shrimp and the shimp/chicken massaman. The ambiance is beautiful and the bathroom was clean. Very croweded but fast service!! Highly recommended.

Posted 06/08/05

My friend and I were there on the past Sunday (5/8/05), but I am very disappointed on the food quality. We ordered the Spicy Shrimp Soup (Tom Yum Goong), the soup is NOT spicy at all, and it's not sour either. That's the worst Spicy Shrimp Soup I ever had. We also ordered the special dish that day, Scollop something.. it was OK. The fish entree that I had was Pla Rad Prigg, and it was so-so, can tell the fish wasn't freshly cooked, it was deeply fried a while ago. I just dont think I will go back again. If you are looking for traditional thai food, that's not a place for you.

Posted 05/10/05

Great place to get some authentic Thai food in the city. Definitley a restaurant to vosot at least once.

Posted 03/25/05

One of the better Thai restaurant in Manhattan. Not one of those Americanize bland Thai restaurant that you couldn't tell the difference with a chinese restaurant. Traditional Thai dishes with a little twist. Friendly service and reasonable price.

Pros: friendly, good food, reasonable

Posted 02/07/05