Long Tail Thai is a Thai restaurant and takeaway on Gloucester Street in Dallington, Christchurch, set up to make ordering easy no matter what your evening looks like. Telephone orders are welcome on (03) 381 6151, and anyone who prefers to browse at their own pace can use the shop's online ordering cart to build an order and arrange a pickup.
If staying in sounds better, Long Tail Thai also delivers through Uber Eats, bringing orders from Gloucester Street to doors across the delivery zone — the app confirms coverage the moment you enter your address.
Serving the Dallington and Linwood side of the city, Long Tail Thai keeps the focus on straightforward Thai food and a fuss-free ordering experience: call it in, click it together online, or let the app bring it to you.
Long Tail Thai sits on Gloucester Street in Dallington, on the eastern side of Christchurch, and it is set up around a simple idea: ordering Thai food should fit around your day, not the other way round. Rather than channelling every customer through a single counter, the shop runs three ways to order — by phone, online for pickup, and through Uber Eats for delivery — so there is a route that suits whoever is placing the order.
The most direct route is the telephone. Long Tail Thai welcomes telephone orders on (03) 381 6151, and if you already know what you are after, a quick call puts your request straight to the kitchen. It is the classic neighbourhood takeaway arrangement: ring ahead, swing by, collect your food.
For anyone who prefers to browse, the shop runs an online ordering cart. There you can read through the menu at your own pace, build the order item by item, and arrange a pickup when it suits you. It is a particularly handy option for larger orders — family dinners where everyone wants a say, or occasions where you would rather double-check the list than trust your memory on the phone.
And when heading out is not on the cards at all, Long Tail Thai delivers through Uber Eats. Orders go through the Uber Eats app, which handles payment and passes the delivery to its courier network, so Thai from Gloucester Street can arrive at your door without anyone leaving home. If you are unsure whether your address falls within the delivery zone, the app will tell you the moment you enter it.
Gloucester Street is one of the main routes running east out of Christchurch's centre, and Long Tail Thai sits along it in Dallington, with Linwood and the surrounding eastern suburbs close at hand. For people living or commuting through this side of the city, the shop is a nearby answer to the perennial weeknight question of what is for dinner — close enough to collect on the way home, or to have brought to you.
Being a neighbourhood operation, it leans into the things local takeaways do best: familiar food, made to order, without the ceremony of a restaurant booking. Whether it is a regular end-of-week order or a last-minute decision on a rainy evening, the point is that getting it arranged takes minutes, not an evening's planning.
A few habits make ordering from Long Tail Thai even smoother. If you are new to the menu, have a browse through the online ordering cart first — even if you end up ordering by phone, you will know exactly what you want by the time you dial.
If you are feeding a group, it pays to get the order in early rather than at the last minute; larger orders take longer to prepare, and the phone line, online cart and Uber Eats all funnel into the same kitchen. And if anything about your order is specific — a preference, a question, a change to a usual order — the telephone is the friendliest place to sort it out, with a person at the other end of (03) 381 6151.
Long Tail Thai is at 695A Gloucester Street, Dallington, Christchurch. Telephone orders are taken on (03) 381 6151. Pickup orders can be placed through the shop's online ordering cart, and delivery is available through Uber Eats across its Christchurch service area. Check the online cart or the Uber Eats app for the current menu and to place an order.
Three ordering channels, one kitchen, one street address — Long Tail Thai keeps the logistics simple so the hardest part of dinner is deciding what you feel like.