Swing Thai

Gave them a second chance and still was disappointed on several levels. Let this 1 star review be a lesson of improvement.

Awful customer service. Spend your money somewhere else.

I wanted to love this place more than I did. The staff was really friendly and the atmosphere was great. I found the food to be hit or miss. I started with the Tom Ka soup with chicken. I got medium spice. It was delicious! My husband had the same soup and also loved it .
The soup gave me great hope for the dinner, but the dinner fell a little short. I got the Dark Curry with Chicken for my entrée and it was just ok. The overall flavor just wasn’t really exciting and there weren’t as many veggies as I am used to with this type of curry dish. My husband had the Pad See Ew for his entrée and agreed that it was just ok.
There are a lot of great reviews for this place. I’ll try it again in the future and hope that this was just a fluke.

I’ve read the reviews for this place, which aren’t always good. However, we came for lunch. Service was fast and good. The food was outstanding (I got red curry chicken). My daughters each got pad Thai, which they said was fantastic. I can’t wait to come back.

I don’t usually leave reviews but this place was not only extremely rude on the phone but they took over an hour to deliver 10 blocks.

I loved their spicy pad Thai. The atmosphere was also beautiful. For the price, they gave a decent amount of food. The thai iced coffee was a little too sweet for my liking, but I really enjoyed the food. Will definitely be coming back in the future!

Swing Thai is right around the corner from the Oriental Theatre so it makes for a convenient choice when waiting for a show to begin or grabbing a bite after. The menu is very limited so you won’t find many of your favorite Thai dishes, but you will probably leave satisfied. The servers are nice and the décor is well suited for a Thai restaurant, but I’ve had better.

Swing Thai is our go-​to Thai food restaurant. It’s not the best but they are consistent. Service has always been good, it’s always clean and I appreciate the décor. We typically order carry-​out and eat at home but we have ate at the restaurant several times and it’s never been super busy even at peak hours. For now Swing Thai is the safe bet when craving pad thai. We’ve tried others in the Highlands and after getting violently sick a couple times from one place that shall remain unnamed, it’s just better to stick with what we know.

I just ordered the green curry and received a rather bland and small serving of soup. Not a thick soup consistency, a thin broth with very few vegetables and three miniscule pieces of chicken. One star for prompt delivery even though the delivery guy had a man bun.

I had an interesting experience today for lunch.
It started off normal and the waitress was friendly. We ordered our food and had a pretty good time. Until… The bill came out and the waitress gave us the wrong bill. After that she gave us a new bill but overcharged us. She automatically added an 18% gratuity on the bill and we had a small group of 4. When one of us went to talk to her about it, she basically indirectly told us that another employee had accused one of us of not tipping during the past couple of visits. She even said that they have talked to us before about not tipping. BUT THAT WAS A LIE. It is rude to first add gratuity to everyone’s bill when you think it’s only one person who did not tip. But it is also rude to lie and say that they talked to us before about not tipping when they did not. It was one of the worse experiences at a restaurant and I am not going back. By the end of my time there I still tipped them but felt they did not deserve it after they ruined my day.
THANKS FOR RUINING MY DAY. I hope you are nicer to other customers and don’t ACCUSE others for things they did not do!

I’ve been here probably 5 times in the past year and have never had a bad meal. In fact, the food is quite tasty and I guess this is the place I will measure all of my Thai experiences against, moving forward. It’s never too crowded, which makes it great to get in and out of at lunch. The Spicy Drunken Noodles are great!

Delicious Thai iced tea! I tried the mild Drunken Noodle, and it is phenomenal. We tried the steamed pork dumplings as an appetizer as well, and they were also worth ordering again. My husband normally enjoys very spicy foods, and he ordered the Pad Thai in «hot». I tried this dish, and it was way to spicy for me. My husband said he wouldn’t order it that hot again. Friendly staff, somewhat slow and difficult communication, but definitely worth the wonderful food. The atmosphere is quaint & low-​lit in a great location on Tennyson St. in walking distance of a lot of shops!
Disclaimer: when they say hot, they mean hot!

Decided to give it a try since we were in the neighborhood. Sub par service. No one was in the restaurant at 5pm on a Saturday which is never a good sign. People started to trickle in about 20 minutes later. The female server was not overtly friendly. The drunken noodles were okay. The chicken was dry. I wanted a singha and they were out which is a Thai beer. My date had pineapple shrimp fried rice which tasted awful. Not going back and don’t recommend. Compared to my fave place on south federal this gets a generous 2 stars. Not all Thai is created equal.

Never see this place busy, but the food is consistently good. Really good Tom Kha Gai, Pad Thai, Pad see ew.
Not an exciting atmosphere, we usually order ‘To Go’

Hubs and I ordered take out tonight and were blown away by the spiceyness of both dishes. Don’t get me wrong — we like it hot. But this was beyond! I can’t even.
Started with tofu spring rolls because they were out of pork dumplings (weird for a Thursday night at 6:30). They were just okay BUT ended up being the only saving grace to our meal — hubs even said to me «Please tell me we have more spring rolls» once he was defeated by heat
Entrees — jungle curry with shrimp (sidenote this is listed as hot on the menu but I did not ask for extra hot or any alterations to the dish) there are literally no words to describe how hot this dish was besides we could not take more than two bites between us and hubs eyes were watering. Legitimately caused a stomach ache and prompted a call to the restaurant to ask «did we do something wrong to deserve this?!?»
— swing special with chicken — also very hot but we were able to fight thru it after trying the curry. Nothing remarkable: few pieces of chicken with a scattering of veggies that are drenched in sauce
I just can’t get passed this and want to warn others that might have more sensitive pallets than we do — not to mention the portion was small so don’t expect leftovers (even if you can get past the hell burning mouth you will be left with). It is so disappointing but the empty dining room probably does the best reflection of the food, portions, service and crazy crazy level of heat in the dishes.

It was the last day to use my LivingSocial voucher, and they must have been redeeming those all day long because as soon as the order was placed, the girl who looked to be in charge asked if I had the voucher. The house was half full, some people sat out on the little patio. I thought the interior décor was very cultural-​oriented.
We were first served the Tom Yum (I asked for shrimp), mind you, MILD = NO HEAT AT ALL in Swing Thai. Which is too bad because the delicious soup would be a lot better with a bit of heat, just a little, I’m sure I’d be able to hack it.
Pad Thai with chicken was the same deal, asked for mild and couldn’t detect any spiciness. It’s a very saucy dish. I still prefer Pad Thai at Tommy’s Thai restaurant because you can have a combo of chicken and shrimp, and their sauce is more subtle. Here in Swing Thai, the noodles looked to be drenched in tomato sauce!
Vegetable fried rice was OK, I asked for half tofu and half veggie, got all veggie, and they were all very slightly cooked. The onions still tasted raw and the large pieces of bell peppers were hard to chew apart because it still had thick skin as a result of undercooking.
The food here has a good taste profile but I wouldn’t be surprised if MSG was used because I had to drink water all night long. Which isn’t to say I mind it too much. As long as I go in expecting that, I’m fine. Service was quick, they pretty much just left us there eating by ourselves.
The restaurant is located on a cute street that seems fairly developed. I with them the best!

Just had my first experience with the Jungle Curry. As Unilocal tells me with the Star configuration I am indeed a fan.
The Curry has lots of vegetables, I had chicken as well. The sauce was a little watery, but that worked out in the end. The spice to the sauce is supposed to be Hot, and I will say, check! There was also a sweetness on the first taste of each bit, then the spice. Great balance.
I did not eat it all and ended up with a liquid sauce that was amazingly soaked up by the rice I dropped in there for lunch the next day. I will have to try other entrees, but I am not really sure I want to do that?

I’ve eaten here 10, maybe 20 times since I moved back to Denver two years ago. I go here because the location is so convenient — a few blocks from my house.
The best word I can come up with is «inconsistent.» I’ve had terrible service — waited and waited and waited to get served, then waited and waited and waited for the food to get there. Same for the check at the end. Last night we waited 20 minutes after finishing our meal, trying the get the server’s attention. We got up and started walking out. They noticed us then, heh heh… All of a sudden, we got our check — imagine that!
I’ve also had very good service. What’s bizarre is, if you get one of the young men as your waiter, they’re pleasant, prompt and on it. If you happen to get one of the young women, they’re rude and kurt and slow. Strange…
I’ve never been disappointed with the food, with one exception. Noodles, curry, soup dishes are done very well — excellent Thai spices and sauces. My girlfriend’s a vegetarian, no issues. Not sure about vegan fare.
So the food’s very good. I wouldn’t say excellent, but very good. Don’t get the barbecued chicken though — dry, not flavored well.
If you go, be prepared to gamble on the service, and don’t be surprised if you get some rude curt treatment. You’ll like the food.
Best bet: Get take out.

Thai food always makes me nervous. It looks like Chinese food but doesn’t always taste like it, so my taste buds end up confused. No such bad experience here. The tasteful combination of trendy and traditional décor created a warm and welcoming environment. The waitress was nice, but not overly friendly. The selection was varied and the prices reasonable. I ordered the pad thai (medium), and really enjoyed the flavor. A little too much meat for my taste, but just the right amount of bean sprouts and sauce. I also took a bite (or two or three!) of my husband’s vegetable stir-​fry, which featured the BEST garlic sauce I’ve ever had (seriously – so good!). I was also pleased the the lunch portions were generous. We each had enough food leftover to make another meal. Definitely worth trying if you’re in the area.

You know, I gotta say: Swing Thai is a cool spot to grab a drink, watch passer-​bys on Tennyson, and dig into to some tasty food with a kick. The décor is something to be seen as it alludes to the natural, scenic splendor in Thailand and really puts you in the mood to enjoy some authentic eats. The beautiful, expansive prints displaying the the Thai landscape, the quirky bicycle by the front door, the statues of Buddha — it all encompasses that Southeast Asian vibe.
I really wish I could speak equally as high about the food and service. Although, I went straight for the most obvious thing on the menu, the Pad Thai, I was underwhelmed. This is not to say it’s not tasty. I just like a little more bite to my pad Thai. It’s Thai cuisine after all, the mother of all spicy culinary countries. The serice was unfortunately was just as bland as my dish and not too thrilled to be at work that day. We must have caught her on a bad day, which I definitely knows how that goes. Nevertheless, I have good feelings about Swing Thai. I just need to be more daring with my food order!