Lemongrass Grill

156 Court Street
Brooklyn, NY
(718) 522-9728

61 7th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
(718) 399-7100

I was doing a little shopping downtown Brooklyn on Court Street Yesterday and I got hungry. I was looking for a Falafel so dont ask me how I ended up in a Thai Restaurant. These days NYC is choc FULL of Thai Restaurants so I guess you cant avoid ending up in one eventually. The sad thing is, my fat ass was on my way to Trader Joe’s! WHO STOPS OFF TO GRAB A BITE TO EAT ON THEIR WAY TO THE SUPERMARKET!?!?!? Only my greedy azz!

I guess in retrospect that was a good thing because if you shop on an empty stomach, you end up buying one of everything in the store..and you dont wanna do that!

This was my first time at Lemongrass…I’ve passed it a lot of times but never went in because usually when Im in that area, I go straight to Chance when I get hungry. But I have to try new places if Im going to have fresh stories for you guys so I decided to check out Lemongrass. I didnt make a big production out of my meal. I was really looking for a quick bite so I just ordered the Veggie Pad Thai. The pad thai was pretty good! My only issue was that the waiter didnt know WHAT veggies were in the pad thai and it wasnt listed on the menu.

Waiters really need to know the foods on the menu! Customers usually have questions about these things! There are a lot of veggies that I find in Asian dishes that I dont like…like those little corn things that look like allegators, and those round white crunchy disks that have the texture of something you would stab fake flowers into to hold them in place..along with snow peas and bean sprouts. I also dont like mushrooms. Since the menu didnt specify that it had these things in them, I didnt know what to tell them to leave out…except for the bean sprouts. Most pad thai has bean sprouts.

So I had to do a bit of picking…plucking out all the things I dont like but once I got the dish safe for me to eat it was DELICIOUS! I love that they put a lot of scallions in it! Scallions make ANY dish taste better! The texture of the noodles was good, not too tough, not too mushy. I also liked the little bits of tofu. I would have ordered Tofu Pad Thai instead of veggie, but I notice that usually when you order Tofu Pad Thai, the entree tofu is different than the tofu thats mixed in with all of the pad thai. And its too hard for me to explain that I want the OTHER tofu.

Why do I have to be so particular about everything? Why cant I be normal like everybody else? I guess i feel like if Im going to pay for a plate of food, then I should enjoy eating it. Or maybe Im just NUTS! It was only 8 dollars..but still. The fact that I say ONLY when I say 8 dollars shows that Im a brainwashed New Yorker. Honestly 8 dollars is a lot of money for a plate of food that didnt even come with an appetizer..is it not?

I really liked the restaurant though. I will definitely go back to the Lemongrass Grill. Im proud of myself for going in there considering I dont even like lemongrass lol. I cant wait to try some of their other dishes, appetizers and interesting desserts. I would like to try their coconut sticky rice with mango, and also their mango mousse! I love mango so anything with mango in it is alright with me!

The restaurant was very clean and cute. Most Thai Restaurants in NYC are pretty cute! The service was decent. At some points the service was so good that it was a little annoying because they feel the need to clean up your mess as youre making it. Why do some places do that!? Can I eat in peace?! Every time I put down a used napkin, they run by and grab it! If I put down paper from my straw or the chopstick wrapper, they run by and grab it! At one point i only had about 3 bites left to my food and they came flying over! I grabbed my plate because I thought she was trying to take it! But she was only coming by to grab a my dirty napkin. *Embarassing*…I looked all hungry like I escaped from jail!

But thats annoying! Dear waiters, PEOPLE DONT LIKE WHEN YOU KEEP REACHING OVER THEM TAKING JUNK OFF THEIR TABLE WHILE THEYRE TRYING TO EAT! mmmkay?

Thankyew!

But you know, im picky and I guess easily annoyed so that may not bother other people and might be deemed excellent service. I prefer a waiter that only comes by when you call them..or that comes by occasionally and asks if youre ok…but dont be grabbing stuff off my table while Im trying to concentrate on my food. Is that just me?