Anantra Thai - Canoga Park

Arrived at 5 o'clock on a weekday and it was nice and quiet until we left it, it was packed. I usually stick to the simple straight fried rice, padthai, yellow curry, etc. but I tried the only filet and loved it! clean place with large service, I would go back definitiw and try another special dish.

One of my favorite Thai restaurants in Hollywood! Been looking for a good place for a while and finally found it. I would highly recommend any of their curry dishes. I was never a big fan of curry dishes until I tried this place. The green curry is absolutely delicious and the portion sizes are generous.

The food isn't fantastic, it doesn't have very much flavor at all, and they give you such small portions. I eat Thai Food all the time, everywhere I go, and this place is not good. We had the Pad See Ew and it was flavorless. We had the crab ragoons, and they didn't have very much flavor either, and the pastry they used was too thick and flavorless. The egg rolls were basically just cabbage, they were not good at all. We also had a side of peanut sauce that wasn't very good. We paid almost $40 for the food, and it was such a waste. There is an amazing thai food place right down Ventura, that is open until 2am, and it is so good, and has great prices, and large portions--go there instead. We will not be back to this place.

Normally I go to coco Thai but decided to try a new place. I went with good reviews when I chose Anantara on Ventura. Well it was a waste of money and time. First, I ordered on line for pick up (will never do it again) and had to provide my credit card. So I feel like they had me at already collected $100. When I went to pick up up the food. I was told “they are busy and it will take another 20 minutes”. I went to Trader Joe’s to pick up few things and returned 25 minutes later, only to find out I had to wait for another 20 because they were working on one more item. When I finally got the food, and put it on the plates, all the dishes were cold. My orange chicken was awful, cold, hard as a rock and heavily battered (I asked for lightly batter), other dishes had no flavor, no shrimp on pad Thai but shrimp on papaya salad (why writing notes and ordering protein when kitchen can’t read or follow direction), potstickers freezing, and other food was blend and cold. My family voted “awful disaster” so we are not going back. People seemed nice but they mismanaged our dinner and we are not going to make same mistake twice.

The owners would not allow my fiance and I to eat inside because I had my service dog with me. The employees were incredibly apologetic and tried to compromise with us by having us eat outside. It was very cold outside, and the last thing I want is for the employees to face the consequences of the owners ignorance and prejudice. I have filed a formal complaint with the ADA, and simply want to warn others with service dogs of the owner's lack of accommodation.