Thai Sawatdee

Just finished eating dinner here. It’s been over 2 years and this place hasn’t changed. Very satisfied with my meal and service.

My favorite Thai restaurant in the area! Please note that they have several locations. This review is for the one in Healy. (Accidentally posted my review for the Cloverdale one here before. My bad) All of the restaurants have great food, so the quality is consistent across the different places.
Now onto the review for the Healy location… We usually come here when we eat in. I loveee their duck curry. Generous portion of duck, delicious curry with slices of pineapple. I also love their Thai tea. Great service.

This is some of the very best Thai food I have ever had! We ordered the Pad Thai with chicken, Pineapple Fried Rice with roast pork, and Thai Ice Tea. Highly recommend! It’s located inside of Harris Teeter. Order at the counter. They bring it to their dining area. Nice people too!

Amazing food and super friendly staff! I go here very often to grab a quick bite and the prices are really great. They have really large portions and I am always able to take some home to have later. One of my favorite places to eat in Winston Salem!

Just awesome! Tiny little restaurant tucked into an old strip mall. Service was excellent. They only have normally 1 waitress but are really nice, so be patient.
Best: chicken satay and crab Rangoon
Spicy noodle with chicken — fresh veges and homemade noodles
Special pineapple friend rice– you must ask for the special. It comes in a half of a pineapple.
Overall an awesome place… And left-​overs are awesome as well!

Don’t let the location in a strip mall scare you away. This is very good Thai cuisine.

My wife and I try to eat Thai food before our races and to explore new cities twist on the cuisine. This was our first visit here. We ordered the Panang Curry and Pad Thai dishes, both medium spice. They didn’t have a hot. Only mild, medium, very hot and Thai hot. I’ve learned to respect the Asian spicy levels, but typically go for the three star. After the first bite, we both knew this was the best Thai we’ve had in a long time. There is a reason this the top rated Thai place in Winston-​Salem. You won’t be disappointed. Thank you!

Like their Robinhood Village location, their restaurant on Healy Drive also serves great food and offers the same affordable lunch deal for $ 7.95 daily until 3pm with the same friendly and attentive service. Unlike their Robinhood Village location, this one is much smaller and quaint. While the restaurant is located in a busy traffic area, it sits on a sketchy lot which doesn’t do much for ambiance. If the surroundings doesn’t bother you and all that matters is that they serve delicious food then give this restaurant a try. This truly is a convenient location for those that work in the area (e.g. Forsyth Medical Center, Hanes Mall).

The food was excellent: fresh, spicy, really good quality. I really enjoyed talking here, most definitely worth the 20 mins drive!
I had the green curry and ice cream.
I would definitely come back if I lived around here!

Passing through Winston Salem driving from Raleigh to the mountains for a little romantic getaway. Used the handy dandy Unilocal ap to find a quick cheap dinner. This place had a great review. While it was good, it wasn’t outstanding. Definitely not a 5 star restaurant for us. Perhaps Winston doesn’t have a lot of options when it comes to Thai food? There are several places in Raleigh we find far better. But maybe we also ordered the wrong things. We went pretty safe with ordering. We shared the off menu pineapple rice dish and the egg noodle with chicken dish. I thought the pineapple rice was flavorful with just a tiny kick. A previous reviewer mentioned it had shrimp. Mine dos not. It had some chicken and pork, and perhaps imitation crab. Hubby liked the egg noodle dish. It was meh for me. Service was prompt. Was a quick stop, just what we wanted. One bothersome point was no soap in ladies restroom. I told an employee and she didn’t seem shocked or apologetic about this. I also noticed no one jumped to rectify it. Hopefully staff has a different sink that they wash their hands in!

Good deal for lunch, under 10 per person. A great variety to choose from. Typical classics from pad Thai and basil Dishes. We ordered the Panang curry and spicy noodle. It is hot spicy like Thai. The flavor a bit sweet. Lunch comes with a salad with peanut satay sauce and two spring rolls. The dish itself is enough food!
this place is behind the car dealerships, hidden away.

This is just one of the several fabulous Thai restaurants we have in the Triad! We have been coming here since they opened and have never had a bad experience. I typically like to go for lunch because you can’t beat the veggie spring rolls and salad with tasty peanut dressing that comes with each meal. I also think the atmosphere has more of a lunch kinda vibe in general.
Overall, everything I have sampled on the menu has been really delicious. I have had the spicy noodle, pad woon sen, egg noodle, all the curries and the fish cake app. All have been delicious! My absolute favorite concoction however is the pad eggplant. Every couple weeks I crave the flavorful stir fry with eggplant that melts in your mouth, paired with steamed tofu and nutty brown rice. Mmmm. I keep it to 2 stars on the heat scale and always request the spice tray to spice it up myself. Only thing that I felt approached average from this place was the veg phở, but it is still good enough for me to order repeatedly.
The folks that work here also always make it a pleasure to dine here with their gracious and warm hospitality.
We are so lucky to have this little gem in our hometown!

If you do not expect to taste authentic, spicy, garlicky, fish sauce-​y Thai food, this is a good place for you. But as a Thai food connoisseur, I found the three items I had today not so Thai but Asian fusion.
I had a Papaya Salad, Basil Chicken and two comp super mini crispy spring rolls that came along,
Papaya salad was soaked with lots of sauce which was lacking flavor a bit, and the color of the julienned papaya looked dark as if it was pre-​prepared. The chicken with basil had mostly vegetables — red bell pepper, green beans, onions, a tiny bit of basil leaves — but not much chicken. So the major 3 factors were lacking — Fish sauce, garlic, basil.
The service was very good by a Thai lady despite the fact that I came into the restaurant after 2:30pm for a lunch take out. They offer brown rice option which works for me.

Best Thai Restaurant in NC! I used to live in Winston and came here a lot. Moved to charlotte two years ago and have not found a Thai restaurant even come to close!
Appetizers I recommend:
1.Mee Crob (you can make it spicy too, just or them know!
2. Golden Shrimp
3. Golden triangle
Do not recommend their satay, not very juicy
Entrée:
Pineapple Fried Rice (not the one on their menu, but the special one, with seafood and roast pork, and is placed in a hollow pineapple! They used to write down on the black board, but now u have to specifically let them know this is what you want). It’s my all time favorite! There are no other places in the U.S. that can make pineapple fried rice like they do! It’s not spicy by default, but you can ask them to make it spicy when you order!

For my second try at Thai food, this hole-​in-​the-​wall restaurant lives up to the kind of experience you want to have off the beaten path of restaurant chains and bistros.
The service staff was polite and non-​intrusive. The order-​to-​table time was short, but not at the expense of the quality of the food. I feel like the service might be strained at times where they would be packed during lunch or late dinner hours, but I cannot be sure, as it was just myself and my fiancée eating there at the time.
This restaurant is a wonderfully tiny food haven for your taste buds. I will definitely be returning in the future.

Another one of our favorite spots. For us, the staff makes this feel like home for us. We really miss Ping but we are happy he has opened his own place. Again, I’m a fan of Phở soups. Thai Sawatdee serves both Vietnamese and Thai food. We are known by name by the staff and my wife’s special gluten free soy sauce is used in their cooking. Great fresh rolls. I haven’t had anything I didn’t like.

Friends, Unilocalers, and the area media have been singing the praises of the «Teeter Thai» for years. Its popularity has led to rapid expansion, currently counting three total locations in Winston-​Salem. Until recently such growth of an ethnic food concept would have been unheard of in the Triad, and goes to show how local palates have developed for the better.
On a recent Sunday, Brittany A. and I met one of our friends, a Pad Thai fanatic, at the Healy Dr. location to finally cross this acclaimed restaurant off of our list. Unlike the original location, this one is a full restaurant, with wait staff, a dining area, and a nice drink selection. It’s located in a barren strip off Stratford Rd. near the mall and Forsyth Medical Center. For an Easter Sunday dinner, the restaurant was fairly packed. The interior is well decorated but small for large parties. The B letter health department grade seen upon entering caused us to pause.
We started off our meal with the cheese rolls appetizer. They are essentially spring rolls stuffed with an herbed cream cheese, a true guilty pleasure. The best way to envision them is as an elevated version of the rangoons from Panda Express, at least in terms of flavor profile.
As for the entrees, I decided to go off-​piste into uncharted territory and order the Sesame Tofu at a Thai joint, ignoring the obvious/​safe vegetarian bets. My partner ordered Phat Khing with tofu (her favorite) and our friend had to try the chicken Pad Thai. I also enjoyed a glass of the Pacific Rim Gewürztraminer from WA state, that pairs incredibly well with Thai foods.
Unfortunately, the arrival of our entrees marked the end of our positive experience. My sesame tofu was mostly breading, giving the dish an unpleasant stringiness. Given that, I’ve never described tofu as gamey, but it may be the most apt description, considering the texture and curious tasting sauce that bathed the dish. Most disconcerting was the color of the sesame tofu, a neon, almost atomic orange. While a number of spices like paprika, saffron, and curry et al can be used to imbue an orange hue, none of those flavors were detectable. My partner’s Phat Khing was tolerable, but the tofu was overcooked. Texturally, the tofu’s pock-​marked surface combined with a too-​hot oil and the sauce to create a burnt ginger tasting sponge like dish.
There were some additional positives, like the perfectly cooked rice. Our friend’s Pad Thai was very much to her liking, although it was not praised as highly by her as other Triad Thai restaurants. I am reluctant to give this venerable restaurant my first two star review, but our visit was simply shocking when compared to so many other’s experiences. I plan to visit the original location soon in the hopes of truly encountering Winston-Salem’s best Thai food.

Not my first time going against the Unilocal review grain, but gosh this place was SO disappointing! Based on the average review, I expected so much more — maybe not in ambiance as I usually don’t care about that, but the food quality and taste was really lacking for me.
I visited Thai Sawatdee on Easter Sunday with a friend and my partner. I ordered the Pad Khing with vegetables and tofu (it’s a ginger based dish with vegetables and protein in broth with a side of rice), my partner ordered the Sesame Tofu (already odd for a Thai, not Pan-​Asian place, but whatever), and my friend ordered the Chicken Pad Thai (a street noodle dish tossed in a peanut sauce).
The tofu in my dish was clearly fried in oil that was too hot. It had a burnt taste and a weird porous texture. The broth was fine, but not exceptional, as were the vegetables and rice. The burnt taste permeated the dish, even though I ate around the tofu. The sesame tofu was soylent orange, something otherworldly, equally burnt, and somehow covered in an inch of hard breading. My friend enjoyed her Pad Thai — the chicken was cooked well and the dish was overall okay. It wasn’t her overall favorite Pad Thai, but certainly better than our dishes.
The interior is fine. This isn’t a fine dining establishment. The service is prompt and accommodating. The health department rating of an 86 (B), when we walked in was a little worrisome, but nothing to hinder me from trying a new place. However, with burnt tofu and ho hum broth, I can’t say I’ll be back.

Food was great, inexpensive, tasty and quick to arrive at the table! I plan to eat here again whenever I am in Winston Salem.
I was one of the first customers in for lunch, but the restaurant began to fill up pretty quickly. It’s a bit small compared to the amount of business they seem to be getting, so I don’t know how cramped the restaurant is during busier times. For me, the wait time for getting seated as well as getting food was very short! There was also great service, and the waitress I had constantly catered to whatever needs my table had — including refilling our drinks pretty frequently.
I only gave this restaurant four stars because I wish the menu had more detailed descriptions of some of the food or some pictures (maybe I’m being picky). The lunch portion was also a little smaller than I expected but then again, you get what you pay for. They do compensate for the smaller portion by providing a salad and two spring rolls for every (if not, majority) of the lunch entrees.

This was the first restaurant I tried in Winston before moving here… and one of the best.
The owner or manager (not sure what his title is) is hilariously witty and friendly to customers. It seems to be a tight-​knit family business and the owners are laid back and nice.
My favorite is the Thai tea… TRY IT!
Pad thai is also awesome and my girlfriend really loves the phở here from the separate Vietnamese menu.
If you like great Thai food, come here. It’s authentic, vegetarian-​friendly, and delicious. Not to mention the price to portion ratio is incredible. I have been to some expensive Thai restaurants: this is not one of them. But the price does not affect the quality of the food here, as the stuff I’ve eaten tasted top notch.