Bangkok City @ Greenville Thai Restaurant in Dallas

I dropped in today to say hello and have some great thai food and was surprised to find new dishes and happy hour FOOD AND DRink specials. This greenville avenue thai location serve a varitey of wines and beers, the appetizers are 50% off! Dumplings , chicken satay, corn patty and more......

Pros: VERY friendly and yummy thai food

Cons: none

Posted 07/20/09

I order delivery from this place and the food was always good. I love this place because its open on holidays, last Monday which is memorial days i decided to take my family out here for dinner and found that the decor is very warm and inviting ( don't be fooled by the outside appearance ). We ordered the tom yum soup , papaya salad, red curry was Amazingly good...:) we love it and we certainly be back.

Pros: Tasty food ( best curry) , cheap food. Good service.

Cons: None that i know.

Posted 05/29/09

Ok, let me start by saying that I have been driving past this restaurant for YEARS, and have never stopped in. This was definitely a sad oversight on my part. I stopped in today for a bite on ym way home, and was pleasantly surprised. From the outside, you would not think that you could get more than a few people inside, let alone a full kitchen, but when you walk in the restaurant opens into a very spacious and attractive open floorplan. Now, any time I go to a Thai restaurant, I must have an order of corn patties. Being allergic to peanuts, I cannot have the traditional sauce, but I love the corn patties themselves with the sweet chili sauce. I must say that I was a bit disappointed with the corn patties at Bangkok City. The flavor was very nice, but they were a touch harder than expected and had too much breading for my taste. I also ordered the beef and noodle soup. This soup was phenomenal! I have recently started eating beef again after many years as a vegetarian, and am therefore very picky about the beef I eat. This soup had incredibly tender and tasty beef, and the broth was scrumptious. I am normally not a huge fan of cilantro, but found the perfect amount in this soup to set off all of the other ingredients and truly bring them all to life. I think I will make this restaurant a regular stop for the soup alone. I cannot wait to go back to Bangkok City and start working my way through the rest of their wonderful menu. Definitely a restaurant I would recommend to anyone!

Pros: Great soup, very attentive and polite staff

Posted 02/12/09

I ordered from here because it's close to my house and on the way home from work. It's just as good as Royal Thai (don't hold me accountable for the rest of the menu because I really only base this on the only Thai dish that I eat--drunken noodles). Plus, I think it is a little cheaper than Royal Thai. Don't be scared by its outside appearance - I was for a while!

Pros: Yummy Basil noodles (Drunken noodles)

Cons: not sure yet....

Posted 02/04/09

I really love this place and i want to come here and be one of their usual customers. The spicy foods on their menu are just to die for if you are one of those people who love to eat spicy food like i do. I enjoyed the spicy papaya salad and the Pad Kee Mow was really good too. I got there pretty early so i got a nice parking spot near the front of the restaurant. Wish i lived near by so i could get it delivered.

Posted 11/13/08

The waiters were friendly and always checked on me when i needed something. I would come back again every week, just for that. The prices for the food wasn't bad either, it beat the other restaurants that i have eaten at and the Manager was excellent at checking if we were doing okay. The Pad Thai was just the way i wanted it, I asked for it not to be a little spicy and they made it the way i wanted it. The Tom Yum soup was also really good, compared to the other Thai restaurants that I've eaten at, It reminded me of the time i was in Thailand, on the beach.

Posted 10/06/08

1st of all, I'm Thai. I've eaten at many Thai restaurants in Dallas, and although I do find most of them bland and not authentic (almost any Thai will tell you the same), they're usually ok, and I know people like that kind of food, so I keep my mouth shut. However, after trying out Bangkok City today, I had to register at Citysearch and post my 1st review just to point out that this is the WORST Thai food I've ever had.

FOOD:
Let's start with the Pad Thai, the staple of Thai fare. It was noodles and ketchup. Pad Thai often has ketchup as a COMPONENT of the sauce, but I've never seen anyone try to pass off ketchup as the sole ingredient. If you like this Pad Thai, you also like McDonald's food and shouldn't be allowed to post reviews on the internet.
Pad Siew was stunningly bland. Pork was dry.
Chicken Satay -- HOW do you mess up Chicken Satay? -- was incredibly dry and did not have any curry on it. Maybe at 1 point it was marinated in curry, but it appeared they removed all the curry before cooking.
Imperial rolls (soft rice paper wrapped veggies and shrimp) - horrible. Absolutely no taste, even the shrimp.
The highlight of the meal was the complimentary egg roll, which isn't even Thai.

GENERAL COMMENTS:
Liberal overuse of carrots. The imperial roll was 25% carrot, and the main vegetable in the Pad Siew was carrot -- I've never even seen carrots in Pad Siew, much less as a main ingredient. Carrots are dirt cheap -- that's the only reason I can see for so many. Shame on them.
My take out order, consisting only of the foods I listed, took FORTY MINUTES

SUMMARY:
So my point is, if they screwed up one dish, ok, but they screwed up EVERYTHING, and I only ordered the most common Thai-American foods that they should know how to cook well, consistently. So they must always cook like that. The only good part of the experience was that I got the parking spot right in front of the door. Also they offered me a glass of water while I waited.

Pros: Free air, water

Cons: Food was horrible, very overpriced, very slow

Posted 08/21/08

Parking is tight, but the food and service is well worth it. Order the popular Thai noodle dish, Pad Thai (#46) or the Basil Noodles (#47) with a glass of Thai tea, of course. If you're not greeted or served by Joe. Ask for him. Him and his restaurant crew are definitely aimed to please!

Thank you!

Posted 05/02/08

Ok ...this place is good BUT! Before I discuss the But I will tell you this place is CLEAN, and GREAT SERVICE. The but is because the food is not only not authentic it's not really that good. We got the coconut soup and that was ok, but the rest of the food was really not good. In the SPICY Thia fried rice they put hug chuncks of green pepper instead of chili pepers. The Basil noodles was just pad thia with a couple pieces of basil. Overall 1 star....not good food. They need a new chef here --everything else was awesome.

Pros: NICE PEOPLE!

Cons: NEEDS A NEW CHEF!

Posted 12/05/07

My wife and I had lunch here and it was good. I ordered the beef pad thai and my wife ordered a curry dish. We walked away full and happy. The place was sort of empty, but there were a lot of take out orders happening. I thought the dining room was above average, but nothing flashy. The only tricky thing is the parking is a little tight here and limited along Yale. Keep an eye on that.

Posted 11/07/07

This is literally the best Pad Thai I've ever had. Granted, I've never been to Thailand, nor have I sprawled the U.S. in an attempt to sample every Pad Thai made available to willing consumers, however, I have tried various Thai restaurants in Dallas as well as several other cities. This is hands down the BEST Pad Thai I've ever ingested. The Pad Thai at Bangkok City achieves a great balance between sweet and savory. The other items on their menu are excellent as well, but I am the unofficial Bangkok City Pad Thai proponent.

Pros: Everything!

Cons: Nothing!

Posted 09/29/07

Alas, my search for good Thai delivery will continue unrewarded. I was so excited to find a 5-star review for a Thai restaurant 2 miles from my house, but I doubt I'll be ordering from Bangkok City again anytime soon.

For $40, my girlfriend and I got the Tom Kha Gai soup, a 5-pc dumpling appetizer, the Pork Pad Kee Mow, and the Gra Pow Duck with sticky rice.

If there's one thing this place DOES do well, it's appetizers. The Tom Kha Gai (coconut soup with chicken and mushroom) and the dumplings were both outstanding. I may stop by and grab a LARGE CONTAINER (apparently, Citysearch has a problem with the word p o t) of that soup to-go the next time I get a craving. But the starters were pretty much where my amazement ended.

The $13 "chef's special" Gra Prow Duck was a real let-down. I normally love duck, but not when it's breaded and fried (which the menu did not say). This is a terrible way to serve a meat with such a great texture and natural flavor. It was accompanied by little more than white onions, which did not save it. Also, they charged me an additional $2 to upgrade to sticky rice, which I didn't take more than two bites of. It was a cold, solid mass in its container by the time it made it to my door.

My girlfriend was equally unimpressed by her pork entree. The pork, which is normally the most tender of the three main meats in Asian food, was dry and chewy. Neither of us finished our meals.

I wanted so badly to like this place. If the total had been maybe $25-30, I may have just thought, 'At least I got what I paid for.' But it wasn't, and I didn't.

Oh well, at least I know where to satisfy my Tom Kha Gai cravings.

Posted 09/11/07

I love Thai food, but this was a disappointment after the glowing reviews that I read here. The bookends of our meals, the Chicken Satay and the Sticky Rice and Mangos were delicious and memorable, but pretty much everything in between was ordinary at best. The Pad Thai was dry, tough and tasteless - maybe the worst I've ever had. The Green Papaya Salad was chewy and one-dimensional...OK, but nothing more. Volcano Chicken may be unique to Bangkok City - and again it was OK - but visually it was unappealing and not particularly memorable. Wide Noodles with Basil (and chicken) was kind of bland and lacked basil. Thai Fried Rice (pork) was pretty good, but again it tended to be bland. When I've had Thai food at other restaurants, the flavors have rung clear and true. Here the flavors seemed heavy and lifeless. There are better Thai restaurants.

Pros: Great Satay and Dessert

Cons: Salad and Entrees were average at best

Posted 08/30/07

Joe told me years ago that the Thai food I had eaten in local restaurants had a lot to be desired as it was "Americanized." He was so right! Bankok City Thai a wonderful restaurant with lovely ambiance and food that invokes passion. All of the herbs used are fresh and homegrown. His menu is diverse and offers a lot of "favorites" and new tastes. The panang and curries are all wonderful, rich, and aromatic. Unlike many Thai restaurants around the Metroplex, if you order beef, you get wonderful, tender morsels of lean beef - not the chewy stuff that tastes more like jerky. My favorite is the volcano chicken - spicy with lots of fresh herbs and moist chicken. It makes my mouth water. The best part is, everything on the menu is very affordable and the portions are big enough to share. Be sure to save room for desert! The fried bananas are incredible!

Posted 07/15/07

I met Joe (Owner/Manager of Bangkok City @ Greenville) in 2005 when he was working as a food server for antoher great Thai restaurant in Dallas. Joe's services were excellent, and now we are good friends. Joe's customer freindliness extends beyond great dinning experiances we receive from him. He invited me to visit Thailand. I had a great time in Thailand thanks to his family who made all travel arrangements for me.
Prior to opening this Bangkok City @ Greenville, Joe visited finest Asian restaurants in western part of the country to pick good ideas for his new venture. He regularly seek advice from customers like me on new ideas to improve services and food items. Joe's parents ran a fine restaurant in suburb of Bangkok, and Joe helped his parents in restaurant business from younger age. After completing his undergraduate studies, Joe worked as sales executive for one of the largest firms in Thailand. Recently, Joe receive a Masters degree in Management from Teas A&M University.

So with Joe's great personality and management experiances in sales and retaurants, I would not be suprise oweners of Bangkok City has established excellent relationships with more than 21 loyal customers like me who are willing to write a review for Bangkok City @ Greenville Avenue in a heart beat.

Posted 07/03/07

Too many Thai restuarant in Dallas but BKK City is different from othres.Very good taste,cheaper price when compare with quality,very good service mind but I suggest that you should booking first.

Posted 07/02/07

I know this restaurant from my best friend, after my first visit, I love to come back to Bangkok city @ Greenville ave, especially when I have a guest come from another state or other country I always bring my guests to this restaurant to have nice dinner or lunch . I love Pad Thai noodle dish and Combination Platter. The service and the food are excellent. Even though I live far from this restaurant, I always love to come again because this is the Best Thai Restaurant in Dallas.

Pros: Ambience

Posted 07/02/07

good taste great decoration and best services. I had ever tried Thai food at this restaurant since 5 years ago. Now, everything look better especialy taste... I've been here again since last month to visiting my best friends in Dallas.

Posted 07/01/07

Good service and nice restaurant. I like " Shrimp Love Scallops" . The taste is great. I will come back again for this plate. Please try it. I recommend. Vote for bkkcity at greenvile!!!!!!!!

Posted 07/01/07

Bangkok City is my favorite restraint on Greenville Ave. We go there at least once a week for lunch. Joe is a great host and makes everyone feel special. Our entire work group agrees that Bangkok City has the best Thai food in Dallas. The regular menu items are wonderful but the recently added daily specials are great. Monday I had one of the best fish meals ever; a red snapper fillet covered in vegetables and a basil sauce with crispy basil leaves on top.
Everyone near Greenville Ave. should put this in their restraint rotation.

Posted 06/28/07

I can't believe that someone doesn't believe whatever reviews come in. New owner has SO improved the food in this restaurant that everyone that we have taken there has loved it and returned. Person that disbelieves the reviews should eat there immediately.

Posted 06/28/07

This is one of the best Thai restaurants in Dallas with excellent Fish dishes with good price. Deep fried whole Red Snapper in garlic sauce (#43) was very tasty and crispy blending well with steam rice. The setting is quite quaint and friendly atmosphere. Bangkok City is always my first choice for Thai food.

Pros: Ambience, Service, Taste

Cons: Parking

Posted 06/28/07

This has to be some bogus info going on here! Not 5 reviews, but 21 reviews in 4 days. Someone needs to check out the dates on the reviews. The busiest restaurants in Dallas don't get that many reviews in a month. Try keepin it real.

Pros: Give me some real info

Cons: Give me some real info

Posted 06/27/07

All dishes are very good example Thai dumping ,Thai shirmp rolls,satay chicken and Bangkok City Shirmp.Clean ,friendly and very good service

Pros: good service

Cons: no

Posted 06/26/07

A traditional Thai kitchen reflects,in its layout and its contents ,both the living conditions of this tropical country and its basic cooking styles. that I can feel every time I has sit in bangkokciy and testing on food that I has order especially KWITIAOW PHAD THAI Thai -fried noodles The country 's basic fried noodle dish.Quick and easy to prepare,it is usually eaten as a secondary rather than as a main dish
and KHAO NIAOW MA MUANG (Sticky rice with mangoes) was so very good ,you have to try by your self but for me I think Food and service was so perfect!!!!! I Love Bangkok City

Posted 06/25/07

Been to this restaurant several times with friends -- always a good experience. Food reminds me of trips to Bangkok and northern Thailand. Try the papaya salad -- tender, juicy and a little spicy. Get there early - parking can be a challenge. Staff is very friendly - don't be hesitant to make special requests or to talk to the owner.

Pros: Good atmosphere and authentic cuisine

Cons: limited parking

Posted 06/24/07

My friend recommended me for the restaurant when I came in town. I really love it. The best was fish. I don't really think that I like fish until I tried it here. Crispy and a little sweet sour and spicy, Pla rad prik, was the best. The desert was great. Love their sweet rice. I love the atmosphere as well. Before I left town, I came back again and this time I just had a quick lunch, Pad Thai. I loved the service and food. Very fast and nice service. I wish I can go there very often.

Pros: Great food, test yummy

Cons: a little crownded on weekend

Posted 06/24/07

Thai restaurant in my mind is Bangkok city. I like thai food and special menu is kua kai.The beautiful restaurant in Dallas and there are many special menu for people to try them. So I wanna tell that food is delicious....

Posted 06/24/07

LOVE THIS RESTAURANT! I've taken friends and family there to try it out and ALL of them have walked away AMAZED with how delicious the food is!!! I can't stress enough how flavorful the dishes are! Everything is affordably priced, the atmosphere is romantic and casual and the service is PERFECT!!! A MUST TRY!

Pros: Real Thai atmosphere, Service and GREAT, GREAT FOOD!!!!

Cons: tried to find it but not yet

Posted 06/24/07

You will find the best Thai cuisine at Bangkok City! I tried a little bit of everything with the Combination Platter. Crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside, the Bangkok City Shrimp is highly recommended. Tom Yum soup was pleasingly spiced and mouth-watering. The Curry Duck with authentic, savory flavor has pineapple and tomato, just the way they make it in Thailand. Give this fine restaurant a try...the first bite will get you hooked!! Thanks for reading.

Posted 06/24/07

I like thai food very much. Just special for me that labkai. I like this reestaurant so beautiful place and nice guys.I vote to five stars for eveything......Thanks for good restaurant

Posted 06/24/07

I love Thai food, so I love to try many Thai restaurants in Japan and in Dallas. My friends in SMU told me about Bangkokcity near campus is the best thai food. I love Volcano shimp and Pad Thai. Volcano shimp is the best.Don't ask for spicy if you never try Thai food before. Lunch Special is huge for $5.95with soup or salad and egg roll.

Posted 06/23/07

I'm in love with Thai food. and always go to Bangkok city on Greenville. my favorite dishes are papaya salad and spicy beef salad, but do not orget to try all appertizers , basil noodle so great and tasty fried whole fish. also dessert is very Yummy!! waitstaff so freindly. if you think about Thai food , this is the best place to go.

Posted 06/23/07

I am thai. I ask my friend to go thai restaurant. Then last night I went to bangkok city on greenville.
It is good food and cheap too for me. I want to order thai food like thai-thai such as appetizers and entrees served at the same time. I like pad thai and pad gra prow.

Pros: good service

Cons: less parking

Posted 06/23/07

I moved to Dallas several years ago. I was looking for good Thai restaurant in Dallas, so I tried many Thai restaurants in Dallas and Plano. My friends invited me to have dinner at Bangkokcity. I liked Chicken Satay and Thai dumpling.They were so good. The red snapper crispy fried and topping with fresh basil sauce was outstanding. Now I find my favorite Thai restaurant.

Posted 06/23/07

My favourite Thai food in Bangkok City is Panang Curry. I have tried the Panang Curry from many places, but this is the best. After my favourite dish, I always have the sticky rice with mango. It's awesome!!!

Posted 06/23/07

My family and I've been there couple times. The food was very tasty! I highly recommend the Crab meat fried rice; they use good quality crab meat. We also liked the soup very much; It's called somewhat tomyumkun. It's has shrimp and spicy. Don't forget to have sticky rice with mango after the meal. It's totally wonderful. We love the atmostphere of this restaurant. It's kinda relax and comfortable. We'll go there agian.

Posted 06/22/07

In my opinion, the best for Thai food is not just good food, but the hospitality is very important. Bangkokcity has great food and wonderful service.

Posted 06/22/07

Let you imagine while sit back and make your self at home with originally Thai food taste. It's really wonderful day everytime i go. I enjoy to order my favourite food such as Tom Yam Kung, Tom Kha Kai or Pad Thai ......etc. I also like Thai style, friendly environment and especially services.

Posted 06/22/07

In the past 20 year ago I never thought I gonna find a good Thai restaurant that make me feel comfortable to sit ting down and eat But now I can tell to myself that Bangkok City on Greenville was my number one Thai restauraut I want to come again and again just because I can have the real Thai food here.especially crab fried
rice and Fish (Pla Gratiem)
please enjoy your self with Thaifood was the best !!!!!
ThomasC7

Posted 06/22/07

Bangkokcity restaurant is very close to my house. Normally I love to try many Thai restaurants in Dallas,but Bangkokcity is my favorite restaurant. My husband loves Thai dumpling, but my favorite loves Basil fish. The price is not expensive to have a party with my family. Their wait staffs are so friendly.

Posted 06/21/07

I love this place. Their food is spicy delicious, and wait staffs are nice. Try volcano shrimp or chicken you can't get these dishes some where else, and it's totally light my fire. You can choose from 1 to 4 level of spicy, but I usually go for 8 :). eiei. Also, their Tom Yum and Tom Kha soups are the best I've ever tried. Bangkok City Greenview rock! You got me: 10 stars :)

Posted 06/21/07

Great price!!!!
I just came from Thailand, so I 'm looking for the restaurant that make me feel like.....I'm in Thailand. Bangkokcity is the best place to try Thai food. It is very reasonable price.....

Pros: reasonable price

Cons: a few parking

Posted 06/21/07

This restaurant has two concept, the first one is the lunch concept. I reccomended food will be lunch special with the cheap price, but the food quality is wonderful. And, the second one is comfortable dinner, you can start with the tasty appetizers, follow by many choices of main dish, and finish with the cold or warm Thai dessert. I believe that you will like this place.

Pros: Tasty food and good atmosphere

Posted 06/20/07