$$ - average
Thai
Fresh, tasy Thai food
Spoon Thai is a small restaurant with an entirely wood-covered interior. The service is pleasant and helpful in determining what is vegetarian.
Added by Dave Rolsky on Mar 11 03 (updated Jan 28 04)
Reviews
When you order really good spicy food, there is usually a perfect balance of flavor......but here, there was no such balance. The veg-roll appetizers were really bland and we could barely finish them (although the dipping sauce was quite delicious). The food had a weird aftertaste that left me with a stomach ache, and although the portion sizes were generous, I did not WANT to take home leftovers. When I dislike a restaurant, I usually give it another chance...but being that everybody I ate with was complaining of post-dinner stomach aches, I will probably never eat here again.
My wife and I both loved the chive dumplings, which were large freshly made dumplings with a thick outer layer of rice flour dough around a filling almost entirely of fresh chives.
The food here is decent, but they are not very forthcoming about what is in stuff. I am still looking for a great Thai place in Chicago that I can trust to make vegan food.