Thai Noy Restaurant

Discovered this Thai restaurant after a year of living here, because it’s buried in a quaint little neighborhood area. I’m so glad I stopped to check it out, because it is amazing, and the food is great. The family has been running the restaurant for 25 years, and the recipes reflect it. Very worth it.

Seems my review was recently removed to keep the ratings up… There were a few duck dishes I was considering and I asked the owner if she thought any of them were crispy. She indicated the Duck Kapao was the crispiest, so I ordered it. Sadly, it was gooey, and so fatty I couldn’t eat it. I asked the owner if she could exchange that dish for something else and she said no problem. Then when she brought me my bill, she charged me full price for both dishes which I thought might have been a billing error. So I politely asked if she could adjust the bill and she indicated that the ‘kitchen could not pay for the meal, and neither could she.’ I found her response quite shocking. I won’t be back due to the lack of the quality of Thai Noy’s food, BUT also left this review due to the lack of customer service I encountered. Most thai restaurants in the area offer better food and service.

Thai Noy is my favorite Thai restaurant in the DMV. The dishes I've tried are flavorful and spicy. I often have the green curry, which is excellent! For call-in or website take-out orders, I've found the service fast -- often only a 15-minute wait time. When dining in the service is great.
The lunchtime prices are very good as well.

Very high quality Thai food in the Westover/Dominion Hills area of Arlington. It's our go to Thai place and we have eaten Thai all over the world. Always great food which is well prepared.

I have had oh so many Thai dishes over the years… I ordered the pepper steak from Thai Noy tonight after eating hospital food for the last 2 days. I have never been so disappointed - to the point of disgust - as I am with Thai Noy at this moment.

My wife and I were so excited to have real flavor again after bland hospital food while we welcomed our third child into this world…

The Pepper steak was bland, had no life to it, the meat was grey, not brown, or any pink, or anything remotely appetizing… it was grey and tough. The sauce was brown and oozy with zero flavor, the vegetables were mushy and had no life - let alone any flavor to them.

I cannot express how bad this dish was. If I could give a lower score, I would. Give me hospital food 10/10 over this trash.

Their green curry is really yummy! I didn’t love anything else though. Pad See Ew wasn’t that great, and the eggplant tempura had zero flavor. That being said the service was good and so was the curry

The fresh spring rolls with shrimp from here are great!!! The cilantro is a wonderful flavor addition. A couple of weeks ago, I ate chicken fresh spring rolls with chicken from a *different* Thai place and they were nothing compared to these (only had lettuce, chicken and carrots). The only thing I would add to the spring rolls with shrimp is more shrimp!!!

The curry puffs are good but fried a little too long for my liking. My husband's spicy chicken fried rice with shrimp was great but again, need more shrimp (there were only 3, so you may want to ask for extra if you order this add-on). His food container was filled to the top like it should be (and is what we're used to receiving), but mine wasn't, so I was a little disappointed about that.

Last but not least, my garlic chicken was good, but didn't have as much garlic flavor as what I'm used to from similar restaurants. The vegetables were definitely fresh tasting and not overcooked, so I was pleased.

The restaurant is in a small shopping strip; not a lot of parking out front but perhaps there's more parking in the back. Also, they have a nice patio area for those who want to eat outside.