Kinara Thai Bistro - Portland

Kinara Thai is one of the most popular Thai restaurants in our family in Portland! Her Tom Yum is so tasteful and filling. Your pad Thai is the best in town. And each one of their seasonal dishes knocks off our socks. One of the best things about Kinara is that it is a local family restaurant and the people who work there are really proud of their work. They are always capable of a wide range of spice tolerance, nutritional restrictions and non-experimental eaters. Our toddler has become more and more curious over the years and is now happy to try choo-chee pla or Larb. Things that are usually not found in a toddler diet. We are glad that they have survived the pandemic and appreciate the wealth of caution they have taken during the heights of COVID levels.

Pickup was really easy and fast. The food was too sweet. This was my second time ordered for a year in the hope that it changed, but it is still too sweet. If you like Thai food, that's for you.

That was it! the best Thai food I had in portland <3

Absolutely delicious. I had the best tamhai of my life from this place. the fresh rolls are my friends who? re always fresh and the erdnus sauce is amazing. also the crispy rolling are great. everything was a hit so far and the personal is really nice!

I?ve been pleasantly surprised with a few thai places i?ve had in portland, but kinara many dishes tasted completely different and lacked flavors and spices. With all the rave reviews i was caught off guard by the bland dishes that only had one flavor?sugar. Tasted completely different from all the places i ve had on my many culinary trips to thailand. Even the bad, very westernized thai restaurants here have more flavors and complexity than the dishes of kinara. I ve had alot of great food in thailand and also had alot of good and bad thai food around the world. But the top three worst thai dishes i ve ever had were from kinara tonight. Inedible dishes: -drunken noodles: the noodles were cooked wayyyy too long which made the entire dish extremely soggy and disgusting. I cant remember the last time i had noodles with this bad texture and overcooked! Had very mediocre flavor. -Pong ga ree prawns: wayyyy too sweet. Thats all you can taste in this dish. -green chicken curry: another dish that was wayyyyyy too sweet. Another dish that all you could taste was an overkill of sweetness. Mediocre dishes: -green papaya salad: nothing to write home about. Needed more acidity. At least this dish was edible. -Lettuce wrap larb: the flavor and seasoning of the ground chicken was good and pretty authentic. However, the ground chicken was so dry that it made this dish pretty bad. If they cooked the ground chicken better this dish would have been great. Good dishes: -Nom jean pla: this was the only dish that they did an authentic job cooking and had different flavors and spices, similar to tastes that you?d find in a restaurant in Thailand. I had to pour this sauce into other dishes to save those dishes.