Pagoda Thailand

Trendy Thai restaurant in Brooklyn, NY. My friends come here all the time and love it! Finally it was their opportunity to give us a taste of Pagoda.

The restaurant is crowded which is a good sign. Maybe that's why the service is not on top of things. Reason being because they forgot to ask my wife and I what we wanted to order. We where wondering why we where not asked yet, realizing that 13 of our party of 15 had already ordered. We ordered last and our food came first, those that ordered first got their plates when we where almost done.

The spicy sea food soup, shrimp fried rice and spring rolls were good.
If I would live in this area, it would probably not be my favorite Thai spot.
But if we would visit our friends again we wouldn't have an issue coming here again.

We met a friend here recently for dinner, and while this certainly wasn't the best Thai food or service we've had, it was pretty good and we enjoyed ourselves. The service was spotty (and there were only a few other folks in the place), we had to get the waitress's attention multiple times for different things, but it was adequate and friendly. The food was pretty good, definitely tasty and a bit different. We started with the "Pagoda" appetizer. I don't normally like "sticky rice", just don't enjoy the texture, but the flavor was nice and I ended up enjoying it anyways. The "Pha Ram" and "Pad Kee Mao" had just the right balance of heat and flavor for us.
Positives: Good food, good balance of spiciness/heat and flavor.
Negatives: Service was spotty and unresponsive.

Definitely not a score in my book. I got delivery from here and, while it wasn't repulsive, it really wasn't good.

Mee Krob: Super saucy to the point where it was almost soggy. There were only 2 pieces of shrimp in the entire thing.

Shrimp steamed dumplings: SO dense, I'll bet they weighed a good half lb each (and they were small). They just didn't taste good either.

Garden salad: Big and pretty fresh but really nothing to it. The peanut sauce was just okay...there was no kick to it.

Why two stars then instead of 1? The lettuce and cucumbers in the salad were fresh and the delivery was super quick.

Very economical, my boyfriend and I were amazing almost every time we went how little our bill was after full appetizer meals etc.

Food is very fresh and delicious, I recommend steering away from the Pad Thai here... I know that's everyone's go to and it's pretty good but their other dishes are what really gets me going. Spring rolls order the vegetable. It's BYOB which is always fun and has a cute little garden space... very bare but it's always nice to sit outside on a nice day.

Don't even bother. I don't know why I have gone to, and ordered from, this place multiple times. Probably out of pure laziness. But the last time I was there was the last straw. I ordered a soup with pork and it was disgusting. The meat was rough, the soup had no flavor whatsoever. Also the vegetables in the soup were terrible and not cooked long enough.

The only thing that place makes that's decent are the appetizers.

If you're looking for some good Thai in the area go to Cheers or Hachi.

For other Asian food go to M Noodle or Brooklyn Seoul.

Wandering down Graham Ave. drunk on a Friday night*, I stumbled into this little gem of a restaurant.

I was pleasantly surprised with how great the food was. I had the shrimp pad Thai and she had shrimp pad see ew; mine was good but hers was better. The prices are amazing, too: $22 for both of us. The service was good and the food came out fast. Why all the haters?

Although I will concede that it was the most peculiar selection of music I've heard in a long, long time.

+++++++++++

*After too many happy hour drinks, I think I may have left my dignity there. If you find it, please return. No questions asked.

The pad thai is total crap! It's way too tangy! Slow your roll with that lemon juice, pal! One bite made my eyelid twitch! The decorations are nice, I guess, but you can't eat a decoration, so who cares.

*Holy Crap!*

Wow. I don't even know where to begin.

I walked in and stood at the counter for a full 8 minutes while the staff bustled around without even making eye contact with me when I went to pick my order up. I was waiting as long as I could just see how long it would take these guys to ask me why I was standing in their establishment. Finally, I gave up as my stomach rumbled and said to the next person to breeze by "hey, maybe you can help me?" he looked at me like I was barking like a dog, so I preceded with "I just want to pick up my to-go order..." then, finally it sinks in "ooooh, yes, what did you order?" uhhhm okay, that sucked.

Get home and sit down to the sorriest excuse of calamari I've ever seen. $5 for exactly (yeah, I counted...) 7 rings of soggy, over cooked squid, served with a thimble sized portion of vinegared down chili sauce. Uhhhm... Okay... Wtf...


Popped open my mixed seafood pad thai. Instant pine-sol smell. Wtf, come on, don't use artificial lemon flavoring! I dig around to find 3 mussels in shell, which were green in color, 3 shrimp that were over cooked as well as 3 rings of chewy squid. Whatever, I began eating anyways, because it tasted relatively good, sans the "seafood".

Here is comes people, the kicker. I get towards the bottom half and notice some scallops. My brain is right in the middle of thinking "oh, nice...maybe this will be goo-" then it hits my palate and my teeth separate the horrid raw flesh. Yep, thanks for trying to feed me what I can safely say was NOT sushi grade raw scallop. And thanks for putting them in the bottom of the meal so I could consume half before realizing my certain demise.

Perhaps I am being dramatic, but...
I'd rather burn a $20 bill and starve for the night than ever EVER give these people my business again. Thanks for the ticket to the bathroom and for wasting the 12 hours of my life I spent in there that I can never get back.

Not bad, not good. Just meh.

Was waiting on my prescription at the nearby pharmacy,, walked past and saw "6.95 lunch special"... That doesn't include a drink. I chose the soup instead of the salad because of my sore throat; it was MSG flavored water, with a few raw vegetables (onions, green peppers, tomatoes?). The Pad Thai was OK. Overcooked, bland noodles with a bunch of sweet sauce, sprinkled on peanuts, and no more than 3 small pieces of chicken. I asked for hot sauce, hoping it would spice things up, but it hardly helped.

Maybe the other dishes would have been more exciting. Guess I'll never find out.

The worst service I have ever had at a restaurant.

My fiance' and I went in for lunch one day; when we were sat, the place was COMPLETELY EMPTY, we were seriously the only people there. About 4 or 5 more tables of people were seated while we were waiting for our food, and get this, EVERY SINGLE TABLE WAS SERVED THEIR FOOD BEFORE US!!!! We had to sit there and watch at least 10 other people eat their freshly served lunches, before we decided that the service was complete bullshit and got up to leave.

The worst part is that no one working there, not even management, even bothered to apologize. Needless to say, we have not gone back and never will.

Don't waste your time on this place, it sucks donkey balls.