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    Small health food store in a small town with a surprising amount of alternative grains and snacks. Woman working there was very sweet.

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    Elkhorn Club & Linda's Thai Room - Hot and Spicy

    Elkhorn Club & Linda's Thai Room

    3.6(55 reviews)
    0.1 mi
    $$

    I was a little hesitant about heading here for dinner because of some of the reviews but boy was I…read moreglad I did! Fantastic authentic Thai food in burns! Things you need to know before you go!! They are working REALLY hard to put huge good food on the table so be patient. Your food will take a while - it's worth the wait. Grab a deck of cards or a stack of trivial pursuit cards and quiz your fellow diners. Anything that is made fresh, to order, and good is worth it! Be kind to them- this is a small HARD working family putting our some great food so appreciate it. You can hear them chopping away like crazy in the kitchen. The bar is behind the restaurant and not part of Linda's. It's only one server, their daughter, who moved home from Portland to help her family out, so stop in and say hi. They work really hard and it shows in the food. The best thai I've had in a while and I live in San Francisco...so that's that. So glad I stopped in to support this place. I will come back!

    This is the toughest review I've ever written…read more We arrived in Burns, where there aren't a lot of dining choices, save the Apple Peddler and the McDonald's in neighboring Hines. And because it was a Sunday evening, neither the Pine Room or El Toreo were open. We settled on Linda's Thai Room, located inside the Elkhorn Club bar. The reviews were generally good, although I was a bit skeptical about an Asian restaurant in a small Western town. Much larger cities have trouble offering anything beyond American-Chinese (meaning far from authentic) fare, so I wasn't expecting too much from Linda's. The first thing that greeted us was a sign on the door "WE ONLY ACCEPT CASH OR LOCAL CHECKS," even though there were decals for Visa and Mastercard on the adjoining window. A hand-written sign told a much more somber tale: "My mom and restaurant owner just passed." Going online, I was unable to find out anything about Linda. No feature story from the local newspaper. No restaurant website. Not even a photo of her on the restaurant's Facebook page. Most of the tables inside the small restaurant were filled with plates, serving bowls, glasses and the like. It's like the restaurant was having a rummage sale of things that had been in storage. And it turned out to be true. We sat at the only open table and after being handed menus were told they did not have any noodles or pineapple. That eliminated a number of menu choices. My wife asked the elderly gentleman who was waiting on us (who we later learned was Linda's husband) what was in the Thai fried rice. He looked back at us unable to answer. We suspected he might not have been involved in the operation of the restaurant and was filling in following his wife's death. Kristy ended up ordering pork fried rice. It was the saddest plate of rice I had ever seen. Except for the pork and some sliced tomatoes, there appeared to be no other additions. No mushrooms, no green onions or egg and barely any soy sauce added in. It wasn't very good. I ordered a Thai basil pork dish. It was surprisingly good with pork, Thai basil, garlic and a flavorful sauce. Service was slow. Linda's daughter was the only person in the kitchen, so she had to do it all. From a Facebook post, I learned she had come to Burns from Portland to help her mother when her mom was suffering from medical issues. From the post, the daughter said she didn't want to be there but came to help her mom, while holding down her own full-time job. In another post the daughter said she was overwhelmed by people leaving voice mail messages for orders they expected at a certain time, but for times before she could arrive after her other job and they expected those orders to take priority over people who were dining in. The daughter said she was trying to hold things together until the business could be sold. It's a tough situation for her and her father. I wouldn't wish that kind of grief and stress on anyone. I just hope than everyone who comes in has patience and empathy for a grieving family just trying to make a go of it.

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    Elkhorn Club & Linda's Thai Room - Clutter inside the restaurant.

    Clutter inside the restaurant.

    Elkhorn Club & Linda's Thai Room - Thai pork and basil dish. It was good.

    Thai pork and basil dish. It was good.

    Elkhorn Club & Linda's Thai Room - Sign announcing that the owner of Linda's Thai Room had died.

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    Sign announcing that the owner of Linda's Thai Room had died.

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