- Restaurants |
- Nightlife |
- Shopping |
- Movies |
- All
Aroy Thai Cuisine
Category: Restaurants Thai Thai [Edit]
506 SW 4th AvePortland, OR 97204
Neighborhoods: Southwest Portland, Downtown
(503) 274-7004
- Hours:
Mon-Thu 11 am - 8 pm
Fri-Sat 11 am - 9 pm
- Attire:
- Casual
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- No
- Parking:
- Street
- Price Range:
-
$
- Good for Groups:
- No
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good For:
- Lunch, Dinner
- Noise Level:
- Quiet
- Has TV:
- No
- Caters:
- No
K.M. L. said: "This wonderful space has been home to several Thai restaurant incarnations over the years, but Kinara Thai Bistro has stuck the longest probably because the food is just delicious and the prices so reasonable. For $22.50 I was able to…" read more »
23 reviews for Aroy Thai Cuisine
23 reviews in English
-
Review from Andrea R.
5/4/2012
Ate here while visiting Portland. Cute little Thai place with good food. Good size portions, too. Waitress was young and slightly awkward but very sweet and attentive. Also, you get to choose how spicy (1-4), but keep in mind it's Thai spicy, so maybe go one below your comfort level unless you know you can handle it.
-
Review from Tina S.
11/13/2011
The food is good here, although it is different from other Thai places I've been, maybe it's a different style of Thai food... The Pad See Yew was very peanutty, Tom Yum Soup was good, but not the best I've had, and their Tom Yum Seafood Soup was way different from the Tom Yum Soup, tasting of mainly cilantro, which was overwhelming. I had the Pad Kee Mao, which was prob the best thing next to the tom yum soup, but I've had better...
PROS
Great service
Good serving sizes
Good flavoring
Cons
Hair in food
Dry food left on "clean" cups and utensils -
Review from RR G.
Southwest Portland, Portland, OR
3/7/2012
One of my top five lunch spots downtown. Down home food in comfortable but plain setting. I especially like the panang salmon, pad see yu, green curry, and pumpkin curry. Friendly service (very limited English usually). Brown rice available as option lately.
-
Review from Joey C.
Sisters, OR
1/17/2012 1 Check-in Here
Really yummy! We had the Tom Yum soup and salad rolls and they were both amazing. Spicy and lots of fresh flavor... heard the green curry is the best.
-
Review from Ryan D.
Seattle, WA
7/29/2011
Yummy! A great authentic thai place especially the sukiyaki. I recommedn the thai style over the soup style...but to each his/her own. I ordered the dish with the shrimp and received a mountainous place of perfectly cooked noodles, white cabbage, many many shrimp, and a very flavorful sauce.
This is a hole in the wall place...so a step up from a food stand but the prices are very fair. I paid $10 bucks but for shrimp and lots of them!
Staff are very friendly and service is fast. I am guessing family owned with the father as the cook.
I cant wait to go back next time I am there! -
Review from Angela P.
Mckinleyville, CA
8/18/2011
My boyfriend and I were desperate to find a thai place in the city. We got lost about 20 times trying to find one and we stumbled upon this place. Boy was I excited we did. The place was empty when we came in and after perusing the menu, I decided on the Red Mango Curry in the hottest flavor they had and my boyfriend got the curry with Salmon. We also got the egg rolls. The girl who took our order spoke very little english and I was nervous our order would be wrong but she nailed it and we enjoyed EVERY MINUTE of our meal. It was delicious and plenty of food for two starving people to eat. We also got the Thai Ice Tea, yummy! My curry was hot but not hot enough for my fiery tongue, but I loved it.
if I'm in the city again, I am definitely coming here again, such a reasonable and delicious place! -
Review from Cassie C.
Sunnyvale, CA
11/20/2011 1 Check-in Here
Food is decent, and HUGE portions. Low review is because I got major food poisoning afterward. I've eaten some pretty gross street food before, without being food poisoned, so there must have been something outdated - possibly chicken that caused my reaction.
-
Review from Kenny P.
1/7/2011
The atmosphere of this restaurant is not luxury or something you would want to go in the first place.
However, the taste of the food substitute it all. I think their Thai food is pretty good (my friends who are Thai also agree with me )
My favorite here is Suki (sounds japanese, but it's not). It's like a white napa cabbage stir fried with glass noodle and chicken in a special thai red sauce. This one is really good. I always come here every now and then to get this menu. They have dry and soup version. I like the dry version better.
another good one is Pad Khee Mao (seafood). So yummy and the taste is rich !!! try it yourself -
Review from Stephanie S.
Albany, CA
4/20/2011
YUUUUUUMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My family and I were visiting from Berkeley and ended up getting caught up in some protest march...
Been to and through enough of those in my life that I just kiiiiiinda dont care any more...
anyways...back to the food!
They were so child friendly and even the older cook man in the back brought my daughter some fresh mango! So sweet! (Both the man and the act of kindness)
The food was DELICIOUS!! I got the typical pad see ew and ususally I get bored with it half way through but this one made me want to eat more and more and more, I finished my plate! 0:- )
They were pretty quick with service, always served with a smile.
Next time we're back in the area we're DEF goin back !!
I didnt understand why the place was so empty...after our meal I wanted to run out into the streets and yell "DONT YOU PPL KNOW WHAT YOU'RE MISSING HERE?!?!?!?!?"
:) -
Review from Andy N.
Portland, OR
11/6/2010
As a SE Asian, I know exactly what is authentic and what is not. This place is EXCELLENT and is fully authentic. They don't remove fish sauce from their recipes (unless asked) and retain all the 'pungent' flavours and smells true to the dish. This is also the only place I know that keeps out "prik nam pla" on the table. It's a little container of cut up chilis in fish sauce. This is a very authentic Thai condiment and I recommend it on your food.
The service here is really nice and I've always felt welcomed even if they were busy. The prices are a little expensive for Thai but I guess the central downtown location is the reason for that.
I highly recommend their pad Thai! This is how it's supposed to taste. No oily red super sweet sauce like most other places. Maybe Americans might not like the true taste of pad thai but once you acquire the SE Asian flavour palette, you'll come to savour and enjoy the full taste. -
Review from Olivia T.
Updated - 1/21/2009
Ay ay ay ay...
What the hell happened to Aroy?
Did it change owner or something?
My Mussamun curry was really bland and doesn't have much flavor...
The place is dirty..food on the floor and they serve limited lunch menu now.
You can order typical pad thai, pad kee mao, pad se eew, but for curry you can only get what they serve that day for the lunch special.
Now they accept debit/credit card, but their price is also went up.
This is just too sad :(.Listed in: Asian Invasion...
1 Previous Review: Show all »
-
3/8/2008
This place has special place in my heart. My mom always wants to eat here, their food are very very… Read more »
-
-
Review from Marina C.
Vancouver, WA
4/9/2010
This place is slightly weird insomuch that the first time I went here I was more or less on a chaperoning mission to the first date of two gay guys who were my friends. There are some fond memories of it, thus, as it was at the end of an insane day with lots of driving on the coast down from Bremerton, too. As a note, we later showed up with like a party of twelve people and overran the restaurant and they were super-awesome about it, splitting dishes for all of us, giving us extra on the appetizers, keeping the table thoroughyl stocked on tea and water and humouring all the requests and questions and chattering of a bunch of twenty-something nerdgrrls conquering their restaurant for a solid two and a half hours. The first time I came there were five people, and a similarly excellent experience in terms of service
The service is unquestionably excellent, then, but it's also that the food itself is among the best in a Thai restaurant I've had--the Thai restaurant in my hometown I think is slightly better, but it has new owners these days so that's probably not applicable anymore. The curries and all noodle dishes here are excellent, and the appetizers delectable. I haven't had vegetarian food here and it might not be of the same quality, I was also told the tofu is a bit bland on the downside. But generally this place hits the spot very well, and is quite centrally located in Portland. Look across the street from the overprized purple Octapus. -
Review from CC H.
9/4/2011
We went in a group of 7 and had a great experience. The food is delicious and the price is very reasonable. The waitress was very attentive, making sure that our dishes were all clean and filling our waters every 5-10 minutes. We tried basil beef, green curry, pad Thai, hot and sour soup... Which were all very authentic and good. Definitely would recommend it to others!
-
Review from Songphon M.
Portland, OR
3/9/2011 1 Check-in Here
In Thai language, Aroy (pronounced as "AR-ROI") means delicious. I have to say that the restaurant delivers a very delectable and authentic Thai food. The restaurant is the so-called mom-and-pop operation as the owners (uncle & aunty) cook each dish per order by themselves. I highly recommend Thai-style "Dried" Suki. in fact, the name "suki" is borrowed from the Japanese/Chinese food with the same name where you have a soup with vegetable and meat. For this dish, the suki ingredients are cooked on a wok until the soup is almost dried. It is served warm with the special chili sauce. You can have it cooked with chicken, seafood or tofu (or other kinds of meat or vegetables - ask the server).
-
Review from Bunneh L.
Seattle, WA
4/4/2007
Aroy Thai is a little hole in the wall, but it's damn good. I almost always order the Chicken Basil, and it's the best rendition of that dish I've ever had anywhere. (Even better than Mae Phim in Seattle, which everyone up here thinks is God's gift to Thai food.) The portion is huge. I rarely finish mine. The chicken is perfectly cooked, moist, and tender. It also comes with onions, peppers, and mushrooms in a delicious chili sauce. My mouth is watering just thinking about it.
My other favorite dish is the noodle soup. You can get it with seafood or chicken. But I usually just ask for veggies. It's so good! A perfect cure for a hangover.
The service here is very pleasant and friendly and the prices are cheap. What more can you ask for? -
Review from Patricia W.
Boise, ID
6/20/2011
As a Portland native who has since moved away, and been gone for 11 years, this is one place I long for. I have been around the world and the Pad Thai here is the one that set the bar so high for me. I have not found better Thai food anywhere...even Thailand. If you are downtown and want awesome food in a relaxed setting, this is the place. I'm looking forward to my next trip back so I can chow down on some Aroy Thai.
-
Review from Corwin M.
Portland, OR
5/2/2007
I absolutely love this place, probably more than any other Thai restaurant in downtown. The portions are huge, the curries straddle that razor thin line between smoothness and pungency (get the musaman!), and there's no skimping on the vegetables. Not only that, but you can tell this chicken didn't come from the Meatrix, or at least isn't that awful rubber chicken you get in some places. It's a little cramped, so I avoid going here during lunch, but it's fine in the late afternoon and early evening if you're a fellow misanthrope like me. Another thing, the waitress remembered me when I returned one night after having stopped going there for a year!
Listed in: Cheap Eats: Downtown
-
Review from Liz G.
6/19/2008
I'm not sure what all these four and five star reviews are about, this place is nasty. As soon as we walked in I had a bad feeling about it- the warm, stifling air, the foul smell, I knew it wasn't going to be good. I ordered the pad thai, thinking that was a fairly safe choice, and my friend got the fried rice with the same idea. Both were awful. I'm prety sure they used instant rice, and it was bland and mushy. The pad thai had a strange flavor and left me feeling sick for the rest of the afternoon. Next time I want thai for lunch I'll hit up the carts. The food is better and cheaper, and they don't smell bad.
-
Review from Suzanne S.
Watertown, MA
12/28/2007
I like this place. I came here because I read the yelp reviews. I keep coming back because it's at the place on 4th avenue where I get off my first bus home and transfer to my second bus. I can go in, get some pad thai and within minutes get back on the bus. The woman who works here is really sweet. The pad thai is ok--not great-- but I still enjoy the experience. I only wish I was downtown at lunchtime because the lunch prices are cheaper than dinner prices. They now take credit cards.
-
Review from Travis L.
Salem, OR
8/10/2011
The food was good but nothing special. The restaurant is clean but not terribly inviting. The service was adequate but not warm. I enjoyed my experience but I probably won't go back.
-
Review from sean r.
Sacramento, CA
3/13/2011
One of my co-workers loves this place so i've been here a handful of times. I've tried about 4 different items, a couple of them twice and i've had each item done much better somewhere else. A couple of the food items are not even really something I can finish eating. One of the weakest thai places I've been too.. I wish I didn't have to go here... The people seem nice enough, but they don't wait on you/refill your drinks. It's more expensive than other, cheaper, nicer thai places in the area.
-
Review from Onn J.
Portland, OR
1/7/2011
Best authentic Thai food downtown, most americans won't be able to eat it. So if you're white, you might hate the food. Sorry for being so blunt.
-
Review from Krit U.
Portland, OR
2/15/2010
10 years ago I was a PSU student. Aroy was an awesome spot for low a income student like myself. High quality food with reasonable price and HUGH amount to fill up a fat ass like me for 2 meals. Today I'm a Thai restaurant owner as well. Went to the place the other day just to collect my old memory. The food was as good as ever. I had to tell the owner, I called him "Uncle Aroy" (I don't even know his name after 10 years LOL), not to make too big of a plate for me. Ya I wouldn't mind paying full price for half order. And that half order still fill me up. /;-/ Thank you again Uncle Aroy for feeding me for the last 10 years. I love your restaurant, well, next to mine of course.
