Surin 280 - April 6th, 2012

This week we decided to try Surin 280.  We both love Thai, and they bill the food as Authentic Thai Modern Thai?  Surin 280 is located on the west side of 280 just south of 459 in an old O'Charley's building.  We have tried to eat here before, but their hours are not the most customer friendly (and least for us).  We ordered the Crab Angels and Salmon Skin rolls for appetizers.  The Crab Angels are similar to a Crab Rangoon but they were a little heavy on the cream cheese, and a little light on the crab.  The Salmon Skin rolls were very good.  Gina got the Pad Prik with chicken, and Jay got the Masaman Beef Curry.  The Pad Prik was supposed to be spicy, and it was not.  The Beef Curry had tough pieces of beef, and the curry sauce had more peanut flavor than curry flavor.  The food was just "ok." for us.  We ate it, and wouldn't refuse to go back if everyone else wanted to go, but it is doubtful we will ever seek out going back on our own.  Makes us wish Nahm Thai (see March 10th blog) was local!  There aren't a lot of choices that we have found for Thai food in Birmingham - if you know of a place for us to try - let us know!