Supawan has been around for a while, we just don’t often get up to King’s Cross. Now we feel like we need to find some more excuses to get up there, because it immediately slots into our top three favourite Thai meals in London! Why? Proper, punchy, full-on flavours and really excellent technique. It’s classic …
Different food cultures, different norms. Sometimes it catches you off-guard, though. We ordered various bits of dim sum, and then a fried rice main dish and a side dish at Dim Sum Library. Then we were a bit startled when our side dish and two dim sum came even before we’d been served our drinks, …
There’s a type of restaurant. It takes a classic local cuisine, recreates it in a bijou corner of London in a comfortable dining room that looks like the chocolate-box version of the old local restaurants where the cuisine originated, perfects the classic dishes, then doubles the pricetag and tops it with a winelist hefty with …
Barang is a Cambodian restaurant residency upstairs at the Globe in Borough Market, although apparently they’re hoping to be opening permanently – probably in Soho – later in 2026. There’s not a lot of Cambodian eateries in the UK, even though it shares a lot of ingredients, techniques and dishes with the surrounding SE Asian …
AngloThai has taken on one of those tough challenges: trying to marry the bang, zip and pow of Thai flavours with the requisite richness and finery of a fine dining tasting menu. I’ve not had very many truly great Thai-inspired fine dining dishes over the years, they often either de-power the flavours to insipidness, or …
