One of my favorite Thai restaurants in Auckland. We regularly go here for delicious, well priced food, and on a lazy night enjoy the discounted takeaway menu. The restaurant owners are lovely, and try so hard to make each visit enjoyable. Really good food, at a great price – I feel some other reviewers are being too harsh, for the cost it’s a fabulous dining experience.

Went there on Tuesday and the place was packed with voucher users like myself. Honestly I didn’t put my hopes up given the average reviews. I had to go there because my vouchers were expiring. The experience turned out to be much much better than I expected. At entrance we were greeted by the well mannered manager who also took our order. The entree and soups were wonderful. The tom yum was the tastiest one I’ve tried in Auckland. The portion was not as big as other Thai restaurants but it is much more concentrated and it gives a much stronger tom yum taste. I guess if the soup is diluted to the ones found in other Thai restaurants, the portion will be bigger and (but of course it won’t taste as good). We ordered an eye fillet and a whole snapper for main. Both were wonderfully done. The desserts were our favorite part. We were recommended by the people next to us to go for the purple sticky rice and the caramelized banana. The banana was good but the sticky rice was splendid.

Tried to use my remaining voucher before it expires on the following Monday but unfortunately their Friday and Saturday were already fully booked. The manager went through the booking list with us and apologized for not having a table for us. At the end we’ve booked ourselves in for Monday (last day) and we are very looking forward to it~

Me and my partner have just came from the Starry Thai restaurant and we will not be coming there again – for sure!
I have actually never been in a worse restaurant like this.
1. It took us ages to make a booking there as they were always full.
2. When we finally came there, we were seated in a room, which didn’t look at all like Thai restaurant, especially next door was a concert and we didn’t even hear each other.
3. The food was tiny and soups were like perhaps ten tablespoons and I actually had 2 prawns in it! Main was okay – the best on it was that they put an alcohol over it and made a fire before they served it. Desert – sticky rice which looked like the leftovers for cat.
4. This all took 1.5hr and we almost wanted to give up on desserts – wish we would have done it as it was not worth to stay at all. (we had this dailydo voucher)
5. Staff almost forgot that we are going to have our desserts and I had to come to tell them.
6. We didn’t receive any napkins, only the fabric one, which should suppose to be on the lap.
7. Not recommending it at all and definitely not coming back ever again!

This new Thai restaurant needs great improvement.

1) The waitresses speak poor English; the oral comprehension is lacking.

2) The food quality remains that of a low “B” level. Avoid the whole fish as it was not at all tasty.

3) The spices are atrocious, being overly mild and lackluster in taste. Even when asked to supply Asian-type medium and hot spices, nothing was done.

4) Be wary about where they place you. An overt bias can be seen in the seating wherein many get the outer seats which are poor, but others allowed to enter inside the nicely decorated, spacious, sunnier and cleaner area.

4) There is a similar bias regarding simple servings of free water! The outer people seem to get tiny filled glasses whereas those on the inside are given bottles.

All in all, we rate this new eatery, at best, as a low “B”-high “C.”.

Most certainly, its star has fallen.

Dined here last week on a Yazoom voucher (astoundingly good deal).

Beautiful decorated restaurant created a lovely ambience and the service was excellent.

All courses were superb and loved the Tom Kha, mixed starters and fried bananas. I wasn’t too enamoured with the rendang I have to say, but my friend had the Tom Yum and then the duck. Both were delicious.

I would most definitely dine here again.

Best takeaways. Really nice thai. Heaps of fresh vegetables comes in the meals. The steak is perfect. If you are looking for healthy nice thai this place is perfect!

This is now my favourite Thai place to eat! first came here with the yazoom voucher and for the price I paid it was very very good! Entrees were quite small but it was okay considering soup came with the meal before the main. I absolutely loved the soups they had. I had one and my partner had the other – both were really great. Mains and dessert were also good and I also appreciated the fact that with the voucher you had the choice of the whole menu. Meant we could try something a bit different. Only thing I would say about that meal was that the courses were coming too quickly. Soups came immediately after we finished entrees and the mains came before we had finished the soups. Kind of inconvenient and I would have much rather had at least 5 minutes for the last course to go down! Overall very good for the price of the voucher but I do not think I would pay for that same meal without the voucher – its just too expensive.

However, I had also been here for the $12.50 buffet lunch with friends and I will definitely be coming back for that! Really nice food and for a good price. I love Starry Thai

Friend and I went to Starry Thai Parnell yesterday, and we used a Yazoom voucher which we could get 2 entrees, 2 soups, 2 mains & 2 desserts. The entrees were nice, and the soups were tasty although the size was a bit ungenerous – two soups in coffee cup size cups!
One thing I hated most was that we waited for more than one hour for the main meals to come in front of us. After 40 mins of waiting I started to lose patience, so I grabbed their staff to ask for the reason of not serving the main meals, but they neither gave me any reason nor any apologies for the long waiting. I was disgusted by this level of service.
Eventually when the main meals were available, I was surprised by how ungenerous this restaurant was. The fried snapper fish was pretty small and tasted a bit dry; and as for the lamb racks I ordered, they only put 3 small pieces of lamb racks on the pate, and a few other random veges, so the plate was obviously TOO big for this amount of food, and taste was pretty average. Overall, the food there doesn’t worth the price associated with, it’s very pricy!
At last, the dessert was ungenerous again, very small size.
I won’t go there again, and I don’t recommend it.

Our group of 8 went last Saturday (Feb 18) using a $20 Yazoom discount voucher. The value we received from these vouchers was A-MAZ-ING!. A choice of entree, soup, mains and dessert — all for $20 per person.
At that deal, you really can afford to be a bit forgiving if the night turns out to be less-than-perfect. But, really, the food was very tasty, other than the deep fried fish being a bit on the dry side.
I’ve always preferred Chinese over Thai, mainly, because the portions tend to be more generous with the latter.
When we arrived at 7pm, the main dining area was filling up. After a while, the temperature did start to rise, but being able to open the windows, fronting Parnell Rise, did vent out the warm air — and create a cool breeze — that built up by those numerous spectacle flaming dishes and the number of people.
It was a memorable night of very tasty food at ridiculously low prices.

We visited the restaurant several weeks ago. The food was average and loaded up with too many veges. This is something the cheaper Thai restaurants do to cut costs, but I wouldn’t expect that with the prices charged at Starry Thai. Don’t sit out on the deck as it is very noisy with trains constantly going over the top of you. We were also unimpressed when one of the staff started vacuuming the floors around us as we were eating. We will give it one more go and if no massive improvement, we won’t be going back.

On our second try to try them I phoned at 8.30pm to see if we could get in by 9pm. They told me, no our last booking is at 9pm. So I pointed out that was half an hour away which I asked for. The man on the phone said oh but if you can come earlier. I was so disgusted at the obvious laziness of the staff, I said forget it. Clearly the owner is NOT managing the place, otherwise we wouldn’t encounter such laziness.