Thai Papaya

Cute little Thai place that came came highly recommended. The service was just OK. Not attentive enough. Got the chicken Thai basil, which was prepared great came with fresh rice, but could taste no basil in it whatsoever. And the recipe said it was basil sauce with fresh basil. Really disappointing.

Clean business, customer service was fine. Food took a while and it was empty. Spring rolls were the only thing I could eat. The pad thai was very dry. Very dry. Shrimp was way overcooked. Had to take them out. So many noodles and no sauce. And they tossed in the peanuts without asking me. I wouldn't go back.

I got a bubble tea and some specialty sushi rolls. My friends got the green curry and the pad Thai. So so so yummy. Especially loved the bubble tea. First time ever and the waitress made sure we had the best experience. Will definitely go back

I've been to many Thai restaurants, but this place was the best. The service was great and the food was delicious. The waiters told Me about the food and they were very kind, her name was Asya I will definitely come again.

During a break at work, a colleague and I enjoyed lunch here at Thai Papaya. The waitress was nice and the food came out hot, fresh and quickly. Definitely a great choice for lunch or any other time of the day.

I love this place and love that it’s healthy and local and feels nice inside. I was thinking why don’t more fast casual places attempt this. But then though no. I like this place and others it even more. I had a double veggie curry and it was divine the medium spice was in fact low spice for my palette so it was very tasty.

Menu had options from Thai , Vietnamese, Japanese and Laos cuisines. Bubble Tea flavors too. Stir fry ginger ( with Shrimp) of spice level 4 was flavorful Overall : An average fare

Best Tom Kha Gai coconut soup I have ever had at any Thai place in many states!! Full of meat and veggies! Incredible how much meat was in this.

One of my regulars, good quality, good service.. Only complaint is they didn't have any dessert to satisfy my sweet tooth this evening

I had the egg/broccoli/carrot Pad Thai with shrimp and unfortunately it was pretty awful. It had no flavor and the shrimp were tiny and a little overcooked. Granted you get a ton of food but because it was so bland, I just stopped eating once I was somewhat full and threw the rest away.

Fast service, authentic recipes, and great flavors! The food came out at the perfect temperature and perfect exotically herbal heat level. Good food and great prices.

Our regular thai place was closed due to the snow so we figured we would give thai papaya a try and it will definitely be our last time going. I hate leaving bad reviews but i feel like i have to. The service was okay. It really just felt like we weren't wanted there and the food tasted fine. We ordered a to go fried rice and found a bug in it when we got home. They did apologize and give us a refund on the food we ordered to go but not on the rest of the check.

We stopped here after a long day of travel and had an excellent meal. The pho was generous in portion and tasty. My son had the teriyaki beef, and it was cooked just right and came with a lot of delicious veggies and a big side of ride. Great Thai milk tea as well, and excellent service.

I dined at Thai Papaya Restaurant on Tuesday, January, 26, 2021 at 1 pm. Their impressive menu offers a variety of dishes ranging from Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Lao. I've yet to see an Asian fusion restaurant that is able to pull off such an expansive menu, and I'm sorry to say that this one was way off the mark. I'd love to revisit to try their other dishes to write a more comprehensive review covering their other dishes, but my first experience was enough to avoid this place in the future. The pho tasted very cheap like something that I would expect at an Asian buffet. The meat tasted old and not fresh and meatballs were very small and tasted like I was being cheaped out. The Thai spicy seafood salad was average and needed a lot of refinement and finesse. The rice plate (V26 Dac biet Tau Huky Rice plate) was a mess. The meatloaf looked like someone had already taken a bite out of it and tasted OLD. The grilled pork lacked any flavor or seasoning. The egg was overcooked and fried to hell at the bottom. This Vietnamese dish is supposed to be a very classic comfort food, but I left dissatisfied. Service could use improvement. The server took a while to give us menus after being seated. She didn't write down any of our orders and ended up forgetting a dish (not surprised). However, all was forgiven after she sat down at a table behind us for her lunch break and started talking obnoxiously on the phone. Overall, the food tasted like quick half-assed food. This restaurant needs to work on refining their dishes and reevaluate their capabilities in cooking such a big menu. I rather eat at a restaurant with a small menu that has above average food than a restaurant with a large menu with poor quality food. Less is more.

This place use to be one of my favorite Thai places in Nashville, but has since become an after thought. The quality of the food has gone down significantly and service can be slow if they're busy. I have now moved on to other Thai places in the area.

Always great customer service and great food , good prices. What else could you want ? If it was a little closer i would eat here everyday!

We found this place conveniently close to our hotel and we wanted Vietnamese. It's in a strip mall - east to get to and plenty of parking. Walking in - very clean and nicely decorated. We were greeted and seated right away. It wasn't too busy. Our waitress brought over waters and we were ready to order so we let her know. I got the meatball pho. I asked for no onions or cilantro. My mom got one of the rice and pork chop meals. My step dad also got pho. We were giving the typical extras for the pho of bean sprouts, limes, and jalapeños but no other common things like Thai basil or mint. The pho came out and the broth was very dark compared to what I've seen before. It tasted standard to me - not so bad. My mom was not impressed with her meal. She mentioned there was no dipping sauce for her pork (I guess standard) and the amount of meat they give you for the price of the dish is comical. They also gave her a butter knife to cut it and it would cut. It looked dry and she was unsatisfied. The service was not great either. We got checked on in the very beginning when our food was served but never again after. The two girls working just hung out at the counter talking. My mom kept mentioning the next day that we needed to find "REAL" Vietnamese food - did i mention we are Vietnamese? I guess it's our fault for going to a restaurant that has 3 different types of Asian foods (they have Vietnamese, Thai, and Japanese). I'm assuming the person who runs it isn't Vietnamese. Food was not great and overpriced.

Having been a frequent customer for approximately 10+ yrs, I was looking forward to a bowl of pho. I wish I could give a better review, however I absolutely can not. The food quality is now barely average. The price has almost doubled. The broth tastes watered down, perhaps leftover from previous day. Additionally, order was incomplete...no sauce (it IS ADVERTISED) evidently they ran out of noodles, as my order was a mix of 3 different kinds of noodles, mashed together. I ordered beef pho. Not only did it comparable to an instant soup mix, was 17 dollars for a regular bowl, but included squid. No mention of seafood in the beef soup when reading menu OR ORDERING. Seafood allergy? Dont risk it..they denied having put squid in a beef dish and told ME I was being UNPROFESSIONAL when I called again to explain the severity of not divulging ingredients. (Seafood allergy=hospital visit) I know if you order something different and don't like it, u must pay. The have a clear sign indicating such. If you place an order, they serve whatever, and offer no recourse, don't offer to fix the issue and seem to not care if the customer receives correct order...as long ad they pay. I do not recommend this strip mall neighborhood restaurant charging prices as if they were fine dining. The GREED is putrid Good luck

the food was flavorless. i ordered a shrimp pad Thai & took one bite & immediately spit out my food from how gross it tasted! i RESPECTFULLY asked the server if i could get anything else bc i didn't like it & she got an attitude w me! The server then told me I would need to pay for it but i'm not about to pay for something i didn't like or eat, so she got an attitude w my table & told me this is the only time im allowed to not pay since it was my first time there and that the second time i would have to pay... (like im coming back??) on top of that the restaurant itself is infested w roaches. i posted my review about the food on my snapchat story & Ngun my server from that day slid up on my story and shared her thoughts. i've included the images of my post & her message in this review as well.

Not my favorite Thai restaurant. I was so excited to see a Thai menu, a Lao menu, a Japanese Menu, etc. but after tasting a number of items from the menu, it left me wishing I had gone somewhere else at least to a better Asian restaurant. I will say that the food was presented beautifully, the ambience was nice, and the service was very good. It was just the flavors that were lacking. I'm assuming that maybe it was just a bad day? But if I'm honest, I'm not sure I'd venture in again to give them another try myself in less I had a gift certificate or something. Anyway, I hate giving bad reviews of a place, but I wouldn't want someone to steer me in the wrong direction, and that's what YELP is all about anyway. Helping people to make better choices on their dining experiences!

never answer the phone. ordered online, order delivery time changed twice then said error. charged my card did not get refunded and they will not answer the damn phone. do not order online or call. pathetic.

I'm uploading two pictures. The first is a list of everything that's supposed to come with my meal. The second is what came with it. They didn't put Bean Sprouts, Lettuce, or Cilantro... which is a huge part of the meal..

Been coming here for years. It's our go to for airport trips. Thai papaya salad still bomb after all these years as well as their fried rice.

I hate to leave a bad review. Since moving to Nashville, I found this place and only ordered my Thai food from this spot. Recently, the food has been fine but the orders have been wrong. The last time, I ordered Shrimp tempura but no shrimp was in the order, only the tempura veggies. This time, I placed two separate orders (I left off the Thai egg rolls, but put in the notes that the orders were connected). I went to the restaurant. When I pointed out that I had a second order of Thai rolls, which was prepaid, I had to really prove this order. They never found it and gave me Thai spring rolls. I did not check the order before leaving. When I got to the house, I had Thai spring rolls. I called and they said to come back and they would correct them. When I arrived, they asked for the Thai spring rolls back. I told them I had a picture but did not, bring the rolls back because I had opened them. The waitress put in the order. This order was correct, the issue is she was kind of snarky and saying that I should. When I told her that this is the second time I've ordered online and it was wrong, she responded that I should just call in my order. I mentioned that it was inconvenient. They lost a customer today. The food might be good but the time wasted in proving I ordered and paid for what I ordered and paid for was just too much. Here is a picture of my incorrect order.

This used to be one of my favorite places in south Nashville, but unfortunately the service quality has plummeted. Tonight I tried to go in for lunch during my evening work shift. Got got there at 7:50pm prepared to order since I was on a timeline. Placed my order for hot tea, Tom Kha soup, and a spicy tuna roll at 7:55pm. The server seemed unfamiliar with the menu and asked me to repeat my order several times. She returned a few minutes later with her entire thumb stuck down in my teacup carrying it like that. I decided I'd let the tea sit and just wait for my food. 15 minutes later another server asked if anyone had taken my order. After also asking me to repeat what I'd ordered several times, she came back and explained that the order had never been entered and that it would take another 15 minutes to prepare. By this time it was 8:15pm, and I had to be back at work nearby by 8:45. I asked to cancel the order and the second server made a process of taking my payment for the tea I hadn't touched because the other server had presented it to me with her thumb in it. I waited in line at the counter to pay for another five minutes, eliminating any chance I had to pick up food for dinner elsewhere. Even though I didn't mention the thumb issue with the tea, it seems the very least the staff could have done to make up for the poor service would have been to comp what was essentially hot water. Hate to say it, but I won't be back to what used to be such a gem. Thai Papaya, if you're listening, your current waitstaff leaves a lot to be desired. They definitely need a brush up on customer service, expediency, and basic sanitary practices.

My wife and had our order delivered and we really enjoyed it! I really like Thai and Laos food, and I'm pretty familiar with the flavors of this cuisine. The two menu items we had were Banh Mi and Tom Kha. Both of these entree selections were delicious, and I'd definitely order them again! The Banh Mi is a sandwich with grilled BBQ pork and vegetables on a baguette roll. The baguette roll was fresh and really complimented the sandwich. The crunchy vegetables were refreshing, crunchy, and tasty. Fresh cucumbers, pickled carrots, daikon, cilantro, and jalapeño are a perfect combination with the BBQ meat and baguette. I ordered the Tom Kha soup, and it was my first time trying it. The first spoonful was so surprisingly flavorful, and the first flavor that gets your attention is the coconut milk base. This is blended with the lime leaf, chili, and galangal pastes, and with mushrooms, cilantro, scallion, onions, lime juice, and shrimp. The flavor profile is very complex and unique, and this is something I wish I'd discovered a long time ago. I'm looking forward to enjoying a dine-in experience in the near future, and Thai Papaya will be at the top of our list for delivery as well!

I can only comment on delivery and the quality of food as we've never dined-in before, but the food that's been delivered has been wonderful! We lived on the east coast and in So. Cal and know good Thai food. Sadly we had yet to find a spot that actually makes it "Thai hot" even when we stress we want a spice level 10! Thai Papaya, however, not only has authentic food but will make it very hot for you. Also, I love that their noodle dishes, with the exception of Pad Thai, have larger flat noodles and not the thin ones that most Thai restaurants in TN have. I do agree with some of the other interviewers that the protein portion sizes are small and that needs to be improved. All-in-all I'm thrilled we found them though and will continue to order delivery.

Thai Papaya is a stones throw from I 24 and provides some exceptional Thai food at reasonable prices in a usually quite atmosphere. My fiancée and I eat here often as it is very close to our home. It's a great place for a quick dinner and it is hardly ever very busy. We have never had to wait for a seat to open up. We usually split an order of the spring rolls. My fiancée typically chooses a pho option while I stick to pad Thai and General Tao's Chicken (best I have ever had). The service is always good and I have nothing but good things to say about this place. If you like Thai food add it to your list. If you like General Tso's call ahead and see if it's available that day and get it. It's spicy and amazing. Not Chinese buffet quality.

This is a little hole in the wall spot, but very popular! The restaurant has a decent sized seating area, and it was plenty busy for lunch time. Very good variety in case you love sushi, but have a shellfish allergy. I didn't try much of the Thai cuisine, but I did have the summer rolls with pork. They were okay, but a veggie version would have been the exact same. I got a peach tea with strawberry jelly boba. Delicious!! The way they packaged the food also made for a pretty good foodie pic. So that never hurts

The food is pretty good. Lunch specials are great. Only problem I have is from 2 days ago. I went to the nail shop a couple doors down and decided to grab dinner for takeout. I got a noodle dish with shrimp added (basil, peppers). Pad something... Anyway, I had a taste for something else and then put my food in the fridge to eat later. I opened the container to prep for a bowl. The carrots were burnt. They only gave me about 4 shrimp total. Very tiny!! And the noodles were stuck together. Feels like I got the bottom of the pan. Not worth $10 to $15 on an entree. I should've stuck with my standard Pad Thai.

When I first started going here I guess when it first opened everything was good. But lately they haven't been. Nothing taste fresh no more. And the food is never consistent. I just go here when I go visit my friends nail shop since its next door and its quick and easy to get. But I probably won't be back.

Great authentic food, tasted as good as it looked and smelled. I enjoy that they also have bubble tea as an option as a drink, I wish more Thai restaurants did this! 4/5 because of the ambiance...had a food-court feel to it even though it's a restaurant. Either way, tasty and would love to come here again!

This was our first visit here. It is a family owned establishment. Did feel alittle chilly but was a rainy drey day today. The service was very good. Very attentive. Being our first time I wasn't sure what to order so I kind of explained my taste to the server who was helpful with suggestions and explaining the different dishes I may enjoy. The decor was simple and tastefully done. We got here early so there wasn't a wait time. I did notice as we sat it got a bit busier but I feel like that happens with most places around lunch time any where you go. The staff definitely picked up the pace as the influx of guest came in. Our food was hot and very tasty. If you are looking for any type of alcohol beverage with your meal this isn't the place for you. They don't serve alcohol which was fine with us

Wow... What can I say? This used to be my favorite pho spot but they have gone drastically downhill. While we were there today, we got served with dead looking basil. How can you serve your customers with blackened, dead basil? Just no good! Please have fresher ingredients. Not only that we had six bowls of pho soup and they only brought out one sad looking veggie platter. Like I said, dead basil, beansprouts, and maybe 3-4 lime pieces, with two thin pieces of jalopenos. The broth also tasted better back then. Not sure what is going on but service and food has gone downhill.

AMAZING MENU.. best mix of cuisine in my opinion... I would l fly from Boston to Nashville once a week for their food if money was no issue.

Came in around opening to try out some bubble tea, and was pleasantly surprised. Nice environment and even better tea! Host informed me of happy hour offer for bubble tea (buy on get one free!) from 2-4pm. Good stuff!

I go to this place pretty regularly and it's amazing they have amazing service and great sushi

Great service and delicious Pad See Ew. I really enjoyed their bubble tea as well. I love all the options they have.

Thai Papaya is one of two Vietnamese restaurants near my office and it doesn't disappoint. Thai Papaya is built into a strip mall that definitely used to be a Mexican Restaurant. I have been about 3 times or so. I have had their Phó, Bahn Mi, and a pork chop dish. All were above average. Their menu is diverse and can work for nearly anyone who likes ethnic cuisine. It's a solid option if you want to try somewhere new. There are still plenty of choices I want to try out on the menu.

This place is cool and it offers 3 types of cuisine regardless of the restaurant name. It's not fusion. You can choose Japanese sushi, a variety of Thai curry and my favorite is the Vietnamese cuisine. Most of the people that come by work in the area and usually order for pick up. I hear a lot of orders for the chicken green curry when I picked up my order of Bun Thit Nuong Cha Gio pronounced "boom tet newing jai yaw" lol. Kewl right? AKA V18. It's room temperature rice noodle that's very similar to angel hair but it's rice, duh~ Sitting on top of a bed or crisp shredded romaine lettuce, sliced cucumbers, a few bean sprouts pickled daikon radish and carrots. Yuck, I know it sounds boring and it's a salad.. but wait you get a lovely portion of protein. A red marinaded thin pork with crispy fried shallots on top of all that healthy stuff. Oh but wait. Do you like egg rolls? Yea They'll give you two eggrolls that's to be mixed in. A fish oil vinegarette sauce to allow all the flavors to mesh. If you're going to take home leftovers, please note that it doesn't keep well when the vinegarette saturates the rice noodle. You will be really sad. I would dunk my noodles into the vinergarette knowing i'll be taking it home. Reheat noodles with a teaspoon of water. Use new lettuce and veggies. Introduced this noodle salad to all of my local friends and they crave it more often than the soup noodle. Others have chosen pineapple fried rice is that's pretty awesome, too. It's never been busy as a sit down place but I've eaten here a few times and the family that works there is quick and friendly. You can totally grubhub this place as well. There is a $10 off on $15+ order for new users. Check this place out!

I was skeptical... not the greatest part of town but I was quite surprised. The Panang curry was exceptional. The presentation was nice but not overdone. They seem to have the recipes dialed in.

This is my first visit and I am impressed. The food is delicious and the service was fast. The staff was courteous. I have to work my way through this menu. Today was Vietnamese. The true test will be the Thai Beef Pho. If it is good, this will become my new home.

Overheard many customers complaining when I sat down but I wanted to give it a try. Worse yaki soba ever. They used wrong noodles and sauce. My thai spring rolls were still frozen when they arrived. Servers are constantly on phones and not friendly. Truth be had, I wanted to try the bubble tea but did not understand and did feel like they could handle the questions. Best part of my visit was the thai iced tea otherwise I would have gave it one star.

I have been here a few times and I love their veggie udon noodles. It can be a little oily but overall a great meal and enough for left overs.

After trying other option in their menu this definitely would be my choice in restaurant to returned to. I order grub hub through yelp directly and to be honest I wasn't a fan. My pho broth came cold, I had to reheat it while they're very cheap with the meat I got about 2 small slices and probably about 2 meatball cut into 4. I ordered egg rolls too but ended up giving it to my coworkers since it was highly disappointing. This place is very Americanize and not worth it.

Mr. Thai, the manager, was amazing to our large party. Out of 6, only 2 of us had eaten Thai food before. He helped the undecided choose dishes he thought they would like based on food preferences. We ordered Tom Yum with shrimp and fried spring rolls for the table. The soup was good enough for the meal. Perfect balance of sour and spicy. The sweet and spicy dipping sauce for the spring rolls was a yummy condiment. I had the vegetarian green curry. It was AMAZING! best restaurant green curry I'd ever had. I ordered it native, or Thai hot. It had the right mix of veggies, broccoli, bamboo shoots, papaya, corn, onions, and peppers. It was served with steamed aromatic rice. To top off the excellent meal. I mentioned it was my Dad's birthday and Mr.Thai offered him a free bubble tea on the house. This was a great strip mall spot, albeit a bit divey. Friendly staff, great food. When in Nashville I will return.

Great place to go for pho if you're near the Antioch area. Right off the interstate off 24, and they have Vietnamese, Thai, and sushi. They have amazing fried rice and protein of your choice. I get the shrimp fried rice and pho dac biet, and they give you a food amount of meat. They recently started a bubble tea station inside and have various flavors, jellies, and boba.

Looked at the yelp reviews and stopped by Appetizer: ordered their mixed vegetable tempura. Lot of veggies for $5.50 and they were tasty as well. Main course: spicy pad thai (beef). One of the best pad thais I have tasted Other items ordered: Strawberry Banana bubble tea. It tasted good at first. I think they added too much ice which killed the taste of the bubble tea. If they could reduce how much ice they add, it will be great. Service: I prefer the personal touch when my waiter/waitress comes and asks how the food tasted. Makes me feel welcome. That was one thing missing. Otherwise I would have given a 5 star rating.

Fantastic Thai-Laos food! We are visiting from Chicago where we can get the best of foods from all over the world because of our diverse city and this is honestly one of my favorite Thai carry out dinners. Also, my mother-in-law from Thailand gives it two thumbs up for authenticity. Try the Vietnamese Egg Rolls, Thai stir fry garlic, and Thai papaya salad (som tum).

Was in the area and needed a fix and this spot exceeded expectations!!!!! I'm always looking for a legit Pho noodle bowl and theirs was amazing! And the fried soft shell crab was a nice surprise! Love this place!!!

Food is okay, it's a hit and miss here. I've been here 3-4 times because my friend picks this place. Banh xeo is what I usually order when I'm here. I've tried their pho, and papaya, curry, and larp. Everything was just average. Service sometimes can be slow.

I came here another time to try something different. I ordered egg rolls, Tom Ka, and bahn mi. I enjoyed everything, but the bahn mi. The grilled pork was low quality and my sandwich didn't have any jalapeños!! I wouldn't recommend ordering the sandwich.

Had a dinner from appetizers to entree's in this restaurant. Been looking their Facebook page for weeks until we finally have a chance to try it. Aunt May is our server and she's really sweet. The ambiance of the restaurant is similar to other family owned Asian restaurants which is pretty homey feeling. Price is definitely reasonable to cheap depends on what you're having. I'd definitely go back here again and would recommend to my friends with they wanna try Asian food.

Horrible.. the pad Thai was made with ketchup! The sushi was mainly rice and very bad quality.. save the money and a sick stomach..

When I'm seated in a restaurant and it's not busy and I have to wait 10 minutes for a glass of water or the initial visit from a waiter, maybe it's just a day they were understaffed. But when it continues to happen over and over again there is a bigger problem.

I don't ever do this, but I want to start off saying the broth is good! But this can't be real. For $12 you can get beef pho and this is what you get?! NOT EVEN ONE BITE OF MEAT. It has to be a joke. HIGHLY disappointed.

The first time I came here by myself I enjoyed a Bahn Mi sandwich with a Coconut Taro Bubble Tea to go and I would have rated this as a 3-4 Star lunch place at best but over the last 2 months my coworkers and I have become recurring guest due to our new favorite dish, Thai Papaya Fried Rice. This stuff is MAGIC, fried rice stuffed with Pineapple, Cashews and Raisins comes out as a perfect blend of sweet and savory. For starters the Spring Roll and the Tom Kha soup will also rock your socks off, the rolls are fresh and served with a great Peanut flavored dipping sauce and the soup has a perfect blend of Cocunut, Onion and Chicken. On the table they also provide every type of asian spice you could want so if something isn't up to your required spice level you can mix and match them to get the perfect taste. Thai Papaya has quickly become a bi-weekly ritual for our office and will continue to be as long as they keep making the most delicious fried rice you will eat in Nashville.

They are cool make sure you get a receipt or pay with a card because they will mess up your order if you don't double check.