Bann Thai Restaurant

Ordered spring rolls, sesame chicken, and Panang curry.  
Its so frustrating to pay $45 for something I just ended up throwing away.  
It’s not good at all. Everything tasted and looked old.  The spring rolls were dry as hell inside.  

If you’re thinking about eating here, you’re better off skipping a meal or making a pb

Had a craving for some Thai food and happened upon this place.
Was a great meal. A very large menu and everything looks great.
We had Thai tea to start and it’s always delicious.
We ordered the  fresh roll  with shrimp for an appetizer. I love the  crunchy veggie’s with the peanut dipping sauce.
I ordered the yellow curry with chicken and we also ordered the noodle dish with chicken.
The curry was very good. Mild with just a touch of heat.
We also ordered basil fried rice to take home.
Nice, comfortable atmosphere and friendly service.
Will go back and try a few new menu items.

I love some of their food. I have taught English in Thailand and they are good in regards to their curries and noodle dishes.

Their soups need to be better. When asked for a spice level the server must have not put that in the point of sale computer (pos) because there was none. That is no good.

Also ordered the mango rice for dessert and the mango was visually bad and brown in color. Also our server seemed like she did not want to be there and we felt rushed.

I agree with other reviews, they need a better exhaust system at grill. We literally were coughing and eyes tearing up when they used the hot Thai Chille peppers on the grill.

I advise take out only

Have frequented Baan Thai since moving to Fort Collins in summer of 2000.  During Covid they were an excellent choice for carry out, the food was always very good, and service was fast and reliable.  

Now we enjoy both carry out and eat in service.   Service is always friendly, although ordering by phone has sometimes been a little challenging with a bit of language barrier.   I like to start with the Tom Kha Koon.   The Panaang Curry is excellent, as are the Drunken Noodles.  I also like the Phad Thai quite a bit.   Actually, every dish I have had was delicious, it’s just a question of what your taste is.   The servings are generous, almost always sufficient for at least dinner and a lunch.  

I traveled weekly for over 14 years, and being a thai food fan, I always looked for the best thai in whatever city I was working in.  Baan stands up with  the best of them, including NYC, Chicago and many other large cities with eclectic food choices.  

Definitely recommend…

Came here after seeing that this place offered gluten free options on the Find Me Gluten Free app. I believe that this place is average at best, but has potential to be better. Let me explain why.

When I arrived I parked outside in the diagonal parking and walked inside. The first thing that appealed to me is that this place has an exhaust problem. The smoke from the grill filled the restaurant so much that you can look up at the lights and see the smoke, throughout the entire restaurant. Getting a better exhaust system would clear this right up.

I ordered the phad Thai… but mine I specifically asked for it to be “with chicken”. Notice that it comes without chicken, but you can ask to have chicken put in it. I think it should be the other way around, if you ask me. I also asked for the Tom Kha Chicken spicy coconut soup. I waited for about 30 minutes for it to come out, on a Saturday evening. It was $19 dollars and change for the phad Thai and a cup of soup.

My thoughts: The inside of restaurant is dated and needs a little care. There is too much clutter in some areas, that should be thrown out. They should put up a few fold up privacy walls to keep some of the cold air from getting to the tables every time someone walks in, during the winter season. There really needs to be better exhausts in the kitchen area, because the entire ceiling area throughout the entire restaurant was filled with smoke from the grills. Was it really bad? No, it could be tolerated, but nobody likes it either and it might stop some people from coming back to dine in. The prices are above average. $19 and change for phad Thai and a cup of soup. $15 for this order would be more reasonable, especially for the quality of food and the amount of chicken that comes in it. My phad Thai, with chicken, had chicken in it, but not a lot. It was a good size portion that filled me up, but it was mostly noodles. It would be nice if there was another piece of chicken in it and the chicken cut into smaller pieces so it can be mixed in better. The Tom Kha coconut soup was really good. I really liked it and I wish I could of had more. A great creation, but the price could be slightly better and the pieces of chicken and veggies in the soup could be cut slightly into more pieces. See my attached pictures of the phad Thai and Tom Kha coconut soup.

Lastly, even though the phad Thai says gluten free, and the Tom Kha soup supposedly is too, I felt my gluten allergy flaring up when I left. Basically a headache, tiredness, dizziness, and bloating. I took my gluten dissolver pill and felt better. I thought about it for a while, and I’m wondering if the chicken that I asked to be put in the meal was floured before it was cooked. It didn’t taste like there was any soy sauce in it. Who knows. Make sure that all the ingredients you naturally use to cook, are gluten free! Use gluten free flour and gluten free soy sauce! For everything!

If all of these issues here can be fixed, I do feel that this place has potential to earn another star. Again, I had an average experience here, which could have been much better if these minor issues can be remedied.

See my pictures attached.