Thai Bamboo

I wish I could write a review on the food but I didn’t make that far. I am a person of Pacific Islander descent. I also work in the Technology arena and I dress appropriately to my craft.
I walk into the establishment and I see that there is no one tending the hostess station. An elderly couple walks in and at the same time, a young lady walks in and asks them how many in their party and then seats them. I did not take offense to that and waited for the young lady to seat me. Instead, she informs me that the mats were ready to pick up by the door. I asked her why she needed to inform me of that and she stated that she thought I was there to pick up the dirty mats and replace with clean ones. I will be honest with you, at first I couldn’t help but laugh and what made it even more comical was her confused look on her face. I told her that I had actually came in to dine and that I am not the «Mat guy». Right there was her opportunity to clear herself from this ridiculous debacle but she said one more moronic statement. «Well, you look like a «Mat Guy». Well young lady, you just made yourself look like a dumb waitress and you may not advance that much further with that double digit IQ rattling around in that sphere on your neck. First impressions «Thai Bamboo» I will never walk into another one your eateries again. Besides, I heard that your food smells like dishwater. Good luck!

Are you KIDDING ME? i’m a Pig, but finally a place that I didn’t finish my dish!
I found this place looking for more Gluten Free Options.
First of all, they have a ton of GF options. 2^nd, they can substitute and make practically any dish GF For you. They also make their own in sauces for those that they can not get GF.
First Thought. Great Taste. I ordered Phad Thai and the Coconut Prawns.
I am blow away, just the other night i ate at a place in riverstone, that was quite a bit more pricey, although their food was good. Here at Thai Bamboo? I had to Take a second glance at my serving size. I swear they cooked me 5lbs of Phad Thai for my order. More than 3 times the dish I got at the other place!
Overall, Very happy so far with the first visit (to go order). I will be taking the family back to try it again and see how dining in fares.

Delicious food! The Pad Thai is to die for. Very friendly staff and a nice, relaxed atmosphere.

Essentially just another Chinese restaurant. If you’re looking for a good Asian dish, this ain’t the place to go. (Phở thanh and café is down the street GO THERE!)

Nice but very slow service. T food was not anything I would want to go back for, noodles were not good almost like pasta. Drink specials were yummy and not bad priced for happy hour.

Extremely impressed. The food was fantastic! The red curry was a perfect heat (2) and the pad Thai had a slightly sweet bbq flavor that was delicious. They both were large portions as well. Definitely could feed more than one adult. Definitely order the magi sticky rice YUM! The waitress was pleasant the atmosphere relaxed and quiet. I will be joining those loyalty program because I will eat here often.

Very pleasantly surprised. Helpful waitstaff and delicious food. It was over 100 degrees in CDA and we couldn’t bring ourselves to order curries or soups so we got everything cold! Papaya salad was the best! House thai salad with tofu was delicious with light tasty dressing. Spicy peanut sauce with fresh spring rolls delicious. Generous portion sizes and yummy Thai iced tea. Thai lettuce wraps were tasty. Kids ordered pad thai and loved it plus more to take home. Coconut ice cream to top it off. This was perfect and pleasantly chilly inside (the other Asian restaurant we went to first must have been 85 degrees inside).

Favorite «ethnic» food in the area – my wife even enjoys the food, and she generally doesn’t go for ethnic food. The addition of the photos on the menu make it easier for me to remember what I ordered last time, so I can try something different. I love the curies.

I just moved to Coeur d’alene, Idaho 6 months ago. I’ve been dying to try Thai Bamboo as it is the only Thai Food Place here in CDA and I was LONG over due for spicy Curry and Pad Thai! This place is single handedly the WORST Thai food I’ve ever eaten and the service was Horrific!!! I gave it one star because of the décor of the interior and exterior of the restaurant. The wait staff has NO knowledge of Thai, our server could not answer any of our questions or give us any recommendations?! It was Friday night at 8pm, the place was dead. They started sweeping around our table at only 8:15, the staff was all teenagers that hung around the front host desk talking loudly about how they couldn’t wait to get out of here. My date and I were an inconvenience to them getting out by 9:00pm. Our server had NO idea what beers were on draft versus bottled. Do NOT order the Spring Rolls they are disgusting tiny grease balls with a couple strands of cabbage and a single strand of carrot, there was grease dripping out of them, they were inedible. The condiment jars were dirty and desperately needed a real cleaning, I wouldn’t even take chili flakes out of them. The place is JOKE. I’m dumb founded it has so many stars. It must be corporate trying to trick you to get in. Don’t EAT Here!

Can’t comment on the service as we ordered take out. The only reason I’m giving it a 2 star is because of the butterfly wontons, they were good and made up for the lack of flavor in the pad Thai. Don’t waste your money on the pad Thai here. It tastes like the sauce is from a pre made bottle bought at a grocery store. They don’t even add the classic bean sprouts, and I could not see egg anywhere in my dish. I ordered a 3 star, which by Thai standards should be fairly spicy, but this dish had no flavor and there wasn’t a hint of spice to it. It was literally a pile of over cooked noodles and dry chicken. If you want good authentic pad Thai, go down the street to Asian twist.

Food was very good but the service is super slow unless you like running out of something to drink for way too long.
They have anything you could ever want on the menu also.

I came to Thai bamboo because I was craving Thai food. I ended up getting their pad thai and Mongolian beef. Their mongolian beef was really salty and not very good. Didn’t really taste like anything but salty. There pad thai was very average and they put a tad too much peanut sauce. Wasn’t spicy enough either. Thai iced tea was pretty good

Great Thai spot in a convenient location. Fantastic atmosphere — I love the raised ceiling with stars, the different fabric covering the booths, and the art. And an entire section for vegetarians and vegans, hooray! The red curry with tofu was quite good (and medium spicy was perfectly hot but not painful), though the pad Thai was so-​so (too sweet). Terrific service. Will definitely eat here again on my next visit to Coeur d’Alene.

I have never eaten at this location before… but I’ll be back.
The green curry chicken with basil? Amazing.
As was the sesame chicken, soup and chicken skewers appetizers—
The service attentive. Price – well worth it.

The food is delicious, everything my family and I have ordered we’ve loved! I love their chicken green curry with black rice. Even my young kids look forward to eating at Thai Bamboo. The atmosphere is amazing! The service is a little slow but I think it is because the dishes are being made fresh. I would highly recommend this restaurant.

We came to CDA on business from Tennessee. There aren’t a lot of great options for vegetarians in CDA, at least not places that can be identified from Unilocal reviews. I had eggplant with black bean sauce and my wife had tofu with cashews. Both were excellent: beautifully seasoned and presented. The spicing is lower than I am used to in Thai restaurants; 2* was pretty mild, so if you like it spicy, go with at least 3*. Remember to order rice/​noodles because they aren’t included at dinner. We also shared the fried tofu appetizer, which was exceptionally good (and large).
The service left something to be desired, which is why I am only giving 4 stars; the taste would have merited 5. We had bad luck, I think. Our server was friendly but seemed to avoid our table. She never offered a refill of soft drink or water. When our food came, we had to flag her down to ask for plates and silverware. My item was more of a Szechuan than Thai style and I asked for chopsticks; she said, «Of course,» but did she bring them? Of course NOT! Other servers in the dining area appeared to be much more attentive, so, as I said, probably bad luck.
For vegetarians: the selection isn’t huge (about 6 main course dishes), but the owner understands vegetarians, and comments in the menu about which sauces have fish or shrimp paste in them (our server, on the other hand, seemed surprised that vegetarians don’t eat fish). There is a comment on the print and PDF menus (you can’t see it on the HTML version) that many other items can be made vegetarian, and you can add tofu to most dishes.

I have been back twice since my previous review and still find it just as wonderful as the first time! Ning has been my server each time which means I have some sort of good luck! Earlier in the week we were too lazy to go in so we ordered online and that experience was without fault… Thai bamboo continues to bring their ‘A’ game and it pleases me to see such consistency. Also it is nice to see the owner cares about his Unilocal page and acknowledges both the bad an good reviews and reviewers!!!

Pretty interesting looking on the outside… florescent lights… …
We ordered the spring rolls and the pad thai. Have to say, it was NOT good. Spring rolls were not fresh. The vegetables that were rolled inside were wilted and about to die. The rice paper was hard and dry. The pad thai was overly sweet and tart and difficult to eat.
Lesson learned… CDA, Idaho… stick to the American foods there. Thai food, not so much.

Got out of work a little later than I wanted, but I am glad I still got here before they closed!
Décor was awesome, lots of things to look at! I think my favorite is the Star Ceiling that changes colors and it looks like it has shooting stars, and lots of stationary stars that twinkle.
I started out with Fresh Rolls. Non Fried rolls with tofu, shrimp, and veggies inside, then you can dip them in their peanut sauce. I thought they were pretty good, a little on the dry side. I hate to compare them to Viet Spring Rolls, but they are similar, the peanut sauce was good too, but not as good as Viet peanut sauce.
I ordered the Chicken Phad Thai, got it at a Medium Spice level. It was a big plate! It was just right for the spice level, it kept my nose sweating the entire meal, it offset the sweetness of the dish.
I told myself to save some room for some Mango Sticky rice at the end, but of course that didn’t happen. Maybe one day I will come back and try their desserts!
I look forward to eating here again!
AMEX ACCEPTED!

A Wonderful Thai Experience to Find in CDA!
SIT-​REP
We had to travel 60 miles north to CDA from St. Maries in order to get AWAY from just Burger & Fries. It was worth the drive.
MY RECENT BACKGROUND WITH THAI CUISINE
Both Italian and Mexican have been absolutely favorite cuisines and nothing has changed that in nearly 35 years of my life. HOWEVER, this has now changed into a TRIFECTA of favorites since I was first introduced to THAI cuisine in San Francisco nearly 5 years ago.
Ever since I began my early roadtrip/​clubbing days in San Francisco, I would always have time to make a midnite-​3am PIZZA stop in the North Beach, SF hood before heading back over the Bay Bridge and onward to Sacramento. However, I’m just as likely now to hit Bangkok Noodles or King of Thai for some take-​out for the trip back. And these two restaurants in particular have SPOILED me on their incredible, yet surprisingly different, tastes of one another.
So it takes something really special for me to find to be on par with them. Sad to say, I haven’t found that yet here in Sacramento, and I’ve hit areas in the Arden area and the two restaurants on Broadway, etc. etc.
COEUR D’ALENE
However, enter «Thai Bamboo» here in CDA, and now I got to «reapply» my Thai «litmus test» to this new restaurant I found in logging town backwoods of the Pacific Northwest.
THE MENU
* First Test: THE SPICY COCONUT MILK SOUP. In SF, my fave Thai places call it TOM KHA GAI. Here in CDA, they called it TOM KHA. We got the Tom Kha at medium spiciness, and it was a great choice! The soup was rich with coconut milk, chicken (we could have ordered Beef, Shrimp, or Tofu as well). It was truly a traditional hot & sour soup also with galangal root, onions & mushrooms. A substantial order of Steamed Rice came with this.
* Second Test: PAD THAI NOODLES — Oh my god, absolutely scrumptious! No scrimping on the seafood and additions either!
* Third Test: A YELLOW CURRY DISH. This was called Gaeng Mussman. It can be a choice of vegetarian or meat (we chose beef) with yellow curry, potatoes, carrots, onions & bell peppers. It was a good experiment but not near as enjoyable as the other two dishes. Still, it was an exceptionally delicious dish nonetheless.
AND we had leftovers!
THE LOWDOWN
«Thai Bamboo» was an exceptional dining experience in CDA that I hope to enjoy again very soon to satisfy my growing Thai cravings!