Intimate restaurant serving Thai standards & polished seafood plates in a refined setting. Based on 196 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 4.5 stars. Price $$
✔️ Dine-in ✔️ Takeout
Address:
130 Washington Ave, Richmond, CA 94801
Phone: (510) 233-8585
Hours
| Friday | 11 AM–2 PM, 3:30–8:30 PM |
| Saturday | 12–8:30 PM |
| Sunday | Closed |
| Monday
(Labor Day)
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Closed
Holiday hours
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| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | Closed |
| Thursday | 11 AM–2 PM, 3:30–8:30 PM |
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Reviews
Veronica Funess
I love their garlic noodles special with steak, my partner loves their pad see ew, and today I tried the chicken dumplings in curry sauce app + the duck fried rice. Phenomenal flavors! The folks here are very chill, sweet and add to an already lovable and atmospheric local spot (pleasant background music too. Tonight had classic easy rock perfect for a rainy night). Come here for date night or solo for a glass of cab (a generous pour I’ll add!), you won’t be disappointed. Love it here.
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Susann Nordrum
LOVE this place! My favorite Thai food in the whole bay area. I have been to Thailand and the food here is almost the same as we get over there. I used to work non Richmond and go to Kao Sarn for lunch as often as possible. Now that I don’t work in Richmond anymore, I make made special trips out of the way just to eat here-1 The lunch specials are a great deal – you get a little of everything. The curries are fantastic, and the larb was a favorite of my best friend from Bangkok
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Jamie Bravo
I would give zero stars if I could. I’ve eaten here before without issue, but yesterday got crying tiger, basal fired rice with chicken, and red curry. Brought it home started taking bites and there was 3 to 4 long black hairs in the rice deep in the food. The curry had no flavor, and I know flavors. I called for a remake or refund and they said come back for refund. Threw the food away, today they refused to refund. Worse place ever, so unsanitary and to be lied to about the refund shocking. Will never go here again.
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Alyssa K
I grew up in Thailand and visit every year so I am very picky about my Thai food. I just moved into the area and have been looking for a new Thai place. Kao Sarn definitely meets my needs. The bbq pork is amazing – my husband had to stop himself from licking the sauce off the plate. We also
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Tiffany Pina
I’ve been wanting to try this place for a while and I happen to spontaneously come here with my friend. We ordered dumplings to start, bbq pork and pad see ew. The dumplings were so good and whatever the sauce was . The BBQ pork didn’t come with rice so that to me was a bit of bummer especially because that plate was pricey. Nevertheless it was good as so was the pad see ew.
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sheena kumar
Today was the 2nd time we bought our meals from the restaurant. The first time it was 5 stars. We have a baby, so we always ask if they can make our food not spicy. My son loved the yellow curry the 1st time, that’s we we reordered it again. When I spoke to the man,he told me they will make all our food without chili, but that is not what we received. The lamb shanks were so overcooked(hard to chew), the yellow curry was very spicy, the Thai tea tasted bad. I hope this was a one time off kinda thing. I won’t be reordering from this restaurant.
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Ali Sadat
Good place. Food was generally good and service was great. Menu was surprising in that vegan call-outs we’re not visible and the curry with tofu I was able to order came with less than fresh tofu (chewy) that I’ve experienced at other similar Thai restaurants.
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Maria-Giuliana Latini
I hesitate to tell the world what a great place this is so it will retain that quiet, warm atmosphere. The food was fabulous and generous, the service generous and fabulous. please! How do you make your salad dressing?!
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Agnes
Had takeout and the duck noodle soup was delicious!
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Paul Daniels
Fantastic food and service! The mixed seafood meal was tasty, however there were a few clam shells that had chipped into the mixture and made for some unwelcome gritty bits. Since the entire experience was wonderful, I will still go back.
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