Thai Smile Palm Springs

This is our favorite restaurant in Palm Springs. Our favorite dishes are Panang Curry, Pineapple Fried Rice (comes with chicken and shrimp), Honey Pork (not spicy and a favorite of my sister), and can’t missing the Fresh Shrimp Spring Roll. Sometimes the meals are enough to share but we love having the leftovers for lunch the next day. Lots of other wonderful dishes … to many to mention!

I ordered the lunch special: red curry, steamed rice, hot and sour soup, thai iced tea. $ 11. Everything was delicious and ample portions of protein in soup and main dish. I will be back next time I visit, my server, Christopher, was beyond helpful, provided quick and constant service and very friendly

This place offers a great lunch menu which includes an entrée served with rice and choice of soup or salad and iced tea for $ 10-​$ 12. Ate here for the second time in less than a week and have to say whoever was in the kitchen today was off the mark compared to a week ago. Inconsistent food quality with seasoning, spiciness, and quantity is a problem for me. We went back today based on the value and food quality from our previous visit and feel punked. What happened to that AWESOME restaurant we ate at a week ago? Will it ever come back? How many tries before we’re served that yummy pad thai? H-​U-​G-​E disappointment all around today. BTW– The service is pretty good for a busy lunch spot. However, save your bitchy waiter speak for after work cocktails ladies you never know whose listening or might I suggest the following support group for miserable pleasure
. But that’s iced tea under the bridge as I will have to find a new Thai spot in Palm Springs.

The best Thai food in the desert along with its sister on El Paseo in Palm Desert. Absolutely love this place, haven’t had a bad dish ever. Service is excellent.

Love this place. Great food, drinks, service. I have not eaten at any other Thai places since I first dined here 16 years ago. Yum!

Was here last night and everything was amazing. My girlfriend isn’t a huge fan of Thai food but she was like omg to every bite. The Yellow Curry is out of this world and there peanut sauce is like no others. I would recommend this restaurant to anyone thats visiting or lives in Palm Springs. I will be back forsure. Wish you had one in Orange County!!!

We stopped here on our way to Arizona and even though the restaurant was more pricey than usual Thai restaurants, the yellow curry was one of the best yellow curries I’ve ever tasted. It cost about 12 bucks for yellow curry and rice with tofu but it’s more expensive with other meat.
The waiter was hilarious and he recommended us what he thought was good with what dish. I asked for the least spice and he insisted on having the yellow curry be a bit more spicy! I can’t eat spicy foods though, nevertheless it was so delicious.
I would recommend for a first time but due to the price I’m not sure if I would come here often.

Ate here on Christmas day and the wait was one hour, but worth it. Staff was fast and friendly and I liked their suggestions. I had the Thai Smile Fried Rice– YUM! The Egg Rolls are superb! Place was clean as was the restroom and we never felt rushed. This place is a «Must stop» when in Palm Springs and needing a Thai food fix.

Came here for lunch and the lunch special was hard to say no to for $ 11 you get a salad or soup, plus an iced tea, entrée and rice. Too good to be true right? Well kind of… most of what was on the menu was things I typically would not order. It seems like they chose items with the same ingredients and put variations on the menu. My yellow curry and pad see ew, not on the lunch special unfortunately but I went ahead and tried one of the other curries instead. They were pretty good about letting me sub out pepper since I don’t like them for potatoes which was pretty nice. For the food I would have given this place 4 stars.
Now the service on the other hand, we had a waiter who was socially awkward for lack of a better word. It was slightly uncomfortable and forced each time he came to check on our table. Even when I asked for the check, it seemed like I was inconveniencing him. Oh well, lunch served its purpose and was extremely reasonable.

Came for lunch today and we were seated right away upon arrival. Inside has nice décor and good ambience. Service was really friendly and attentive. Food tasted average and portions were small. Ordered red curry chicken and Panang curry pork dishes. Lunch meal included rice, soup or salad, and ice tea. We were spoiled by thai foods in the Los Angeles area so it is tough to compare. Price is reasonable since it is Palm Spring downtown area. Overall lunch meals were pleasant experience.

Wow. Just wow. I like Thai food so I thought this corner place would be neat to try.
I started off with the lettuce wraps– they looked like ground chicken with minced veggies that came with half a wedge of iceberg. Man was it delicious! It was seasoned perfectly and came out a little over five minutes after I ordered it. For my entrée I ordered the Veggie Trio– green beans, zucchini, and tofu in a spicy sauce. It was delectable. I also ordered the Thai tea which I already knew was going to be delicious. The service was great– I don’t know what the issue was on the other review but I am sure glad I tried this place out. I was very pleasantly surprise show tasty and reasonable everything was. I also had a good experience with the staff– several people were very helpful in answering my questions about the menu and service was very attentive.

I love Thai, loved the location, loved the Unilocal reviews. However, didn’t love the food :(although, the décor is really amazing with all the wood work.
Maybe I’m spoiled with Toi Thai on Sunset (they set the bar high) ?
Tom Yum Soup was too spicy! There was no option for spicy make my noise run while my mouth can’t taste the food anymore or spicy make my mouth have a little fire dance… Plus the mushrooms were not cooked, just chopped and place in the soup to be served. Pad Thai had some crazy orange sauce poured on it. Pad See Ew with crispy Tofu and broccoli was the only plate that was worth it, the broccoli was cooked perfect!
X-​Small portions.
Large menu
Fast service
2 stars on food

First time here and this is now my new favorite Thai restaurant. Had the yellow curry which was outstanding. I loved that it had snow peas, baby corn, pineapple carrots, potatoes, tomatoes and red and green peppers! Amazing flavor!
Looking forward to my next visit!
Our server Christopher was excellent!

Our PS friends brought us here after the Thursday street fair, saying it is their favorite Thai place, and that we were lucky not to be here on a Friday or Sat night when there is usually a line out the door.
The bamboo lighting, windows and décor give the interior a clean, light feel. There were outdoor tables available, but we opted for inside. We were seated right away, and the food arrived amazingly fast. Service was friendly and they reran the bill when I showed them my Unilocal $ 10 off check-​in deal.
Food: Even though I swore I was the Queen of habanero and wanted my curry the hottest they could make it, my masaman curry with fried tofu was tasty but not that spicy. We asked for the condiments and got an okay chili paste.
The shrimp prit king had lots of green beans, several large shrimp, and a nice sauce but was not all that spicy. The basil sauce on the pork was also flavorful, but not spicy. Our friend was breaking into a sweat from the pad thai noodles so I guess it was hot enough for most Americans. Everyone was happy with their food choices, and it is a pleasant place to eat. The sauvignon blanc and the beer came nicely chilled, befitting of a restaurant in the desert.

Excellent Thai food in the heart of downtown Palm Springs. Clean, modern décor with outside tables for those warm desert nights. Friendly wait staff, good portions of all my Thai favorites. The hot scale is for western tastes… if you like it hot, 4 chilis won’t be enough! Ask for the hot condiments tray. Chili flakes, fresh chilis and 2 chili sauces to spice it up.

Really Americanized Thai food that also has a bit of Americanized Chinese food on the menu, because it’s all basically the same, right?
Just because they call a spice level «extremely spicy» does not mean that it actually tastes extremely spicy, or even at all.
The lunch special comes with complimentary iced tea, but you have to ask for it if you want water.
Service is awkwardly rushed.
But the tom kha gai is acceptable!

My go to place for Thai.
Love the lunch specials with ice tea served instead of water.
Comes with soup or salad, I choose the hot and sour soup!
Great staff and service and atmosphere.

I arrived here on a Tuesday evening and walkef from my nearby hotel. This happened to be my first visit since they moved to this new location around two years ago.
The Interior is beautifully decorated with definite Thai influence. The waiters are dressed in traditional Thai attire. I started off with a salad entrée with Thai peanut sauce — which was fabulous. For my main entrée I chose the pad thai noodles with shrimp. At around $ 15 an order I really had higher expectations and was pretty disappointed.
I passed on dessert and opted for berries cream brulee back at the hotel. If and when I return here I would avoid the Pad Thai. Unfortunately the quality of my selection was over priced in my opinion and prices reflect the ambiance of the establishment.

This place has really gone downhill! Used to be better from what I remember.
We got carry out Pad Thai and it was small, expensive and on too of it all lady kept our card and forgot to give it back. When we went back it was a huge process to get back.
We found a new/​better place called La Basil in Palm Desert!

I agree now that Palm Spring does not have any good Asian food.
Came here for lunch, tried their pad thai. Big portion, but it was indeed loaded with sugar!!! Tasted so bad! The noodle was soggy which was rare. I usually got the opposite.
Service definitely was not warm. Maybe that’s Palm Spring? But they were very kind when found my left credit card, they ran out to stop me and returned it to me.