Opart Thai House

Hello, today we will be reviewing Opart Thai House.

Max:
I have been here quite a few times and their Thai food is really good. and just to make sure you know, they serve more traditional Thai but they also have a little Northern Thai. i got the Gaeng Musaman. and it's good. it's yellow curry with chicken, potatoes, peanuts, and it's sautéed in coconut milk. it has a little too much potatoes and it tastes a little plain, but it's still pretty tasty. another meal that we got which i actually liked more than Gaeng Musaman is Plamuk Nam Prik Paow, it's squid sautéed with chile paste, bell peppers and onions. YUM! it's a very good meal. and i love squid. the atmosphere is really authentic, really great art. everything is made out of wood. and the service is okay. the restrooms are extremely small, but a lot of thai places tend to have small restrooms. you have to go in one at a time actually. by the way, it's 1 building away from another great thai place that i'm sure we'll review sometime in the future. so i think that Opart Thai House was pretty good, and i will probably go back relatively soon. There are a lot of other thai places in Chicago, but it's a really convenient location for us, and i think that it might be my 2nd favorite thai place in Chicago. my favorite thai place is Sticky Rice. if you missed our review of Sticky Rice, then here's the link.

Otto:
I got the chicken and the beef satay and rice. It's good because you can choose to get half chicken and half beef as your order (although we just got a full order of each so we could all share it). Both are delicious. This was our favorite Thai restaurant in Chicago before we discovered Sticky Rice, and I still think it's really really good. We go here a lot because we are often in Lincoln Square. There are so many things on their menu, and we have only tried a handful of them, even though we have been coming here for many years. I have only had a few of them, since I almost always get the satay. I also like their Pad See Iew, but I didn't get it this time.

Ruben:
I liked this place i hadn't ever been here before i wouldn't say this was great thai just okay. First we got the beef satay and chicken, the beef was way too chewy it had so much fat on it i couldn't even swallow part of it cause it was so chewy. On the other hand, the chicken was quite good some of the best satay i have ever had and their peanut sauce was really good too. Next for my meal i got the Pad Thai even though it's a simple dish that i usually don't get it's good to try something that a lot of people get at the restaurant when you have never been there. The Pad Thai was good. i really liked the noodles MMMmmmm they were so good. and the vegetables and chicken were good too. I liked Opart Thai and i would go back.

Beef and Chicken Satay

Max's Gang Musaman

Ruben's Pad Thai

Plamuk Nam Prik Paow

Outside Opart

Circle Sushi Bar & Grill

Hello, today we will be reviewing Circle Sushi Bar & Grill.

Max:
Ok so i have had some really good sushi in the past. but this... this was just sad. they were playing really bad lounge covers of pop and rock songs, which we didn't like, but at the same time it was extremely hilarious and weird (they played covers of stuff like Nirvana And The Police). their sushi was way too SPICY! and that's really saying something because i usually love spicy food. in fact, i have eaten a block of wasabi, but this was like the tip of your tongue on fire! i also noticed all of their sushi had the same SPICY!NESS! and the SPICY! sauce looked the same on the top. you see they use the same SPICY! sauce on all of their SPICY! meals, which is very boring. i had the Spicy Salmon and Spicy Tako. and no, not Taco. Tako is Octopus. and also they had some pretty cool wall art if you go downstairs, which was actually a "relatively" good thing about the restaurant.
the service was fine and our waitress even brought me non-Spicy California rolls when i felt sick after the EXTREME SPICY!NESS!!! of the Spicy Tako and Spicy Salmon. and yes their meals were so spicy that it made me feel sick. and even at one point, made me feel like i had to throw-up, but i didn't, luckily. by the way the Non-SPICY! California rolls felt like a cure. so, yeah, our waitress was very nice, and the atmosphere was Kinda Cool, But their food was just... ick, on taste and on SPICY!NESS! one more thing. their sushi was really pretty, as a matter of fact their sushi was the most beautiful sushi i have ever seen. but the taste and SPICY!NESS! were just not alright. not too be mean, but i would not go back.

Otto:
My chicken satay was fine, not amazing but not bad. The teriyaki sauce was better than some I've tried at some places, but still not the best I've tried. The miso soup was good but kind of cool in temperature. They used lots of stuff from Ikea to decorate, and that part was actually pretty good. At least in our experience, things looked better than they tasted.

Ruben:
Well i wouldn't say this place was terrible just in-between okay and bad. so i'll start with the pros. i liked the atmosphere very nice location and furniture kinda a modern look. also our waitress was very nice. there was also some very cool wall art down stairs by the bathroom. also the water came in mason jars so that was pretty cool. all the sushi was presented beautifully but it looked better than it tasted. cons: my spicy shrimp roll was okay a little too spicy for me and all the rolls had the same creamy sauce it was not that good and boring since it was on all the rolls. the california roll was okay nothing exciting just a average. also the rolls weren't wrapped tightly enough so literally some of my rolls fell apart when i took a bite or picked it up with my chop sticks. I'm sorry to say this but i do not think i would go back here but thats just the way it is. sometimes things are good but sometimes they're bad.

Wall art

Sushi is served.

Chicken Satay

California Roll and Spicy Shrimp

Spicy Tuna Crunch and Spicy Scallop

Spicy Tako (left) Spicy Salmon (right)

Replacement California Roll

Sticky Rice Thai

Hello today we will be reviewing sticky rice thai

Ruben:
Okay i have been here several times and out of all the thai restaurants i have been to this is the best. all of sticky rices dishes are amazing. i know when you think of thai you probably think pad thai think again, sticky rice's food is like being in northern thai land from frog legs to dishes served out of coconuts this restaurant is extremely one of a kind. we started off with the northern thai susage it was very good, and nice andy spicy! next we had the Kow soy. which i usually get it's a spicy coconut curry with egg noodles then crispy noodles on top and then some onion and parsley. this dish is so good. it will blow your mind each ingredient complements itself so well. but I'm warning you, when i say spicy its spicy. we ordered the medium and i was practically crying. so make sure you don't order anything over medium. next we had some of the gang kua san-pa-rod which is a spicy shrimp curry served in a pineapple. that's right a pineapple it was so good the flavor of the pineapple in the curry tasted so good and the shrimp tasted very fresh. i liked this dish almost better than the Kow soy. to finish it off we had to have some mango sticky rice. the sticky rice is mixed with this coconut cream. it's super sweet and they bring out the sticky rice super hot it is so good. overall the service was pretty good our waitress was nice, in other reviews i have read the service has not been great but that was not my experience. i would vote this the best thai place in Chicago, and i plan on to keep going here.

Max:
This is seriously the best thai place i have ever been. this was my third time going there in 3 weeks.
i really love the authentic northern thai dishes. and also since it's northern thai it's really different than regular thai, but that's what makes it so good!!! the first time i went there i got the Coconut Green Curry Shrimp. and it was really good, with shrimp that had a tint of coconut taste, and pretty good coconut sauce. and it was also pretty cool because it was all in a big coconut. the second time i went i got the Rote Gang Kare Chicken which was the best thai meal i have ever tasted!!! it came with 4 pitas, Kare curry paste cooked in coconut milk, potato and onion. served with rote and curry rice. this time i went i got the Kua Kae. and it was good. with stir fried chicken, green beans baby corn, thai eggplant and roasted rice powder, with red chili paste. but the overall restaurant was Awesomely amazing and i will go back soon!

Otto:
The Northern Thai sausage was good, but it was kind of spicy. Both their sticky rice and normal rice are good. The chicken satay was one of the best I've tried, and I've tried many many chicken satays, since that's what I often get when we go for Thai food. I really liked the atmosphere there.

Kow soy

Rote Gang Kare Chicken

Northern Thai Sausage

Kua Kae

Gang Kua sab-pa-rod

Mango Sticky Rice