What: Coconut Bay Restaurant
Where:1107 Howard Ave,Burlingame, CA
Yelp Rating:3 1/3 stars
Category:Thai
Coconut Bay Restaurant is a Thai restaurant with a modern look and young staff. The inside is spacious and clean, yet the service and menu is definitely lacking. I came here about an hour before closing, there were a few couples having dinner and a large party enjoying what looked like a birthday celebration. It took a while before a host came to greet my friend and I to show us to our table. Our waitress did not appear to be interested in serving us and overall gave us a bad feeling about the food we were ordering. Her negative attitude took away from the experience.
When it comes down to the food this restaurant definitely reminds me of a nail salon where every little thing is an extra cost. I was craving the coconut soup and was very disappointing that it only had shrimp in it with nothing else. Other Thai restaurants Ive been to had mushrooms and a variety of seafood in the soup. I asked to add mushrooms which was $1 extra and since I opted for the shrimp instead of the chicken it was also another extra $1.50. The extra cost was not an issue, except it made the restaurant look cheap like the ladies that do my pedicures and try to get an extra dollar out of me for every little flower or design that’s put on.
The food tasted alright, definitely not anything special, some of the shrimp still had the tail on which I was not happy about. The Thai iced tea was absolutely disgusting, seems like they messed up the mixture. If I am in the area again I would definitely try one of the other restaurants.
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