Thai Orchid Restaurant - Riccarton

Was in tonight for a 96th birthday with a group of 9. The restaurant is lovely and is a nice setting indeed. The food was fantastic and such were the platefuls I had to take some home. The price reflects the quality excellent value for money.everyone enjoyed the meal with no complaints. The host is just wonderful and goes above and beyond with customer service , you feel you are valued here as a customer and the host is very attentive to the needs of her guests. I have no hesitation in recommending this place, to be honest I can’t find fault here I will be back in the near future. Thank you Thai orchid for a memorable night .

Very good food ?. ? Nice and lovely staff. Relaxing atmosphere. That's all we (my wife and me) usually need for a dinner to be called a perfect one. Can definitely recommend this restaurant for visiting.?

Very welcoming and fun atmosphere, very yummy mains and desert. Great live music on Sunday afternoon.

Had mixed entree which was yummy but let down with mains. Had Duck Stir-fry on recommendation and couldn't taste duck because of overpowering sauce. Beef Stir-fry was okay but not worth coming back for. Had very loud Irish music playing (St. Patrick's Day) which meant we couldn't hear each other. Some people like staff chatting to you during meal but I found it too intrusive.

Visited here for the first time after receiving a voucher as a Christmas present with my partner and found the staff to be very friendly and welcoming but once seated at our table we noticed it was clearly under staffed as there only appeared to be three staff members on the floor running around taking orders,bringing out meals to tables,clearing tables,trying to keep up with the demand of online delivery and manning the desk all the while more people were turning up waiting to be seated at a table!...What astonished me was the fact that none of the staff were wearing any masks which I assumed is mandatory in hospitality??? however they did ask to see our vaccine passes and had sanatiser on the counter..While seated at our table I decided to pour a glass of water which was luke warm so had obviously been sitting out at room temperature for awhile,it didn't worry me too much but I would of expected the water to of been chilled...My partner ordered an en'tree which arrived within 15-20 minutes to the table and he thoroughly enjoyed it but no clean cutlery was offered to him for his main nor a clean serviette which was disappointing and unhygienic but the biggest let down was the amount of time it took for our mains to arrive nearly an hour and that was before the place started filling up with people...When our mains did finally arrive the presentation was beautiful,I had the spicy lemon salmon dish and my partner had the chicken pad mamuang and we both really enjoyed our meals,the portion size was decent and the authentic Thai flavours were there so well done to the chef!...Our friendly waiter did eventually come over and ask us how our meals were and we did ask him for some more water in which this time the water arrived chilled to our table.We did notice another fourth staff member on the floor during our main which was good to see as he was definitely needed from the amount of patrons walking in the door...I decided to have a dessert to finish off my meal so I chose the sticky rice in which I was told they had run out of mango but could substitute with pineapple so I was ok with that unfortunately my dessert took over 25 minutes to arrive and I was less than impressed because it should not of taken this long when you can see there is not much to it and I felt for $15 this was not value for money and looked like there had been no "love" gone into it in terms of presentation ...I don't normally write such long reviews but after last nights experience I felt the need to because what could of been a great dining experience was sadly let down by the lack of service and while I admit they were busy they should of had more staff on deck to cope with this.

First time here,took my partner for her birthday and I would fully recommend going,service was above and beyond and extremely helpful, gracious and felt extremely comfortable and welcomed, and the food was just as great and look forward going again.

Nice decor, good menu choices and quality food. We liked the way they pack the take away boxes

This was our second visit. And very impressed with the service and food. Although it was quite loud upstairs as there was a large grp of students. Food quality was 4/5 and taste Value 3/5 We had pad Thai , spicy lemon salmon, chicken satay (very good size / serving 3 pieces only) spring rolls , tom yum soup. And 3 mortals Total bill 176$ for 3 drinks , 3 appetisers, 1 soup, and 3 main dishes. Certainly recommended