When most kitchens are closing up after 9pm, Pattaya Thai, on the northern end of O’Connell Street is still cooking up a storm. The decor is neat and elegant, although some parts of the store aren’t as well lit as others. The menu offers all your traditional Thai favourites and the seating at this place can easily fit 50.

Tonight, we ordered the Chicken Pad Thai. The dishes were ready after a 10 minute wait and were nice presented. The noodles were firm and well cooked. Pre-cooked chicken breast was shredded and then added into the dish. The vegetables were fresh and crisp, with the both the peanuts and bean sprouts adding a nice crunchy texture. In this particular version, they included scrambled eggs which weren’t distributed evenly. The colour was a bit light in appearance but the flavours were spot on.

The staff were friendly and welcoming, and the service was above average. The atmosphere was relaxed and the pricing was more than reasonable. The Pad Thai set me back $10.80 which is fairly cheap when it comes to dining in.

Not the best Pad Thai I’ve ever had, but it wasn’t too bad either.

WHERE: 147 O’Connell St, North Adelaide