Thai Food & Thai Catering in Dallas, TX

Dallas has plenty of Thai restaurants. Here’s why people cross town for this one.

Ask a Dallas food lover where to get Thai and you’ll hear a list: the street-food spots in Uptown, the fusion rooms downtown, the strip-center gems along Walnut Hill. What you’ll also hear, over and over, is a family name that’s been quietly cooking on Preston Road since 2000. Banana Leaf Thai isn’t the newest room in the city or the loudest — it’s the one where the recipes came from a family kitchen, where regulars have been ordering “the usual” for two decades, and where the woks haven’t changed hands with every trend cycle.

That longevity matters in a restaurant city like Dallas, where concepts open and close in eighteen months. Twenty-five years in the same neighborhood means the pad thai you loved in 2010 tastes the way you remember it. It means the kitchen knows the difference between “Thai spicy” and “Dallas spicy” — and asks which one you mean. And it means when a company in the Galleria towers needs lunch for forty people on Thursday, there’s a catering team that has done it hundreds of times.

The Jong family’s cooking heritage stretches back generations in Thailand; the restaurant has carried those recipes in Dallas since 2000. If you’re comparing options, our guide to the best Thai restaurant in Dallas conversation starts at the source: the food itself.

What to order: the dishes Dallas comes back for

First visit? Start with the classics — they’re classics because they’re the hardest to do well.

Spice runs 1–5 and every dish is made to order — mild enough for kids at the same table as a 5-alarm basil stir-fry. Browse the full menu, or the dedicated lunch menu for weekday specials.

The Dallas neighborhoods we feed every week

Preston & Frankford puts us at the top of the Preston Road corridor — a straight shot from most of north Dallas and an easy hop off the Dallas North Tollway or the George Bush Turnpike. Here’s what the drive looks like (times are approximate, outside rush hour):

Searching “Thai food near me” from Addison, Plano, Richardson, Carrollton, or Frisco? We have a guide for each: Addison · Plano · Richardson · Carrollton · Frisco.

Thai catering in Dallas: offices, weddings & parties

Here’s a secret the Dallas event world figured out a while ago: Thai food caters brilliantly. Curries hold their heat and get better as they sit. Pad Thai and fried rice serve fast from a buffet line. And a Thai spread solves the modern guest-list puzzle in one order — gluten-free, vegan, and meat-lover options all come from the same kitchen without anyone eating a sad side salad.

We cater across Dallas and the wider DFW metroplex — corporate lunches in the Galleria and Tollway office towers, wedding receptions, graduation parties, church events, and holiday celebrations. Buffet packages start at approximately $18–$22 per person for groups of 25 or more, with full-service options (staffing, setup, chafing service) for larger events. The larger the event, the more our kitchen shines — we’ve built menus for gatherings of several hundred.

• Corporate catering in Dallas — office lunches, client meetings, team events.
• Wedding catering — rehearsal dinners to full receptions.
• Party & event catering — birthdays, graduations, celebrations.

Start with the Dallas Thai catering hub for menus and per-person pricing, or call (972) 713-0123 and tell us your headcount and date — we’ll build the menu with you.

Gluten-free, vegan & allergy-aware — without the compromise

Thai cuisine is naturally kinder to dietary restrictions than most: rice noodles instead of wheat, coconut milk instead of cream, tofu that actually belongs in the cuisine rather than substituting into it. We lean into that. Most of the menu can be prepared gluten-free (we’re a frequent answer when Dallas asks where celiac-friendly Thai lives), and our vegan Thai guide maps every plant-based path through the menu — tofu Pad Thai, vegetable curries, papaya salad, mango sticky rice.

Tell your server about any allergy and the kitchen adjusts the dish, not your expectations. Curious about the nutrition side? Read Is Thai food healthy? — our honest, dish-by-dish answer.

Visit us on Preston Road

Banana Leaf Thai · 17370 Preston Rd #500, Dallas, TX 75252 · northwest corner of Preston & Frankford, with easy parking at the door. We’re minutes from the George Bush Turnpike and the Dallas North Tollway — and yes, we’re BYOB.

Dine in, order online for pickup, or plan an event. Earn points on every visit with our rewards program.

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Dine in on Preston Road, order pickup, or book catering for your next event.