Green Leaf - Covington

Hit the spot! This is a nice restaurant that has a wide selection of Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese food. Enjoy!

This place looks like a dive but the food is unusually good and good all the time. And I know about food. Reasonable prices also. A hidden gem.

Located close to a busy intersection of downtown is this nicely decorated storefront restaurant. Upon arrival, the interior is very decorated and pretty. They seem to be a slow day since there were no customers at this time. I look this location of based on yelp. I have to see it 's not in a bad location and had some nice decorations. The wait staff seated us immediately and offered us drinks. I ordered a watered with lemon and my friend ordered a Sweet tea. I started with one of my favorites which is the rice paper, shrimp summer spring rolls. First impression is that it had too much lettuce and not enough of the other vegetables. It was a little too loosely wrapped for me liking as during each bite more of the the spring roll kept falling out. After the appetizers, I ordered the pad Thai with shrimp. Well, my friend ordered a combination pho noodle soup. Which had beef tendons, meatballs, and beef. My first impression of a pad Thai was that it was too much liquid in the bottom and the flavors that I 'm so used to were off. It went like it was different in flavor but felt as though it was missing something. When my friend tasted the soup, he wasn 't very impressed with the flavors. He added the bean sprout and cilantro as usual but he said that the broth lacked in seasoning and tasted quite watered down. Bare in mind that my friend is a Sou Chef from Thailand, so I 'm inclined to believe he knows flavors at least. I also tasted his soup and I felt that it was missing more of the bone/marrow broth that comes from the Tonkotsu broth that I 'm familiar with. During an interaction with the waitress and owner, i discovered that this location was fairly new and a spin-off of the Viet Kitchen in Mandeville and Green Leaf of Hammond. Overall, the food wasn 't the best at this location. but they seem to be very kind to us regarding the service. The prices were a bit much for what it lacked in flavor, but fair in the amount of food received. I 'd suggests trying it out for yourself but this place was simply, a 'meh ' for me. They provided nothing unique, different, or special that made me want to come back for more.

I ordered the Mandarin Chicken and spring rolls, totally amazing! Everything dish is cooked to order so it's very fresh.

Fresh and great tasting food for a good price! I will definitely be back.