Thai Elephants Restaurant (James Island)

"Lovely dining experience! Food was perfectly spiced to requested levels, great portion sizes and very fresh. Service was very attentive as well. Please note we had eaten some of those big squid rings before we took a pic! Restaurant fully decorated for the holidays and they were doing a gift drawing from a stocking at each table. We got a lovely neck massager!"

"I love this place been going a while! Usually get the salad to start at pineapple fried rice. It was different this time slightly, they might be changing the recipe it was better the first time :(, but I’m just picky and it was still so good"

"First time ordering from here, tonight. To go, which seemed to be the thing to do, on a Saturday night. There was at least 6 bags waiting. I only had to wait a moment before someone came to help me (with 3 more bags to add to the lineup, including mine). The woman assisting was very kind. She apologized profusely for my 2 minute wait. Fried rice - vegetable, was the best I’ve ever had. There were real vegetables in it. No canned or frozen stuff. My husband got calamari, packed in card board so it wasn’t all soggy. He also got Pad Thai which he loved as much as our local fav. They were a little heavy on oil is the reason for the four stars versus 5. But we’ll try again!"

"Excellent food and helpful service and reasonable prices. I really liked the fried rice. The kids enjoyed the good too. We also enjoyed the Pad Thai and I want to come back to try more dishes."

"I don’t know how this restaurant flew under our radar for so many years but it has. The only excuse is that Mondos Italian is next door and that’s where we were normally heading so the Thai Elephant missed our scrutiny. No longer. We had a wonderful meal at this well lit, pleasant little restaurant in the Folly Road Shopping Center. Plenty of parking and although well occupied on a Friday night, we were able to immediately seat without reservations. The menus is not large but covers all the basics and regardless of your dietary restrictions you will find something to satisfy your tastes. A good wine and beer list is on hand snd the decor would be classified Asian Delightful . Service was efficient and pleasant without the forced friendliness that has become the norm in dining. The dishes we sampled were all good to very good. One very pleasant surprise was that the noise level was subdued despite the restaurant being full. You could actually hold a conversation with your table mates. How nice was that? Summing up we give this nice little restaurant five stars on the Gen X scale or the equivalent four clams on the coveted Five Quahog Rating Scale."