Business Description from the Web
Best known for roasted-green-chile dip with fresh Thai herbs, Burmese-style pork, this restaurant cooks up an authentic Thai cuisine. Expect the average entrée to cost under $8.
Tangy Thai cuisine is served in a quiet setting among traditional Thai art. The food is milder than most experienced diners expect. The secret is blending each course with seasonings - ginger, lemon grass, fish sauce, lime leaves and hot red and green peppers - to create varying degrees of sweet, sour, bitter or salty flavors. The chicken, beef, seafood and catfish entrees are served with a...
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Lotus of Siam offers you some of the best Thai cuisine, rich in its authenticity and its flavors. This unpretentious eatery serves both common and rare Thai fare, ranging from the very spicy to mild. Different kinds of wantons, dumplings, noodles, fried rice dishes and the quintessential Thai curry fill up the menu here. Try the specials like the Koong Tenn (grilled shrimp on sliced cabbage and...
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Tips About This Business
The August 2000 issue of Gourmet magazine touted Lotus of Siam as one of the best restaurants in Las Vegas.
This is a hopping place for lunch, offering a terrific lunch menu as well as the ever-popular lunch buffet: a perfect opportunity to sample several flavorful Thai dishes.
Editorial Reviews from the web
In Short Set amidst the karaoke bars and other Mexican and Asian eateries in the Commercial Center, the kitchen here is blazing with tasty Thai cuisine. A vast array of spices and ingredients--cilantro, fiery chilies, lime juice, lemon grass, Thai basil, curry, coconut cream--are combined with noodles, rice or fresh vegetables and a choice of meat or tofu to create authentic...
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Posted by Contributor
on April 21, 2009, (Edited June 27, 2006)
It looks like another formica-ed strip mall joint, but Lotus of Siam’s haute Thai has been lauded by Gourmet and Zagat. Local and international foodies turn out for Saipin Chutima’s perfected curry, larb, satay, and deep-fried whole catfish. The menu also offers a well-matched German Riesling (a Wine Spectator award gathers dust in the corner). If the brilliant food in a dull setting isn’t...
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A strip mall in Vegas' Commercial Center seems an unlikely place for the country's best Thai restaurant, but food critics consistently review Lotus of Siam as just that. Chef Saipin Chutima recreates the Northern and Bangkok-style cuisine of her native country with the skills of a master.
Other Reviews from the web
Found this restaurant a couple of years ago. I go back twice a year when I am in Vegas for a trade show. Best Thai restaurant I have found so far for flavor of food and presentation. After about 6:30pm, reservations are almost a must.
Pros
+ Food has excellent flavor
Cons
- Reservations during mealtimes.
I was a regular customer here for years and now the place is run down. The service is bad, and the food is terrible I don't know what happened. This place is a has been. Maybe they sold the restaurant or fired the chef but there are about 10 Thai restaurant better than here in Vegas. Oh did I say they are overpriced and they did not even have the wine that was on the menu that I ordered....
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This place was absolutly horrible! Ruined my entire trip to Vegas. It smelled so bad in there like no one cleans anything and the people are so rude and slow! The owners daughter at the front treats people in the worst way and even bragged about how she rips people off and they dont notice! I almost got sick after I saw insects inside the place!! I would never go back here ever again and no one...
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Posted by cantfademe
on April 21, 2009, (Edited December 20, 2008)