There are conveniently three awesome Thai restaurants all within 1 mile from me in the Highlands. Although the atmosphere differs greatly at each of them. My base for Thai restaurants is the Shrimp Pad Thai. This might sound boring but I feel you need a common denominator to really compare places.

Panita Thai Kitchen

This is the quirkiest of places, it’s in a yellow house with Tibetan flags hanging everywhere. If you didn’t know what to look for you could think this was an actual house and not a restaurant. The portions are large so one main dish between two people is best. The cocktail to order is called The Happiness Drink, it comes out in half a pineapple and packs some serious kick although you wouldn’t think so since it tastes like fruit punch.

Surin of Thailand 

I could consider this the most traditional of all three. Good food + solid service = enough said.

Mali

While most of its menu is dedicated to Thai food you can also order sushi. This is probably the nicest of all three.

All of the restaurants had comparable Pad Thai but Mali’s was the sweetest while the others were on the spicier side. I can’t honestly say which one I go to more because it depends on my mood and who I’m with but I will say if I were to get takeout I would go with Surin since it is the closest and therefore I fall into default mode. However, wherever you go the food will not let you down!