I've heard great things about Sea Thai in Williamsburg, BK. And I had walked pass its Meatpacking location many times; however I had never (and will never) stopped and enjoy a meal there.
We came as a group of 8 (for an 7:45pm reservation) this past Saturday. We wanted to provide a vacationing friend with a great fun, tasty Thai food experience that was also not too deep in the pockets. When we were been taken to our seats (on the 2nd level) the floor was so slippery with what looked like a mixture of water and oil that our guest of honor felt; our hostess only reaction to this was to turn around look at her and say sorry the floor is wet! not an we are sorry.
Once seated we decided to start with two bottles of wine, our waiter proceeded to serve full glasses of wine to every one in the table, and forgot to serve two of us. When he was informed of this he proceeded to say I am sorry but there is no more wine in the bottles; you need to order more. Mind you 1 bottle yields 5.5 servings and we had ordered two bottles for 8 people. Now I am not asking for the waiter (or any waiter) to be a master sommelier but I am asking that you know how to properly open a bottle of wine and in which manner to serve.
Once the menus were presented to us, we were rushed to order the food. The food looked delicious, and the selections were plenty. We ordered approximately 9 appetizers to share and not one of these were bad; the night I thought started looking up. Once our entrée arrived it was a chaos, side orders of Jasmine rice were missing, and when pointed out to the waiter he said we needed to pay for them although it clearly stated in the menu it was part of the dishes ordered. We went ahead and ordered the additional rice with the additional charges anyways.
I ordered the Ginger Herbs Fried Rice with Shrimp. Hubby ordered Roasted Rice T-Bone with Papaya Salad & Coconut Sticky Rice. The highlight of both of our dishes Ginger (for me), roasted rice crusted steak (for hubby) were the focal point and the reason why we ordered said dishes, trust me when I say it was the worst experience. Mine lacked ginger anything and his was only a powder rice sprinkled on top type of steak. Now; I can only really speak about my dish and that of my hubby (which I ate from) which were not good at all; but our friends also felt their dishes were not up to part, and were either too salty or lacked any of the highlighted seasoning. Oh yes our waiter was not really present at our table more than 2-3 times in a spam of 3 hour and 20 minutes.
Dessert was one thing I was looking forward; I love me sticky rice and mango any day. We ordered their Chocolate Fondue Pot, and two Coconut Sticky Rice with Mango sorbet. Well their fondue was great, and I can say I would have again; however the sticky rice and mango never arrived, and when we had the chance to flag our waiter down and informed him we were still waiting for it; he left and only brought back the Coconut Sticky Rice in a bowl, with no sorbet. When asked were was the dessert his response was, " we don't have more sorbet, so only the sticky rice".
Needless to say; its a place we would not visit ever again food was mediocre, and the service non existent. The Meatpacking is one of our favorite hangout spots, but the restaurant is a dark spot in a otherwise area were food is taken seriously.
Until next time!
XO!
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