Thai Orchid Southborough in Tunbridge Wells

lovely! highly recommended. Our usual 'fave' thai let us down last minute so I Googled and found Thai Orchid, so happy I did, spoke to a lovely man who fitted us in at late notice. Firstly we were greeted by a huge smile! Fab! then the restaurant was decorated so beautifully - wow. then we had a fab table and the service was excellent! friendly, smiley, quick and then all topped off with delicious well priced food. YUM. great menu choices, loads of vegetarian, GF, vegan and meat eaters. so tasty. big portions too. This is our new fave thai in TW - can't wait to go again. :o)

Was here last night Saturday 6th April 2024 Awesome food although we probably ordered too much definitely recommend this restaurant ✅

Best thai food i have had in ages. Nice atmosphere, friendly staff, very clean restaurant. Very traditional

Food was really good and the team have gone above and beyond to give you the Thai flavour in the middle of Southborough.

If I could give them 6-stars I would. Really nice staff, really authentic Thai dishes, and really huge portion sizes. Went in on Mothers Day and everything was perfect. Can't recommend highly enough.

Cancel takeaways after 45 minutes for no reason and won't answer phone 🤷‍♂️

Just had a lovely Mothers’ Day lunchtime treat here. Great relaxed atmosphere, and ridiculously generous portions (which we had to take home as we couldn’t finish). Really tasty, will be coming again, thank you.

We've come here loads of times since it opened. Yummy fresh tasting food and very friendly service. The kids love the green and massaman curries, the Pad Thai and grapow and the salads are all fabulous :)

Great food and atmosphere , the new owner is very nice and welcoming! Will definitely be coming back for the Tom kha gai soup

New owners. Overall very good. Service and atmosphere was excellent. Food good. We like hot Thai level chilli, I would say here was medium but still good. Beef waterfall salad very nice. Only strange thing for me was that there was no coriander leaves in any of the dishes which is unusual but overall will be going back

Great food, very welcoming staff who are friendly, good choice of food on the menu. Will definitely be back. Thank you

Had a fabulous meal with my family on Saturday night. Food was excellent as well as the service. It was quite busy but the service was very good, excellent atmosphere as well.

Eat Thai food Authentic Thai flavors by Chef Da, who used to work at a 5-star hotel. Very good service and shop The whole shop is decorated with flowers, bright and the atmosphere is very pleasant. I recommend it.

Excellent eatery serving authentic Thai dishes. Kicked off with mouth watering chicken satay followed by delicious green curry washed down Singha is a winning combination and the excellent attentive service. Highly recommended.

Lovely restaurant with impeccable service. Went for a meal with my family and the waiter couldn’t have been nicer. Food was lovely - went for the vegetarian set meal and the starters were out of this world amazing!

Had a great night with family and friends. The food was good for all ages from 4-40 :) can't wait to go again

Great food! The waiters were very kind, funny and kept the beer topped up. The inside was pretty and a super nice atmosphere to eat in. I would go back when I'm next in town. I got a vegetarian set meal for 5 with my family, and there was more food than we could manage. Packed a lot to take home. Banana fritters and coconut rice were absolutely delicious. The mixed vegetarian platter to start with was beautifully presented with pepper art and SO tasty. I would recommend all the bits. The green curry was delicious too - spicy, but delicious :D

It’s clean and tidy. Bright and very good service. We ordered the fried platter which was soso. The oil seems had been used many times. Masaman curry was normal too the chicken was dry and curry was not tasty as the tonbridge gab kau The pad Thai was normal too Price was ok but the food was normal Service was great. As you see from the picture the waiter was using a tissue to deliver the plate which is really nice

First time eating here very warm welcome service was fantastic and the food was amazing

Food was delicious and not overpriced, staff were lovely, fun colourful place. Another service charge added bill but that seems to be the Tunbridge way.

We went here for a friends birthday and it was a really lovely evening. The owners and staff are really friendly, the atmosphere was relaxed and welcoming, and the food was fresh and very enjoyable. The presentation of the food was great, as was the flavour. They treated my friend really well as it was his birthday and made it a very special evening. We will certainly be returning another time.

Really good food and even better service. The restaurant went above and beyond when we ordered the wrong starter. They let us eat the starter and then they brought out the one we wanted to order

Ordered online through Just eat and there was a slight hiccup with orders. Thai orchid phoned to tell me straight away and rectified the order by sending the correct one out. They were very polite and apologetic, fantastic customer service all round. Food was hot when it arrived and tasted great! Lots of flavour and fresh! Definitely order again and recommend.

Our local Thai restaurant - excellent food and really nice atmosphere and has recently been decorated too!! Recommended!!👍

Restaurant is closed due to building work, open for takeaway. So why is my booking accepted by your system. Complete waste of time. Website booking system needs to be updated.

Absolutely delicious food , lovely staff and great prices , even better because it’s just around the corner from us so will be returning next week for another delicious. Meal

Cozy little restaurant serving extremely good authentic Thai dishes. Their menu is cheaper than other Thai restaurants I have been to, but the portion is bigger than that of many places. Very good value for money 💰

Amazing Thai food…authentic and nice and spicy.

Excellent proper Thai food. Very good Tom Yam Goong (prawn soup, must be ordered spicy), Larb (spicy minced chicken), Som Tam (papaya salad), sticky rice and Tod Mun Pla (fish cakes). Good value. Recommended.

Went in unplanned, food was great and really fresh and the hosts were lovely. Will definitely be back!

Really good restaurant. We do a road trip with our 2 little girls and it was very kid friendly and sooo good !

Delicious Thai food. All the dishes we have tried so far have been excellent quality - the green curry and massaman curry have been the best we've had in Tunbridge Wells! Great food and service - thank you!!

Lovely staff and the food is good, at a reasonable price. There are more dishes from different provinces so you can get authentic dishes.

Visited in January. Very tasty food and much better value than the other local Thai restaurants. Good friendly service, a couple of slight hiccups but was brand new and training staff so no issue. Would visit again.

Delightful service, great food. We had a really lovely meal on a Saturday evening. Also had terrific takeaway from there too.

We went for a walk and came across this restaurant and decided to go for a lunch, looking for some local gems. Thai cuisine is our absolutely most favourite one with all the fragrant spices, fresh vegetables and seafood. We entered the restaurant and no one was there (neither guests nor staff), even though the sign was lit up "open". After walking around for quite some time and talking and making jokes that maybe it’s a self service or that they maybe forgot to lock the door and it’s actually closed, we decided to look for a staff. We called out and went around the back. Two employees were in the kitchen talking. After being sat down we decided to have calamari to start with, glass of wine and a beer. The calamari arrived looking underwhelming, but pub-quality-OK. However, you could taste the flour between the squid and outer batter (it was undercooked) and it was served with ordinarily shop-tasting sweet chilli sauce. At this time we were quite underwhelmed with our experience but still positive and quite excited about our decision to have an unplanned lunch out. As I love fresh fish and Thai cuisine I’decided to have a whole sea bass with spring onion, red and green peppers in home made sweet chilli and my partner decided to have chicken in red and green peppers and pineapple in home made Thai sauce sauce. As the menu didn’t provide any side dishes options (apart from rice) I’ve asked if I can have a side of nice seasonal vegetables with my meal. My partner ordered a side of rice with his chicken. When our dishes arrived we were presented with two deep fried options that looked almost the same as the calamari. The chicken was just chunks of very dry battered bits that were so thin that you could barely see the dry meat when broken down. My sea bass wasn’t a whole sea bass as you’d expect from a quality restaurant, but two filets deep fried in not-so-nice batter. They were both unpleasant and tasting like it’s been just cooked from ready-made-shop-bought-frozen, not prepared fresh. The small bowl of rice was really unpleasant too, dry and lumpy, like it was cooked a long time ago and microwaved to order. The entire meal (both of them prepared in identical way) was just deep fried, battered, dried out at the centre of the plate, sprinkled with shop tasting sweet chilli sauce and few bits of chopped raw pepper on top that looked just to be a part of the sprinkled sweet chilli sauce.. It was the most disappointing and underwhelming look and sadly also awful taste. The side of vegetables that we ordered with our meals were only few slices of raw tomato and cucumber.. if the extra slices of cucumber and tomato were not on the plate, the £15 priced fish was only deep fried filleted sadly looking sea bass and £9 priced few tiny chunks of battered chicken, that was few millimetres thick under all the unpleasant batter. It was like buying a very bad frozen food and preparing it very badly. It was so disappointing that it was almost ridiculous that this was served in a restaurant. The waiter was very friendly and really lovely and attentive but couldn’t speak much English and the manager wasn’t in so we just could not ask or discuss anything (we tried) to allow them to rectify it. After forcing it down as we would be paying for it and were hungry after our walk and also had no chance to discuss anything with a member of staff, we just wanted to leave and forget that experience. I was hoping the restaurant at least takes TN Card so we could have some discount of this awful meal. The waiter called his manager on the mobile phone and gave me the phone so I can ask about it myself. I was told on the phone that sadly no TN card discount is now available. We are eating out quite regularly and had various experiences, mostly great, but sometimes quite average or rarely - poor, but we have never felt that the meal was that bad… I have never eaten anything that bad neither in restaurant, nor home cooked or even from a cheap take away or microwaved ready meal. We were utterly disappointed and really surprised that the food that is of such low quality, is actually sold in the restaurant. We try to support local small businesses, but will certainly not be back there.. even for free.

Tasty food, lovely service, spacious comfy well modernised restaurant. An enjoyable experience.

We tried this new restaurant as it’s within walking distance from home, and was not disappointed. The service was welcoming and friendly with a good atmosphere and drinks selection, including cocktails. The food was excellent . We all chose different starters and mains, I’d recommend the Thai salad and the fish cakes starters, but all the food was perfectly spiced, and cooked to our taste ie medium, mild etc We were a table of 5 and had a good drink too, all of which came quickly and with a smile! Would definitely go again and would thoroughly recommend.

Takeaway Calamari, tempura prawns, green chicken curry. 1st they forgot to put the 2nd curry on the order and they’d run out of prawn crackers. The starters were average, and the sweet chilli sauce was so watered down it wouldn’t stick to the starters and just ran off. The chicken curry wasn’t spicy and tasted of aniseed. We really felt ripped off by this meal and will not be returning

Came here on reviews as they were quite good, an the food Didn’t disappoint really really good tasting food fresh an full of flavour great prices as well , highly recommend the beef salad as starter Lovely staff as well, fresh mango dessert is lovely too

Absolutely superb. A bolig order for 9 people on a Saturday night. All piping hot. We all had different dishes and they were all excellent.

Amazing food and great service Will definitely visit again

Very Welcoming staff, food was fantastic, had the duck for starter and could not fault the portion size or the taste! Massaman curry for mains, incredible. Ignore the poor review, my party all enjoyed their food and would all recommend coming back!

Fabulous food and the service is wonderful. The lady who owns the restaurant is delightful!

Really really delicious food, we’re vegan and they supplied a stunning massaman curry, and pad Thai that was deeeevine. Large portions. We picked up the takeaway but they do deliver most of the time, and the restaurant looks lovely so next time we’ll dine in :)

We had a delicious delivery of chicken Satay, pork skewers, chicken green curry and sweet and sour king prawns with rice. Delivery was swift and without issue, the meal was hot and freshly cooked. We would definitely recommend and will order again. The vegetables were crunchy and the sauces tasty, portions were generous and tasted so fresh.

Ordered for delivery by Just Eat, the delivery was fine, but the food was awful. The only decent thing about the meal was the chicken satay, which was delicious. However, the rest of the starter platter was disgusting and dripping in grease, and the prawn toast was both burned and greasy. We also ordered two pad thai's, these were also very greasy, leaving a residue on the lips, and I had to leave mine as it wasn't at all nice. Overall a waste of money and not very good food at all. Perhaps it is different in the restaurant itself, but I definitely wouldn't order again. Such a shame.

We had dinner here with some friends and we were very pleasantly surprised at the quality of the food. They had only recently opened so not all the drinks were available on the menu but the meal was wonderful and the service was very good. We will be going back!

We had dinner here with some friends and we were very pleasantly surprised at the quality of the food. They had only recently opened so not all the drinks were available on the menu but the meal was wonderful and the service was very good. We will be going back!

Went for dinner after seeing it had reopened with new owners. The service was good, very friendly and the food was delicious. Will be back!

Had a takeaway never again I eat enough Thai food to say it tasted like watered bovril in beef that was just the grawpow Thai salad missing rice was awful and one hard lump that never separated! and Tom yum looked like dishwater minus its coriander…. Gutted never even got a call back

For a soft opening and not having everything on the menu it was pretty good. Good service, food tastes good. I recommend.