Young Thailand

Stepped into this place with 3 friends for a quick dinner after a swimming session nearby.
The place was near deserted on a Wednesday night but it just meant very speedy and attentive service for us.
I ordered a Tom Yum soup to start while opting for the shrimp & chicken pad thai as my main.
The Tom Yum soup was sour and spicy and was a good choice to whet my appetite for the main course. The portion of pad thai was pretty generous and came with bean sprouts, peanut crumbles, and a lime wedge on the side.
Enjoyed both dishes and it came out of the kitchen quickly too.

Best Pad Thai with their «Royal Pad Thai» that I have ever had. If I want Thai I get it from this place.

Went here in about a year ago. The food is pretty good as long as you enjoy thai food. Lots of seating space and service is fine. Would recommend.

Good food, great and super quick delivery service to downtown! My reliable, go-​to Thai place.

Worst Thai food I’ve had in a restaurant. My pad thai was completely bland, and so was my chicken. Never coming back again.

Loved this place when it was near St Mike’s Hospital. I could walk there with friends on a beautiful summer afternoon.
Food is good and prices fair — seemed to be better at the old location including service
This was the first Thai restaurant I ever tried and I was hooked. Thai cuisine is so fragrant and interesting.
Perhaps they will relocate to west GTA?

Love this place! Was in the area looking for a place to have a quick bite and read reviews on this place! Seemed good so decided to try it out.
Just like a lot of people have already mentioned, their Royal Pad Thai is to die for. Perfectly cooked rice noodles, tossed with large shrimp, chicken, vegetables, coconut milk, tamarind sauce and (literally) topped with a thin egg omelet. Peanuts on the side. It is so fresh!!! I love Thai food and this was definitely some of the better Pad Thai I’ve had.
The staff are very polite and check up on you every so often. It is quite large inside and for what seems to be an older building, they’ve renovated it inside to have a clean, presentable look. They use standard cutlery and even cloth napkins which was a nice touch.
Will be back! They seemed to have a lot of regulars that came in and not without good reason! Loved it.

They claim to be the first Thai restaurant in Canada… I’m not so sure, but that’s meant they’ve had plenty of time to either stick to their guns and be authentic or sell out. The dishes vary from incredibly tasty to some real bombs.
The FOOD: They have a nice traditional Thai menu with some definite hits and misses.
HITS: Basil duck. This naturally somewhat spicy dish combines fragrant and flavorful basil with well-​cooked skin-​on duck. The som tam (green papaya salad) is also well-​executed with pleasant heat upon request.
MISSES: Royal Pad Thai: this dish is laughingly labeled as authentic. Well, the food court in the Eaton Centre does a much more authentic version. Gooey, overly sweet, no sour flavor or nuance at all… one of the worst ones I’ve had. Shockingly disappointing at $ 13. The Thai spicy noodle was also a total miss, served in some sort of soupy mess.
The SERVICE is decent and friendly… especially when I drop a few words of Thai I’ve picked up in my travels.
TAKEOUT was disastrously slow… over an hour and a half to receive our order which was half an hour beyond the already long hour window. The free spring rolls are two tiny greasy friend ones.
OVERALL, this is better than many of the Thai places in the city, but the quality and authenticity of their food is all over the map. 2 ½ stars, rounded up.

Normally the food is pretty good. It keeps me ordering things like pumpkin curry and mango curry, but today I tried Jungle Curry and yes, though the menu says «without coconut milk» it’s incredibly misleading. This is a watery soup at best, not a curry.

Went there for dinner and ordered mango salad it was good, royal pad thai and spicy beef unfortunately we have to send back the spicy beef because it taste spoiled.
The staff are very friendly. I will definitely come back for mango and pineapple smoothies.

Have traveled many times to Thailand. Just moved into Cabbagetown and found this authentic slice of Thailand. Great family style Thai food. Really enjoyed the Royal Pad Thai and Ginger Chicken dishes along with the sweet goodness of a traditional Thai Iced Tea (Mmm, condensed milk!)

Young Thailand may have been the first Thai restaurant in the city, but the best, it certainly is not. Don’t get me wrong, it’s OK. If you’re satisfied with mediocre food, it’ll get the job done. I ordered the Pad Thai, green curry chicken and mango with sticky rice for pick up. The only reason why I ordered from here on a Sunday night is because Sukho Thai on Parliament is closed on Sundays and their Wellington location wasn’t picking up the phone.
The Pad Thai was too sweet (*ahem* ketchup) and the veggies were over cooked. The noodles stuck to together so much that I wondered just how long they’d been sitting in the take out container.
The curry was very oily and didn’t have the punch I had been hoping for.
The mango and sticky rice was ok, but the mango was definitely not ripe, which it should be for this dish.
Young Thailand, though I’m sure they’re trying their best, did not satisfy my Thai craving and to be honest, I’m not really sure if I’ll even sure if I’ll finish the leftovers.

I had the crispy red snapper with tamarind sauce, the fish is amazingly crispy but they could do better with the quality of the tamarind sauce on the fried snapper. It was bland, lacking the tamarind taste and spices. It just tasted like salty corn starch.
Also they should put do something about the smell of stale algae emanating throughout the place, presumably from the water features they have inside.

Their take-​out menu and website state it to be the «First Thai Restaurant in Canada». While I have no ability to deny or support its claims, here is what I do know…
We ordered delivery from here and although I did enjoy the spring rolls and chicken wings, both mains that we received were terrible. Pad thai was really bland, I mean the worst pad thai I’ve had in years, and the Stir Fried Vermicelli Noodles were moderately better but still a disappointment.
I can’t only enjoy appetizers and give this anything better than 2 stars.

Me and my friend went with great expectations after reading how authentic the food is and all! Much to our amazement, it was such a letdown! It all started with our Tom Yum soup! It looked and tasted like water with Tom yum paste mixed in it! Nothing authentic about it! Red curry tasted of overwhelming coconut curry in it! All in all, I would not go again and i will not recommend it to anyone!

Good food and great service — something you don’t always find together. Love the Royal Pad Thai but also the cashew chicken. Good prices and always have leftovers.

Good food. Reasonably priced. The royal pad Thai is fantastic. Tried several dishes and all were great. Reasonable price.

Very VERY authentic Thai food. In fact, all their staff and chefs are Thai, no wonder their food is as good as Sukho Thai. They also offers 90+ meal choices on the menu. It is confusing for someone who’s not familiar with Thai food, but the bright part is that you get to choose to taste unique Thai foods that are usually not available in other Thai restaurants.

Do Not Order Online. Left me hanging for a large order and never showed up.

Young Thailand is one of those restaurants that keeps popping up all over the city. It is the oldest Thai restaurant in Toronto and has moved through various locations across the city. A couple of years ago we enjoyed it when it opened on College Street near Spadina and were saddened when it left. We didn’t know where it went and were delighted to find it on Parliament Street. As soon as we sat down we realized it was the same restaurant that had been on College Street that we had come to love. Before that they had been located off of Queen Street on John Street.
The new location on Parliament is much larger and has given them a lovely space to work with. They have carried over the same colour scheme using much of the original design elements making it familiar for those who knew the restaurant in its previous locations. I have never had a bad meal at any of their locations and the food lived up to their reputation. My favourite has always been the pumpkin soup which is a delicious blend of pumpkin, coconut milk and curry. It is one of those places where everyone will end up trying every dish. Be prepared to share and enjoy.