Chat Thai Randwick

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Overall Rating

6.9

Chat Thai Randwick Recommended based on its 29 reviews
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Quality
8.1
Food
7
Ambience
6.1
Service
6.6
Value
6.4

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Chat Thai Randwick Address

Street Level, 222A Carrington Rd
Randwick NSW 2031
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Chat Thai Randwick Menu
Chat Thai Randwick Website


Chat Thai Randwick Contact Info

(02) 9399 5610

The Manager on (02) 9399 5610 info@chatthai.com.au


Cuisines

Thai


Prices

Average Meal Price $25 - based on one entree & main course only

General Price
Entrees $2.00-$11.00
Mains $10.90-$26.00

Banquet
Banquet $25.00-$30.00
Min No of Guests 10

Prices last updated:  08/2011


Bookings

Bookings are essential
Maximum group booking size is 10


Rooms & Capacity

No of Seats 40


Hours

Lunch
Sat to Sun Noon - 3pm
Dinner
Mon to Sun 5pm - 10pm
Remarks
Open throughout Xmas and New Year!


BYO

Corkage Per Person $2.50 Wine Selection
Beer and wine will be available for sale in early December, 2011.


Entertainment/Live Music

Smooth lounge and chillax music for your easy digestion.


Specialties

  • Som Dtum: Shredded green papaya pounded in the mortar and pestle with lime juice, dried shrimps, peanuts, green beans, bird’s eye chilli and cherry tomatoes.
  • Nahm Dtok: Char grilled beef rump sliced then tossed lightly in lime juice, red onions, pounded roasted rice and roasted chilli flakes. Finished with shredded mint, shallots and coriander.
  • Jungle Curry: Our famous curry made with a spicy red curry paste of galangal, kaffir limes, lemongrass, garlic and long red chillies. The aromatic paste is simmered with chicken stock, apple eggplants and bamboo shoots then finished off with finely sliced kaffir lime leaves and thai basil.
  • Bpla Choo Chee: Crisp fried Snapper or poached perch fillet in rich red curry made from a slightly sweet paste of galangal, kaffir limes, lemongrass, palm sugar, garlic and roasted red chillies. Finished with finely sliced kaffir lime leaves and basil.

Serves

Serves Lunch
Serves Dinner
Serves Takeaway
Food Delivery

Delivery

Delivers to Randwick, Kingsford, Kensington, Maroubra, Bronte, Clovelly, South Coogee, Coogee, Queens Park, Waverley, Tamarama and Daceyville.


Classifications

Restaurants
Takeaways
Function Venues


Categories

Delivery, Pick Up and Catering
Catering

Dietary Standards
Cater to Special Diets

Dining Atmospheres
Family Dining
Good For Groups
Hip and Trendy

Dining Features
Air Conditioning
BYO
Child Friendly
Child Friendly Highchairs
Outdoor Dining
Pet Friendly

View
District View


Payment Types Accepted

Amex
Mastercard
Visa

Parking

Ample or Convenient Parking
Parking Suggestions
Please park in adjacent streets such as Dolphin St or Coogee St.


Established in 1993



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Chat Thai Randwick Awards

2011

SMH Good Food Guide: Top 10 Best Sweets in Sydney


2011

SMH Everyday Eats: Winner of 3 stars out of 3


2011

Sydney Magazine: Best of Thaitown


2011

Sydney Magazine: Best Thai Sweets


2011

Urbanspoon: Top 10 Best Restaurants, New South Wales


2011

Urbanspoon: Top 5 Best Cheap Eats, New South Wales


2011

Time Out Sydney: Top 5 Thai Restaurants, Sydney


2011

Time Out Sydney: Top 10 Readers' Choice Cheap Eats


2011

OzChinese: Winner No.1 Sydney Restaurant


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Overview of Chat Thai Randwick

The first Chat Thai restaurant, founded by Amy Chanta, opened its doors in 1989 on Liverpool St, Darlinghurst and was immediately a roaring success. Since then four more Chat Thai restaurants and takeaways have opened throughout Sydney. The name “Chat Thai” simply means “Thai Nation”. But the English meaning “to converse in a familliar and informal manner” is also what Chat Thai is all about: casual and relaxed dining with authentic Thai food made to be shared with friends and family.

Over the years our principle aims haven’t changed much - we still try to serve great, fresh and authentic food in an elegant, yet simple environment, and to also provide a helpful friendly service with excellent value for money.

Chat Thai is committed to excellence in Thai cuisine. We adhere to the strictest safety standards and are fully audited by Foodcheck.



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    8.4 Highly Recommended

    Quality  9      Food  9      Ambience  7      Service  7      Value  10     


    This is my reliable Thai local and despite my patronage over the last 10 years, it occurred to me that I had never written a review.

    The food here is an absolute delight if you're in the mood for something quick, cheap and tasty. For me, the standouts are:
    - fresh spring rolls
    - ginger fish
    - massaman
    - kana mu grob (pork belly and chinese kale) and
    - sticky rice with custard

    Thankfully, the menu also acquires additions somewhat regularly, which keeps the regulars interested. I'm currently in a gastronomical love affair with the kao soi (stewed chicken in a curry broth with noodles) and the goong opb woon sen (grilled king prawns with glass noodles).

    I want to stress that there isn't anything pretentious about this place. You may need to wait for a seat, it's cramped during peak hour (from 6.30pm) and very occasionally you do have to remind them about your dish (if it's taking >20-25 minutes, ask!). Be that as it may, I always leave here full, with money left over in my wallet and I know the staff are always trying their best.

    Jan 22, 2012 

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    ChaiQueen
    4


    8.2 Recommended

    Quality  9      Food  9      Ambience  8      Service  7      Value  8     


    Hard to get a seat but well worth it if you can. A bit fast paced to pump the customers through but the food is great.

    Jan 14, 2012 

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    Sydney Food Nut
    4


    8.2 Recommended

    Quality  8      Food  9      Ambience  8      Service  9      Value  7     


    Authentic great food with prompt service. We had dinner and were served our meals within ten mins. The restaurant is tiny and very popular.

    Nov 19, 2011 

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    Richgold
    24


    3.2 Below Average

    Quality  3      Food  4      Ambience  4      Service  1      Value  4     


    Surely this is the most overrated restaurant in Sydney's East?! And that's saying something.

    Upon arrival my girlfriend and I were seated at the wall-end of one of those long communal tables and it soon became apparent that if you want any service at this 'restaurant' this is the last place you should sit. We ordered 2 entrées and 1 main and it took us 3 hours to get out of there. This is certainly not due to it being a fine dining experience, nor is it the cheap and cheerful, quick bite we were hoping for.

    The 3 hours included 30 minutes before they took our order or even looked in our direction, an hour before they responded to our numerous requests for water, and when they eventually brought our main they failed to bring with it the essential rice we had ordered to accompany a curry. We waited patiently for about 10 minutes before making the first of our 4 requests for the supposed Thai staple.

    Forty minutes later, when our curry was stone cold the rice finally arrived. This possibly only occurred because I eventually took it upon myself to disrupt and squeeze past the overcrowded rows of fellow dinners on my way up to the counter to demand it. Adding to our frustration during this 40 minutes we had watched the waitress we tried repeatedly to appeal to serve numerous other rice orders. What the?!

    Needless to say, by that stage we were famished but sadly noticed that the people beside us had also ordered the Massaman curry and had left 4 large gristly chunks in their bowl. Mmmm, appetising.

    Obviously, we had no intention of tipping after this frustrating experience but the rude and surly waiter took in upon himself to keep the change. I don't think so buddy!

    Please do not bother with this place. They are clearly profiting from their captive audience in the middle of suburbia. Do yourself a favour and take the 10 or 15 minutes walk down to Coogee Bay Road or up somewhere else. To say this place disappoint is an understatement!

    Nov 05, 2011 

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    Pensacola
    1


    0 of 1 reader found the following review helpful

    1.8 Not Recommended

    Food  3      Ambience  2      Service  1      Value  1     


    Extremely poor service, very rude waitress!

    I had dinner with my friend tonight @ Chat Thai Randwick. We ordered a papaya salad, red curry chicken and Chargrill pork shoulder (no. 15 in the menu).

    We expected the salad would come first. However, the red curry chicken arrived First! The curry sauce was excellent. The chicken in there tasted like cooked in salt water prior putting into the curry. There is a large room for improvement!

    It took about 25 minutes for the salad to come. It is very unusual. The salad was tasteless except chilli sauce.

    Another 10 minutes, another waitress put down a dish. It was chargrill squid! I asked that waitress Politely as we ordered chargrill pork shoulder. However, the waitress who helped us to take the order dashed to us saying that we did order chargrill Squid, no 51 on the menu and she had repeated the orders with us!

    We did not argue any further but only asked for the menu to have a look again as we are sure we ordered no 15, chargrill pork shoulder. At the time she passed us the menu she still kept saying that we ordered no. 15 the squid. We then pointed out no.15: chargrill pork shoulder. That rude waitress just took away the wrong order. She did Not apologize or say a word to explain what was going to happen. Another 15 minutes, our pork shoulder came. To be honest, it was delicious.

    We were really disappointed to the service, esp from that very rude waitress.
    I got my doc. The server is SaiChon and the cashier is Kae. That rude gal took our order and sort out the bill for us.


    Response from Management:
    Dear Peter,

    I emailed you regarding this incident on July 25, but you did not reply. Did you get my message?

    In my email I said that I would like to thank you for bringing this problem to our attention. We place a positive customer experience as our highest priority and constantly review staff performance on a daily basis through live training, and on a weekly basis through after-hours training programs.

    Nevertheless, sometimes things go wrong and when they do we try our best to put it right as quickly as possible. On this occasion we identified the staff member responsible for the incident and it has been dealt with internally. Her conduct was completely unacceptable and does not represent the standards that we train our staff to uphold. We trust that you have eaten satisfactory meals at Chat Thai in the past and we can assure you that we will continue to do our best to ensure that our standards do not drop from the level you are accustomed to.

    Kind regards,
    Chat Thai Team

    Jul 18, 2011 

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    Peter M.
    7



    4.5 Below Average

    Food  7      Ambience  5      Service  1      Value  5     


    I don't usually write after a bad experience at a restaurant but I felt I had to with this experience. After calling to try book a table and being told by a rude man on the phone to just come in. My friend and I went to chat Thai only to be told there was no seats he then found us a seat outside and told us he would move us in when a sea became available which he of course forgot to do. When we were ordering we ordered the lemon grass fish and some noodles we asked for some extra lemongrass and the man started yelling at us in front of everyone tapping the sign asking us if we knew were we where , then when we asked if the food could come out at the same time he flat out said no. Good food horrible service maybe only for take away from now on.


    Response from Management:
    Dear Marina,

    Thank you for alerting us to this incident. This type of attitude from our staff is completely unacceptable and does not represent Chat Thai. We have worked hard over the past 25 years to create a warm and friendly atmosphere for all our customers so they can enjoy their food and their service. This is the key to our success and we will continue to work hard to produce that type of service for all our customers.

    Wee identified the person responsible for this problem and they no longer work for us at Chat Thai.

    Kind regards,
    Chat Thai Team

    May 17, 2011 

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    Marina87
    1


    6.5 Recommended

    Food  7      Ambience  7      Service  7      Value  5     


    Food was good, but I would have liked a bit more of a generous serve of duck in my main course. It was full of veg. But yes I would happily return.

    Feb 10, 2011 

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    J D.
    1


    4.8 Average

    Food  7      Ambience  3      Service  3      Value  6     


    While Chat Thai do some nice, slightly edgy dishes, the portions are a bit small and on the pricey side. My main issue with this place is frustrating inconsistency in service (possibly due to heaving activity out of such a small premise. Dining in can be very noisy and cramped (it was intended as a takeaway originally). The last two take away meals I have ordered have both been missing dishes, and the second time was over 30 mins later than specified for pick up. There is too much competition to put up with this inconsistency, especially on the thai front.

    Jan 21, 2011 

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    Dfet
    1


    8.3 Highly Recommended

    Food  9      Ambience  6      Service  9      Value  9     


    I love this place! I've been here 4 times already and so far I have not been disappointed. The food comes quickly and tastes really good too. My only problem with this place is that only half of the desserts ever seem to be available. Of the remaining desserts, however, the coconut ice cream is amazing!

    Aug 26, 2010 

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    El7
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    0 of 1 reader found the following review helpful

    4.3 Below Average

    Food  4      Ambience  4      Service  4      Value  5     


    Take away, rude on the phone, asked for little oil and the food was dripping with it. The food looks much better on the web than in real life, never again.

    Jun 19, 2010 

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