On Monday, 
John and I drove down to Palo Alto to go to Fry’s so John could return the external hard drive with the annoying LEDs all over it. On our way to Fry’s, we stopped for lunch at Thai Garden, located on the border between Palo Alto and Los Altos on El Camino Real.
Located in Palo Alto Bowl, Thai Garden’s red leather banquettes certainly conjure up a bowling alley’s lounge feel. The grungy tabletop did nothing to spoil the image of this place as a greasy spoon, either. The watery and bland chicken and cabbage soup they served with our lunch plates was among the most boring and lifeless things I’d eaten in a long time. I don’t think it could have been any more bland if they tried.
I ordered the Chicken in Basil, as hot as they could make it, and John ordered Imperial Beef (beef with brocolli). I had Pad Thai with mine, and so did John, but he ordered fried rice. The Chicken certainly was hot, but the balance between the flavors of the basil and the heat of the chilies was so out of whack and bland, that is was all heat and very little flavor. John reports a similarly bland experience with the beef. The service was bland as well.
Overall, I can’t recommend this place, unless you want your tongue to be bored.
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