Just Thai is just ok. I don’t eat Thai food that often and haven’t actually consumed any of it in months, but I’m pretty sure when you order something that says in the menu that it’s supposed to taste like peanuts, it should taste like peanuts, not pineapples.
Maybe I’m starting this review on a bad note because the food wasn’t overall that bad albeit a little pricey. We started by ordering the appetizer sampler which is a mix of some of the appetizers offered on the menu. Satay shrimp (which I asked to replace with chicken due to my allergy), cold rolls, mango salad, crispy beef rolls, and fried calamari. The mango salad was excellent with a sprinkling of crushed peanuts all over it. The fried calamari, chicken, and the beef rolls were okay too but were made even better with the dipping sauces you get with it. Unfortunately, I felt the cold rolls contained a bit too much lettuce. As you can see in the photo, nearly 85% of the roll was lettuce. I’d rather them remove half of the lettuce and give a smaller roll.
The appetizer sampler
We ordered the Island Chicken (with Mango Chicken being our first choice but we felt since the appetizer sampler came with mango salad that we’d be all mangoed out) and were looking forward to it’s “peanut flavour”. Unfortunately, it came tasting more like pineapples than peanuts. In fact there were no peanuts on it at all. Mind you, it wasn’t awful tasting, it just wasn’t what we were expecting.
The Island Chicken... which tasted more like pineapple than peanuts
It seems like if you’re interested in trying Thai food then I’d say your best bet would be to head over to Yonge street and check out the Friendly Thai. But if you’re looking for good service (the waiters were quick and quite friendly) and decent food that could be Thai with a few alterations, then go ahead and check out Just Thai. The food isn’t bad, but it just isn’t what I was expecting.
