Fishcakes
is a small but busy little Thai restaurant around the corner from us that opened up just before lockdown began. We went early on, had an utterly bland green curry with wretched chunks of red and green pepper in (why? why?!?), and wrote it off. But three years later it’s still thriving and packed most evening so we decided to give them another shot.
Happy news! It’s really quite good. The menu is mostly classic UK-Thai dishes although they have gone all over Thailand to include things like larb salads and there was even iced Thai milk tea (the drink menu is otherwise short and not very exciting).
Larb
We picked a chicken thigh larb salad, a whole steamed sea bass and some classic fishcakes. The larb was good, plenty of punchy fresh herbs, loadsa mint, well-balanced sweet/citrus dressing and the chicken thigh was soft, moist and chewsome with good sticky flavour from the marinade. The whole fish was great, plenty of good white meat, a really lovely broth with the classic Thai balance of sugar, lime and fish sauce and a reasonably fiery hit of chilli. We slurped it up happily. I can also report that the fishcakes were very good specimens of their type.
So we have a local Thai that’s worth popping around to. You might only need to spend £24 for a starter, main and rice each.
Sea bass
