Thai eatery with a relaxed ambiance offers popular rotisserie chicken & unique sauces. Based on 616 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 4.1 stars. Price $$
✔️ Dine-in ✔️ Takeout ✔️ No-contact delivery
Address:
3737 India St B, San Diego, CA 92103
Phone: (619) 574-7737
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Hours
| Friday | 11 AM–9 PM |
| Saturday | 11 AM–9 PM |
| Sunday | 11 AM–9 PM |
| Monday
(Labor Day)
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11 AM–9 PM
Hours might differ
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| Tuesday | 11 AM–9 PM |
| Wednesday | 11 AM–9 PM |
| Thursday | 11 AM–9 PM |
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Reviews
Agnieszka Sz
This place has been around for years. So good! There’s not a lot of seats inside, but you can get your food to go. The staff is super nice. One of my favorite Thai restaurants
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Abe
Very good Drunken Noodles and Veggie roll. Quality stuff. Delicious and spicy. Perfect Thai food. Just wish I would’ve gotten a few more veggies but other than that it was good.
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Proven Design
This did not taste like Thai food. I ordered the Drunken Noodles… Tasted like crushed red chili oil and a few yucky bites of funky chicken. The egg roll was ok, but the old frying oil flavor dominated the chicken eggroll. No thanks, won’t go back unless they want to buy my meal for me. I wish I had stopped eating it and asked for my money back. There are more authentic Thai places cheeper than this place through out San Diego. No wonder I waited 10 years to try this place.
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Lisa K.
Visited Saffron on a recommendation from my San Diego host; it did not disappoint. The Thai cashew stir fry was delicious as was the Cambodian salad. Clean, fresh, friendly. I’ll be back.
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Max Sanchez
The most bland drunken noodles I’ve ever had. Was missing the umami, oyster+fish sauce that most places use. If they did, they didn’t put enough. For 15 dollars, I am very disappointed and will not come back. It’s a nice restaurant in a cool area, but like another reviewer said, tasteless noodles!
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Robert Toombs
Saffron came highly recommended from a family friend. Everyone’s food in our little party of three was quite good. Smaller dining area, but very clean. Reasonably priced. My cashew chicken was excellent.
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Wren Eells
They somehow made Thai food taste like Mexican food. Both the drunken noodles I got and the pad thai my partner got tasted kinda like an enchilada? I’m not sure how to describe it, but there were a lot of spices in there that definitely weren’t supposed to be there. It didn’t taste awful, just not like Thai food.
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Jennifer Matthews
I’ve eaten at Saffron Thai 3x now and the food started bad, and has become progressively more and more disappointing. I don’t think I can recall going to a Thai place, being asked how spicy I want something, and having the “spice” level be measured by dried, crushed red pepper flakes. Saffron Thai feels like a bunch of non-Thai people got together and made “Thai wannabe”, but not very well. Nothing tastes anything like it should. I can tell you, for sure, that they get their money’s worth from Costco by dumping in literal mounds of crushed red pepper. The exact same crushed red pepper that everyone uses on pizza. It’s so upsetting! I’m Vietnamese, I like spicy, but I do not want to eat HANDFULS of red pepper flakes while trying to eat my Pad Thai. I should not be CRUNCHING on red pepper flakes. Use, I don’t know…maybe Thai chilies???? Like a legitimate Thai restaurant? Summary: DISGUSTING food that I ended up throwing away after a few bites. I’m Asian…this was so far from Asian food I can’t believe I paid any money for it.
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Addison W.
Food was so awful I was in shock. I recall 10+ years ago this place had won awards with how delicious their food was. Not sure what happened but the food is now AWFUL. The pad see ew had no soy sauce (just tons of oil), and the salad rolls they used to be famous for are now real rubbery and totally flavorless
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Quincy Riggins
I’m sorry, but the food is terrible. My understanding is that it was bought by the neighbors next door Karina’s. Saffron Thai used to be really good! This place now needs to close and open up to something else. Maybe specialize in Mexican pizza or something. But you guys can’t do Thai food. My peanut sauce shouldn’t be ice cold. My red curry shouldn’t look like vegetable soup with barely any soup. It’s not good, close it and do something else there. Just not thai food
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