Chai Yo Thai

I have a little thing I do by myself where I’ll go to a random Thai restaurant and order my favorite dish, pad see eiw. This was the most random restaurant I could’ve picked. Far away from the city, in a small town. I was excited. The food was delicious. Authentic. And filling. I wish I had this quality of Thai food in Chicago. 5 stars. Would recommend!

We really enjoy Chai Yo! It's BYOB, which is nice, so we brought a bottle of wine and they had glasses and a chiller. We ordered an app platter that had crab rangoons, which were so good that we ordered another crab rangoon. Lightly crispy, filled with cream cheese and crab, and a touch of scallion. So tasty. We all got different things, including red curry with chicken (yummy), beef pho, sweet and sour chicken (it was okay), pad Thai, and another noodle dish that is escaping me. Everything was tasty and we took home some leftovers which were super yummy the next day. Recommend for sure compared to some other Thai places near here!!

The food was really good! But man, OH MAN! What's up with the service?! I understand it's COVID Country out here and the server sure acted like I was the virus too. Seriously though, he threw the menus to us from about 4 feet away. Didn't ask what we'd like and just gazed at us until we uttered our dishes we'd like. The check was thrown to the table too. A consistency you don't want! It's sad that the front of house is so unkind because you can tell the people in the kitchen care about the cuisine.

Good food horrible service. I've been here often and no issues. The Thai staff is amazing. Today there was a white male running the front and he was rude from the moment I walked in. I sat there waiting and waiting as he catered to 2 tables of white patrons but he totally ignored me the only brown person in the place. Once he finally came to me he had a real serious demeanor and an attitude. At this point I felt disrespected and discriminated against. This is disappointing because they have good food but I won't be coming back.