Anand D.
Yelp
Me, my fiancé, and two of our best friends (they are married) came to 26 Thai for dinner last week. We had a reservation for 7:45pm. We didn't get seated until 8:15pm/8:30pm. When I first arrived I asked the hostess, "How will I know when my table is ready?" And she said that she will come grab us from the bar (as we sat there until our table was ready.) 8:00pm rolls around and I ask for another update. This time someone new is there, a guy, and he tells me "I went to grab y'all but no one said anything." Mind you, out of the 4 of us, no one saw him come up to us at all and no one heard him say anything to us at all. So I'm not sure where he came up with this. I saw that a table was created for another party that could've been ours. This was just terrible service and left a really bad taste in my mouth.
As for the food, the food was good, but the service just drowned out the entire experience. We didn't let it ruin our night. Me and my fiancé got the 26 Thai platter to share and the spider roll. For the platter, you pick 4 appetizers from the list. We picked the crab cheese rolls, roti massman, chicken satay, and the that dumplings. The crab cheese rolls and the dumplings might've been my favorite. The rolls are essentially a crab rangoon in spring roll form. The dumplings were packed with flavor and tasted great with the soy sauce drizzled over it. The satay was good, but nothing special. The massaman was good, but nothing special either. The spider roll we got was okay as well. The inside was great but the outer wrap (the seaweed) part was overwhelmingly "seaweedy." With most sushi rolls, it doesn't taste too much like seaweed, but this one, all I could really taste was the seaweed.
I got a spicy margarita (before dinner) and it was pretty good. There was some mango puree in there that tasted quite good with the tequila. The rim was salted with some Tajin too, which I love. Highly recommend this drink.
Overall, 26 Thai was a good place to have dinner and I'm sure this was just a one-off situation with the service, but regardless, it should still be rectified in the moment. At least have a manager come to our table and say sorry for the trouble or anything like that, but nope. No one took any accountability for the whole situation. But regardless, food was good and drinks were good too. I'll be back, just not anytime soon.