Purple Haze Courtyard is just down the road from our apartment so us and our friends head there quite regularly when our pores are chock full of grease from Beijing cuisine. I have been to many other Thai/Vietnamese restaurants in Beijing but all seem geared for the Chinese palate. No freshness and no subtle flavours and everything cooked down into a incomprehensible mess.

At Purple Haze I think they have got their food just about spot on. I was a bit hesitant in going there last week after just arriving back from Thailand. I thought I would be put off having had the real deal only a week prior. But I wasn't and I would gladly go back time and time again. No Thai chef the other reviewers say? Who cares?! Could there be a chance that the people making the food have been Thailand, cooked with a Thai Chef before? And Thai food isn't about complex cooking methods..it is about the combination of flavours. Any half decent chef could cook Thai..as long as their tastebuds know what their doing.

The place itself is nice and quaint and, if you're in for a romantic night, go on a Monday or Tuesday and you will generally have the restaurant to yourself. Order a few reasonably priced cocktails, sit back and enjoy the quiet..something almost unheard of in Beijing.

This place is one of the ok places for thai food. Yes it is may not be managed by thai people but still okay.
You get food in time and its reasonable and though slightly pricey for the portions. But all thai restaurants are almost the same.

The Purple Haze Courtyard is close to Culture Yard so we recently decided on our first visit to this restaurant. We arrived at the courtyard, expecting live jazz music. There was no music, and there were no guests. Our second try was better - we enjoyed a beef curry and a coconut vegetable curry. The portions were not as small as mentioned in other reviews. We ordered two dishes - it was enough for two.
One thing we don't like about Purple Haze Courtyard is the seemlingly unmotivated and unhelpful staff. It's too bad, because the place does have potential. The courtyard is nice, the decoration not too bad, the food is good, and live jazz music is a great idea. For now, we will keep on going to Purple Haze - but then just for takeaway Thai food.

Are you affiliated with owner of Purple Haze ? was the review disturbed you ? if so, then no need for me to answer your questions.
It is only a review of the place no intention comparing with others.
You are also free to comment and review, but not questioning my review.
Only guilty people feel panic when the truth reveal.

I just don’t get it, Thai Restaurant without Thai Chef can win “Best Thai Restaurant” ???
Come on !!!

Went there yesterday night for dinner, nothing of the dishes taste authentic, we just tried most common Thai foods, papaya salad, tomyumkung, padthai, and green curry, most dishes no power at all, taste bland and nothing rather than only salty taste like Chinese dishes pretending as Thai dishes, nothing was authentic. Asked the waiters, who cooked the dishes, it is the Thai or or Chinese chef, he said they have no Thai chef, no wonder !

I don’t know how a Thai restaurant without Thai people around can cook authentic Thai foods and win “Best Thai Restaurant”.

To make the matter worse, nothing of us felt full as the portions very small ! not worth your money !

Maybe this restaurant win “Thai Best Restaurant” only because they have nice room, atmosphere and live music, but not for the foods definitely !

The papaya salad, Green curry with chicken, the spicy shrimps with coconut milk are my favourites.

After the drinks this is one of my dinner places,if I long for the Thai food when I come to Beijing.

I went to Purple Haze bistro once, and I took a lunch set. From what I can say the food is as good as in Purple Haze (which means simply delicious) but the lunch set isn't a good idea, unless maybe if you're alone.
Indeed, portions are really small, and ordering "normal" dishes that you'll share with several people may not cost much more, but will satisfy your appetite much much more.

Apart from that, also a peaceful place with nice furniture.