The Suan Thai Restaurant in Test Valley

Very good restaurant in Romsey. Very nice and friendly staff and really tasteful good food. Would highly recommend a visit

Our family had a fantastic meal this evening for 4. Excellent service and delicious authentic food in a beautiful restaurant. Will definitely return. Thankyou :)

We visited this evening as a family of 4. The service and the food was excellent. We Would strongly recommend this restaurant for a lovely meal out. All the starters, main courses and desserts were delicious. Thankyou and see you again soon :)

Food is top, atmosphere has a bit of a canteado feel. Yet, great time management when ordering take away!

Wonderful food. Best Thai around. Been a few times and we are always impressed.

Excellent Thai food , Staff are all lovely, great atmosphere 👌

Wonderful service last night with fantastic tasty food. We will be back.

Lovely food, and pleasant attentive staff.

Great food, well presented. Excellent service. Can't wait to go again. Recommended to friends who also enjoyed their visit.

This was the first time we've visited Suan Thai in a while and it did not disappoint. The service was excellent, we were well looked after all evening. There's a good menu with lots of choice and the food was cooked perfectly. Well worth a visit.

Lovely little hidden away thai restaurant. Beautifully cooked fresh ingredients. So tasty and authentic. You wont be disappointed !

This restaurant is such a hidden gem. Lovely cosy atmosphere and friendly welcoming staff. We had such tasty home cooked thai food all freshly prepared and it was worth every penny. Recommend the special pad thai rice and any of the sea bass dishes also the mixed platter starter . Its all homemade for a great tasting selection. You wont leave here hungry or disappointed. Enjoy .

Fantastic food. We ordered several meals for takeaway which were equally as nice. Great service, very friendly. Cannot fault this restaurant.

Excellent food coupled with excellent friendly service made this a great night out for us. I really appreciate it when given advice on what and how much to order, too many times I’ve ordered food that was unnecessary but to be told beforehand is a blessing. All of the staff were very polite and the owner was really helpful. The lovely food was complemented by some lovely house red and white wines. A really great night was had by all 6 of us and we can’t wait to visit again.

First time we ordered a take away and the food was just delicious! Very fresh; super tasty, very good portions and all of us loved the food. We will definitely order again and will go to eat to the restaurant. Best Thai food we have had for long time.

Table of 10, but great service and fantastic food as always. Definitely recommend.

I quite often get takeaway from Suan Thai and the food is fantastic. A group of 10 of us decided to eat in and the service was great, food was as fantastic as always. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed their meals and I have no doubt I'll be back soon. I had the prawn toasts and beef massaman and both were absolutely divine.

First visit for many a year. Very impressed, as despite being very busy the food and service were excellent. I can see why it is s popular. .

Dropped in on a Tuesday evening with no reservation just as they were opening. Couldnt have been better, owner was welcoming, hospitable and polite, restaurant was spotlessly clean, with delicious food, nice and fresh and good quality. Absolutely going back, and soon!

Visited on a Wednesday night and got a table without booking. Service was okay, and heard male server that they were short of staff. Food (Chicken Pad King, Steamed Rice and Prawn Crackers) was okay, not as flavoursome as I thought it would be. Lighting was dim. A service charge was added without having choice to offer/give tip. My whole meal for one person with a bottle of sparkling water was £30.00

We turned up late towards closing time for my birthday and guy couldn't have been more accommodating. Excellent food and service and the food was so fresh and delicious.

Restaurant is lovely inside, nice staff, all was.going well till the food came out. It was well cooked and lovely presentation but the food had no heat, no flavour, was gutted. Eaten may Thai dishes from authentic places, sadly I don't recommend. Gutted as it's on my door step

Restoran is located inside Cinamon lake side Hotel. Food, service and atmosphere is really great. Definitely worth visiting.

Being vegan, chose yellow Thai curry. INCREDIBLE !!! Highly recommend. Will be back soon. Gets busy (understandably) so,order in advance

Being vegan, chose yellow Thai curry. INCREDIBLE !!! Highly recommend. Will be back soon. Gets busy (understandably) so,order in advance

Review of Take-Away experience - not sit down. Suan Thai had been our regular Thai eat-in and take-away for some years. Reasonable food at a reasonable price - but we lost touch during the restaurant refit and found another thai option a few miles further out. Decided to go "home" to Suan Thai for a take-away last night. Happy to wait the scheduled 80 minutes for our meal. Arrived 10 minutes early (just in case) but food took 30 minutes to arrive. Not a big deal, it happens. Pricing has increased significantly with a take-away that cost £27 before the refit now costing £38. Prawn starter increased by 40%, rice by 90%. In fact the Kao Kai as a take-away is 25p more expensive than the eat-in price. Food was reasonably tasty but my massaman curry was very watery compared to my previous experience and the chicken"strips" were stringy, lower quality meat. The duck special also had moved from thicker honey sauce to a much more watery consistency. Cost saving measures which no doubt helped to contain the price increases to just +43%. I do understand base costs have increased but sadly Suan Thai has priced itself out of my take-away market whilst degrading the eating experience. I might go back for eat-in..........but will probably support the other option for both.

Lovely food with lovely staff. Wine selection was very good and thoroughly enjoyed the meal. Don't be put off with the location as inside it is very pleasant.

On holiday at West Wellow first week September and eat here on our last night. Recommend you book as weekends are especially busy apparently. Not surprising as food incredible and staff /service first class. Nothing too much trouble for them. Rang at fairly short notice, but they jiggled things to find us a table space. My husband, not a great fan of Thai food, is completely converted by our experience here.

Great restaurant good food would recommend

Went here as a table of four, chicken was very low quality with telltale white residue from low quality chicken on the satay, mediocre flavour from all the main dishes and very overpriced for what it was. I understand cost of living etc but the food quality simply doesn’t match the price paid. Service was good, atmosphere was good, but the quality of food was simply lacking. We won’t be returning.

The food was delicious. Service was fast, and the restaurant was very clean and comfortable. I look forward to going back.

Since moving to Romsey this is the take away we consistently go for! The food is superb & the owner & staff are just lovely! Favourite place around

Lovely restaurant good service food is amazing

Delicious food and excellent service. We were the first customers in the restaurant, so obviously there was no atmosphere, but as it started to fill with customers the atmosphere improved.

Food is delicious and the service was very quick.

Fantastic meal , service excellent, recommend 💯

Suan Thai is my favourite of all the eating out options in the area! The food is consistently outstanding, service is always fast, attentive and friendly. It’s our first choice of restaurant whenever I meet up with a group of friends. Thank you 👍🏻.

£3.50 for a can of coke. Very bland. Asked for chilli oil or flakes. They had none, but brought me a whole little bowl of fresh red chilli. So bland or face melting were the options. I had a starter and pad Thai main. I left hungry and went home and cooked myself a burger.

Excellent food at this restaurant, I absolutely loved the food, and the people that worked there were very kind, the food had so much flavor. I had the Panang curry an bed it was superb I loved my time here and I think you would too. Definitely come again.

Suan Thai is my favourite place to eat, and regularly go with family and friends. The food is amazing, the staff are so welcoming and friendly. Had another fab night on Saturday with friends, highly recommend, guaranteed a lovely evening!

The food here is always amazing! Authentic, tasty and fresh! I’d recommend to anyone.

Edited based on the owner's reply: Terrible food and super expensive for the quality. All the proteins were way over cooked, dry and bad quality. Wouldn’t mind paying the price if the food was good, but literally everything was bad. The owner claimed we did not order a single chicken dish, but actually we ordered TWO. We ordered CHICKEN tom yum soup and CHICKEN wings to start. Soup mainly tasted of MSG with super dry chicken and the cheapest mushrooms you get not to mentioned gross and will never be used in a broth in Southeast Asia (I understand if they charge that price with oyster mushrooms). Wings were super dry, tough, and only 3 small wings in total... The duck curry was mainly veg for £17, duck was grainy and definitely overcooked. The curry paste was definitely store bought paste. The sea bass did not smell fresh, overcooked, £22 for a small piece of sea bass of bad quality is a joke. Also weirdly they used thickly sliced red onions in the mango salad with the fish when the dish should be with shallots, but I guess that's a way to scam customers. We ordered sticky rice which was £4 per portion, but so was the jasmine rice which the owner claimed to be cheaper but it was the same price at £4 so he is a liar… £80 for 2, 2 starters, 2 mains and 2 rice, 1 beer, 1 lemonade and 1 bottle of WATER for extremely bad quality food. We did not ask the food to be remade because we were hungry and the dishes will still be disgusting anyway so we did not need more of them. Be careful of tipping (we tipped hadn’t realised they already charged gratuity) The restaurant was extremely cold, even after an hour of being in the restaurant, with other customers' presence...

Really excellent Thai restaurant. Service was attentive, food was fresh and full of flavour, menu was varied enought for all. Would love to return.

2022 this lace goes from strength to strength and I love it. The Pad Thai is perfect and I can never resist! 2019 Love this place as the staff are attentive and it feels authentic. We are blessed with two Thai restaurants to choose from in Romsey but personally I like this place the most. You get a really friendly welcome, prawn crackers complimentary on the table and a good, varied menu to choose from. Recently returned from Thailand and I can confirm that the food is close, not as spicy as it could be but I do like my food hot. Good wine selection and a few Thai beers that I am told are good too. Really nice dining experience at sensible prices. Returned here in December 2021 and I'm, sorry to say it was not the best experience. Great food, that's no difference, but the service was difficult. Maybe they were short staffed but it was a long wait to get served before our main order and an age before our sweet. In fact we ended up having to flag staff to serve us. But hey perhaps they were short staffed. My most disliked thing is the staff saying the cost of the meal out loud. This was a gift and to have the price, which was high, said to the entire table not appropriate. My guests do not need to know how much the charge is, I can read and know that's enough. But they said the cost to the table about three times, and it embarrassed my guess who started to want to pay, which was not the point of a gift. Also I may be a woman but I can pay a bill, and book a table, they kept deferring to the only man. Taking no notice of my saying I had booked and only hearing the man, then the bill being passed to the man and not to me who had booked the table. Small issues but a bit like buying a present and the person getting the gift being shown the receipt, nobody would do that. So great food but not great service, a bit chaotic, I can firgive that as it is so beautiful - but I wouldn't book here if I didn't want the entire table to know what I was spending!

All the times Ive been here I have not been disappointed. The staff are nice and friendly and the food is awsome. 5☆

Haven't been in a while was meant to write this back then but was hoping the old chefs would have been working if they are now I'd go back but from my experience since owners changed the food is so not the same I miss the old food use to be where me and my husband went for any birthday or anniversary and it was amazing, I would go back if I knew the food was like it was back then, but from that one really disappointing dinner on my wedding anniversary I have not been back.

Amazing thai food, one of the best I've had so far! Great red curry and the sides are great!

The food was very nice but spoilt by being served on cold plates. Portion size was quite small compared to other Thai restaurants. Poor management explanation/excuses. Restaurant was very busy but feel there should have been more staff. Drink prices very expensive compared to food prices. I wouldn't eat here again.

Great food - excellent service. Highly recommended

Just arrived home from Suan Thai and compelled to write this review for all that are considering dining at this restaurant. Firstly, the quality of the food is exceptional - in my honest opinion. The front of house staff appear to be running the restaurant area like a well oiled machine. We didn't catch the (young lady) waitress name but she couldn't do enough in guiding us through the menu. She even went to consult with the Chef in order to acquire further advise on a dish we were seeking. Incredible given that they were busy. Anyway, I'll leave it with you all to make your own mind up, although I've made mine and that's a new and loyal customer. Thankyou

Very attentive and great quality. Thank you

Lovely food and helpful staff. We had dinner before a theatre show. we got stuck in traffic on our way so had phoned through our order and it was ready within minutes of us arriving.

Really like this restaurant, the food is always delicious and the staff are friendly. We have visited here many times and have never been disappointed.

So disappointing. They had changed the menu and removed all the great stuff we’d seen a couple of weeks before. Food was completely uninspiring and bland. Had such better food at thai restaurants and it was a real shame the one on my doorstep failed to hit the mark.

Fantastic place, the best food and service. We’ve been several times now and keep going back, despite living in Cheltenham, the drive of almost two hours is certainly worth it! Thank you all for being there and just being brilliant!

Do not answer the phone terrible service, I love this place but they need to answer the phone to there customers

Delicious meals and great service

Really good meal, lovely setting. We have been twice now, and sure to go again. The owners were really good.

Very peaceful atmosphere and decor. Delicious food. Excellent, friendly service. Good wine. Easy parking close by. Highly recommended.

Spent £40 on a takeaway for 2 - our first (and last!) time ordering from here. We ordered the yellow curry which is advertised as “mild” and has always been mild in the multiple places we have had this dish previously. The curry was very spicy, at least a medium spice. Completely inedible for my husband and I. I emailed the restaurant who immediately sent a polite reply admitting something had gone wrong and they would look into the matter. My husband then asked a few days later what they were going to do to resolve it as we hadn’t heard anything since. A very rude, very sarcastic and very unprofessional member of staff has since been sending messages to my husband, arguing that basically we have been lying because we didn’t return the curry to them (at no point did they ask for the curry to be returned, even in their initial reply the night we ordered when we could have obliged.) Our advice if you’re thinking of using Suan Thai? Certainly avoid for takeaway because if you don’t get what you ordered (even after they admit fault!) you will get a barrage of sarcastic abuse from a staff member. What a way to forge a relationship with a new customer!

Excellent meal again, so tasty. Highly recommended.

Wonderful food. The Dim Sum was excellent, I had Pad Thai with prawns for the main as my daughter-in-law had recommended it. I shouldn't have had rice with it as it made the meal too big. The restaurant has a wonderful atmosphere and the staff are great. We will definitely be going back there.

Always the best welcome, lovely staff and top food, would recommend the duck spring rolls, massamam curry and pad Thai, also any sea bass dish! Molly

Food was amazing, staff are friendly, really good place for Thai food

Amazing food, staff are so friendly and polite. They were run off their feet tonight and did everything to make us feel welcome. Can’t recommend this restaurant enough

Absolutely fantastic night and the food was delicious. The staff went above and beyond to make my daughter's birthday memorable. Cannot wait to come back! Thank you

Absolutely terrible food. Changed ownership. All Indian chiefs. Professing to be authentic thai food. Staff very condescending.

Very nice restaurant in Romsey Very friendly and accommodating staff fantastic food in comfortable surroundings

What a fantastic evening we've had at Suan Thai. The service and food was excellent. Really good banter with the waiters. They created us a bespoke starter platter as there were 7 of us. Drinks were flowing and food was lovely and hot and very tasty. What a surprise to receive a birthday cake from the restaurant. Such a nice gesture. We will certainly be back. Thanks for a great evening.

Fantastic food and very friendly staff. A brilliant place to have a lunch time meal.

Lovely, really tasty food and great service. Will definitely be going back ☺️

This restaurant is fantastic. I loved the food that as advised by the waiter is cooked fresh daily. The atmosphere was serene, especially the lighting. Overall, great experience, will go again.

Amazing food and lovely staff

Amazing restaurant and oh my god amazing food. Tell all you know !

Excellent meal, very busy but fitted us in without a booking as we were passing through Romsey

Great food, ace service and Singa beers. What could be better! 🥂

Came based on other reviews I had seen and wanted something different to pub food. We were not disappointed. The food and service here is excellent. We were staying overnight in Lanford and it was roughly a 12 min drive to this restaurant. The car park is right next to restaurant and is free after 4pm. Details of how to get to this car park are on their website. This restaurant was great with our toddler, I'd come back here for a date night or a group of friends.

Excellent food and ambiance, service can be a little slow. Well worth the wait though. Will definitely come again

Excellent food and service. Really enjoyable family night out. My daughter loved the dessert too. We will return again next time we are in Romsey

Lives and dined in the area for a long time and this restaurant always deliveries good food at a good price . Always tasty and delivered on time with good service although tonight I would say it was average. The squid Tempura was not great all cooked well but was not drained well enough the feeling of biting into the meal and getting a explosion of oil in the mouth was not good.Just feel a little frustrated with menu and choices, for me it is not easy to navigate and ended up with far too much food, would be great to see smaller rice, noodle dishes or even a bowl of vegetables not everyone wants the plate full. Value for money 4/5 as I feel I am paying for something that will not get eaten.We did try to explain to waitress when ordering but it seemed to get lost in translation.

Without doubt the best Thai food we have ever had. The restaurant is tastefully furnished and we were immediately made to feel welcome by the staff. We had a few nibbles to start, excellent prawn crackers and some free cashew nuts for my wife who is vegetarian. We ordered a Thai vegetable yellow curry, chicken pad prik, stir fried noodles with vegetables, thai jasmine rice cooked in coconut milk and deep fried tempura vegetables. When it all came out we thought we had ordered way too much but managed to eat our way through pretty much all of it. The reason for this is because it was the most perfect food you could wish for. There really was nothing we could fault and almost every dish was the best we had ever tasted, so fresh and fragrant that it was on a completely different level to anything we had tasted before. We both said after leaving that it was without doubt in the top ten meals we had ever had, not just Thai but any meal, any time. If you are in the area this is a must, you will be in Thai heaven.

Excellent food with attentive service. I recommend without reservation (but best to make a reservation!) Take out also available.

Wow . . Where do I start . .This Thai has become my favourite place to eat over the last few months. Not only is the food exceptional but the staff go out of there way to make sure you have a great time . I don’t know what to recommend as it’s all delicious Red Thai , yellow curry or pad Thai are probably my favourites but it’s hard to choose !! A special mention to our waiter Tiz who makes our evening so enjoyable and makes us come back . We have been with a few different friends who all say how tasty and amazing the food is and they also can’t wait to book again. Honestly it’s the best Thai around don’t hesitate to try you won’t be disappointed .

First visit to this restaurant, we were expecting good things after reading some reviews on their Trip Advisor page.When we arrived we were expecting as in some nice Thai restaurants, Thai waitresses in their traditional Thai outfits.We were greeted instead by two Bengali waiters who probably came from the local Indian restaurants, these two waiters were really good and friendly by the way.Then a young unfriendly Thai lady came to take our order, she had definitely lost her Thai Smile.After a long wait the food arrived, we found it to be very bland in taste.Not a great evening, will not return soon.

Visited this restaurant recently. We ordered Tom yam soup for starters which was very watery. Then ordered beef massaman for the main which took 40 minutes to arrive. The restaurant was half full but we noticed several takeaway orders leaving the kitchen. The beef in the massaman was very tough and chewy. When leaving the restaurant, we spoke to another group outside who had just left the restaurant and they also noticed the restaurant was more concerned about the takeaway orders than the diners in the restaurant.

Food and service was excellent, great range of vegetarian options as well. Staff very hospitable and helpful at finding us a taxi to get us back to our hotel a fair distance away. Will visit again when in the vicinity

Absolutely delicious. Everyone is so friendly and the food is amazing, what more could you want.

This restaurant was a firm favourite under previous ownership so we were very disappointed to find the food bland and lacking in the beautiful fragrant tastes that always acompany Thai food, all three dishes suffered from the same lack of attention to detail that Thai cooks are usually very proud of. On the other hand the 3 different types of rice we ordered were excellent and all we expected. I would like to think we'll give it another chance but no one likes to be disappointed

We ate very early but staff were very friendly and welcoming, even though we were the first diners. I had an amazing Thai Green Curry and my friend a Massaman - both were delicious! Wished I lived nearer to take advantage of the takeaway service!

A brilliant restaurant. Attentive staff and excellent food. A real jewel of a place! Well worth several visits !

Thai food is our favoriate take away style and we have tried a few. None as good as this place. Their Pad Thai isalmost good enough to just have and nothing else. We have been there for many meals too (including held birthday parties and even a hen night). Weare moving out of the area and will miss it badly I suspect!

Had a lovely time here. The food was really tasty and the service was really good. The only reason I put 4 stars instead of 5 is because when it hit 10pm we felt like we were really out staying our welcome which was a shame. 10pm on the dot we were given the bill even though we had half a bottle of wine left. It was a bit awkward as we felt a bit stared at and the waitress kept checking her watch!

First restaurant we've been back to since Covid reopening and it didn't disappoint... amazing food, Covid safe, and excellent service. The waiter was brilliant and really personable. Our fav date night restaurant.

We went here as a family after a long day at the park and shopping. They could not have been more accommodating, going above and beyond to ensure my granddaughter was catered for and spoiled with ice cream for dessert. The food was superb, and the service attentive. Definitely one to recommend. Many thanks.

Sadly, this place has gone a little bit downhill since the change in management. The quality of the food and the flavour of the dishes is not what it used to be.

After nearly 2 years I got a take out for my birthday mid feb as I was craving a Thai. Me and my partner got several mains and some sides and I was really pleased. This is as good as it was with the previous owners and really good sized portions with plenty of king prawns, so much so that we had a second take out the following evening! Thoroughly recommend this thai if you are looking for something authentic and local.

Just to confirm the restaurant has changed hands (Nov ‘19). We haven’t eaten here for about 18-24 months as we thought the quality had dropped off under the previous owners. Very glad to say the food tonight was very enjoyable. The new owners are producing food at the standard that made Suan such a popular local Thai restaurant. If you haven’t eaten here recently I’d recommend trying it again. Back to its best! We had Pad Thai and the Red and Green Curries.

Food was excellent! Great customer service. Will definitely return! 💯👍🏼

Really good authentic Thai food

Fantastic food (I recommend the crispy sea bass curry with coconut rice). Wonderful service and clean facilities. Highly recommend if you like authentic Thai cuisine. We are regulars now.