Former Kiln head chef Karla Knowles is opening two Thai restaurants in quick succession, starting next week with Pam, by Smithfield Market in Charterhouse Street. Her first standalone restaurant, Pam is pitched as a “playful and creative” take on Thai cuisine, making use of seasonal British produce in a venue that will also host art […]
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 […]
