Best Thai Restaurant in Glendale

 

Taste of Windsor is not a place to Thai one on, incongruously nestled in the back of the ground floor of Windsor Club, a building used for Alcoholics Anonymous and Al Anon meetings.  Only your taste buds will be inebriated.

Ten visits with no misses.  The kitchen is consistently excellent.  We have tried, and enjoyed, three appetizers, the steamed dumplings, the chicken sate, and pictured, the roti with a curry dip.

Perhaps our favorite dish is the Tom Ka soup, although the Tom Yum is also quite good.  Thai food may be famous for its heat, but if you spend time in Thailand you learn that a meal is about harmony, balancing, hot and sweet, sour and umami.  The Tom Ka represents that balance, a little heat, just the right amount of sweetness, and richness from the coconut.  

Speaking of coconut, the opening picture is one of the specialty items, corn and chicken curry in a young coconut.  The coconut is not just for show.  The dish is laced with strips of coconut.  Another savory dish is pumpkin with eggplant.  Pumpkin is extremely popular in Southeast Asian cooking.

Their version of Pad Thai is one of my favorite variations, being heavy on the sauce. 

To compensate you for being denied a Chang beer, revel in the tasty Thai coffee.

As an added bonus, Taste of Windsor is among the least expensive Thai restaurants in town.  Thai coffee is 3 dollars.  The corn and chicken curry in a coconut is 12, and the large vegetable version of the Tom Ka (recommended), is 9 dollars.  

Be aware that the restaurant is closed on Sunday, and only open until 3:30 on Saturday.  The rest of the week they are open until 9 pm.