Thai Recipe

I was warned by a friend & coworker that moving to Beacon Hill meant giving up food delivery. It turns out most places won't cross the Jose P Rizal to come up 12th Ave and deliver to us pseudo-Southenders. Either they're afraid of heights, or it just happens to make a convenient boundary for their delivery zones.

Thankfully, with our location on the mid to North end of the hill, we've found a few places that will deliver to us. Golden Daisy Garden on Beacon, Ti Amo on 12th, and Pizza Hut on Rainier, to be specific.

Since I've been so excited about Ti Amo, I wanted to share my find with other Beacon Hill residents I know at my work. We're all subscribed to an internal mailing list to share neighborhood gossip, and so I sent the info about Ti Amo out. Many of the more southern Beacon Hill residents were suspicious whether they would deliver to any part of Beacon Hill, so some call were made (though I'm not sure of the results).

That also brought up the topic of other restaurants nearby that people were curious about. Thai Recipe came up. It's a restaurant on McClellan & Rainier, and people wondered if they deliver at all. That resulted in great reviews of the food from folks who have gone - and prompted me to finally go. Given that we live about 6 blocks away from it, and we both walk by it on our commute, it's funny we've never ordered from them.

We'll definitely be ordering from them again.

Although I'm fairly certain they don't deliver, they do accept phone & walk up orders for takeout, and that seems to be fairly common. In fact, I think more people came in for takeout than to eat in while we were there.

Besides the food being very good (in my opinion), it was prepared in record time. I think it was less than 15 minutes between placing our order and it being ready for us to take away. Perfect for calling before leaving work, and picking it up on the way home.

I had the Pad Thai with shrimp tempura ($8.95). The noodles and sauce were just the style of pad thai I like best, and the shrimp were tasty. I wouldn't describe the style as 'tempura', but more accurately panko batter fried. Dan had the Pad See Ewe ($7.75) and seemed very happy with it. We shared the Spring Rolls (3 for $4.25), but both agreed that we weren't that into them. I think we both thought fried spring rolls sounded good, but in retrospect I think we would've preferred the salad rolls (also $4.25).

If you're in the area and want some great Thai takeout, give them a call at 206-723-6165. Their menu appears to include all the classics you might want - from Swimming Rama to Larb Gai, Tom Ka to Cashew Tofu.