10/12/09

Best lunch!

by SabrinaP

Peem Kaew has the best lunch in the Pearl. It's reasonably priced and it's healthy. Plus they do punch cards.

10/11/09

Nice location, Decent Food (nothing to crave about)

by srkkreddy

3 stars because it's decent food, which is the most important thing for me in a restaurant... the crab fried rice that we ordered was good, but the Tom Yum soup wasn't goup. The drunken noodles was okay. Red curry was decent.

I come to expect better Thai food, when there are so many in greater Portland area.

Good service, the food was served fast & they were prompt.

The location of the restaurant in Pearl district is amazing.

• Pros: Great location, good service
• Cons: Decent food

10/09/09

Best Thai food in Portland!

by gocoug

Krystal is wonderful cheery owner and staff obviously loves working for her. She has an obvious presence in the restaurant at all times and this seems to be rare in the restaurant business these days AND it makes a BIG difference!!

• Pros: Airy bright space & wonderful service
• Cons: Slightly off beaten track but well worth the effort!

09/17/09

excellent food, EVERY time

by pdxpooch

I discovered this place years ago when I lived in southeast Portland... I now live a few blocks away from Peem Kaew's (PK'S) and the ONLY drawback is I want to eat there all the time... Seriously. The pad thai and peanut sauce is the BEST I have ever had, even while I was in Asia. Great curries also. Perfectly spiced, not too sweet. The food flavor keeps me coming back, the best in portland... Great portions for the price too.

• Pros: consistently perfect food
• Cons: are there any?

09/16/09

Drunken Noodle Heaven!

by cafejeff

We have a plethora of Thai restaurants in the Portland area. "PK" as us regulars call it, is one of the best. I enjoy the "Pumpkin curry", "Spicy Asparagus" and especially the Drunken Noodle. I live 35 miles west of PDX and will drive to PK for the food. I have found the staff to be friendly, but sometimes they are very busy. If you treat them as you would like to be treated ( respect, patience,etc) they will go out of their way to be helpful in your dining experience.

• Pros: The food the atmosphere, local artists represented on walls
• Cons: can be a little busy sometimes, just as other popular places

08/25/09

Amazing Thai Food

by lharvell

My husband and I were visiting Portland for a week and came across Peem Kaew quite by accident. We arrived for an early lunch, and I knew we were in for something special when I saw a group of Buddhist monks, donned in orange robes, eating at a table in the back. With the first taste of Tom Kha, I was in heaven. The flavor was complex, and the texture, velvety. I couldn't believe an extra large bowl that my husband and I shared was only $6.95. We ate there three times on our trip, and we had the Tom Kha soup every time. We also tried the Veggie Delight with Tofu, Pad Thai Noodles, and Spicy Asparagus. All of them were extraordinary, but the Spicy Asparagus was truly a surprise. It was a dish I probably would never have ordered, but my husband wanted to try it, and I'm so glad we did. I loved it!!!!! We had most things spiced to a level three, but we did reduce to a level two on the Tom Kha after the first time. I'm not sure we specified a spice level for the Spicy Asparagus- it was HOT, but PERFECT that way. It was not the fastest service I have ever had, but considering that everything was perfection when it arrived, it was well worth ANY wait. We tried several of the restaurants listed under local favorites that had the best ratings. Some were good, but we were usually a little disappointed. My only regret is that I didn't eat at Peem Kaew every day and try everything on the menu. I guarantee that is what I'll do if I am fortunate enough to return to Portland in the future.

• Pros: Best Thai food I have ever eaten.

07/23/09

Good food - horrid wait

by ecwinans

We arrived and it took a moment to be seated, no big deal. But then I had to literally walk up and find out waitress so we could order, later to get our water filled, and also to ask for more utensils. When it came time to pay, I walked the check up to the counter but waited in line for a good 10 minutes while people ordering take out were able to go ahead of me. By then, the line to be seated was very long and there were plenty of empty tables, just no one was attending to them. Some people even walked out. My advise, call ahead and order to go and you get to cut to the front of the line to pay and can eat outside in the park blocks. But the food was good.

• Pros: Good food and location
• Cons: Waiting

07/12/09

Terrible service

by portlandfoodie2008

I walk in, and it's a good minute before an employee even notices me and seats me. Then I sit there like an idiot, waiting for her to take my order. She didn't even give me a menu to look at. After several minutes of this, and a huge stream of customers coming in *after* me, I figured it would take forever to get any food out of this joint.

Yet, I was hungry, so I walked a few blocks to another Thai place close by and experienced their always delicious food and always good service.

• Pros: Location?
• Cons: Awful service

06/29/09

RUDE SERVICE, Will not be going back!!

by panp1234

Decided to try a new thai restaurant with a restaurant. com certificate, called just before we got there to verify they would accept it for dinner since I had heard things about some restaurants not wanting to honor them at certain times, etc. Said they would. Arrived and older gentleman that works there, not sure if he is an owner or what, but was about the rudest person in the service industry I have come accross for NO REASON! As soon as he came to our table with an appetizer (first time he came to our table, a nice lady was there at first) he abruptly picked up my son's napkin and literally threw it down towards his lap and then started rearranging stuff on the table and slamming things around. We were pretty taken aback. It pretty much went from there. We were on eggshells our whole dinner. Should have just left. After dinner when I went to pay he tried telling me he wouldn't take the certificate so I told him I called just before we came in and was told they would. He then told me that since I didn't tell them at the beginning of our dinner when we sat down that we had the coupon he wouldn't take it. I put up a bit of a fuss at that point because that just sounded ridiculous. Almost as if they are trying to get you in there with the coupon and then purposefully not honoring it. Bad bad business as far as I'm concerned. And even worse is that when people are treated out and out rude when they've been nothing but pleasant, they tend to not come back and not say pleasant things about recommending the place. Doesn't seem like rocket science. Might want to think about that when business is whaning sir! Most people go out to eat to have a nice night out, not to get treated like dirt. You can gaurantee you won't see another penny out of my pocket or a nice word about the restaurant! The nice thing about restaurant. com is that it's a good way to go find new spots for dinners out and become a returning customer if you like the place. I think the only thing they may be doing is driving people away. Kind of defeating the purpose???

• Pros: good location, cute place
• Cons: RUDEST service ever, ok food....

06/17/09

Go to McDonald's Instead

by scothighlander

It is a lovely location with nice use of art. So, walking into the restaurant it starts off as a good experience; however, after I tried the food and then put up with the WORST service in Portland, or anywhere else for that matter, I quickly realized that I should have went to the museum for art and McDonald's for better food. And, since the art was somewhat a draw to the place, I am sure if Van Gogh would have tried this restaurant he would have cut his tongue out compared to his ear. It was really that bad.

• Pros: nice building space
• Cons: worst service in Portland