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Your Place Restaurant
22 N. Milpas St, Santa Barbara
Phone: (805) 966-5151
- Category: Thai
- Hours: Tue-Thu & Sun 11:30am-9:45pm, Fri-Sat 11:30am-10:30pm
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Reviews by the General Public
What happened?!, 7/11/2010
Reviewer: elle
from goleta, a
YP is one of our favortie Thai restaurants until last night. We placed an order for pickup: Pad Thai, Red Curry, Pork Satay, and a fish dish (can't recall the name offhand). Is it us or did we just lack the great quality / flavor we're used to seeing from YP? Thoroughly disppointed: Pad Thai was dry; Red Curry lacked flavor (missing something in the soup); Satay was tough and chewy; and the fish dish was decent, but salty. We have eaten there and had take out numerous times, but this experience has led us to find a new favorite Thai restaurant. Any suggestions?!
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Good Food, Good Service, 6/16/2010
Reviewer: MB
from Goleta, CA
My wife and I ate here last weekend. We had not eaten at Your Place in over 15 years. The restaurant was almost empty on a Saturday night, so that made me a bit concerned. We were pleased with how empty it was considering it was UCSB Graduation Weekend, and we were sure most restaurants, especially on State St. would be annoyingly crowded. So, Your Place gave us a nice, quiet ambiance. The service was great, very attentive. We ate the chicken Sa Tay, it was good, but the ice cold peanut sauce made the luke warm chicken even colder. For entrees, my wife had shrimp chow mein, which she enjoyed. I ate the Garlic Beef. It was good. Overall, we would go back. It was not sensational, not bad, just a good meal.
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Love the food, but I wish the service was better, 3/19/2010
Reviewer: Nic
from Santa Barbara, CA
I've decided that I am never going to have a "for here" meal with this restaurant again. If I do get food here it will be a phone in order for take out. The reason for this harsh statement is that I just spent 10 minutes waiting for someone to come by and take my drink order. Again. Like the last time I was seated and had a meal here. And the time before that, etc. I understand that it can take a while for a server to come by on a busy night. I understand that an unexpected party of 16 arived about 5 minutes after I did, but this happens every time my wife and I decide to dine-in here. It will not happen again. Frankly I think that they are lucky that they have not lost my patronage permanently.
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Great food terrible service, 12/23/2009
Reviewer: Tina
from Santa Barbara, CA
The title says it all. Out of all the times I have eaten here, maybe 30% of the time the service was good. It's okay though, they know you will come back, because their food is just so good!
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Good Food but not sure the best in the area
Reviewer: Glenn
from Buellton
The food was definitely in my opinion not as good as Meun Thai, Pattaya or Bangkok Palace, I have not tried the lower State ones either to compare which apparently are good too. Maybe because this place has been around so long its a favorite. Not having bean sprouts in a pad thai and having cabbage instead is a definite downer in rating Thai food for me. The Chicken Satay was Good. Fairly small place(they use mirrors to make it look bigger) so don't plan on large groups here. Neighborhood(relative for SB) is not that great. People Nice. Maybe they have more exotic entrees here that they are more famous for, if so let people know while reviewing places.
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WRONG Place Thai was wrong, of me....
Reviewer: Jack and Diane
from Santa Barbara, CA
With the widespread proliferation of Thai cuisine in this town, you might think that Your Place occasionally would be bumped from first place in The Independents readers’ poll. Never yet, however. This cozy little lower Milpas Street eatery was the first Thai restaurant to open in town more than two decades ago and it has been the undisputed Best Of champion ever since. Casually fine with a hopping, lively atmosphere, Your Place has become as familiar to the town as its name implies. I'm sorry for the poor review I left earlier. I was very wrong about this place.
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CONSISTENTLY EXCELLENT
Reviewer: Charles Hall
from Boise,Idaho
Having eaten here since it's opening every time I come back to S.B. I reinforce my belief that this place offers the best value for the dollar of any place in town.
The pineapple fried rice is as tasty as it was 30 years ago and the coconut milk ice cream is superb.(The rice dish is no longer served in pineapple shells but the huge portions are just as they were at the beginning and only slightly higher in price.)
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Popular but mediocre
Reviewer: Paul
from Santa Barbara, CA
I have worked next door for 8 years and I enjoy Thai food frequently, but go there only about 1-2 times per year when it is not my choice, and still can't understand why it gets good reviews. The food is average to poor- sometimes had dry BBQ chicken or wrong order, and the waitresses did not have any sympathy. In fact the 2 waitresses act despondent as though they are prisoners there. The salad is tasteless iceberg and tomato! Also it really is in the ghetto like other reviewer stated- bums are continuously in the parking lot or Allarie alley behind, and once an unisured driver ran into my car in front.
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Great Food
Reviewer: Dianna
from Santa Barbara, CA
It really upsets me to hear someone say that this is a horrible place and that it is in the ghetto they should be accustomed to the ghetto being from LONG BEACH. I live in the neighborhood and that truly offends me. I have been going to this place since I was a kid and I truly love it. Service may need some work but hey the food makes up for it! I always leave with a full stomach and always have some left-overs to take home. The food is not pricey at all, its Santa Barbara get used to the prices, most restaurants here are local. Not a chain restaurant were everything is cheap and served in bulk. But I love this place and recommend it to anyone looking for really good Thai food!! Nevermind the comment underneath me!
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Mediocre food, below average service
Reviewer: Chris
from Santa Barbara, CA
My wife and I moved to Goleta 5 months ago and have been on the hunt for a great thai food restaurant. Back home in Long Beach, we had Siam Palace, which was a great little place that served delicious pad thai for $6.75 a plate (large portion size too.) I was hoping to find a place similar to Siam Palace near Santa Barbara and, unfortunately, I'm still looking. ------
Your Place was the first place I tried out. Apparently it has won tons of awards for being the best in the city (they are literally plastered all over the wall near the entrance,) and a friend recommended the restaurant to us. ------ The restaurant is not in a good area. I didn't know that Santa Barbara has its own version of a ghetto, and this place is right in the middle of it. Very small place, but they dress it up nicely inside. -------- The waitress sat us down near an extremely loud group of people and we asked to be moved. The first request was met with some protest by the waitress. "No, sorry, we don't have space." I pointed to a table across the restaurant and she finally agreed to move us. She asked for our drink orders and 10 minutes later we had something to drink. Oh, no free refills either. Asian food restaurants must be the last establishment left that does not offer free refills. I'm glad to see that SOME of these restaurants have come to their senses ---------- I ordered the pad thai, which is what I order everytime I try out a new thai food restaurant. Considering it is the signature dish of Thailand, I use it as a gauge... if the pad thai is good, then the rest of their food will probably be good as well. The reverse is also true, in my experience. I was shocked to see that the price of pad thai was nearly double what I paid in Long Beach. I believe it was $11.95 -------- Received the meal in about 10 minutes. The small portion size is the first thing I noticed. The taste was very average. It had a sour, citrusy flavor that I am not too fond of. I have been to some thai restaurants where they load the pad thai up with lemon/lime juice, which competely takes over the flavor, in my opinion. Your Place seems apparently does the same thing. -------- Your place is average, at best. The location and ambience are poor, the service is below average, and the food is just OK. For the price, it is not worth it. The search continues...
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Average All Around
Reviewer: Nicole
from Santa Barbara, CA
This place is just average all around. They do have a great deal for lunch, hard to beat that price. However the location isn't the greatest and I'm not sure they'll be able to compete with Pattya.
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Best Thai in town!
Reviewer: Shelley
from Santa Barbara, CA
When you first enter the restaurant it looks like a mam and pop shop, which it is, but excellent food. My favorites are Thai iced tea, pineapple fried rice and pineapple curry! The customer service is generally good and they are quick to seat and feed you.
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A weekly favorite
Reviewer: Brynan
from Santa Barbara, CA
Ive been using this site for years but never contributed... Your Place Thai inspires me to post! Ive only had the Pad Thai and Curry Noodles, but I eat them regularly... about once or twice every two weeks for the last year, and have never been disappointed. I have a nut allergy and they have NEVER messed up on this... very rare! I usually get to-go, but the few times ive eaten there, Ive found the service and atmosphere to be very nice. Locals favorite!
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