Kinara Thai

Such a wonderful gem doing takeout only right now. Love the Tom Yum soup, vegetarian special kabocha squash “pad Thai” a stir fry in the yummy sauce. Love their green curry too! Never been disappointed yet! Vegetarian options: Lots of vegan options and veggie options

Pickup was really easy and quick. However, the food was way too sweet. This was my second time ordering since a year ago, hoping it changed, but it is still too sweet. If you like Thai food that is sweet, this is for you.

Cute little space with good service and good food for the price. Serving sizes are just about right, and most dishes can be made vegan or vegetarian! Appears to have a very loyal lunch clientele, probably because service is fast. My boyfriend and I were in and out in 30 minutes. Perfect for a little lunch break.

Kinara Thai is one of our family's favorite Thai restaurants in Portland! Their Tom Yum is so flavorful and filling. Their Pad Thai is the best in the city. And every single one of their seasonal dishes knocks our socks off. One of the best things about Kinara is that it's a local family owned restaurant and the people who work there truly take pride in their work. They always are able to accommodate a wide range of spice tolerance, dietary restrictions, and non-experimental eaters. Our toddler has gotten more and more curious over the years and now happily will try choo-chee pla or larb. Things that aren't typically found in a toddler's diet. We are glad that they survived the Pandemic and appreciate the abundance of caution they took during the heights of COVID surges.

My girlfriend and I love this place. Great Thai food with large portions, at a VERY reasonable price.Food: 5/5

Absolutely delicious. I have had the best pad thai of my life from this place. The fresh rolls are my boyfriends favorite, they’re always fresh and the peanut sauce is amazing. The crispy rolls are great too. Everything’s been a hit so far. And the staff are really kind!

Now one of the 2 top Thai restaurants I enjoy in Oregon. EVERY thing I ordered was perfect.

Worth the wait! Literally the best Thai food I've had in portland <3

We ordered 25 separate meals for a holiday office party last night. The food arrived on time, piping hot, and every order was correct. They even threw in some extra appetizers and everyone LOVED it! 10 out of 10 would order again!!

I’ve been pleasantly surprised with a few thai places i’ve had in portland, but kinara many dishes tasted completely different and lacked flavors and spices. With all the rave reviews i was caught off guard by the bland dishes that only had one flavor…sugar. Tasted completely different from all the places i ve had on my many culinary trips to thailand. Even the bad, very westernized thai restaurants here have more flavors and complexity than the dishes of kinara. I ve had alot of great food in thailand and also had alot of good and bad thai food around the world. But the top three worst thai dishes i ve ever had were from kinara tonight. Inedible dishes: -drunken noodles: the noodles were cooked wayyyy too long which made the entire dish extremely soggy and disgusting. I cant remember the last time i had noodles with this bad texture and overcooked! Had very mediocre flavor. -Pong ga ree prawns: wayyyy too sweet. Thats all you can taste in this dish. -green chicken curry: another dish that was wayyyyyy too sweet. Another dish that all you could taste was an overkill of sweetness. Mediocre dishes: -green papaya salad: nothing to write home about. Needed more acidity. At least this dish was edible. -Lettuce wrap larb: the flavor and seasoning of the ground chicken was good and pretty authentic. However, the ground chicken was so dry that it made this dish pretty bad. If they cooked the ground chicken better this dish would have been great. Good dishes: -Nom jean pla: this was the only dish that they did an authentic job cooking and had different flavors and spices, similar to tastes that you’d find in a restaurant in Thailand. I had to pour this sauce into other dishes to save those dishes.