Thai Chefs Restaurant - Santa Clarita

$20–30

My family and I loves this restaurant. The server is friendly and accommodating. This is our second time at this restaurant and the service is always good and the food is delicious. This will be our hang-out place from now on. Labor Day was spent with family here at this Thai Chefs Restaurant. We will all come back soon.

I’m so thankful I found this little cute Thai Chef’s restaurant in Santa Clarita. When I moved to Santa Clarita from the Westside, my biggest frustration is not finding good restaurants. I felt like all of that I see are mostly chain restaurants, if not, one that is family owned but struggling to make it a success. While I don’t blame the many because of the past pandemic and now, the getting worse economic climate, it does create more of a challenge to find real good restaurants in here. There are a few of course that I’ve found, and they are very far and in between and I can count them with my fingers. For Thai food, Thai Chefs is definitely one of the best finds I had! It is a cute little boutique restaurant with nice decor and ambiance that of a Thai restaurant. It is located at a little strip mall at the corner of Copper Hill and Seco Canyon. It is family operated by the Thai lady owner and some of her family and small staff, that is why the food is as good, flavorful and legit authentic Thai! Yay! What a find! And I couldn’t stop sharing this to everyone I know, and my family actually don’t mind driving from OC now just to come meet me here in Thai Chefs. I couldn’t tell you a specific item in the menu that stands out because they all are very good from their salads ( their chicken Larb and Papaya Salads are so good) to appetizers like their chicken satay, to their main dishes. And their dessert ( I never miss ordering the sweet sticky rice with mangoes) ! I can’t say enough of this place! The service is soooo good and they are all friendly, even the owner! Prices are at par and the parking is so easy and are always available and free! I’m going there to celebrate my girlfriends’ birthday again this evening! I no longer have to drive to the Westside like West LA or Hollywood for a good Thai food fix. Can’t wait for you to try this place!

$10–20

We were greeted with a smile, and treated well. Our waitress was willing to bend to my request to serve me a portion of my tom yum soup and package the rest to go (they don't serve soup in individual portions). Be advised that they use the Thai understanding of spicy, and not the typical American one. (I love spicy food, and my lips were burning from medium spice level). T-Swift fans rejoice, I'm pretty sure they played all of her hits as ambiance (I'm curious now about the crossover of Swifties who like intensely spicy food). In any case, the food was delicious, the environment was peaceful and clean, and the service was humble and customer centered. We will go again!

Very disappointed with the quality of the food here. I ordered two Thai Boat noodles, 1 pad thai, and one pad see you. The Boat noodles were decent, but the pad thai and the pad see you, were dry. The noodles were so dry they fell apart. For almost $20 a dish, I expected way more for what they charge. I was served like they didn’t care. Not recommended.

This restaurant's thai cooking is really delicious. We recently moved back to CA, and the SCV is new to us. The number of items on the menu is extensive and has many options of protein or vegetables for their dishes. I got the eggplant spicy basil lunch special with an added egg roll. I asked for medium spicy, and it was a good balance for me. Around this time of this review, mango season is underway; therefore, I recommend others to get their mango sticky rice dessert! It's nice that the rice is colored with butterfly pea flower, and the coconut cream and mango are a really wonderful combination. Thai Chefs will definitely be our go-to thai restaurant.

This place cooks with love, you can taste it. Big portions and excellent service. The little lady that owns the place is so sweet and serves every dish with a smile. I’m definitely coming back here!

The food is definitely good but their prices are just high. This is a tiny neighborhood restaurant that prices their food as a higher scale restaurant. I took my children out because I remember their food being good, but, since my wife had always used her card to pay, I hadn't realized their prices were high. Starting with the food, anything we ordered had delicious taste. We had Chicken Panang, Bangkok Fried Thai Rice and Fisherman Party (Seafood Curry). They were not excellent but they were very good. We tried ordering from their $12.99 lunch specials list when I realized that none of their lunch specials are priced with meat. Even if you want plain chicken, you end up with a $14.99 lunch special. And if you want a veggie roll with it, it will cost you $0.75 more. I looked throughout their menu and they do the same thing for almost anything in it. Which means that, you are buying sauces and some veggies when you order their meals. I have never seen anything like this anywhere in Los Angeles or thoughout the US for this matter. Definitely not expected in a neighborhood restaurant. Kind of sad... I have to admit that I didn't leave my minimum 20% tip this time. I felt nickeled and dimmed. This is a tiny, not-really-spruced-up, kind-of-modest restaurant in a strip mall deep in Santa Clarita. I am not sure when they started charging separate for the chicken on their meals, but they are definitely charging out-of-range prices for food. Ah yeah! Forgot to say... for these prices you don't even get water in a real glass, you get a disposable plastic cup. I am sorry guys, I'm not sure I'm coming back.

$30–50

$30–50

$20–30

I went to the restaurant to order a couple of takeout dishes. Since it was a takeout, I paid with cash in order to avoid the awkwardness of facing the unwanted choice of tips on the machine. I picked up my order in 15 minutes and said “Thank you. Bye” to the guy at the counter, but he didn’t look, didn’t say a word. I figure he was not happy about not getting a tip on a takeout and intended to show it to me. I was already paying high prices for the two dishes, specially $21 for a soup. He didn’t have to move even a couple of feet to take care of my order. There was no reason for a tip. I felt quite good when I walked in thinking about having decent dinner with my wife, but walked out feeling awful. I am not going back to Thai Chef.