Capital Thai

Had take-​out and was nervous based on appearance at pick-​up. Food was good! Enjoyed pad-​Thai and mussamun. Tasted clean and yummy.

As always the best Thai restaurant love the food clean and delicious great people thank you will always come back

I love the food and service I receive at Capital Thai. Not sure why my favorite dish is one price at lunch and another at dinner for the same portion size but I still enjoy dining here regularly.

I love this place! I have tried other Thai in the area, but they are my favorite! Their curry is fantastic.

Great food and service. Much better than the local places where I live. I plan to return next time I’m in town

I think this is some of the best Thai food I’ve ever had! The fried tofu is done perfectly and the sauce works very well. The Pad Khee Mao fried rice is the perfect blend of flavor and heat, and the Tom Yum soup was spicy and delicious! This was my first visit to the restaurant and the staff was warm and friendly. I definitely will be coming back often!

Small Thai restaurant with good Thai food. Good atmosphere and a great way to have a nice but inexpensive date. I’ve been here for or five times now always am happy with it.

What this place lacks in ambience, it makes up for in full on flavor. I admittedly had very low expectations for this place, as the storefront with its neon signage and strip mall location basically signaled «sucky» to me. Compound that by the fact that I live in NYC, where competing market forces have driven Thai food to become super good everywhere… I didn’t think this place could possibly compare. But let me tell you, their papaya salad and tom yum soup totally blew me away! Spicy eggplant was a little less interesting, but still respectable. Flavors were authentic, undiluted, and they are unafraid with the spice – this ain’t no joke – hot enough even for a Korean like me! I’ll definitely be ordering take out again.

My wife and I enjoy it here. I always get a curry or pad thai, and she always ends up getting a sushi roll or 2 and curry. We’ve never had a bad meal here and the prices are reasonable.

Delicious Food! I would say the best Thai food in the area. Full of flavor and really hits the spot. Very good service, and a really nice ambiance; relaxing, laid back and unpretentious. A great get away from the hustle and bustle of Central Ave! Will be back again.

Large portion sizes (always have leftovers) price is good as well. This is my go to spot!

It’s good. Pad Thai is served really wet and hot, which is not how any other place serves it. Curries capable.

A great surprise! Everything was authentic and delicious. We will be back again for sure.

Friendly staff. Amazing thai food at great prices. Lunch is cheaper than dinner.
Only recommendations for the resturaunt, always remove tail from shrimp, and the inside decorations are kind of old and weird, but don’t let that distract from the quality food.

This restaurant has never disappointed me the 4 – 5 times I have been there, in terms of food or service. Great taste, value for money and I always bring leftovers home!

I had reviewed them once but my review had been removed! Only been there once and I don’t really like their food. Don’t like the taste and services.

Excellent delicious Thai. Friendly competent servers. Décor is not its strong suit, but it’s clean. I have eaten here dozens of times and always leave happy.
I love this place for a fabulous tasty lunch — pad khee Mao is a very soul-​satisfying noodle dish to which I have become addicted, followed by pad kaphrao for an occasional change of pace. I recall having their curries too which are not bad, but I return to the former two dishes, which I would happily eat to the end of time. And the many friends and acquaintances I have dragged here for lunch tell me they feel similarly. And ask me to take them back there when they’re in town.
Lunch comes with a very good miso soup. All served up by friendly competent servers, Jeep and Laurie.
I have enjoyed Thai food — in larger cities initially (Phila & NYC) — for over 30 years (yikes!) and think at least the two dishes I settled on here are excellent. Period. I won’t even qualify that as excellent «for Albany.» Momma’s cooking in the back and it’s authentic.
It helps too to be a regular and Jeep and Laurie know exactly how I want my pad khee mao — spicy, no green pepper, with mushrooms, tofu and shrimp. Yum! How I crave that dish! They will also give me occasional suggestions to branch out, which I trust.
The sushi counter is frankly odd. I have no desire to venture there, even tho I love sushi. I do not believe there is a sushi chef in the house. For that I go to Sushi Tei (or Hana) when in Albany.
I suggest you sit down to eat in, talk to the waitstaff about what you looks good to you on the menu, what you like — spicy or not so – and ask them what dishes they recommend, and have a discussion before ordering. Perhaps by the second meal you may be like me and be embarking on a love affair with the food at Capital Thai.
(In their defense, and as a home cook, I think it’s unfair to judge them by take out. There are few foods in any cuisine that reasonably can be expected to improve by being put in a box and shlepped around in whatever temps there are for whatever time you take to open them to eat. Thai noodles are no exception!)

Food Solid 4 stars
Service is attentive
Pricing more then excellent
Best deal on Thai food in area.
We visit almost weekly
Improvement on décor and specialize in 5 signature dishes could bump this into 5 star territory.
A true hidden gem in Albany. Highly recommend.

I got take out here on my business trip to Albany to bring back to the hotel.
I can only speak to their chicken pad thai, but it was extremely unpleasant. The noodles were overcooked and soggy, and the chicken tasted strange. The pad thai also had some funny crunchy aspect to it — perhaps it was a spice that was used, but some ingredient in the dish reminded me of sand.
I don’t mind its strange location, and its inside seating area actually had a pretty nice ambiance. After my bad experience with the pad thai, I doubt I would ever try something else there or recommend it to a friend.

I decided to check this place out based on Unilocal reviews. Hmmm…
For an appetizer I got the meat gyozas which were decent. Be warned though… they serve them with a curry /​coconut milk sauce which doesn’t really work as a side dipping sauce.
For an entrée I got the chicken with Capital Thai sauce which is tamarind based. I’m need to preface by saying I do a lot of Asian cooking myself. From experience I know it can be tricky to work with fish sauce and tamarind as they have strong flavors and aromas. Well… when the dish arrived it smelled shockingly horrible. My initial thought was «…OMG I shouldn’t have ordered this!» However having worked with the ingredients myself, I knew to not be dissuaded. As it turned out, the dish was DELICIOUS. The taste did not share the same extremes as the aroma. I just hope other people with less experience with this type of cuisine are not put off easily.
The place is clean but those chair covers are awful (see photos). The staff were nice enough but pulled a disappearing act. They were clearly in the back talking loudly amongst themselves but we’re basically absent from the dining room. People who came in after me looked around to see no staff, shrugged and seated themselves.
Although my entrée turned out to be very good, the overall experience is really worthy of only two stars… Maybe 2.5. I much prefer a different Thai place on the same street way down closer to downtown.