Three new restaurants that celebrate regional Thai cuisine are opening in London in quick succession this month – all with the word ‘khao’, meaning rice or a casual meal, in their name. First up this week is Khao-So-i, just off Oxford Circus, the first international opening from chef Win Srinavakool and his wife Por Haruethai Noicharoen […]
A Thai restaurant whose “unapologetically spicy” cooking is based around pastes pounded by hand using a pestle and mortar opens tomorrow in Peckham, from a pair of chefs who have worked in some of London’s most exciting Thai kitchens. Kruk – a mash-up of Thai words ‘klook’ meaning to mix or stir and ‘krok’ meaning mortar […]
Leytonstone’s wildly popular Thai canteen Singburi is to be reborn in Shoreditch under a new guise this spring. Run for many years as a family-operated, cash-only BYO that was packed out for every service, the Leytonstone venue announced its closure in November for an open-ended “sabbatical”. Now chef Sirichai Kularbwong (left in photo), the son […]
