Aroy Thai Restaurant

I’m a fan of Aroy Thai, but they have priced themselves out of the game! As of my last order, no more free app with your order over $ 22. In addition, they raised their prices yet again. You have good food, but not for the prices you charge. You guys also made the portions even smaller than the last time. Also, your delivery is more than most in the area. I’m so disappointed, I just don’t order here much anymore…

We have only ever ordered delivery, but so far my experiences have been delicious. Great Pad Thai but my favorite dish is the Tom Yum Goong soup, tart and spicy with tender shrimp… Yum.

Aroy Thai is one of my favorite places to order delivery from but until recently I’d never actually eaten there. It was a rainy afternoon and I was off work early so I decided to sit down and give it a try. As soon as I walked in, I saw two women sitting at a table in the front dining room snapping piles of green beans. I carry an immense nostalgia for the snapping of green beans. My great grandmother used to snap green beans for hours in her kitchen and my mother updated the tradition snapping them on the couch when we watched tv. Needless to say, I was happy.
The smell of green beans and the gentle sound of snapping made me really hungry so I quickly scanned the menu for something with green beans and settled on the Pad Tuah with chicken. It was quite chilly and rainy so I also got some Tom Young Goong. My only criticism about the food is that the soup only comes in one rather large size and I just wanted a little cup of it. My meal was delicious. The green beans were very fresh and cooked just the way I like: very crisp. At the end of the meal, my waitress gave me a tamarind candy with my check and it was so good I asked for more so she brought me a handful. This place has excellent service and some unusual northern Thai dishes. Everyone should give them a try.

I ordered delivery for the squid noodles, it was a decent deal, and I got a good amount of food, can’t really speak for the restaurant itself, but the food I ordered I was satisfied with

Relaxing with authentic Thai food.
Green curry good
Service good
Ambiance good
Spring rolls good
Smell good
Other cool customers good
No wait good
Fair price good
Did I miss anything? Good.

As authentic as it gets, and plenty of options for those who are less adventurous.
Having tried 5 – 10 proper Thai restauraunts in Chicago, including sticky rice and TAC quick, this is easily the best.
The boat noodle soup smells just like the street stalls in Bangkok (the good smells) and is a superb soup/​noodle dish.
And ask for the Tod Mun! It’s not on the menu, but, if a Thai fishstick and a pancake made a delicious lovechild, this would be it.

So after passing this place every day on my way to work I finally decided to check it out. I’m grading based purely on the food and the price point that it relates to.
Beef pad see ew was amazing. Fresh tasting and flavorful! The beef may have been slightly chewy but it was full of flavor. That’s just the cut of meat they chose and it had little to no harmful effects on the dish itself.
Shrimp panang curry was spectacular! The perfect balance of sweet, spicy, and savory. These are favors every chef tries to master and this dish encompasses them all. Rich in flavor and so decadent.
I ate by myself and the plates were average in size, so I was able to fill up and take some leftovers. With my Thai ice coffee and my two dishes I spent around $ 30. If you’re looking for really good Thai food this is the place.

Dined for the first time on 1÷6÷2016
My new favorite Thai in the city. We will absolutely be back, and soon!
Every dish we tried was amazingly flavorful and balanced. First had the Shrimp Papaya Salad: delicious, refreshing, and generously portioned. Enjoyed it with a cold thai iced tea to combat the spice!
Entrees were Spicy & Sour Seafood Soup and the Duck Curry. Seafood soup broth was flavorful and rich — bright lemongrass, tart lime, and aromatic basil accompanied the shrimp, squid, and white fish wonderfully.
Duck Curry was my favorite dish that we tried. Succulent roasted duck served in a red curry-​coconut milk broth with cherry tomatoes, basil, and pineapple. The savory curry broth had just enough spice, which was perfectly complemented by the sweet notes of pineapple and coconut milk. Absolutely fantastic.
To top it all off, the service was great: welcoming, attentive, and friendly! So many items on the menu I want to try, I cannot wait to come back!

We saw this restaurant from television «Check Please «, which referring as authentic thai. We ordered papaya salad which they are quite good, but they swap from long bean to green bean. My husband asked them to make them spicy and sour. They delivered as requested. I ordered red pork curry and asked to have very spicy. However, my red curry is very sweet, too sweet like you eat a bowl of coconut milk syrup. I tried to salvage them by pour the juice from papaya salad, which helped them but still very sweet. I will never go back to this restaurant again as they are not an authentic taste of Thai food.

GREAT food (mostly), cold staff.
Spicy and savory dishes (try pad thai, minced beef salad, papaya, curries). Open later than Siam House or Yes Thai. Better than Mee Dee. But the staff — ALWAYS throwing shade, on the phone and in person!
If I can get over that … I think this food rivals Yes Thai’s. Most fresh. Not huge portions, but not tiny. A little more expensive.

Small gem; food has a certain subtlety missing in some thai cuisine.
Tends to be a little on the mild side– if you want SPICY you have to let them know. I like hot HOT spicy food and when they ask me «how hot on a scale 1 to 5?» I say SEVEN.
Nice staff. It’s SMALL so at peak times you might have to wait while your food is prepared in turn. SIt and relax!

Maybe the best Northern Thai restaurant in Chicago. It really tastes like food in Thailand.

Really enjoyable experience! Very flavourful authentic Thai food. First time here BYOB in a nice location.
We ordered from the Thai language menu, Northern Sausage with peanuts and ginger, spicy and delicious. Also ordered Larb Gai — minced chicken also amazing taste. Another dish we got was the crispy pork with basil which was good but could have been less sweet! What Thai feast would be complete without Som-​Tum/​Papaya Salad. We also liked this very much but could also have been less sweet.
Overall 4 stars and we look forward to returning and trying other dishes! I think this is one of the best Thai places we have been so far in Chicago.

The first time I went to aroy, I loved it so much I wanted to go again the very next day. Everything on the menu sounded — and looked, because pictures accompany every item — so interesting! And it’s not just your generic americanized Thai dishes, though they are on the menu too. After a night of nonstop campaigning, my bf and I ended up going once every other day for a week and a half. We wanted to do a perfect 7 days, every other day, but by the fifth visit we needed some time from those flavors.
Obviously I love Aroy very, very much. But it’s not a 5 star experience in my book. While some of the dishes are true home runs every time, our vast sampling revealed a lot of weak points in their menu and inconsistencies in seasoning. That said… it’s probably the most solid friendly BYOB neighborhood restaurant I’ve discovered in Chicago in my five years here.
Our biggest complaints:
1) After a while, a lot of the stir fry dishes end up blending together since they have very similar «generic Chinese food» soy-​based flavors.
2) Too sweet. A lot of dishes we were excited about were overwhelmingly sweet. We’re not sure if it’s the way the dish is supposed to be or if one person has a heavy hand with the palm sugar, but it’s a bit disappointing.
At this point, we’ve sampled sooo many dishes. A small description of each would take forever
The hits and misses worth mentioning:
Hits:
–RAW SHRIMP SALAD! Spicy limey bright and so refreshing. The toasted rice powder opened my eyes to a whole new world of flavor. By far my favorite. But is really spicy. We always ask for ³⁄₅ spicy, which works well on every dish for us except this one.
‘A good alternative is the grilled pork neck salad. It’s still delicious, a little more subdued in flavor, and probably more approachable for a wider audience.
–Pad Thai: usually at your run of the mill Americanized Thai places, I drown my pad Thai (and pretty much everything else) in hot sauce, but here, it’s a really subdued but balanced delicious dish. Good seasoning, good sweetness, a squeeze of lime and it’s a perfect counterbalance to that raw shrimp salad you just blew your palate with.
Misses:
–appetizer shu mai: actually the same as the packaged stuff you get at any bad Asian place. Skip.
–crab papaya salad: the brined raw crab in the shell was really unexpected for us, and it was a bit salty and hard to eat. I liked it but bf barely touched it.
Everything else we’ve gotten, we for the most part enjoy (like chou chee pork, yen ta fo, boat noodles, tiger cry, stir fries, etc), but they aren’t mind blowing like other reviews built them up to be. They could have just been too sweet though, so I’m sure we’ll get them again and see.
Overall, definitely worth bringing some booze and visiting for some Thai classics and dishes hard to find in Chicago!

Taste: 5
Location: 3.5
Cleanliness: 4
Ambience: 4
Value: 4
Service: 4
OVERALL = 4.09
* Out of a 5-​point scale
If I were to rate solely based on the Taste and Menu Selection, it’d be 6 stars hands down!
We came here after we had been recommended by a Thai friend who said that Aroy is the best Thai restaurant he’s tried in Chicago. So yesterday, we decided to give it a try.
We ordered a few dishes: The Chou-​Chi Ground Pork with Fried Egg which was amazing. The Crying Tiger was tender and the chili sauce that came with it was superb. The Pork Neck Salad had a lot of flavors, and the Tom Yum Fried Rice was pretty good too!
All of us were very satisfied with our dishes and unanimously made a vow that we’d come back! They have a lot of dishes and we’re so going to try these other dishes. I really like their Menu as well — it has pictures and recommendations — very well thought of.
I’ll be back!

If you want authentic Thai food this is the place to go for a price very reasonable. It’s a BYOB place where you can hangout with our friends. Staff is very friendly. Place very relaxed. A place nice to go to with the family and kids.

Be warned, this is a review from a Thai diner.
Overall, this place earned my respect for some of the dishes that I’ve tried. Flavors are spot on for the the salad dishes or «Yum» and some of the stir fries. However, certain dishes that I did order makes me doubt whether they were trying to go for authentic Thai or American-​Thai flavor route (ie. Tom Yum, Americanized version here). Nevertheless, the chefs here are Thai Aunties so basically the seasoning is based on their expert tongues. The food are sometimes on the salty side, but you can’t expect everything to be perfect, right.
One comment that I would like the restaurant to address is the the pricing/​portion to some of the more authentic dishes which I’ve ordered off of the Thai written menu. The amount of food or the price of the ingredients does not match proportionately to the selling price. It makes me feel like I’m getting ripped off for some of the dishes when in fact other «Thai for Thai» restaurants are offering at a better value.
Dishes that I highly recommend: Grilled Pork’s Neck Salad, Thai Holy Basil Leaves Stir Fried with meat, and Salted Fish Fried Rice.
Bottom Line:
Be adventurous and try what a Thai person would order. Don’t go for the typical pad Thai or the curries and you’ll discover a hidden gem, one of the best Thai flavors that Chicago has to offer.

Perhaps some of the tastiest take out or dine in Thai in the city. These arent only my words, but the words of some very good friends of mine who are Thai.
The basil chicken, Aroy beef and squid salad are my fo to dishes and this tasty Thai hot spot! I absolutely love this place. The prices are reasonable, its clean and rhe staff is customer friendly.
Do you mouth and tummy a favor and swing into this well run nd managed Thai resturant for a trip to Thailand in your mouth.

Honestly, who doesn’t like Thai food? It’s delicious. It’s filling. It’s relatively cheap. And in this city, there are COUNTLESS Thai restaurants from which to choose. Arroy is undoubtedly one of the best.
I’ve been a few times with various friends and usually get your run of the mill pad thai or pad woon sen. Those are safe bets. But last night, I was feeling a little adventurous and wouldn’t you know it?! Arroy has a super nifty guide in the back of the menu with entrée suggestions based on your tastes. First time Thai eater? Try the pad thai. Want to get a more traditional Thai dish? Try Boat Noodle. But if you’re looking for something just a little outside of your comfort zone, one of their suggestions is Kow Soy. A soup with chicken and a curry like broth made with coconut milk and ground chili peppers.
Y’all. This ish changed my life.
Just the right amount of spice where your lips are a little numb but the sweetness of the coconut milk is so delicious and balances it out. The pickled vegetables help tame the heat as well.
I am so happy I tried this dish. I never would have had it not been a suggestion in the menu. What a great way to introduce dishes to people like me who usually stick to the basics.
In addition to their food always being incredible, the service is excellent as well. Water glasses are always full, the food comes out promptly, and the presentation is beautiful.
I full heartedly recommend this restaurant. You simply cannot go wrong.

These might be a Thai food in the city hidden gem. It’s small and very unexpected, but what you get is real and authentic all the way at Aroy. I’ve been here twice now and both times I’ve witnessed the place getting packed and tables turning over constantly.
It appears to be a mother/​son ownership. From what I can tell, mom is in back doing the cooking and the son is out front of house, mingling with the customers, making recommendations and sharing his knowledge of the food and his background.
I appreciate the menu in it’s way of dumbing down the culture and food for someone who doesn’t know much about Thai food beyond pad thai and pad see eww. The menu is clever with it’s pictures and ratings and actually takes it a step further by stating «if you like this, you’ll like that». Brilliant! And the food has not disappointed yet!
If you’re looking for something beyond the Americanized fare, Aroy has it all!