Bobby D.
Yelp
Wifey planned a dinner outing with one of her coworkers and what started out as a dinner party of two ended up being a party of five because wife invited me and her coworker invited her parents. When my wife informed me that we'd be having dinner with people who normally aren't adventurous opting for chain restaurants like Applebee's, she asked me to find a good restaurant for them to try out. I asked my wife what type of food and she said Thai food. I looked via my trustworthy Yelp app for a Thai restaurant halfway between us and them and found Signature Thai Cuisine. Although we were supposed to treat and were blessed that Rose's coworker and parents treated us, we're so thankful that we all got to experience the stellar Signature Thai Cuisine restaurant, the amazing Thai food, and the customer oriented staff.
Signature Thai is located in La Mesa off of Lake Murray Blvd. a couple exits east from San Diego State University. The restaurant can be found within an outdoor strip mall where there is a now closed down Big Lots retail store. Signature Thai is a few steps across from Thai Sports Massage & Spa, on the same side as Patty's Cafe and Goodwill, and next door to Beverage City Liquor. There is plenty of parking in this strip mall. From the outside, the restaurant doesn't seem too big, but looks are deceiving. As you enter Signature Thai, you can tell Autumn and Halloween are just around the corner as the restaurant was decorated in Fall colors with orange and red foliage throughout, skeletons and other Halloween accoutrements, a giant spider hanging from the ceiling, and spiderwebs adding to the festive decor. It's a spacious restaurant with a good amount of indoor seating consisting of leather bench seating and leather chairs and there's covered outdoor seating. You wouldn't think from the outside, but it's a classy restaurant with artistic depictions of Thailand hanging on their main wall, distressed wooden laminate flooring, and wine bottle selections staged around the restaurant. The restaurant was packed for a Saturday, so do like us and make a reservation. Our waitress and the staff we interacted with were so nice, friendly, and our waitress was so attentive and really took care of us by checking on us at a good pace filling our refillable drinks.
There are a few restaurants throughout San Diego that are our go to Thai restaurants and after our first time dining at Signature Thai, we are definitely adding it to our go to Thai restaurant list. Besides the ambience and noteworthy staff, the Thai food here was amazingly delicious. They really don't serve dishes that are family style, but our party decided to order several dishes and share these dishes amongst ourselves. Please feel free to imitate what we ordered because I'm confident that you will enjoy the food we chose as much as we did. We ordered the tasty Egg Rolls for appetizers, which are hand rolled lightly golden fried spring rolls wrapped with cabbage, mushrooms, carrots, sweet corn, and glass noodles served with sweet chili sauce. We ordered a Beef Salad, which comes with marinated grilled top sirloin steak and a medley of vegetables. That steak was cooked perfectly tender. We thoroughly enjoyed their Orange Chicken, which was deep-fried battered chicken with finger licking sweet orange sauce and garnished with a sliced orange, fresh cilantro, and sesame seed. It ate really well with the provided white rice. Make sure to order their Classic Thai Fried Rice, which comes with classic Jasmine rice stir-fried with garlic, egg, cut tomatoes, Chinese broccoli, white and green onions, sliced cucumbers, and we added beef as our protein. A must order is their Pad Thai, which is stir-fried fresh thin rice noodles served with egg, Chinese chives, bean sprouts, fish sauce, and garnished with chopped roasted peanuts. Their pad thai was delectable and satisfying. We didn't make any of our dishes spicy, but you can ask for their homemade chili sauce and chili flakes. To end our memorable meal, we ordered their Sweet Rice with Mango. The sweet rice was yummy, but the mango was tart.
We had a wonderful time of fellowship with my wife's coworker and her parents. What made our fellowship that much better was breaking bread with them at Signature Thai Cuisine where they serve scrumptious Thai food, employ customer focused staff, and it's a nice spot to meet new friends.