ANNOUNCER: OLYMPIA THAI RESTAURANT WITH A VIETNAMESE TOUCH DELIVERS >>>

It seems that in Olympia Thai restaurants are as plentiful as Circle K convenience stores in California. There’s one on every corner. To be the prettiest girl in a room full of beauty queens, if you will, demands quality, superb flavor, speedy preparation, and, above all, consistency.  Lemon Grass Restaurant, which offers a Vietnamese take on Thai, doubled in size in late 2008. Even with this much applauded expansion into the adjacent Fourth Avenue space, patrons frequently fill the compact front waiting area and monopolize the sidewalk.

Is the hype worth the breath it’s said with?

Jake and Jason de Paul bear witness here.