Best Thai Restaurants in Chermside and Surrounds

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Written By Janine Mergler

Thai food is one of the most popular international cuisines in Australia. Aromatic, colourful, and bursting with flavour, Thai food is pure cornucopia for the senses. Who doesn’t love an authentic creamy Thai restaurant curry or stir fry dish! If you love sensational local dining, or simply want a break from cooking, these restaurants serve the best Thai Chermside and its surrounds have to offer.

Tasty Thai Street Food

Doesn’t that name just evoke thoughts of bustling Thai cities alive with colour, sound, and the aroma of sizzling woks under incandescent lights and market canopies?

This unassuming little restaurant delivers big on authentic flavour, with locals rating it one of the best Thai restaurants in the Chermside area. Open lunchtimes and evenings four days a week and all day Friday, you can get a taste of Thailand almost any time that suits you.

Tasty Thai Street Food offers curries, stir fries, wok dishes, and a kids’ menu, as well as gluten free and vegetarian options. Check out their meal deals for great value. We recommend the red curry.

  • 5/1401 Gympie Road, Aspley
  • Open Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday 11am-3pm and 5pm-9pm, Friday 9am-9pm (closed Monday and Thursday

Thai on Rode

If you are looking for the tastiest Thai takeaway Chermside has to offer, delivered direct to your door, then look no further than Thai on Rode. This highly-rated takeaway boasts that their chefs blend “traditional Thai recipes with modern techniques to serve you a symphony of taste in every bite”. How good does that sound!

The menu offers traditional Thai soups, salads, wok meals, curries, fish dishes, and vegetarian options. It includes Aussie favourites like Thai style sweet and sour, and our favourite – Crying Tiger. Seriously, why don’t more restaurants offer that?!

  • 271 Rode Road, Wavell Heights
  • Open 4:30pm – 8:30pm daily except Tuesday

Thai O-Sha

Thai O-Sha restaurant Chermside
Thai O-Sha restaurant Chermside

Thai O-Sha prides itself on creating an authentic dining experience in its quaint café style restaurant and takeaway. The restaurant is small enough to be intimate with a menu big enough to delight all lovers of fine Thai cuisine. If you still have room for dessert, you can choose from a delicious range of tradition Thai sweets and ice creams.

The owners want everyone to feel welcome, catering for coeliac and vegetarian diets, and removing the heat from curries for kids. Just ask! They also offer a range of big value catering packs so that you can create your own Thai dining event at your next special event.

  • 1/1344 Gympie Road, Aspley
  • Open 4:30pm – 9pm Saturday to Monday, and 11am – 9pm Tuesday to Friday

Tosakan Thai Restaurant

Full disclosure, this is our local! Dine inside or out at the elegant Tosakan Thai Chermside Restaurant. Tosakan Thai offers contemporary Thai dining bursting with exotic flavour. Almost any item on their menu can be made gluten free or vegetarian, and you get to choose the spice level! We recommend the Massamun Beef Curry.

Celebrating a special occasion? Why not order one of their banquets and dine like royalty. And you can BYO for a small corkage fee.

  • 63/23 Playfield Street, Chermside
  • Open Tuesday to Friday 11am – 2pm and 5pm – 9:30pm; Saturday and Sunday 5pm – 9:30pm. Closed Mondays.

Thai Ayuthaya

Thai Ayuthaya Chermside promises a relaxed and authentic Thai dining experience in the heart of Chermside. The restaurant is tastefully decorated to create soothing vibe, making it the ideal choice for date night or an intimate group meal. There is plenty of free parking on site, and the staff will go out of the way to accommodate all dietary requirements.

If you love a good green curry, this is the venue for you!

  • 725 Gympie Road, Chermside
  • Open Thursday to Saturday 11am – 2:30pm and 4:30pm – 9:30pm, and from 4:30pm – 9:30pm on Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Closed Mondays.

Kinn+Derm

Kinn+Derm Thai in Chermside
Kinn+Derm Thai in Chermside

Kinn+Derm, meaning Eat & Drink has to be the coolest, funkiest Thai restaurant in Chermside. If Hollywood/Jungle fusion was a thing, this Thai restaurant has nailed it.

We have another admission to make to you – we held our work Christmas party here last year!

At Kinn+Derm (also known as Kinn Thai) choose to dine outside in the pedestrian-only dining area or inside in the glow of a brightly coloured Neon-lit canopy and fun funky décor. There’s are walls covered in Marvel and Disney plushies, retro Thai movie posters, and trailing tropical greenery cascades from the ceiling.

This Thai restaurant doesn’t only offer exquisitely fine dining. Here you get the full date night/party night experience with an extensive cocktail and mocktail menu and vibrant atmosphere.

Desserts, set menus, a dedicated kids’ menu, gluten free and vegetarian options are all available. This isn’t just dining – it’s an event!

They often have specials with their set menus, this is one of our all time favourites!

  • Level 2, Westfield Chermside, Gympie Road, Chermside
  • Open Monday to Wednesday 11:30am – 2:30pm and 5pm – 8:30pm, Thursday and Friday 11:30am – 2:30pm and 5pm – 9:30pm, Saturday 11:30pm – 3pm and 5pm – 9:30pm, and Sunday 11:30am – 3pm and 5pm – 8:30pm.

AJ Thai Fusion

AJ Thai Fusion offers a casual dining experience in their quaint and unassuming restaurant, and everyone agrees the food here is divine! This restaurant scores the highest marks in our taste test, with sticky rice with taro being the ultimate must-try recommendation for something new.

The staff here are super friendly and go out of their way to accommodate dietary requirements. The food is made fresh on site, meaning you have full control over the spice level too!

  • 5B Sayers Road, Stafford
  • Open Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday 5pm – 9pm. Thursday and Friday 11:30am – 2pm and 5pm – 9pm. Closed Mondays.

Siri Thai Alderley

Decorated in the traditional Thai fashion, Siri Thai Alderley offers a warm welcome in a quiet, relaxing atmosphere.

There is seating inside and out, and an extensive menu that includes lunchtime specials. Siri Thai is BYO if you like to enjoy a wine or a Singha beer with your meal.

This restaurant is highly rated for quality food and there is parking right outside. Give the Duck and Lychee Curry and Pineapple Fried Rice a go for something sweet and different.

  • 24 South Pine Road, Alderley
  • Open Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday 5pm – 9pm, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 11am – 2pm and 5pm – 9pm. Closed Mondays.

Which restaurant will you ‘Thai’ next?

With so many great Thai restaurants nearby, you really are spoilt for choice! Dine in or takeaway, your next Chermside Thai dining experience is sure to be un-pho-gettable.

Have we missed your favourite? Let us know in the comments.

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