Kinnaree Thai Cuisine

I have never been served Thai food this fast before, must of taken them less than 10 minutes and the food was amazing! We ordered the curry fried rice and the Kinnaree noodles, and both were absolutely sublime. The staff were super friendly and we couldn’t of asked for a better lunch experience. Thank you Kinnaree for the delicious food! We’ll be coming back here for sure.

Relaxed, cafe style, dining room with comfortable seats and friendly, quick service. The menu offers typical Thai cuisine, with your choice of protein and spice heat level. (1 star is still pretty spicy) We shared the soft shell crab special for a starter. It was cut in half for us, then lightly dusted and fried to perfection. We also shared the mango salad (⭐) which was fresh, tangy, with a hint of sweet and spice. I ordered the yellow curry seafood combo (⭐) plenty of scallops, squid, prawn, salmon, and clams sauted with red peppers, celery, onion, and peas then tossed with creamy, lick-your-plate yellow curry sauce and a side of steamed rice. SO GOOD He ordered the pineapple curry with prawn (⭐⭐⭐) That's way over my taste bud's heat limit. Must've been tasty because he ate everything on his plate. (except the pineapple chunks) His only comment was the curry gave the pineapple a metallic taste.

I really don't know what I'm doing wrong at this place. I have not found more underwhelming Thai food in Seattle. Flavor is always flat and food is never more than just north of eatible. I after having two attempts of bad Pad Thai, I thought maybe it wasn't their thing. So crab wontons and yellow curry fried rice. The crab wontons literally had 99.99% cream cheese, I could not detect any crab at all. The fried rice was soggy and didn't have any of the 5* spice requested. When I asked for hot pepper sauce, they brought out red pepper flakes like I was having a pizza(after waiting for 7 minutes not touching my food in a completely empty room). So bizzar.

I don't know why I keep on forgetting to not order from here. Although their pad see ew and pad Thai are decent, their curries are boring and basic. Spiciness is moderated by dumping in chili powder, the veggies are cut indifferently, and the taste is so-so. Much better to travel to Queen Anne or Ballard for Thai take-out.