Thai Fresh - Charlottesville

Pad thai whan was tasty, friendly owners love this place

I moved away from Charlottesville a few years ago and this is one of the places I miss most.The food is delicious, and its the best deal in town on top of that. And the service is as warm and friendly as I've ever had anywhere. To pay these prices for this quantity and quality of food and drink and hospitality is extraordinary. The Thai tea is great as are all the curries.So good I still wanted to review it years later. Please eat here. I know I will when I come back.

I was really looking forward to trying a new Thai place and we visited mid afternoon on a weekday so we had the place to ourselves. They are very pleasant at greeting you and taking your order right away at the counter. We ordered chicken green curry, chicken drunken noodles, crispy Thai spring rolls and gyoza. She repeated our order but started I had coconut curry so I had to state green curry again. Prices are great and they bring it out to you if you dine in which is nice. There were only 2 small spring rolls for $5. My hubby enjoyed his drunken noodles but mine was in fact, coconut and not green curry as I order green curry quite often. I just ate it since I was hungry but was disappointed she still didn't get my order correct and the ingredients were a small portion of green pepper, cabbage, chicken and coconut curry with most of it being coconut milk and white rice. You do get a big portion of white rice but I did miss the choice of a brown rice too.

Delish pad thai. One star off for very skimpy filling on very tasty (but mostly wrapper) fried wontons.

Pretty OK Thai food all around. The restaurant was mostly clean and the staff was friendly but the food was just alright. We ordered the thai iced tea, golden bags, dumplings, thai fried rice, and red curry. The thai teas were a bit too watered down for my liking and didn't have enough sweetness to it. The golden bags are a better version of chinese cheese wontons and those were by far the favorite item we ordered. The dumplings were flavored okay but a bit dry on the inside. The thai fried rice was pretty good but was a bit more oily than I'm use to with other Thai restaurants I've been too. The red curry with chicken was flavorful and delicious I just wish there was more meat to it as it was mainly full of sliced green peppers. Overall we left full but will probably try other places around next time we are in the area.