Bo Tree Kitchen

Located in the university district of Belfast. Small family-owned restaurant offering authentic and fresh Thai food for a reasonable price. Parking can be sketchy, and no alcohol is served, but you are welcome to bring your own wine/beer, which almost everyone does. We were here in a Wednesday night and it was PACKED, so reservations are a MUST. If noisy and crowded outweigh the quality of the meal for you then this is not your place. But despite being both of the above, it is a great place to enjoy very good Thai food in Belfast.

Do not think about the size of the restaurant. The taste you get here is the best you would get anywhere in belfast🫡🥂 Bo Tree is my favourite place around Belfast for good tasty food. Book in advance or else you will have to wait. Place is always busy so plan your visit ahead of the time😀 But worth the wait if you have to wait 😜 They are the best with authenticate taste and texture of thai food. Its hot Super fresh Spicy mild depending on your taste But super amazing food which so satisfying ♥️

Went there with a big group so we ordered many dishes to try a bit of everything. The portion was small as Thai dishes are meant to be shared. My favourites are papaya salad, pork skewers, banana fritters and red/green curry. Foods were not as spicy as expected. The shop was quite busy so I didn't expect much from customer service but the staff were very helpful

A local Belfast buddy wanted me to taste and test how Thai this place is. Lone behold, it's more Thai than in the US and comparable to the local places in Thailand. Atmosphere: the place is very cozy, friendly, and always packed! Patience is key as the food is worth the wait. The kitchen is open to the dining area, you can see and smell it which is the true experience. Service: the staff is very helpful. Despite the place being very crowded and busy, they are rocking it. No alcohol sold here, so BYOB with corkage fee. Recommend keeping it simple for BYOB. Food: this is ultimately a surprise for a Thai-American from Los Angeles and Chiangmai. Ingredients are authentic, generous, and the cooking style is savory-rustic. The Thai auntie/uncle/cousin is cooking this with great flavors and techniques. Dishes tried: Satay skewers - 4/5 delicious, mild, reasonable but not ultra charred to maintain the juiciness of the meat. Peanut sauce is very good and savory with enough curry spices in them. One thing missing is cucumber sweet salad dipping, but not necessarily needed. White rice - 5/5 sounds crazy to review, but they serve legit Thai jasmine white rice, this is golden. In the US, some Thai places serve white long grain rice, to cut costs. This brings a quality aroma for your Thai rice experience. Egg Fried Rice - 5/5 great for flavor and a hearty side when eating spicy. Not too oily, just right. Pad Kee Mao (Spicy Basil Drunken Noodles - 5/5 amazing! Spices, ingredients, white rice noodles are charred and stir-fry to perfection. I cannot stress this, they know how to work the wok, the dish is not soggy and feels like bbq-esque noodles with spices. Stick to medium spicy is good. Pad Seew (aka Pad-See Ew) - 4/5 great! Similar to pad Kee mao style, but the ingredients are milder. I prefer more flavors and spices. This is a non-spicy savory dish. Roasted Duck in Tamarind sauce - 5/5 this is a must! Grilled roasted duck with crispy skin topped with sweet tangy tamarind sauce, over roasted cashews, green onion, and dried chili. Epic! Non-spicy dishes are good to have with other spicy dishes. Roasted Duck curry (Panang curry) - 5/5 very hearty, flavorful, medium spiced, super good on top of white jasmine rice! Salty, sweet, and the duck isn't overly done. Kua Kling (Southern Thai stir fried curry) - 5/5 very packed with spices and herbs, this is a pretty spicy minced pork dish. Very flavorful and hot, best with rice. Basil Spicy Seafood - 6/5! this is by far the most delicious dish out all we had. The seafood here in Belfast is very fresh (compared to the US), combined with fresh Thai herbs and spices, and the subtle technique where the flavors spicy, savory, slight sweet is just right! The sauce used is perfect to drench with you rice. So good! Som tum papaya salad Thai style - 5/5 ordered extra spicy was a bad idea, it's literally Thai level for medium so extra spicy was fiery full of red fresh chilis. My friend took it well while I waved my white flag as my lips burned and puffed. Regardless, the flavors are all balanced as it should: salty, sweet, spicy, and sour. Desserts: fried bananas, mango sticky rice, and

Quaint little restaurant with no frills, with very reasonably priced authentic Thai cuisine. This was very much an impromptu date night - We had been craving Thai food for a while and the few we tried before had let us down, so when Bo Tree was brought to my attention I knew what I had to do. I called ahead and booked a table, which I never do, and it's lucky I did! We got there at 6pm, and already the place was buzzing, we were acknowledged and seated almost immediately with a great view of the open plan kitchen. I love when I can see what's going on behind the scenes, when you get that little flutter of excitement when a dish is being plated up, "Is this ours? I think this is ours!" The menu is fairly extensive whilst only being a one pager, with a variety of categories to choose from on the front and a full vegetarian menu on the back. We got the Pad Siew, Beef Massaman, Coconut Rice & Sticky Rice. They had a selection of drinks, but not much in the way of soft drinks, however, our server informed us of the 'corkage' fee on soft drinks and told us we could run to the shop across the road and get something more to our liking which was super handy! She did say she'd bring us some glasses with ice, but they never materialised. The dishes came out promptly and looked amazing, especially the steamed rice in its little woven bamboo case. My wife was VERY excited about this, as we hadn't had rice in such novel fashion since our time spent living in London. The Massaman was beautiful. After the first taste of the elegantly spiced sauce married with the sticky rice I knew we'd found something special. There were generous chunks of slow cooked beef and hearty potato nestled in the savoury peanut sauce, with a portion that could arguably have served 3 people. Hands down the best Massaman I've had. Ever. Next up was the Pad Siew, we opted for seafood as our choice of protein. Thick rice noodles stir fried with egg, vegetables and a pleasing variety of seafood - prawn, squid & mussels. The taste brought me right back to my time in Asia, there was something strikingly familiar about the authenticity of the flavours and the simplicity in which those flavours were delivered. I loved that there was a subtle smokiness of where the intense heat of the wok had caught the edges of the noodles, giving an extra dimension to what is essentially stir fried noodles - but calling it that does it a massive disservice. Over the last few months we've been disappointed with so many restaurants, and it was such a refreshing change to have found something REALLY GOOD, a place where we are genuinely excited for the next time we get to go back to try something else from the menu. By the time we'd finished every seat had been filled, and I can absolutely see why. We will definitely be back and hope this encourages more people to give it a try. C

First time at Bo Tree and it was lovely! It’s a very busy place, so best to book. Ordered some deep fried prawns as a starter. Then the chicken red curry with some coconut steamed rice. The curry itself was delicious, full of flavour and spicy! The deep fried prawns were nice too, but I’d like to try some of their other starters next time. The staff were very friendly and even though the restaurant was busy they were attentive. I also got my food pretty quickly too. Well worth a visit and I’ll definitely be back!