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 …
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Review: AngloThai, Marylebone
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 …
Review: Khao Bird, Soho
Lots of lovely new Thai openings in London recently. Khao Bird is a northern Thai casual eatery that has come up from Brighton, where they started a few years ago as Lucky Khao. Inside is just the kind of bare-brick interior with metal-topped tables and simple chairs you’d expect from a modern Soho eatery. Some …
Review: Khao-So-I, Fitzrovia
Chiang Mai was the first city we visited in Thailand, some fifteen years ago now. I still remember it for my first encounter with Thai food that was not from the menu of “20th century British Thai” (red, green or massaman curry and pad thai). A bowl of khao-soi in the street market, a beautiful …
Review: Chet’s, Shepherd’s Bush
I remember the first (only?) Thai meal I had in America. This was, admittedly, almost eighteen years ago in California. Huge chunks of chicken breast, capsicum peppers, baby sweetcorn, all bathed in a sauce that was gunky and thick with coconut cream and flavoured with… well, nothing. Just the mildest hint of some familiar Thai …