Kinara Thai Bistro - Portland

The pickup process was quick and convenient. However, I found the food to be excessively sweet. This was my second time ordering in a year, hoping the flavor would improve, but it remains too sweet for my taste. If you enjoy Thai cuisine, this might be a good option for you.

That was it! The best Thai food I've had in Portland! <3

Kinara Thai is one of our family's favorite Thai restaurants in Portland! Their Tom Yum soup is incredibly flavorful and satisfying, and their Pad Thai is the best in town. Each of their seasonal dishes consistently impresses us. One of the highlights of Kinara is that it’s a family-owned local restaurant, and the staff take great pride in their work. They are always accommodating when it comes to varying spice levels, dietary restrictions, and more traditional eaters. Over the years, our toddler has grown more adventurous and is now excited to try dishes like choo-chee pla and Larb—items not typically found in a toddler's diet. We’re grateful that Kinara has weathered the pandemic and applaud the precautions they've taken during the height of COVID-19.

Absolutely delicious. I had the best tamhai of my life from this place. the fresh rolls are my friends who? re always fresh and the erdnus sauce is amazing. also the crispy rolling are great. everything was a hit so far and the personal is really nice!

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.