Thai 55 Restaurant
Thai 55 is a tiny Hyde Park takeout favorite known for generous, flavorful panang and orange curries, shrimp drunken noodles, and satisfying smoothies with tapioca. The quaint space has only a couple of tables, making it better suited to takeout or casual meals than lingering; reviews praise the curries but find the Pad Thai inconsistent, with occasional long waits and paid street parking.
What 514 diners keep saying
verbatim, from Google
“**Thai 55** A hidden gem! Not a shabby spot at all! **Key Features:** - Quaint establishment - 4.99/5 stars - No complaints! **Food Ratings:** - 3-5 stars across the board - Delicious Thai options **Must-Try Dishes:** - Pad Thai - Tom Yum Soup - Green Curry **Try it, mon amour! 💕**”
“Small but delicious. Parking is paid street parking. Can't wait to try their curry dishes.”
“It's not as bad as the the reviews say. I went after lunch on a day when the other two Thai restaurants beside it were both closed. The owner there was struggling to keep up with the orders, handling both the cooking and the cashier duties. I ordered the Massaman curry, which came with rice, and the Thai iced tea. My companion had the drunken noodles (pictured). Our meal was ready after about a 20 minute wait, plus the nearly 10 minutes we had to wait before he was able to man the counter. There are tables that you can use, but all the the food is packed up at the counter to go. The curry sauce was rich and spicy, although the some of the chili flakes settled on the bottom of the tub and needed to be stirred in. There were no other vegetables in it, except for a large quantity of thick onion strips. It also had a potato, cut into large quarters. Smaller pieces would have been able to be cooked through. As it was, my small plastic fork could barely handle the hardness of this tuber. The Thai iced tea was delicious, and very creamy--almost too creamy, as if I were meant to wait for some of the ice to melt before consuming it. The Styrofoam cup was more than half filled with ice at after I had finished.”
“There are only two tables in this restaurant, and we've already been waiting over 30 minutes with no food. I have no idea what they're doing in the kitchen. This wait is ridiculous—my stomach is killing me!”
“My vegetable egg rolls arrived opened, and I had to toss the stale chicken pad thai in the trash. This is the worst order I've received from Grubhub and from Thai 55. I'll never waste time or money here again.”
“I ordered to go chicken basil fried rice. They just thew in raw uncooked basil in a regular chicken fried rice to make it basil fried rice. Everything was very underseasoned and stale.”
“I ordered via Uber and the food containers were open. Some of the containers were so poorly packaged that the food was protruding from the sides. I ended up throwing everything away. I will never eat at or order from Thai 55 again.”
“Was once a nice place I came here since I was 12 years old. Just moved back in my late twenties and this is the worse place I’ve ever had”
“Ordered through door dash, the pork Pad Thai was disgusting. Something was definitely wrong with the meat, it tasted off. Idk if it was old, or undercooked it was just horrible. I threw out both orders of the Pad Thai Pork. I'm not trying to get food poisoning. The egg rolls weren't bad, the Ginger shrimp was not my order. So I couldn't tell you, if it was good.”
“Ordered on Uber eats. Man did that orange curry slap!!!”
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