Sawaddee

Friday, November 28th, 2014

Reviewed by Brendan Jones

Im sorry, but I went to Sawaddee last night for the first time and thought it was terrible. My wife and I live in the area and checked it out on EatOut before deciding. After the rave review your critic gave the restaurant even boldly naming it "perhaps the best Thai in Cape Town" we thought well, we cant go wrong. Firstly the place could do with a bit of an upgrade, it feels old and somewhat dingy. However, I could overlook this if the food was good. I would go as far as saying it is the worst Thai experience I have had in Cape Town. The Wang Thai and even Simply Asia is way way nicer. I am never one to complain and run down a restaurant ever bu they need to know. Our starter, I ordered the prawn toast and the sesame chicken wings. The chicken wings were raw, pink inside (they looked good when they arrived though). The prawn toast looked as if it was a piece of toasted sandwich that had been left in the sun for 2 days. It was oily, soggy, and gross. We then ordered the sizzling Mongolian beef fillet and the chilli lemon chicken dish. Both would have been nice were it not for the thick syrupy/caramel/sweet tasting sauces they were served in. The sauce on the beef tasted like it should be on a malva pudding. In fact every sauce, be it the dipping sauces for the wings/prawn toast, the sauce that the mains were served in and even the little sauces that you get with the prawn crackers in the beginning were all just plain gross. We got our bill and were in and out within an hour. The first and last time I will go there, I think EatOut should send someone to check it out because I think the standards must have dropped big time, perhaps Im wrong and was a bad day, go have a look and let me know.