Reviews for Pure Thai Cookhouse in New York, NY
Ambience : A small restaurant near Hell's kitchen with limited seating options. The wait time was not bad on a busy weekend. ... The interiors look warm and cozy. Service : was great given the restaurant was packed with folks waiting as well. Drinks :They have a choice of beer, wine and sake. We ordered a bottle of plum sake and it was really good. Food : For appetizers justorder the Curry Chicken Puffs - they taste amazing! We ordered the Jungle Fried Rice, which was good and the pork noodles thatwas a disappointment. Pricing : Moderate. The bottle of Plum Sake makes your check fat :) Will I return? : Yes, if I am inthe area. Read more
This is definitely the place to go for authentic Thai food and where you would very likely encounter flavor profiles that are... entirely new to you. We started with the seasonal special crispy soft crab salad - the crabs were very fresh and delicious. Wedidn’t hesitate to order two noodle entrées as the noodles are absolutely the house specialty. You just have to try the crab& pork dry noodles - I would come back again just for the hand-made egg noodles themselves. Meanwhile, the seafood noodles werevery unique - never had red fermented rice based soup like this - plus a superb assortment of seafood. Read more
Absolutely delicious! We got the chicken pad thai, the vegetable wok medley, veggie spring rolls, and I got a lychee sangria.... Everything was so good! And the service was wonderful. They were slammed and only had one table outside, but they sat usimmediately and still took very good care of us. Highly recommend! Read more
Between a 4 and a 5 so rounding up. Good to great taste, good portions, average NYC prices. Tried the fried tofu, pad Thai, and... I think it was the crab and roast pork egg noodles. Texture for both the pad Thai and egg noodles (which I believe they makethemselves?) was great, and flavours were strong enough as well. I generally like tofu and liked the tofu dish they had, thoughwas ordinary. Would come again. Read more
When I think of Thai restaurants like this one was, I think about good quantity of food to fulfill one's stomach and... heart.! This place was fairly occupied for dinner on a Friday and we got a table which was rather small for 5 people. There arefew vegetarian dishes here as most of the items have fish sauce (which is okay for Thai places I would guess) We tried vegspring rolls and dumplings. Both were tasty! For mains I tried the shrimp stir fry with jasmine rice. The taste was excellentbut overall portions were less. Service is okay, no complaints. Read more
This restaurant is cute little place with amazing authentic Thai food. The appetizer the chicken satay buns is delicious with... peanut sauce and cucumber relish on the side. I would go again to have it and a recommended dish to try. Their chicken friedrice was very flavorful and tasty. Ahh I forgot to write about their egg omelette with shallots, it was fluffy and little oilybut very tasty . A must try restaurant if you are around this area. Read more
When traveling to cities I try my best to sit at the bar or near the kitchen to watch the masters at work preparing their art. I... sat in front of the small noodle prep kitchen that you first see when coming in. I would highly recommend just watching,observing, and appreciating those who make our food. The 2 master chefs who worked in the noddle cooking area played well offeach other like Yin and Yang, one prepping and cutting while the other cooks and plates the noddles. The fluidity of the noodlesbeing dunked into the hot water and then garnished with spices was quite artistic and engineered to perfection without wasting asingle ounce of energy. On this cold, rainy day I started off with an iced Thai Iced Tea which was delightful. And then I hadan appetizer order of the Thai Curry dumplings which were delightful. To warm up my cold bones I had the Braised Duck Hand MadeNoodles with 5 spice soy broth. The in house chili sauce on the side was so flavorful and brought each dish up a notch with aspicy flavor explosion. I also got 2 orders of their famous Crab and Pork Hand Made Egg Noodle dish to go. One for myself andone for my cousin that I brought back to DC with extra chili oil and it was still amazing 5 hours later! All in all, this isprobably the top 2 best Thai places I’ve been too, the other being Lotus of Siam (James Beard Award) in Las Vegas. Run,don’t walk here!! Read more
The wings here are absolutely ridiculous. I could probably eat two orders of these and be satisfied. They are well seasoned,... fried to perfection, and have a really nice accompanying sauce. We also had several noodle dishes which didn't disappoint.Everything had great flavor and the service was friendly. I have a low spice tolerance and the 3 out of 5 spice was way toospicy for me. I'd lean toward a 2 or 1 next time if I want some heat. Read more