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User Reviews on Sailors Thai
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Our friends took us here, it was their favorite restaurant. We thought it was ok, nothing so fantastic and my husband thought the chairs were so uncomfortable he couldn't wait to leave.
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seriouslysydney -
See my reviews 3 , 11 April 2008
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Food 4 |
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Has this place changed hands recently? Used to go there fairly often and last night took a friend to show off great Thai. Usual overpriced, but can live with that if the food is really special. Most was fairly good, but took the waiter's recommendation and ordered the chicken (and potato!) curry. This is fine if you like very large lumps of boiled potato and aren't too fond of chicken - anyway, main complaint was how amazingly rude the waiters and management were when we suggested (actually very nicely) that it should have more chicken and less boiled spud. We were told three times (not so nicely) that it contained 200 gms of chicken - not bad for $37. Eventually grudgingly replaced, with reminder that we were getting more than 200gm this time. Still lots of boiled spuds. How much does chicken cost anyway?
Few other details, like not pouring single glass wine at the table (so what am I driinking anyway? at $15 a glass I like to see the bottle at least). But never again. That was ugly.
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lovetoeat999 -
See my reviews 1, 08 November 2007
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Food 9 |
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Food was great, especially tasting menu. Service was very good and helpful. You do expect that for the price of food, the ambience and decor would be a little more impressive. Not really the place to go for a special occasion but still great food.
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melovefood -
See my reviews 29, 06 October 2007
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Food 5 |
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Had been here many years ago and had a great tasting experience with wonderful service. The service was ok but not overly helpful and food apart from one dish very ordinary for the price, maybe we ordered the wrong things??
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arrieula -
See my reviews 1, 12 August 2007
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Food 9 |
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Sailors Thai is my best goto restaurant in Sydney. Probably 20 visits over 2 years and I have enjoyed it every single time. Food is fabulous, flavoursome, fresh, and fantastic. The long inside table is not everyones cup of tea but I enjoy it; brings the socialist out in me. Not the venue for a quiet romantic, for a great spot for just about everything else. Worth every bit of its one hat.
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arreynolds -
See my reviews 5, 02 July 2007
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Food 8 |
Ambience 7 |
Service 9 |
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Had an amazing lunch here with small group. Very attentive service but I guess it wasn't too busy.
The entree menu is to die for, great to share amongst the group. Loved the dressing on the oysters - yummmmm. Accidentally ate a chilli in the beef salad...
Mains were fresh, tasty and authentic with amazing ingredients. The spatchcock was absolutely divine; sweet and very tender. The blue eye curry and snapper special were delicious and the green beef curry not too different, but delish nonetheless. Loved the black sticky rice dessert - I could live on the caramelised coconut.
It's definitely pricey for what it is, but I do suppose you're paying for the location. A great lunch experience overall.
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purple_passion -
See my reviews 29, 28 April 2007
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Food 8 |
Ambience 4 |
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Value 3 |
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On a Wednesday night, my first experience here was shocking mostly because of the service. Will never come back although the food was good. Service was awful. The meals were a bit overpriced, but you could overlook that for the location.
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Phungy -
See my reviews 1, 12 March 2007
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Food 6 |
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Food - inventive, however, one of our dishes was missing a key ingredient (the squid) - delivered whilst halfway thought meal on separate place. Nothing overly spectacular, which I expect of dishes priced up to $45.
Ambience - table with view of car park. Thanks for that.
Service - very poor - waiters pouring wine and delivering dishes across table..... See 'waiting tables 101'. Wine list very average and higly marked up.
Value - $374 for four people - too expensive for a what was a very poor experience. Highly unrecommended - what a waste of time and money.
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relfish -
See my reviews 13, 10 March 2007
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Food 9 |
Ambience 8 |
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Value 8 |
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Went here with a small group. Staff were polite and attentive. The quality of food was amazing. I have never had thai as fresh and as clean as this before. I must say, we did have to go else where for an extra large dessert, as the portions are small, however the taste of the food was great. Try the crispy pork belly, you won't be disappointed. Will be back.
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msyummy -
See my reviews 9, 11 February 2007
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Food 8 |
Ambience 9 |
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Value 4 |
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Lunch here makes you feel like you're paying for location. It's not that the service isn't attentive or that the food isn't flavoured well, or innovative. For Thai, it's more that there is only so big a margin for a food from a genre like Thai where really, seasoning dominates any sort of produce. I am sure they choose the best duck eggs and the best pork belly but in the end, what I taste and what I can therefore compare to others, is still within a few degrees of the other best instances of Thai food that I have tasted. That said, the entree of Yamba prawns in betel leaves was lovely. You may ask how they wrapped the king sized Yamba prawns in a betel leave but the leaves were also XL sized too! And the dry red curry of crispy fish, pork belly and salted duck egg is a pretty out there dish, and it was indeed compelling. But surf and turf is not all that new, and the dry red flavours were familiar, yet sucks you in. I liked that there was no coconut milk in it at all but I think I tasted shredded coconut in there to add to the meatiness of the sauce.
It was good, don't get me wrong. The flavours were intense. It's one that you have to try for yourself but I guess I question entrees between $16-25 and mains $25-$45 in terms of value. The wine list is good. Some bargains and some good interesting wines, plus great range by the glass ($10-15). I like the Crawford Riesling wine (around $50/bottle). Hard to decide where I sit on this one. Glad I went is the best I can do. Also glad I didn't pay sums it up too.
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ultravixen -
See my reviews 84, 01 December 2006
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