Samurai Thai Restaurant review, Westcliff on Sea, Essex

Samurai Thai restaurant essex

We have visited this Thai restaurant on the A13 a few times now, and it is consistent in everything it offers – good food, friendly service, comfortable environment and value for money.

The Thai style décor and seating set the scene with candles and flowers, without being luxurious and there’s a TV playing Karaoke Thai music which I find charming and very much like you would get in Thailand itself. It is a more relaxed restaurant than some in the area. The waitresses wear Thai dress, and attend to the diner very well.

One of my favourite Thai dishes is Thai beef salad, and as long as we ask for it a little less hot than they would normally do it, it comes out perfectly – very good beef and an authentic dressing. We have had the fish in curry paste, and that is superb, as well as the Thai sweet and sour, which is fresh and has plenty of vegetables. The only disappointment was a yellow curry we tried once, as it lacked flavour, but all other dishes have been very good.

They are always happy to serve our food without MSG so that is great. Although we have visited at other times, this is very convenient for a meal to go with a show or play at the Palace Theatre.