Thai Paradise Restaurant

Love love love! Such a cute small restaurant with very kind workers. Food was delicious and fast to come out.

Delicious neighborhood Thai place. We get takeout from here regularly. It's small inside, but the staff is friendly and the food is good.

I loved the Pad Thai, which I ordered super spicy and the fried bananas for desert. Small place , friendly staff, everything was delicious.

Big tastes, small space. Very intimate dining. Very clean, quaint and cozy. Great service. Really great food. Prices are great too.

The mango sticky rice was great

I absolutely love this family run Thai restaurant! We have never been disappointed in the four years since we moved to the area. My husband loves the bison and I crave the yellow curry. A must stop for us weekly!

This is a great little spot. Food is delicious! With good size portions. Lunch specials are perfect size. The tom kar with shrimp is awesome, the shrimps are big, great flavor. The staff is super nice! Highly recommend.

Bomb food. Lovely owners and staff. Super quick and easy takeout. And bomb food. Oh - did I say that already? Probably my favorite Thai restaurant in South OC. Their shrimp fried rice is SO delicious.

We were looking for lunch while visiting family in San Clemente and wound up here. We chose it because of its vegetarian options and reviews. We were not disappointed! The chef (owner?) came out to see us. The food was amazingly delicious. Everyone was happy, vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike. We will definitely be back! And, our aunt who lives so close says she's going to add it to her list as well. WOOT WOOT!

This is my Moms and I favorite Thai Food restaurant. It’s a small place but cozy offering wine and beer. Prices are moderate food tastes good. We will continue to come here. Enjoy!

We decided to pick up some food here while in town. Pad See Ew was excellent. The best I have had. Today was our 2nd visit. We ordered 3 dishes to go. Excellent! Great food and nice people.

Amazing food, way better than Thai Dara, relaxing atmosphere, why isn't this place busy? It's one of those places that you try out because you always go past that place, and end up really loving it ❤️

Excellent Pad Thai with shrimp. Try the level 2 spice ! Thai milk is delicious too.

Excellent food and great service. Authentic Thai food. Can't get anymore Thai than this. Highly recommend.

This is a cute little Thai restaurant across the street from the Sprouts and Home Goods shopping center. I love their Tom Kha Gai/Kai here because the broth is on point!

We had several different dishes and they were all great, including the desserts. Personal favorite is the green curry. They followed safe protocols and were gracious.

Matthew Alexander

Excellent Pad Thai with shrimp. Try the level 2 spice ! Thai milk is delicious too.

Nygel Burwell

Excellent food and great service. Authentic Thai food. Can't get anymore Thai than this. Highly recommend.

Katrina Callihan

This is a cute little Thai restaurant across the street from the Sprouts and Home Goods shopping center. I love their Tom Kha Gai/Kai here because the broth is on point!

Saturnina Forbes

We had several different dishes and they were all great, including the desserts. Personal favorite is the green curry. They followed safe protocols and were gracious.

Thai Paradise is the best Thai restaurant in South OC, I should know as I lived in Thailand for 4 years. The food is cooked by Thai people, can't say that for other Thai restaurants in the area. When you come you feel the Thai ways atmosphere, good people, the same atmosphere you would find in Thailand. I only like to come here.

I love the Shrimp Pad Thai it’s what I always order. Their food is the most flavorful Thai food in San Clemente. If I’m craving Thai food and Thai paradise happens to be closed, I wait until the next day. I won’t go to another restaurant. So good

Delicious! Lots of veggies! Even the tofu was incredible! Everything was every fresh and tasty. Lovely staff, good portion of wine glass, delicious deep fried banana spring rolls for dessert. We will definitely be back.

Still my favorite Thai restaurant in south Orange County. The food is delicious. You can have the spicy ness to taste from levels 1 to 5. Most tasty Thai food. Been coming here for over 25 years, several different owners and cooks but still outstanding.

Stumbled across this random mom and pop Thai restaurant. It was a hidden gem. I ordered the summer rolls with the peanut sauce as an appetizer and it was very delicious. For the main dish I ordered the pad se ew and it was very good. Highly recommend this place. The family is charming and down the earth

We have eaten at Thai Paradise 3 times, twice with DoorDash and once in person. We had Curry, spring rolls and cucumber salad. The food is so good! Love the dressing on the salad, and the curry has lots of Thai basil.

The food was delicious! I ordered the Chicken Pad Thai lunch special, with extra peanuts, and they truly delivered in favor, texture and a boat load of peanuts! The salad dressing was also light and creamy and tasty. My server, Liberty, was helpful, friendly, and prompt. 10/10

This place has some of the best curry! I love when I’m in the area and can dine in. Small, quaint, and humble atmosphere.

New in town and visited based on reviews. Food is amazing! I thought I had good Thai food in my old neighborhood, but this is better. The Pad Kee Mow was perfection, service friendly, warm and prompt. Setting isn’t fancy, more like eating in someone’s home. But it adds to the charm of the place. I’ll be a regular for sure!

Best pad Thai in San Clemente/Dana point. I’ve tried them all. The family that runs this place is fantastic and nice and this place is really consistent. Curry’s are also amazing, haven’t missed yet. Cost and proportions are on point compared to others as well

Gogo E

This place has some of the best curry! I love when I’m in the area and can dine in. Small, quaint, and humble atmosphere.

Christine Spencer

The food was delicious! I ordered the Chicken Pad Thai lunch special, with extra peanuts, and they truly delivered in favor, texture and a boat load of peanuts! The salad dressing was also light and creamy and tasty. My server, Liberty, was helpful, friendly, and prompt. 10/10

sue brodecky

New in town and visited based on reviews. Food is amazing! I thought I had good Thai food in my old neighborhood, but this is better. The Pad Kee Mow was perfection, service friendly, warm and prompt. Setting isn’t fancy, more like eating in someone’s home. But it adds to the charm of the place. I’ll be a regular for sure!

Coolie

Thai Paradise is the best Thai restaurant in South OC, I should know as I lived in Thailand for 4 years. The food is cooked by Thai people, can't say that for other Thai restaurants in the area. When you come you feel the Thai ways atmosphere, good people, the same atmosphere you would find in Thailand. I only like to come here.

Travis Seymour

Best pad Thai in San Clemente/Dana point. I’ve tried them all. The family that runs this place is fantastic and nice and this place is really consistent. Curry’s are also amazing, haven’t missed yet. Cost and proportions are on point compared to others as well

nena v

I love the Shrimp Pad Thai it’s what I always order. Their food is the most flavorful Thai food in San Clemente. If I’m craving Thai food and Thai paradise happens to be closed, I wait until the next day. I won’t go to another restaurant. So good

Shannon S

I absolutely love this family run Thai restaurant! We have never been disappointed in the four years since we moved to the area. My husband loves the bison and I crave the yellow curry. A must stop for us weekly!

N W

Delicious! Lots of veggies! Even the tofu was incredible! Everything was every fresh and tasty. Lovely staff, good portion of wine glass, delicious deep fried banana spring rolls for dessert. We will definitely be back.

Lisa Tsufura

Still my favorite Thai restaurant in south Orange County. The food is delicious. You can have the spicy ness to taste from levels 1 to 5. Most tasty Thai food. Been coming here for over 25 years, several different owners and cooks but still outstanding.

Ramiro Estrada

This is a great little spot. Food is delicious! With good size portions. Lunch specials are perfect size. The tom kar with shrimp is awesome, the shrimps are big, great flavor. The staff is super nice! Highly recommend.

Delicious Thai food. Usually service is quick and friendly. Small dining area so at peak times it can be crowded and wait lengthy. Takeout available. Reasonably priced.

Great authentic Thai food. It is just too small, good for take out.

I had the cashew chicken and my wife had fried tofu and fried banana. It was ok, but the chicken was a bit dry and bland compared to other Thai restaurants.

Gabor Fulop

I had the cashew chicken and my wife had fried tofu and fried banana. It was ok, but the chicken was a bit dry and bland compared to other Thai restaurants.

I stopped here as I have a customer in the same building. The place was empty at lunch hour. They had a few customers pick up food while I was there but no other walk in traffic. The food was just so so. I wouldn't go out of my way to stop here.

Food is great when delivered by any service. However, if you choose to go there, the younger woman is rude and arrogant. This is my third and final time visiting.

Xabi C

Food is great when delivered by any service. However, if you choose to go there, the younger woman is rude and arrogant. This is my third and final time visiting.

Food is average, more on the salty side, service below average, they have a 2 for one deal in local paper but didn't seem happy about it, If I would have known the coupon would change their attitude so much I would have not even shown it beside with all exclusions makes your choices very limited, the place is very small and tables are tiny but a none issue for us, again food is average but poor service ruined for us, I would not go back there. also portions are small, drinks are half filled!

Small dingy restaurant, iffy service, I ask for no spice and they bring me my dish loaded with jalapeños I take a few bites they say no refund or sub chef comes out all hot and angry yelling Thai slang when they give me my second plate they seemed a little too happy giggling in the back(I didn’t trust that plate one bit) won’t be coming back I’m a weekly customer

If you like below average thai food with TERRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE, this is your restaurant. The restaurant should not be callled Thai Paradise. It should be named THAI HELL !

From the moment we walked in my family and I were treated as if we were a burden while we were the only dine in customers. The employees were short with their communications. The food we did receive, edamame and potstickers, looked and tasted microwaved but the final straw was finding a fingernail in the edamame. My husband and I both felt disgusted. We paid for the items we’d received and left and will not be returning.

Drove from Talega to here for a nice dinner with the family. Restaurant closes at 9. Arrived at 8:20 with 40 minutes to go. Restaurant said no service, we had to order to go. Really? Poor customer service. We have eaten here frequently. They know who we are. Just plain rude. Expected better service

it's a very long time to wait for food, why does the person who takes the order go to the kitchen and put food on with his bare hands.

Шурик Алехин

it's a very long time to wait for food, why does the person who takes the order go to the kitchen and put food on with his bare hands.

Placed a phone order. Showed up and told them my name, young lady already looked annoyed. Asked what was in my order because it didn’t look like mine. She immediately rolled her eyes and said it’s what you ordered “dawn”. Perplexed, I said my name was John. She was already charging my card. Canceled the charge. Grabbed another order from the table and proceeded to charge me. I asked again what’s in the bag, she proceeded to tell me my order. Two spring rolls and chicken curry. I asked for extra sweet and sour sauce, rolled her eyes again and went to go grab it but stopped and said that will be a dollar… I just spent 38 bucks and now I’m charged for sauce because prices went up “it cost money to make sauce”. This place has never been cheap and that didn’t matter. Been in San Clemente all my life and have been going there a long while. This will be my last time coming to this place. Customer service was horrible. I don’t need someone’s attitude especially if I’m spending money as a consumer. Threw the food away and didn’t try it. Negative energy in a restaurant is not for me.

Pad thai with chicken - funny color and chicken was rubbery. Spicy basil also a funny color but was at least palatable. Unfriendly service, treated like I was trying to steal their food!

We’ve been coming here for years for sometimes very good, but mostly decent to sometimes mediocre thai food. The service has never been anything exceptional and phone ordering feels like someone put a gun to your head type of thing, but I guess we’ve just been writing that part off. Unfortunately, what I had originally written was deleted so I’m going to summarize by asking you for the sake of food integrity and your own dignity, do not support this establishment’s unsafe and gross food practices and especially their very inconsiderate, rude and just lame attitude they have no problem giving a lifelong regular customer. Or, go ahead and support them if you want to always wonder if they made a mistake and gave your order to someone else who searched through your order for their order, opening the boxes up to see it was all wrong…. but then… this restaurant calls them a couple of times telling them they needed to hurry up because you’re standing there waiting asking where your lunch is? I’ll tell you where… it’s down the road in a stranger’s kitchen getting packed back up and driven back to this rude place who just told a person who was now late for work that they needed to bring your lunch back! Ope! your lunch just got back and let me tell you those egg rolls were tempting! BON APETITE! I’m sure anyone reading this would be cool with that right?! yeah, neither were we. On top of that bizarre (with the possibility of disgusting ) and unsafe food handling policy they have….not only that…. they asked my now late to his customer bf of mine to pay the difference of the orders and loudly argued that this was somehow his problem and still needed to pay the total for our order. I get that we ordered what we did and we were fully prepared to pay for it (which he did cuz he’s a nice guy) but wouldn’t you of thought to idk not berate the guy and instead comp the meal, offer a free appetizer next time, give him a free tea or something… perhaps APOLOGIZE for your error that’s making him late and inconveniencing his customer??? I mean anything but make a customer pay more money after driving back and forth with someone else’s food that you gave him and he trusted it to be right! The staff and management here suck and we will not be back, no matter how good the pineapple curry w shrimp is!

Olivia

We’ve been coming here for years for sometimes very good, but mostly decent to sometimes mediocre thai food. The service has never been anything exceptional and phone ordering feels like someone put a gun to your head type of thing, but I guess we’ve just been writing that part off. Unfortunately, what I had originally written was deleted so I’m going to summarize by asking you for the sake of food integrity and your own dignity, do not support this establishment’s unsafe and gross food practices and especially their very inconsiderate, rude and just lame attitude they have no problem giving a lifelong regular customer. Or, go ahead and support them if you want to always wonder if they made a mistake and gave your order to someone else who searched through your order for their order, opening the boxes up to see it was all wrong…. but then… this restaurant calls them a couple of times telling them they needed to hurry up because you’re standing there waiting asking where your lunch is? I’ll tell you where… it’s down the road in a stranger’s kitchen getting packed back up and driven back to this rude place who just told a person who was now late for work that they needed to bring your lunch back! Ope! your lunch just got back and let me tell you those egg rolls were tempting! BON APETITE! I’m sure anyone reading this would be cool with that right?! yeah, neither were we. On top of that bizarre (with the possibility of disgusting ) and unsafe food handling policy they have….not only that…. they asked my now late to his customer bf of mine to pay the difference of the orders and loudly argued that this was somehow his problem and still needed to pay the total for our order. I get that we ordered what we did and we were fully prepared to pay for it (which he did cuz he’s a nice guy) but wouldn’t you of thought to idk not berate the guy and instead comp the meal, offer a free appetizer next time, give him a free tea or something… perhaps APOLOGIZE for your error that’s making him late and inconveniencing his customer??? I mean anything but make a customer pay more money after driving back and forth with someone else’s food that you gave him and he trusted it to be right! The staff and management here suck and we will not be back, no matter how good the pineapple curry w shrimp is!

Dr. Steve Yun, M.D.

Pad thai with chicken - funny color and chicken was rubbery. Spicy basil also a funny color but was at least palatable. Unfriendly service, treated like I was trying to steal their food!

Uly

Placed a phone order. Showed up and told them my name, young lady already looked annoyed. Asked what was in my order because it didn’t look like mine. She immediately rolled her eyes and said it’s what you ordered “dawn”. Perplexed, I said my name was John. She was already charging my card. Canceled the charge. Grabbed another order from the table and proceeded to charge me. I asked again what’s in the bag, she proceeded to tell me my order. Two spring rolls and chicken curry. I asked for extra sweet and sour sauce, rolled her eyes again and went to go grab it but stopped and said that will be a dollar… I just spent 38 bucks and now I’m charged for sauce because prices went up “it cost money to make sauce”. This place has never been cheap and that didn’t matter. Been in San Clemente all my life and have been going there a long while. This will be my last time coming to this place. Customer service was horrible. I don’t need someone’s attitude especially if I’m spending money as a consumer. Threw the food away and didn’t try it. Negative energy in a restaurant is not for me.