Baan Thai

I LOVE this place. They serve the most delicious Thai food I have ever eaten. The atmosphere and birds-eye view of the busy street below — phenomenal. The service is always quick and friendly. I've eaten here 3 times over the course of 2 years and have never had a bite of one of their dishes that was anything short of heavenly. The spice level is great straight out of the kitchen, but I reccomend requesting one of their spice caddies to try out their dried spice blends and pickled peppers. The prices are more than fair, and if you go during happy hour the sushi and boozy frozen drinks are a steal. Dish recommendations: they're all amazing, so you can't really go wrong, but I have drooly dreams about the pineapple chicken bite appetizers, spicy papaya curry, and northern curry with egg noodles in particular.

The food is delicious and savory! The menu is pretty big with a large selection of food where the first half of the menu is comprised of Thai dishes and the second half is comprised of sushi. Ordered a few Thai dishes, so I don't know how the sushi taste, but the food is one of the best Thai I've had in the DC metropolitan area. Ordered the Khao Gree'ap Bpaak Maw and Tung Tohng for appetizer, Khao Soi Gai for entree, and Kanom Krok for dessert. The Khao Gree'ap Bpaak Maw is really good, and the peanut taste overpowers the taste of the other ingredients, but eating it with the chili pepper makes it taste better as it helps balance it out. The Tung Tohng is pretty good, and you can taste the ground chicken and shrimp, and the sweet chili sauce helped enhance the flavor. Khao Soi Gai was amazing! The presentation was outstanding, and I will definitely return just to eat more of this dish. The chicken was moist and tender, and crispy egg noodles were crunchy. The cooked egg noodles were wide and soft. It has a nice kick to it from the spice, so if you can't handle your spice, I would stay away from this dish or ask the server to tone down the spice. Overall, this dish exceeded my expectations. The Kanom Krok was delicious, and the coconut flavor was refreshing to finish off the spicy entree. It definitely reminded me of Thai street food because there are food stands that sell this dessert hot and crispy. My only complaint was the Thai Tea, although it was refreshing, it was a little too sweet, and it came with too much ice. Overall, this is one of the best Thai restaurants I've had in the area, and will return again for the Khao Soi Gai!

Went here for dinner. Place was packed which is always a good sign ;). Ordered two appetizers a tapioca wrapped chicken and sausage. Both were awesome. Eat the chicken with chilly served with it for full experience of the flavors. Ordered a maki and papaya curry chicken for entrees. Again both were superb. Service awesome too, they explained the dishes well and helped with the order. Portions are on larger side so can be shared between two. Overall experience was very good, will definitely recommend this place.

Best thai I've ever had. I've been searching for a Khoi Soi this good ever since. Edit: Returned to D.C. And went back here. Amazing Khoi soi. The curry is so flavorful, the chicken was cooked perfectly. It's definitely my favorite Thai food. Accessibility: there is a flight of narrow stairs to enter the restaurant.

It was fairly empty at 11:40 today. The hostess and server were very attentive, we had water almost immediately, and our food came out very fast once we ordered it. My dish want particular spicy, but everyone else thought medium was plenty spicy. I had the Thai vermicelli in chili peanut sauce (kanom jeen nahm phrik) and I loved it. It came out to $16.50 after tax, and they had no problem doing for separate checks. They even color coordinated or pens with our credit cards! I had never been for lunch before, but ill definitely be back. Best Thai food in D.C. in my humble opinion.