Chat Thai - Circular Quay

Every now and then you walk into a restaurant that blows you away, and this was one of those occasions. To be honest, we were just looking for a quick place to eat and ended up finding my "new" favourite Thai restaurant. The wait staff are efficient without being pushy, they let us know about the dishes and the best thing of all is that ALL the food came out at the same time and piping hot. Too many restaurants send out food one dish after the other and often the first person has finished before the last dish arrives, but not here! This makes it ideal for large groups. The food was absolutely superb with the highlights for us being the fried pork belly, snapper puffs and red duck curry. You absolutely have to try the Pandan donuts, wow, I'm going back just for those! They also have a great range of drinks and good range of craft beers. Another highlight, although not applicable to us was the large range of vegetarian, vegan and gluten free dishes, many if which tempted me as a dedicated carnivore. I loved this place, joined their membership program and I will most definitely be going back again real soon. 5 Stars hardly seems enough for what was an excellent experience and one of my culinary highlights so far this year! Well done Chat Thai, you have a new convert!

Chat Thai is an institution when it comes to quality Thai food in the CBD. It is always popular and busy for a good reason. Their food is tasty and authentic. They also have a separate vegetarian, vegan and gluten free menu to cater for everyone. We started off with the som dtum (green papaya salad) which was fresh, zesty and spicy. Ask for extra peanuts if you want more crunch. We also had tempura fried silken eggplant and tapioca dumplings. For mains we had paak boohng which is stir fried water spinach with steamed rice. For drinks we had fresh drinking coconut and for dessert we finished with sacu coconut ice cream with butterfly pea sago. Would highly recommended Chat Thai.