Ayara Thai Cuisine

07/21/09

LA's best Thai food hands down

by CSMobileUser at Citysearch

Drunken noodles with beef is all you need. Delivery is great. Very nice and accomdating staff.

06/18/09

Ammmmazzzzing

by Noodlerss at Citysearch

I LLLLLoooveeee this place. Get the pad see ew or drunken noodles!! It tis quite good!! They have the best thai food in los angeles and they do take out !!

• Pros: Good food & good prices
• Cons: Only one location

04/30/08

Good food, horrible service every single time!

by ach at Citysearch

I'm disappointed that every time I dine here, the service is horrible. The only reason I keep going back is because the food is good. One time I got my food when everyone in my party had finished eating. The last time I went there, the server put 6 glasses of water next to me and asked me to pass it around and was unhappy about it when I gave her a "this is not my job" look. And the food always took forever to come out even when they are not busy. If you have an hour for lunch, dont' go there.

• Pros: good food
• Cons: long wait for food and the service is horrible

04/28/08

Whaaaat happened???

by tego_hambre at Citysearch

I haven't been here in a long time but last I remembered the food and the service was great.

Tonight my friend and I walked in with out a reservation and we were seated in 10 minutes or less, at a crappy table al the way in the back with air condition blowing on top of our heads. Our original waitress, quickly came

to take our order but I wanted to see the wine list since I couldn't understand what she was saying, which she couldn't understand what I was saying. After placing the order of Pino Grigio, she informs me they don't have the one I wanted, fair enough, ordered Chardonnay. 10 min goes by no wine, 20 min no wine. I thought she forgot then comes back and asks if I wanted a red wine or a white wine, are you serious????

"A Chardonnay, it's White" I had to snap. Then another 5 min., the wine glasses comes and but no wine, 2 min later a different waitress comes holding a bottle comes wondering and I had to say "I think that's ours".

Then shortly our food comes LARB (beef) and the SEAFOOD SOUP both good not great. Another waitress offered us to switch tables and we did to a much better seating. Then after another 15 our other two orders came which were the GREEN CURRY (pork) and the PAD THAI (regular) which were okay as well.

I don't really know what the problem was but it was just impossible for them to get the food out in a timely manner. I was also just super annoyed at our original waitress.

I have a high tolerance for these kinds of things and in most cases I let small things slide and always leave a normal tip (20%) but this was just bad and it was even hard for me to leave (10%).

• Pros: close to my house
• Cons: They don't speak English

04/08/08

Best Thai food ever

by lizwombocker at Citysearch

I love this place, I get food from here atleast once a week, my favorites are pad see-eew, the drunken noodles, the veggie soup, and ayara fried rice. They make such amazing food, seriously you have to try it. Great for vegetarians!!

• Pros: Great food/tasty noodles
• Cons: Delivery sometimes can take 45-an hour and a half

11/20/07

Decent but not great Thai food

by msoohoo at Citysearch

Food was much better when I started eating here two years ago. Now, portions are smaller and the vegetables in the Thai Garden are overcooked. The Ruby Curry is now mostly gravy with very litte meat or eggplant. The chicken wing appetizer is pretty tasty. Service here can be iffy. Sometimes the server will argue with you if you tell them they got the order is wrong. Service can be very slow and you wonder if they forgot about you.

09/21/07

Quite impressed!

by buybarbie at Citysearch

I am so excited to share this with you! My experience was great, and the food is excellent. Not only are their lunch specials cheap and generous, but the food is authentic and delicious! Fresh ingredients! This is a cute hidden gem that everyone should know about.

09/16/07

Pretty Good for Delivery

by m_raven415 at Citysearch

I was feeling lazy so decided to order from here. I had the standard pad thai and my friend had the drunken noodle. It was pretty good but since I had better thai food I can only give it a three. Maybe it would have been better if I had eaten there.

• Pros: Delivery

08/09/07

Amazing Thai food !!

by pjanard at Citysearch

We used to miss our previous favourite Thai food from Chan Darette when they existed in Marina Del Rey before moving out, but not anymore once we found this gem. One of my perennial favourite is Drunken Noodles (chicken, spicy). So far I have always taken out, so don't know really about the dine-in service, but never had a bad experience with our order even with all the customizing we do, like adding eggs to fried rice or having only specific 4 vegetables put in the red curry (my wife's favourite). Having had Thai food for more than 10 years in various cities, this is definitely one of the best, though I still rate the fried rice from Sala Thai in Troy (Detroit) much higher. Staff seem very professional and nicely kept interiors too.

• Pros: Quality Thai Food, clean interiors, good staff
• Cons: Parking at busy times

04/30/07

WORST COSTUMER SERVICE EVER

by clbravo at Citysearch

This place has the worst service ever!! My husband, myself and our daughter decided to try this place out on a Friday night. We were seated relatively fast and our drink order was fullfiled in a timely manner. We submitted our order, nothing fancy, just pad thai and wonton soup and then things got ugly. My husband and I were chatting it up for the first 15 minutes after which we realized ohter folks who were seated after us wer getting their food before us. We inquired with the waitress and she said "I'll check". She came back 15 minutes later to refill our water, but no status on the order. Again, we inquired, were is our order, she said" Oh, you haven't gotten it". I was fuming at this point. My poor daughter was hungry and getting antsy. We gave them another 15 min. to try to sort it out but no one was really paying attention. The owner seemed more concerned with getting people seated than with the quality of service. WE gave them AN EAR FULL and left. THIS PLACE WILL MAKE YOU WAIT TILL THE COWS COME HOME. wE EAT OUT A LOT AND i HAVE NEVER BEEN TREATED WITH SUCH DISREGARD. ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE SERVICE.