Sivalai Thai Restaurant

08/09/09

I used to love this place.

by JRPDX

I started coming to Sivalaya around 2001 and it was one of my favorite Thai places. The owner would always greet us at the door. I returned from Korea last December and took my wife there on our first night in the US. The food was great but the energy of the place had vanished.

Yesterday I went and it was the worst Thai food I have ever had. The Rad Na (favorite dish) was bland and oily. The Tom Yum had freezer burned shrimp. I don't remember if there was ever a lunch menu, but we had to pay full price for our awful food. My wife even felt it was worse than Wong's Garden - it has to be really bad for her to say it's as bad as Wong's.

• Pros: Free Thai coffee or tea and sticky rice.
• Cons: Major decline in service and quality.

02/09/09

Save your money!

by rifraff

My husband and I just got home with our take out: veggies in peanut sauce and pad thai. Both were beyond terrible, the peanut sauce was thin as water and tasted oily, no other flavors, just oily. The pad thai was also only oily tasting and had nothing but noodles, oily noodles. The veggies in the "peanut sauce" were barely thawed, not fresh at all or cooked. We were so disappointed since we rarely eat out. We would have had much better Thai food buying something frozen from the market. I just threw it all out, sad sad waste of money.

04/20/08

Very good food, great prices, fun friendly service

by thaifamily

Try these dished: Rainbow, Cucumber Salad, Yellow Curry,

We tried Sivalaya Thai a number of years ago becuase they'd taken over our previous favorite Thai restarant (Thai Touch). The owner, Jose, definitely takes you off guard at first. But he is so friendly and funny it's hard to resist him. His somewhat loud personality is an unusual contrast to most soft spoken Thais. We go to Sivalaya about 2x per year because of the distance from our home in outer SE County. Jose remembers our names every time. The food is good. Our favorites are some that have been mentioned in reviews before... a veggie dish called Rainbow, the spicey sweet,Cucumber Salad, Yellow Curry, and the sticky rice dessert with papaya or mango. This is a small restaurant with a casual atmospher. If you want the expense and stuffy atmosphere of places like Thaiphoon, then by all means go there instead and let the rest of us enjoy Paradise... Sivalaya!!

• Pros: Good price, friendly service, casual, easy to try new dishes
• Cons: None