Elephant Hut Review
We had been hearing about Elephant Hut—the Thai restaurant on 30th Street—for a while. We were in the mood for Thai food tonight and decided to try Elephant Hut, instead of our Thai food go-to place, Khow Thai.
The punchline: We’re not going back.
The positives: Pad see ew was decent. Nothing impressive but on par with most Thai restaurants around Boulder. And chives pancakes were good. Tom yum soup was good as well.
The negatives: Fishcake appetizer, while flavorful, was a bit dry and too salty. Most importantly, the red curry dish was not what it should have been. As Susanne said, ”This is the worst red curry I’ve ever had!” She followed that up with “Do you want to try?”, an offer I declined promptly. She’s been a connoisseur of Thai food for nearly twenty years, so I trust her judgment. “This is the only good part about this dinner,” she mumbled while taking bites out of the orange garnish that was on our plates.
The service: It was okay. All our food—the two appetizers, the soup, and the two main dishes all came out together. I’m not sure whether the kitchen or the waiter was responsible for that.
Minor nitpicking: Silky/satiny napkins don’t work. They look fancy, but they are highly non-absorbent, which makes them terrible napkins. Symmetrical knives don’t work. When laid flat on the table, the dinner knife was perfectly symmetric (which is not the case for 99% of other dinner knives I’ve seen in my life). That is, the blade side and the backside looked and felt identical (other than of course the small serration on the blade side). But picking up the knife I could not tell and had to look for the blade side every single time.
