A Thrilling New London Restaurant Is Elevating the Thai Food Game
The long-awaited AngloThai makes its debut with a menu of boundary-pushing dishes.
Cornish monkfish with woodland curry and wild mushrooms — a thrilling combination of Thai flavors and British produce.
Source: AngloThaiIt’s been almost a quarter century since Nahm landed in London and helped change the city’s culinary landscape. The now-shuttered, Michelin-starred Thai restaurant from Australian-born David Thompson opened in 2001 and brought an immense amount of attention to the cuisine, finally giving the capital’s diners a high-end alternative to pad thai and red-yellow-green traffic-light curries. In recent years, Sirichai Kularbwong’s sleeper-hit Singburi and “nu-Thai” spots, launched by Nahm alumni like Andy Oliver (Som Saa) and Luke Farrell (Speedboat Bar), have raised the bar in London even higher.
Now John Chantarasak, another Thompson alum, and his wife, Desiree, have opened their first brick-and-mortar restaurant, AngloThai. The name not only references Chantarasak’s parentage but also his compelling culinary approach, combining Thai flavors and a meticulous focus on seasonal British produce with Cordon Bleu-trained finesse.