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5228 W. 25th Ave. Lakewood, CO 80214

303-233-3345 

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5228 W. 25th Ave. Lakewood CO 80214

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  • Thai
    Sun, Tue-Sat 11am-9pm
    $$ $$
  • All Major Credit Cards
    Takeout
    Dinner, Lunch
  • Accepted
    Street
Description

Owner Ma Vue understands Thai cuisine, and it shows. The fare at his US Thai is simple: authentic street food and everyday food made by cooks and a chef who also understand what that means. The curries are deep and complicated and absolutely addictive; even the simplest fried rice and spring-roll plates are done with style. The dining rooms are small and seating is tight, so you may have to wait - but you can spend that time watching the cooks in the open kitchen work their magic.








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  • US Thai Cafe heats up the vegetarian dining scene

    US Thai Cafe heats up the vegetarian dining scene

    By Amber Taufen | Tue, September 18, 2012

    Beware: Even the medium-heat pad Thai at US Thai Cafe is hot enough to leave a substantial tingle on your lips. But between the tofu ladna and many other menu items that can be made vegetarian and veg... More »

  • Denver\'s five best Thai restaurants

    Denver's five best Thai restaurants

    By Laura Shunk | Thu, May 17, 2012

    Denver may have an abundance of Thai restaurants, but most of them serve food that's a far cry from what you'll actually find in that country, one of the best in the world for eating. If you know wher... More »

  • Guess where you\'re eating? At an EatDenver restaurant if you\'re deedee

    Guess where you're eating? At an EatDenver restaurant if you're deedee

    By Patricia Calhoun | Mon, November 14, 2011

    Cafe Society served up five Guess where contests last week, some of them stumpers, including a still-unidentified plate of pasta smothered in fra diavolo. There was also a loaded pizza at MyPie, a pit... More »

  • The Panang curry is a hot item at U.S. Thai

    The Panang curry is a hot item at U.S. Thai

    By Laura Shunk | Thu, March 17, 2011

    Of the three dozen or so Thai restaurants scattered around the metro area, I can think of only one that rises to the curry occasion as triumphantly as Thai Flavor, and that's U.S. Thai Cafe in Edgewater. Ma Vue, a Laotian, opened the eatery in... More »

  • US Thai Cafe almost satisfies my craving for Laotian food

    US Thai Cafe almost satisfies my craving for Laotian food

    By Laura Shunk | Fri, January 21, 2011

    After returning from a trip to Southeast Asia, my first order of business was to ask if anyone knew of a place where you could get Laotian food in this city. In the meantime, I decided to satiate my c... More »

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  • 2011 | Best "Thai Hot"

    "Medium" isn't a server's suggestion at US Thai Cafe when a new guest innocently asks for Thai hot -- it's an order. Because US Thai's "medium" is what most places peg as "hot," a sweat-inducing smattering of fiery red chiles mixed through any dish on the menu, used with just enough restraint to allow an eater to actually taste the rest of the flavors in the excellent food. But for those thrill-seekers who crave insane levels of heat, the kitchen will punch up everything from the green... More »

  • 2009 | Best Thai Restaurant

    Step into US Thai on a busy afternoon, when both of the small dining rooms are full and the rail of the open kitchen is crowded with dupes, and you can watch the blur of the cooks at work. With the grates popped on the ancient, fire-breathing hot-top and water cascading down the backsplash to keep the whole place from burning down, they never stop moving, never stop tinkering, never stop adding to a plate, a bowl, an oil-seasoned wok, until an entree hits the rail. A dozen combative spices,... More »

  • 2008 | Best Thai Restaurant

    We've spent years wandering the streets of Denver, looking for good pad thai, masamun and papaya salad -- and found a lot of versions that were mediocre, even bad. And then we discovered US Thai Cafe. At this tiny spot, all the classic dishes of Thai cuisine have a depth and breadth of flavor quite unlike anything we'd ever tasted before. And on top of that, they're offered in an ascending scale of heat, from total pussy to nuclear conflagration, that can be endlessly tinkered with and... More »

  • 2007 | Best Thai Restaurant

    US Thai is so delicious, so friendly, so addictive that we had to make a half-dozen visits over the course of a couple of weeks just to make absolutely sure that the restaurant was as good as we thought it was. And it was, every single time. This is authentic Thai food done in a simple, street-food style that forgoes all tricks and complications in favor of straightforward presentations of the hallmark curries and rice dishes that define Thai cuisine. The Penang and masaman curries are so... More »

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    | Denver, CO | 102 Reviews

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    | Wed, May 6, 2009

    Step into US Thai on a busy afternoon, when both of the small dining rooms are full and the rail of the open kitchen is crowded with dupes, and you can watch the blur of the cooks at work. With the grates popped on the ancient, fire-breathing hot-top and water cascading down the backsplash to keep the whole place from burning down, they never stop moving, never stop tinkering, never stop adding to a plate, a bowl, an oil-seasoned wok, until an entree hits the rail. A dozen combative spices, countless vegetables (done rough-chopped, julienned, slivered, batonnet-cut or shaved, each in their proper way), curry as a paste, curry as a powder, nine proteins, broths and bases held aside, rice in the steamers, noodles in the lowboys, fryers always in use, flames always leaping. It's an incredible dance, with results that are almost infallibly delicious, every flavor true. US Thai isn't just the best Thai restaurant in Denver; it serves some of the best Thai food we've ever tasted anywhere.

  • KG8
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    | Denver, CO | 1 Reviews

    4
    | Tue, November 17, 2009

    Best Pad Thai ever. Don't order it hot, unless you're Superman.

  • blaker414
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    | Unknown, CO | 1 Reviews

    4
    | Sat, July 18, 2009

    This place is great! Beware - medium spicy is plenty spicy!

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Main Menu
Appetizers
$7.25
Ap Combo
spring roll (1), crab wonton (2), chicken satay (2), pork dumpling (2).
$3.50
Thai Egg Rolls (2) [fried]
pork, egg, cabbage, bean thread noodle, carrot, celery, yellow onion.
$3.25
Vegetable Egg Rolls (2) [fried]
cabbage, carrot, celery, yellow onion, bean thread noodle.
$3.95
Spring Rolls (2) [not Fried]
chicken, bean sprouts, cucumber, rice vermicelli.
$3.75
Golden Tofu (5) [fried]
$4.95
Thai Steamed Dumpling (6)
pork, shrimp, egg, bamboo shoot, cilantro, yellow onion.
$5.50
Chicken Satay (4)
$5.95
Fish Cakes (5) [fried]
fish, green bean, egg, curry.
$3.95
Crab Wontons (6) [fried]
Soups
Served 2 Persons. Choice: Chicken, Beef, Pork, Tofu Or Veggies. Shrimp: Add $2.25 Seafood (scallop, Squid, Shrimp): Add $3.50
$5.95
Toomyam
thai famous lemon grass sour soup cook with yellow onion, mushroom, basil, cilantro. choice of meat.
$5.95
Toomkha
thai richly seasoned coconut milk soup cook with lemon grass, galangal (thai ginger), cilantro. choice of meat.
Salads ( Yum )
$7.15
Larb
minced chicken, pork or beef spice with chili-lime sauce, lemon grass, rice powder, mint, red onions, cilantro.
$6.50
Papaya Salad {soomtam}
green papaya, peanut, lemon juice, tomato, green bean.
Fried Rice
Choice: Chicken, Beef, Pork, Tofu Or Veggies. Shrimp: Add $2.25 Seafood (scallop, Squid, Shrimp): Add $3.50
$7.75
Basil Fried Rice
khaopad bai kaphao
$7.75
Thai Fried Rice
yellow onion, tomato, sugar peas, egg, chinese broccoli, celery.
$7.75
Pineapple Fried Rice
cashews nut, powder curry, yellow onion, sugar peas, tomato.
Noodles
Choice: Chicken, Beef, Pork, Tofu Or Veggies. Shrimp: Add $2.25 Seafood (scallop, Squid, Shrimp): Add $3.50
$8.25
Pad Thai
chicken & shrimp are standard. could be sub for choice of meat stir-fried with rice noodle, egg, green onions, peanuts, bean sprouts and homemade pad thai sauce.
$8.25
Drunken Noodles {pad Khimao
choice of meat, tofu or veggies stir-fried with fresh thin wide rice noodles, sugar pea, egg, tomato and basil.
$8.25
Pad See Iew
choice of meat, tofu or veggies stir-fried with fresh thin wide rice noodles, chinese broccoli (seasonal).
$8.25
Ladna
choice of meat or tofu cook with fresh thin wide rice noodles, chinese broccoli (seasonal), carrot, mushroom.
Curries ( Keng )
Served With Steam Rice. Brown Rice: Add $0.75 Choice: Chicken, Beef, Pork, Tofu Or Veggies. Shrimp: Add $2.25 Seafood (scallop, Squid, Shrimp): Add $3.50
$8.55
Paneng
choice of meat or tofu cook in paneng curry paste, coconut milk, basil, bell paper and peanut.
$8.55
Masman
choice of meat or tofu cook in masman curry paste, coconut milk, peanut, potato and yellow onion.
$8.55
Green Curry Keng Kiewang
choice of meat or tofu cook in green curry paste, coconut milk, zucchini, eggplant, bamboo shoot, green bean, basil, bell paper.
$8.55
Pineapple Curry Keng Sapparod
choice of meat or tofu cook in paneng curry paste, coconut milk and pineapple.
$11.95
Fish Curry Chuchi Pla
catfish fillets cooked in special curry paste, coconut milk, basil and bell papers.
$8.55
Jungle Curry Keng Par
choice of meat or tofu cooked in jungle curry paste with zucchini, bamboo shoot, baby corn, carrot, basil, rice powder, green been.
Stir-fried
Served With Steam Rice. Brown Rice: Add $0.75 Choice: Chicken, Beef, Pork, Tofu Or Veggies. Shrimp: Add $2.25 Seafood (scallop, Squid, Shrimp): Add $3.50
$9.25
Pak Us Thai Special
choice of meat or tofu stir-fried with carrot, bell pepper, yellow onion, baby corn, broccoli, zucchini, celery, mushroom, chinese broccoli (seasonal), cashew nut.
$8.75
Royal Chicken
chicken stir-fried with carrot, yellow onion, mushroom, bell pepper, baby corn, cashew nut, sugar pea, broccoli.
$8.35
Pad Pid Hking
choice of meat or tofu stir-fried with green bean, bell paper, curry, basil.
$8.35
Pad Piew-wang (sour And Sweet)
choice of meat or tofu stir-fried with cucumber, tomato, yellow onion, sugar pea, bell pepper, pineapple, zucchini in our unique sour and sweet sauce.
$8.35
Pad Kapao
choice of meat or tofu stir-fried with bamboo shoot, mushroom, yellow onion, basil, bell pepper, carrot.
$8.35
Pad Eggplant
choice of meat or tofu stir-fried with eggplant, basil, bell paper.
$8.35
Pad Khing
choice of meat or tofu stir-fried with fresh ginger, yellow onion, bell pepper, mushroom, carrot.
House Special
Served With Steam Rice. Brown Rice: Add $0.75
$8.50
Herbal Roasted Chicken
roasted herbal marinated chicken serve with special homemade sauce.
$12.95
Pik Kai Laoding (10)
thai version of buffalo wings! very special a must try dish.
$10.50
Garlic Delight Thod Kathiang Prikthai
choice of meat or tofu stir-fried with garlic, carrot, bell pepper, broccoli, sugar pea, yellow onion.
$12.95
Pra Lad Prik
catfish fillet, pineapple, carrot, bell paper, basil with our chef’s special sauce.
$15.50
Pad Cha (seafood Only)
scallop, shrimp, squid, galangal (thai ginger), basil, mint, bell pepper.
Desserts
$4.00
Sweet Rice Mango (seasonal)

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