Thai Nation

(415)752-8657
3619 Balboa St.
(bet. 37th & 38th Ave's)
San Francisco, CA
(Outer Richmond district)
Mon-Sun: 11am-3:30pm, 5pm-10pm

Price: $
Rating: 7 (Rating & price key)
Last visit: 10/28/04

Tasty and very reasonably-priced food in a little family-run joint. Convenient for dining before seeing a movie at the Balboa Theater. Nothing is over $10, including the seafood items, and most items are $7, which is welcome.

Sarah and I split a rice cake with meat sauce appetizer ($5.95, very tasty), then enjoyed our Mussamun Gai ($6.95, a non-spicy Thai muslim chicken curry w/potatoes - a great comfort food dish) and Pad Woon Sen ($6.95, silver noodles with beef, egg, mushroom and cabbage, also well-executed).

There was nobody else in the place on our Thursday evening visit, but we'll happily return. Service was prompt, friendly, traditionally-attired, and the decor was about what you'd expect from a modest family-run Thai restaurant.