Aiyara Thai Cuisine

These guys continue to impress. We've been dining at Aiyara for around 12 years since we moved into town. The ambiance is quiet, and romantic if that's your thing. The food has always been 5 stars. We've loved their veggie spring rolls, the Pad Thai is nummy, but we go there mostly for their curry. Doesn't matter which kind, they're all good. We occasionally opt to add on a couple of Thai teas when we're feeling saucy. Highly recommended. Be ready for a wait on holidays (especially stuff like Valentine's Day).

Note: Writing this as part of a party of 7, just to be clear. Your experience may not be as bad because they may have only given us this experience for that reason. And honestly, if that is the case, they need to not do parties of certain sizes. Our half of the table went ignored for much of the visit today. When they passed out silverware, they had other guests in our party pass us our silverware. I’d rather not have other people passing me my silverware, having multiple people touching it. Would have been nice to just have the server come to our end and hand us our silverware. Then when she took down our orders, she had us practically yell across the table to her our orders instead of coming down to us. I didn’t even know it was my turn until someone tapped me. Then when we got our drinks, she had them pass my drink to me. Somebody passed me a water, not what I had ordered, but we had assumed everyone was getting water plus their drink. Just a lot of unnecessary confusion. When we got our food, they did bring it directly to us, which was nice. When they came around to ask if we needed anything extra, our end of the table was ignored. When they came to refill water, they ignored our side as well. It’s difficult to get any server’s attention. Like they don’t have peripheral vision and can only see what is in their walkway. I wanted some siracha sauce or something spicy as a sauce. Never got a chance to ask for it, even trying to flag someone down. The food was okay. I had a crab fried rice. I only tasted one piece of crab in the entire dish though, so it was more like just fried rice with a pinch of crab. Not coming back though, that’s for sure.

The the elephant fountain located inside is nice as nice as it gets. There are no real traditional Thai chefs in their kitchen! What they serve seems to be premade and stored for possible microwave warm up. They use a pit fryer for tofu etc. I was shocked at how terrible it was! People who don’t know anything about actual Thai food dine here!

Service was a bit slow, as expected since covid and the workforce isn't quite back to normal yet but the food is ok.. not too sure why, but the flavors (of my pad sae ew & tom yum) did not stand out like it used to. I am not saying it was bad... just not quite how it used to be. The eggrolls were good! The spacious environment is relaxing.