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    Khow Thai Cafe

    3.3 (315 reviews)
    ModerateThai, Asian Fusion
    Closed 5:00 pm - 10:00 PM

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    What's the vibe?
    Moderate noise
    Casual
    Good for kids
    Happy hour specials

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    Shrimp spring rolls with a peanut sauce.

    [[HIGHLIGHT]]This place is a nice place to have lunch.[[ENDHIGHLIGHT]] I just love their food! And it beats other places prices! I love the peanut sauce.

    C5. Yellow Curry
    Jeanine C.

    This little place was wonderful! We were a little wary at first as there was only 1 car in the lot when we got here and we almost didn't go in. I'm so glad we decided to give it a shot. The food was amazing! And more people showed up (I'm sure it's much busier when school is in session) I definitely recommend going here if you love Thai food!

    Pad CU
    Jenny T.

    I was really craving Thai food so I ordered delivery from here. I ordered the Pad CU Lunch ($9), which also came with an egg roll and miso soup. For $9 this whole meal was pretty good. The pad see ew really hit the spot and was exactly what I wanted for my Thai food. The noodles were cooked perfectly and were nice and sweet, although I think that the broccoli could have been cooked just a little bit more to be more tender. I also think that the dish would be perfectly fine without the purple cabbages. I just picked all of my out. The miso soup and the egg roll were nice additions to the lunch. The soup was really comforting although was a bit confusing since miso soup is more of a Japanese thing. The egg roll wrapper was still flaky and crispy when I received it and had a crunch to it. My meal was super satisfying for my craving and I was completely happy with what I got. Definitely would get this again.

    "Beef" Laarb.

    I have lived by one mantra in My life and that is that I have never had BAD THAI! That was blown out of the water with Khow Thai of Boulder, Co. It started with the fact that ALL of the food delivery services they use stated they were closed, I called to check and they were indeed OPEN, but, couldn't deliver. I decided to drive down as it was only a Mile or so away. I am a huge fan of Beef Laarb, even inauthentic ones! I ordered this to eat in and I have no idea what they served, but, even after double checking with the staff that it was beef... it was WHITE/GREY and just about a single slice of tiny beef that tasted weird, off/bad almost. never mind it's appearance. I ordered a Green Beef curry to go and upon arrival home it was watery and again a minuscule amount of meat. I will add that the food across the two dishes was HORRENDOUS and completely INEDIBLE! , I will be attempting to get a refund from my Credit Card company as their website denied my "contact us" request...See pics! Never would I waste money here again, $31 WASTED!

    Drunken Noodles
    Tzigane M.

    I am a huge Thai food fan, and I honestly used to LOVE and swear by this place. But in the past year or two the quality has just decreased tremendously. :( I don't know what happened, but now when I go I feel like Know Thai's food is increasingly flavorless, their noodles (like the wide noodles used for Drunken noodles) are really weird and mushy now, not even resembling what they're supposed to look like, and I just think their food is overall disappointing at this point. Really sad leaving this review cuz Know Thai was my go to before, but yeah :( I kept trying to give it another chance continually, but I've been continually disappointed over the past year, waiting for the quality of the food to come back.

    Richie W.

    Well it has been a long minute since I last posted a review. The truth is, I have just been very busy with work and life in general, and we really haven't ventured out a lot to new eateries late... but we did check out a place we've been driving past for well over a year. My partner and I moved to Boulder from the SoCal/LA area, which (if you were not aware) was the west coast birthplace of Thai quinine in the USA. So needless to say, we eaten at a lot of very good, very authentic Thai restaurants. Khow Thai is a tasty gem in Boulder on Broadway just north of 'The Hill' area. The service was fast and friendly. The food is was amazingly delicious and as authentic as it get. We saw as we were leaving Khow Thai, that they were voted 'Best Thai' in Boulder for the last several years. From what I experienced today, they've certainly earned that.

    Chicken pad Thai
    Bailey H.

    Has always been my favorite Thai food in Boulder! Quick, consistent service; delicious and reliable food! I don't know why Khow thai has 3.5 stars, but I definitely don't think that's an accurate reflection of how great this place is! Definitely worth stopping in next time you wanna get some noods.

    Pad himalai (cashew chicken) and fried rice

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    The best Thai Food I've had in Boulder so far. The green curry with tofu was delicious :)

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    Excellent Thai food! Same taste as Thailand and some favorites others don't make! Nice service as well.

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    Best Pad Thai I've ever had. The staff is very friendly. And the restaurant is spotless. No sticky tables.

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    My favorite dishes here are Pad Thai, Green curry, Dunken noodle (Pad kee mow).

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    Ordered the chicken pad thai, as I always did at this place. Flavor was just okay because it was…read moreunbalanced in being too sweet. The dish was also too wet. The chicken was probably cooked enough, but barely and to the point where it gave me slight pause. I got spicy level 4, and it had a pretty good amount of heat that met my expectations of a 4 out of 5 heat level. The ratio of noodle to chicken to garnishes is good. The food court that it's in doesn't feel clean, but I don't think that's the fault of Thai Avenue. I used to come here 2-3 times a week for a couple years over 10 years ago when I was a college student, and back then it was easily 5 stars. I heard a lot of people say that the place changed and it's not what it used to be, so I went out of my way to go back and try them again. Sadly it's true that they arent what they used to be. Seems to be different cooks. I wonder where the original cooks went because I want to eat at wherever that is.

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    We were there to celebrate, so we split our order across two of the eight stalls: pineapple fried…read morerice with chicken from Chiang Mai (the Thai stall) and Chicken Shawarma from Amira (Middle Eastern). Both were genuinely well-executed -- the fried rice had real char and sweetness instead of tasting like a steam-table version, and the shawarma was juicy with a good sear on the edges, not the dry, overcooked version you get at a lot of fast-casual spots. Rosetta runs all eight concepts under one kitchen team rather than independent vendors, and it shows in how consistent everything tastes across stalls. We were at the main-floor bar downstairs, not the rooftop one, and the bartenders there were the highlight of the night. Attentive, fast, and clearly used to reading a group that's celebrating something. This is the spot for a group with different cravings who still wants to sit together -- one person wants noodles, another wants shawarma, nobody has to compromise. It's not a quiet date-night pick; it's communal, and built for exactly the kind of night we had. We'll be back, and next time we're ordering that fried rice again.

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