Q: positive

A: This place is unreal. I eat here at least 4 times a week. I've never left this place still hungry. The food is really good and pretty cheap.

Q: negative

A: Ah Yelp photos let me down. I've been searching for more of a Thai style Tom Kha Gai and I literally searched through all Yelps of the Thai places in Vegas to find one similar to Lao Thai Kitchen which changed owners. I finally decided to try Ocha's version for lunch with some friends based on the photos I saw. First of all the restaurant is huge. It was actually pretty busy on a Saturday afternoon. We were seated promptly and there was one server. The price points are average for Thai food in Vegas. The dishes were on average $11-$12 which is okay. There's some cheaper places and some more expensive. The place wasn't so nice inside as the table was all beat up with some sharp areas you'll have to be careful of. We got pad thai which was good but nothing special. Not the best but most the worst. On the plus side it did stay nice and moist. We got Thai beef salad which was okay. It really just tasted like it was dressed with lime juice. It was really one note. There was pretty much just lettuce and some beef slices. Last we got the Tom Kha Gai. It was not good. I know that Laos and Thai people all make it different and I've had this soup many times. I've heard of the sour flavor from the soup coming from lime or tamarind. This place definitely used tamarind and it was super sour and super salty. You couldn't taste any spice just salt and sour. The portions of chicken and mushroom in here were generous though. I can't say that about the pad Thai or beef salad though. My two positives were that they gave us a generous serving of white rice & I believe the sticky rice was on the house. That reminds me their rice was not good. Sometimes you just want plain old white rice and they definitely didn't use jasmine rice. Otherwise it was not cooked well because it was dry. Overall our lunch kind of was lame. Service was slow as our server was pretty slammed so we were barely checked on. We also got our check super late BUT they were able to split it three ways and there wasn't a card minimum which is nice. I wouldn't recommend this place

Q: negative

A: Would give this location a zero if it were possible. Just walked out of there at 430pm on a Saturday, waited in line to pay for a couple of items at least 8 people in front of me and only one cash register open. It's the same every time I go in this store, poor service, long waits, no staff. Only one experience with the pharmacy a couple of months ago, I just asked for the prescription back and went to Walgreens, filled in 5 minutes with no issues about security paper and the like.

Q: positive

A:
It has been quite some time since I've hung out in the downtown Charlotte area - let alone try to visit the corner of 5th and College. Even though Fitzgerald's replaced Buckhead's (a long time Charlotte staple since I've been here) I was taken aback at all the changes they made to the inside of the place. They've classed it up a bit to make it much more than a bar... it's better suited for meals now. It was funny being greeted by a hostess since I was just used to just going in and barring it up. We were just planning on picking up tickets for an upcoming bar crawl, but we ended up eating dinner here. The menu is quite large with some authentic Irish dishes. I tried the Fish & Chips.... Usually I don't really expect much having been through my share of over-breaded, badly fried fish portions... but the breading here was nice and light with the fish perfectly cooked and moist. The fries were nice a crispy too... way too many places present you with some cold, limp fries. Lucky for us, Wednesday nights are Pint Nights! all pints are $3 (with exception to Guinness... which made me somewhat sad). It was still a good time.