Nakhon Thai

Great experience with this restaurant! They were very friendly with excellent service, even taking my take-out order before opening time. The pad thai and spring rolls were delicious and they even added 2 extra rolls! The ginger shrimp and green curry were good too, but I wouldn't order these again. I want to try more of their menu :)

All the staff are so kind! I had to wait an extra 10 minutes for my order one evening, so the man working gave me free spring rolls as a gesture to say thanks for waiting patiently. The food is always fresh and hot. You get large portions. Their take out containers are reusable. The food is delicious!

First time here - it was delicious! We had the Pad Thai and Green Curry. Both very good portions. They added in two spring rolls as a gesture which was so kind. Really impressed by the health and safety protocols they have in place. Will be back!

Amazing food and service! First time ordering since moving to town and my girlfriend and I were really pleased! We had the Dinner Combo 1 and it was enough to feed us and leave some leftovers for tomorrow. They threw in 2 extra spring rolls which was super nice. Definitely recommending to others, much better value and taste than local fast food options!

Great service and pretty good food. Had the chicken soewers, veg spring rolls, shrimp rolls, beef Pad Thai. All was tasty and nicley presented. Will go back again

The food is topshelf at this place. I've had Thai food at a handful of "high end" places and these folks are very good at what they do. Phnom Penh was the only other restaurant I found that did real quality Thai. They have one other location in Kingston, I believe? Nakhon is the best resto in kemptville, in my opinion.

Nakhon Thai - the are you even open restaurant This place hours and open days are so inconsistent I don't even know or bother ordering from here anymore, if you open.. stick to your hours and put the effort in. The main issue is the food quality is honestly pretty bad for thai food, its one of my favorite cultures of food variety. Ottawa has dozens of great spots, this unfortunately is a pass, I think its even for sale right now online so if your a good Thai chef I would buy the business.

I hate leaving bad reviews, and would much rather praise a resto for a good experience. Unfortunately, I feel the need to comment on the dramatic change I’ve experienced at Nakhon Thai. I used to love going there when they first came to kemptville (~10yrs ago), would go every Friday for pad Thai and pad kimow. Their ingredients were fresh, portions were right for the price, not overly generous, but not wasteful either. Both sit down and take out were equally good quality, and they had authentic flavour. Since loving this place 10years ago, I’ve travelled to Thailand and experienced the real thing. I hadn’t been to the restaurant until late Covid (2021-2022) since they changed locations, and it has really gone downhill. I was very surprised to find it was still owned by the same couple; the quality decrease would otherwise have indicated it was bought out by a local (non-Thai) kemptville resident. I don’t know if their attention had shifted to the Brockville location and therefore kville is an afterthought…? I’ve eaten there (takeout) 3-4 times in ‘21 and just recently in April ‘22; it will be the last time. I order a few different dishes, curries, stir fry, pad Thai, everything is flavourless. It appears to be good service frozen veggies and pre-pack chicken, heated up in thin broth. There is no body to the sauces, there is no depth of flavour. You can tell the ingredients are from frozen and quickly cooked without seasoning; they are bland and watery. Worse still, they don’t even add typically Thai things to the “pre-packed veg”, there’s no lemongrass shoots, no basil, no bean sprouts, no ginger slices (all ingredients I remember them using authentically 10 years ago). I don’t mind patronizing local restos and I understand the difficulties Covid has placed on them. When costs have gone up, I am ok paying more for the same, or paying less for less (if they need to compromise with quality of supply). But their prices have risen, and their quality has decreased substantially. This is food I expect a 16yr old working fast food could prepare. Bag of frozen veg, count out 3 small chicken strips (also frozen), mix w water and powdered curry. I hate to say it, but ThaiExpress fast food has more flavour than what Nakhon has been making lately. It is extremely disappointing to have this wonderful restaurant unique for kemptville, offering good quality food we don’t have here otherwise, go downhill like this. I know they can do better, and if they can’t’ do better with both locations, then sell one and focus on the other, don’t pretend to sell Thai food here if you can’t do it right. Some folks in kville have never had Thai food, and when the owners are Thai, this level of quality reflects badly on their entire cuisine. Please do better, I’d like to be able to come back. But $16pad Thai chicken with no chicken, $17 curries, and +$3 for rice (3$ buys the better part of a KG dried if not more, this is a ridiculous overcharge), is a sad excuse for “authentic Thai food”.