Thai

• Test Driving AngloThai - a perfect pop-up-to-permanent transformation

   

  After years working as a pop-up AngloThai, which blends British and Thai cuisines and produce, finally has a proper home in Marylebone. We went to check it out.  

• Test Driving Long Chim - chef David Thompson returns to London with a casual Thai restaurant

  

  David Thompson, once best known for Nahm restaurant, is back in London with a more casual take on Thai food. We wend down to try out Long Chim.  

• AngloThai to open their first restaurant in Marylebone

  

  Updated 19/9/24 with full opening details

  After years of popping up at various places across London, the first AngloThai restaurant from John and Desiree Chantarasak is very nearly here. They settled on a space in Marylebone (where The Gate used to

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• Chef David Thompson to bring Long Chim pop-up to Hovarda in Soho

  

  In news that should get your Thai-food taste-buds tingling, acclaimed Australian chef David Thompson is bringing a modern Bangkok-inspired menu to London, with the launch of Long Chim. Meaning ‘come and try’, Long Chim currently has outlets in Sydney, Perth and Dubai (and previously in Melbourne and Singapore).

  If this is all ringing vague bells for you, we reported a couple of years back that the London Long Chim ...

• Test Driving Koyn Thai - a Thai reinvention for the Mayfair restaurant

  

  Originally a Japanese restaurant of two halves, Koyn has changed its basement into a separate Thai restaurant. We went down to check out the brand new menu. 

• Kiln

  Smoked, Thai-inspired cuisine on the counter in Soho

• Test Driving Kolae - the Som Saa team have a winning follow-up in Borough Market

   

  The second restaurant from the Som Saa team, Kolae, has opened at Borough Market, where the team specialises in Southern Thai cuisine. We went down to check it out.

• The Som Saa duo are opening Kolae Thai bar and grill in Borough Market

  

  28/9/23 - updated with the opening date and menu details

  We knew way back in 2019 that the people behind Som Saa, Mark Dobbie and Andy Oliver, had a successful crowdfunder for a new restaurant. But with the pandemic messing up the timing a little, things went quiet - until now. The

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• Speedboat Bar is a Soho Thai restaurant from Plaza Khao Gaeng's Luke Farrell

  

  30/9/22 - updated with opening offer

  He's had success at Arcade with Plaza Khao Gaeng and now chef Luke Farrell is getting ready to open a standalone restaurant - Speedboat Bar. 

  Taking over the space that used to be Xu, the Thai restaurant is being described as a love letter to Yaowarat Road, the neon-lit street of Bangkok’s Chinatown." It

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• Chet's sees LA's Night + Market chef come to London for a Thai meets Americana pop-up

   

  Night + Market has become something of a big thing in LA - and now the chef behind it is bringing elements of it to London for the first time. 

  The original Night + Market has seen its share of celebrity guests (including Gwyneth Paltrow and Leonardi DiCaprio) and its chef, Kris Yenbamroong, comes from the family that launched Talesai, seen as LA's first

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• David Thompson is bringing Long Chim to London with Thai street food on the menu

  

  It's been 12 years since renowned chef David Thompson last cooked his amazing Thai food in London. Back in 2010 he closed his restaurant Nahm - the first Thai restaurant to get a Michelin star - before moving to Bangkok where he reopened and quickly hit the World's 50 Best List.

  Having made a name for himself with high end Thai food, Thompson's most recent restaurant forays have been for his casual street food group

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• Thai restaurant Burning Rose in Balham has an ex-Nahm chef behind the food

  

  Residents of Balham in London’s southwest have been enjoying a decent local Thai delivery and take-away service from Burning Rose for a while now. Now it's a dine-in restaurant with Matthew Albert, of Nahm fame, in charge of the kitchen.

• HUŎ in Chelsea is a new restaurant from the ULI Notting Hill team

  

  The ULI team take their brand of Southeast Asian food to Chelsea

• The latest Rosa's Thai is in Finsbury Park

  

  We're starting to see more restaurants heading to the Finsbury Park area (which is reaching the end of a major redevelopment at the station). The latest of these is from the Rosa's Thai restaurant group, which is opening on Wells Terrace.

  This will be the 26th Rosa's restaurant as they've seen quite a bit of growth in the past few years. If, you've never been in one here's what you need to know. Set up

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• Test Driving Anglo Thai's Banquet box - a feast of Irish beef with Thai influences

  

  Anglo Thai have created the ultimate steak dinner - with wine to match. We had to try it out...