Pad Mee
Passorn

Passorn

23-23a Brougham Pl, Edinburgh EH3 9JU, United Kingdom

Thai • Asian • Seafood • Vegetarian


"Sorry, but this place 's standards have slipped a lot. The food is good but...it 's not exactly plentiful, the prices are sky-high and the delivery not quite what you 'd expect. We ordered two mains: one Pad Cha King Prawn which promised to come with green peppercorns, a spicy sauce and baby aubergines. The other was sliced duck in a tamarind sace. Oh dear. Six sliced of duck in a (very good) tamarind sauce is not worth £16 any day of the week, and the Pad Cha king prawn dish noticeably came without the baby aubergines, which was the reason we ordered it in the first place. We asked for an explanation and were told that 'they didn 't have any ', which wasn 't really an answer. To be fair, they did say 'sorry ' but didn 't offer anything else such as a discount for not delivering what they promised, whch was not just useless, bust also vaguely insulting, as though we should be grateful we got anything at all. To make matters worse, when the bill rocked up not only was it (expectedly) high, but the waitress also had the gall to tell me how to add a tip. Like I was going to... The Miang starter was excellent (though also very slight in portion) and the wine list decent, if also monstrously over-priced. You actually have to pay £1.35 for a dish of about ten prawn crackers and bottled sweet chilli sauce, which is incredible: most other Thai restaurants have this on the table. I think this place fancies itself as Thai fine dining: they really have to shape up their ideas. Their service leaves quite a gap between their aspirations and their delivery. Oh yes...and the staff were not wearing masks. COVID is still a thing, you know."

Blue Moon Thai Cafe

Blue Moon Thai Cafe

134 Fortress Road, NW5 2HP, Camden, United Kingdom

Cafés • Kebab • Asiatic • Seafood


"The Blue Moon has been my ‘go to’ local Thai restaurant for at least 10 years and the food has always been excellent and the service good. It is with much sadness that I need to report that I will no longer be giving it my custom. Tonight I booked for dinner with a friend, my first time INDOORS in a restaurant since last year. I specifically asked to be seated by an open window to ensure good ventilation. I am double jabbed but my friend and I both work with extremely vulnerable older people so take extra precautions to protect them. When I arrived and was seated at the back of the extremely stuffy and unventilated restaurant, the very harried waitress told me she had forgotten to write down my request for a table beside a window. But we were moved and a few small windows were opened.Not ideal but better than nothing. And then a very unpleasant, aggressive customer complained his child was cold, so the staff shut all the windows except a tiny one above our table. 5 mi utes later, the man complained again that his child was cold (but they were a long way away from the 3”gap of fresh air opened above our table and it is August! . I tried to negotiate politely and respectfully and the man raised his voice and was prepared to escalate, he told me clearly he was not prepared to listen at all or even let me speak one sentence, and his manner was so needlessly aggressive, I realised there was no point in continuing to engage with him. He was clearly a bully and incapable of civilised compromise. Rather than cause distress to the other diners by continuing the exchange, my colleague and I discussed the matter, decided the potential danger of Covid transmission was too much for us and the service too cowardly, and we left. I will not be returning during this pandemic and advise others to not risk eating in a hot, crowded, unventilated environment either, at this time."