Lemongrass Restaurant

1300 Garth St, Hamilton - L9C 4L7
144 reviews
Thai
(905) 574-3932

Wow what excellent and fresh flavours.I will totally return to clean and inviting establishment. Beautiful presentation on our feed and scrumptious food with great portions. ♥️?

Had the PadThai tonight and was really disappointed with what came to the table. It didn’t look like anything special, but hey, I’m a flavour guy so what it looks like is somewhat secondary for me. It looked like a pile of red rice noodles with a couple of pieces of red and green bell pepper. I had asked the server how high on the heat scale the dish was and was told ‘medium’ so ordered mine with extra chillies. So I took my first bite and almost choked and spat it out. It tasted literally like someone had just poured a half bottle of ketchup on a pile of noodles, it was sickeningly sweet, no sign of ANY heat anywhere. I waited for the server to come by but there was no sight of them and went up to the counter to ask for some hot sauce, it did not help at all. Our server did not come by and at this point I really needed a second beer, ‘‘twas not to be……the dish had a distinct lack of chicken and a few of my shrimp needed to still be de veined. Completely missing were cilantro, nuts, sprouts, egg. I love Pad Thai but would not come back for this. The restaurant seemed content to spend more time and effort on the brisk take out business rather than In house customers, obviously not ordering the Pad Thai.

As a Lao person who misses home cooked meals, I like to try all the Viet and Thai places in the area. We've been here once before and I didn't love it, but my bf insisted we come back since he likes the crispy duck. This time, they didn't have duck on the menu and we ordered curry pad Thai, pho and Thai style beef salad. Hear me out. Usually when they have beef salad on the menu at a Thai restaurant, they serve laap, which is beef, with a bunch of herbs (mint, cilantro, green onion), fresh chili with lemongrass, galanga, Lime leaf, etc, and you eat it with sticky rice. But it was literally a salad that you could buy at Fortinos with grilled beef. My bf and I looked at each other in disbelief when it was served to us. The pad Thai was mediocre but the pho was good. The place was so busy. We prob should have known it was catered to white ppl and was not at all authentic when we saw the crowd.So moral of the story, if you are looking for authentic Thai food, this is not the place. But if you are not very adventurous in your taste buds, this place seems to be the place to go.

Went to Lemongrass with close friends to celebrate 2 birthdays. We hadn't been there since before COVID and we were excited to return. Our excitement wasn't unwarranted. Everything was delicious. Even the sound of sizzling food and the wonderful aroma was great as we walked in. It's nice to know that some things don't change. We enjoyed ourselves immensely. Lemongrass is top notch Thai cuisine.

Went here for my birthday, did not regret it! The staff are helpful and the menu is HUGE; guaranteed to find something for everyone! I had the Seafood Lover and the portion I got was huge; enough for me to take another helping of it for lunch tomorrow!

Ordered 205 vegetable pad Thai and 212 vegetable cashew, both were disgusting,  the dish 205 tasted like noodles and ketchup with a mix of vegetables and the vegetable cashew just had a slightly different flavor of ketchup.  Actually use to like this place and was open to them making it up via a credit they previously issued, but today when we tried to use the credit they refused to honor it saying the person who issued it was no longer employed with them. They eventually said they could honor half of the credit ( without any rational) . The lady who called herself the supervisor then picks up an attitude over the phone and repeats "are we done here".Honestly the service is just as bad as the food maybe it's good we didn't give them a chance to make it up to us. Save yourself the trouble,  and order from any other Thai restaurant (even Thai express).Very poor poor customer service, it’s mind boggling businesses like this exist and survive .. so sad for you.

I wish i had read the google reviews before ordering because this is the worst pad thai i have ever had. It straight up tastes like ketchup. the noodles are overdone and if the tofu was at all cooked it cooked in the steam of the veggies (sadly no broccoli, just peppers and carrot). the peanuts were extra. i am struggling to finish this but have no other food in my house. absolute waste of money.

The thing I would definitely recommend on the menu is Nasi Goreng. Perfectly cooked and delicious.

Always soo delicious! Love ordering a few items and sharing with the table so you can get a bit of everything. Great place for dine in or takeout as it travels well.All 3 dishes I posted pictures of are served with a side a rice to eat them with.

I have always really enjoyed this restaurant however since the pandemic it definitely has become a takeaway place. The servers are so busy with Doordash and customer pickup coming in and out of the restaurant they don’t have time nor do they seem to care about their dine in customers unfortunately pickup is through the restaurant that is small to begin with with all the orders piling up on the bar~ my Chardonnay warm I was going to ask for ice and a glass of water but I couldn’t get the servers attention and when you do it’s like you are bothering them. My crispy chicken one breast was good the other way too crispy I didn’t even bother to take it home. Similar experience the last few times I have been there I will not be back and will not order from there again.