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    Pinto Thai Bistro

    3.9 (456 reviews)
    Closed 11:00 am - 9:00 pm
    Updated 2 weeks ago

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    Moderate noise
    Good for groups
    Good for kids

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    "Chicken Teriyaki" - marinated & grilled with teriyaki sauce and a side salad
    Donovan H.

    Seattle offers its fair share of excellent Asian restaurants. Whether you're craving Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, or Laotian, this city offers a very diverse selection. So when I looked up for Thai restaurants with respectable Yelp reviews, "Pinto Thai Bistro & Sushi Bar" came up. Located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle and directly on E. Broadway, this very popular restaurant is located directly in between E. Republican St. and E. Harrison St. And considering this place has been going strong since 2010, there's a reason why customers keep coming back here. One of which is their variety. They serve a ton of food on their menu. Which may or may not necessarily be a good thing. Here you will find your basic Thai dishes but also a very impressive sushi menu. Everything from classic Maki rolls (classic, veggie, & signature), Omakase (Nigiri or Sashimi), and other Japanese items including Teriyaki, Gyoka, Tataki, and Tempura. Finally, they have a nice assortment of soups, salads, pan fried noodles, fried rice, curries, and Wok Fares. The hours of operation are very respectable as they are open seven days a week from 11:30am to 9:30pm while being closed in between 3:00pm to 4:30pm during the week. And finally, they also have a Happy Hour that rolls out from 4:30pm to 6:00pm Monday through Friday. As far as the layout of this place, it is a bit on the smaller side so don't be surprised if you find yourself waiting for a table. However, this place does have a very modern, sleek look as well as being very cozy. During my visit, I arrived around 7:45pm during my visit as myself and my +1 were immediately seated. As far as what we ordered, I went with the "Pad See Eiw" with chicken as my protein of choice. This dish offers wide flat rice noodles stir-fried with eggs, carrots and broccoli in sweet soy sauce. My +1 went with their "Chicken Teriyaki" which was served with their signature house salad. Both our meals arrived within 10 minutes. The overall flavor, consistency, and value was definitely above average as this place serves very hearty portions and will definitely fill you up. Our waitress always made sure our iced waters were refilled which being very polite from the time we were seated until we left. If you're looking for that true Thai experience, I would suggest a few other popular restaurants such as "Buddha Ruska" or "Noi Thai Cuisine". But for a decent meal that offers a nice mix of Thai and sushi, I would definitely give "Pinto Thai Bistro & Sushi Bar" a try. My rating, four stars.

    Hawaiian Fried Rice, Satay, Evergreen Roll
    Miku T.

    tl;dr quick service and good food for takeout! I had gotten takeout from here as a quick night out because I was lazy to cook. I can say that the foods here were great and the takeout itself was ready super fast! I loved the evergreen rolls more than I did the satay - it had a minty taste along with the nice texture of the wrap and salad inside. It came with a great sweet-salty sauce that matched well. The satay was good - it just felt like dry chicken breasts though (the sauce was the redeeming factor). I think I would go with a different appetizer though. The Hawaiian fried rice was great - I had enough for lunch the next day. I loved the flavor and the textures (I've never had full cashews inside in a fried rice!) I would try this place again in person - when I went to pick up at 7pm on a Monday, it was completely empty.

    HH sushi rolls: Lava Roll, Ebi tempura roll, and Spicy Tuna Roll
    Doris W.

    Came here last night with friends for dinner and ordered off their Happy Hour menu, which I think saw goes until 6 PM. The HH menu has more sushi than Thai food on it, but overall it was a good sized HH menu! We were a group of 5, and for a Tuesday night, at one point, we were the only ones eating at the restaurant. We ordered: - Red Chicken Curry $11 - Pad Thai Chicken $11 x2 - Spicy Tuna Roll - Lava Roll - Ebi Tempura Roll - edemame - crab rangoon x2 - albacore tataki The Pad Thai and the Red Curry were delicious, and everyone at the table enjoyed both Thai dishes! The Albacore tataki was the only thing not on HH menu, and I thought it was just ok. The sushi was good, nothing overly amazing, but we were glad the Thai food came out first, and the sushi rolls came out later. Overall, we had a pleasant experience here, and I would come back!

    Pad Thai
    Ana K S.

    I recently ordered pad Thai and their crispy garlic chicken to go and both dishes were delicious! The chicken was a little less crunchy and a bit more salty than I anticipated but it was super hearty and went really well with the vegetables on the side. The pad Thai was my favorite, I ordered it with chicken and spice level 3, which was spicy but not unbearably so. I ordered delivery directly from the website and had initially gotten an estimated 50min wait time but the food arrive within 20 minutes! I highly recommend checking this spot out, they have an extensive offering of dishes so they're bound to have something for everyone!

    Bailey N.

    Ordered takeout on a Saturday night for celebrating our 1 yr anniversary at home and it was wonderful!! For apps we did the spring rolls (4/5)and crab Rangoon(5/5)!! For rolls we did the Spider roll, Dragon Roll, and lava roll. All were delicious and fresh!! We even got the mango sticky rice for dessert and it was some of the best we had ever had. Not a single bite was leftover! If your needing an excellent sushi place this is it! We will absolutely be back!

    California roll
    Huong L.

    I decided to check this place out for lunch since it's close to work and it definitely exceeded my expectations. For one: their lunch deal is really good. It's rare to find lunch for around $10 now so this place caught my eye definitely. I got the ginger chicken with no rice and it was $10.50. since I didn't get rice, they gave me extra salad. The portions were pretty good. The dressings was a little weird but it's not bad. Portion was good too. I also got a California roll and surprisingly it was good. It's interesting to have a Thai and sushi place and do both pretty well but this place did it well. Overall, definitely will be back for lunch or going to try their happy hour soon.

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    Jessica A.

    Yummy the sushI was very good 8/10 Service was average The vibe was nice it felt welcoming

    Lunch menu: Cashew Nut w/ Chicken(bottom). Spicy Basil Leaves w/ Tofu and Fried Egg (top).

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    small clean space, very tasty food with an expansive menu. the staff was friendly and the price is very reasonable.

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    Baiten offers creamy vanilla soft serve ice cream with your choice of syrup. The key word here is…read moresyrup, the ice cream itself is vanilla flavored, and the additional flavors come from the syrup options. They currently offer Matcha, Hoji-Tea, Kuro-Goma (black sesame), and Yuzu (Japanese citrus). The shop itself is very small since it's basically a window shop, either renting space from or connected to Tamari Bar. It's more like a little dessert stand located on the restaurant's patio area, with only a few outdoor tables available. The soft serve was okay, but not as creamy as I was hoping for, and it melted pretty quickly. If you decide to add a syrup flavor, I'd recommend asking for only a small amount. Mine came absolutely drowning in syrup, and honestly, the flavor tasted pretty artificial and overpowering.

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    I hadn't been back to Nana's Green Tea in about two years, so I was excited to stop by again during…read moremy Seattle trip. Thankfully they are open today on the Fourth of July (they will just close a little earlier for the holiday), and I was happy to see that not much has changed since my last visit. Without even realizing it, I ended up ordering the exact same drink I got the first time: a Matcha Float with mochi. I guess you really can't go wrong with it because it's still just as creamy and satisfying as I remembered. The only tiny downside is that it only comes with three small mochi balls, so for almost $9 I wish there were a few more. However, the quality of the matcha is consistently excellent, sooo I don't regret coming back. They have wonderful customer service too! The employee helping me at the register was incredibly patient while I stood there trying to decide what to order. As an awkward introvert, I always feel a little flustered when ordering, but she never made me feel rushed or uncomfortable. She asked my sweetness preference for the Matcha Float, whether I wanted to dine in or take everything to go, and even carefully packed up my yuzu green tea packet with the rest of my order. She was very kind and thoughtful so just wanna say I really appreciate how welcoming she was. Even from my last Seattle visit two years ago, I still remember the employees being helpful and friendly here. I also have to recommend their desserts from my previous visit. (I skipped the sweets this time due to my budget but I still suggest picking up some of their sweets!). The Matcha Basque Cheesecake and the Matcha Tiramisu were both absolutely delicious, and I still remember how amazing they tasted even two years later. The tiramisu is only around $7 and is definitely worth trying if you're a matcha lover. This visit, I picked up their yuzu green tea packet to take home (last time, I got the hojicha). Each packet contains 15 individual tea bags and costs about $10 (not bad for how much tea is in each tea bag). They also sell matcha powder and other tea goodies. I'm looking forward to brewing the yuzu green tea at home since a good cup of hot tea is always comforting, especially when I'm sick (I've been recovering from a cold so tea has been a lifesaver to warm me up!). I actually stopped by for lunch since I didn't eat breakfast, and ordered the Sukiyaki Don (it was much more satisfying than I expected). I was craving a beef bowl and Nana's was one of the few places in the area within walking distance from my work, that was actually open for the holiday today, lucky me! It came with miso soup and a soft-boiled egg, and I was pleasantly surprised to find tofu and mushrooms in the bowl alongside the beef. It left me FULL, my tummy happy, heck yeah. Costs almost $20 but worth satisfying a craving. I won't lie.. I somehow managed to spend about $40 today between my meal, drink, and tea to take home. More than I intended to spend but no regrets, because everything was delicious and the quality has remained consistently high over the years. The only thing that made my visit a little uncomfortable wasn't the café itself. There were quite a few homeless individuals lingering around the front of the building, so I decided against dining out front like I had originally planned since I wanted to enjoy the nice weather, but one of them was panhandling me so I promptly left (thankfully I asked for my order to be packaged for takeout). That's obviously outside of the café's control, and it didn't affect the food or service at all. They still had many seats available inside but probably because it's the holiday. If I recall, the place was packed during the afternoon when I last visited on a weekday. I will still say that Nana's Green Tea continues to be one of my favorite matcha spots whenever I'm in Seattle. Between the consistently high-quality matcha, delicious meals and desserts, excellent selection of teas to bring home, and genuinely exemplary customer service, it's a place I'll happily keep returning to whenever I'm back in town and have the time to visit.

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