Thai Nivas Cafe

My wife and I love Thai food, (we’ve both been to Thailand), and we wanted to check out this place because it was near home. The green curry was just ok but the phad thai was SUPER salty. I usually eat on the saltier side, so if it was too salty for me, it’s way too much salt. Unfortunately, when we respectfully sent it back literally after trying to take ONE bite each and needing to spit it out, saying that we couldn’t eat it as it was inedible, the server took it back and then the owner came out and literally yelled at us and lectured us on how popular their phad Thai was and how they even cater for big companies and how we were the first to ever complain since they opened in the 90s… she didn’t even offer to remake it for us because she said it would be the same recipe… I kindly let her know that we were enjoying the green curry and suggested maybe the phad Thai was just accidentally made too salty just this one time. She was livid and went back into the kitchen. Let me just say… my wife and I were flabbergasted and horrified. We just wanted to enjoy a date night with good food. We didn’t even finish our food, we lost our appetites, and went to pay and then they tried to charge us for the phad Thai! After what had transpired, I respectfully said that we wouldn’t be paying for that dish and the cashier agreed to take it off. Never again. What a strange and traumatic experience! Every time we pass the restaurant it still makes me shudder. I know that people may have hard/bad days, but this was completely uncalled for.

We came here for lunch and won’t be returning. I ordered sushi and hours later I still feel queasy and have a bad taste in our mouth. The tuna roll was way too (fluorescent) pink and the color stained the rice, which means they either dye their tuna or buy it already dyed. It left an odd coating in my mouth. The same happened with the salmon roll - it almost looked like a nectarine instead of salmon. I told the waiter and he just said “uh, I guess I’ll tell the chef” and that was it. I didn’t hear from the chef nor did they remove the item from the final bill. This was the first time I have ever left food without either finishing it/asking for a to-go bag. Not sure about their Thai food but certainly stay away from their sushi.

It was a very busy Monday night that was not planned for, in the dine-in area. There was also an extremely active carry out night. The wait staff was somewhat overwhelmed but handled it with poise. We had three excellent appetizers and two entrees that we shared between 3 people. The appetizers were spot on and the entrees were top notch and seasoned perfectly. The red wine was very good and the jasmine tea was perfect. We will be back soon.

I came here on a Thursday afternoon and it was very quiet, nice atmosphere. I ordered the basil fried rice to go and waited not too long for it to be ready. They definitely made it fresh, you could taste that for sure!! Also they are accomodating for allergies or dietary restrictions. Service was kind and pleasant, checking in with me while I waited. Portions are generous - it was 2 meals for me. So good. Thank you!

Very bad experience I felt here. We went at around 8 clock and it had still 1hr left to close. We order several items such as Tom Yum chicken soup, Basil fried rice and Spicy Tuna hand roll. It was not so good. Soup was watery and rice was so simple. It wasn’t thai taste. Also quantity was not enough for 2 persons. Not Recommend sorry