Thai Cuisine

Mike Palmer on Lucky Khao

01-Mar-2019 By Helen Salter

The entrepreneur behind Kemptown Project has launched a Thai barbecue restaurant in the space that was once home to high end dining concept Pike & Pine.

Giggling Squid appoints advisors to consider options

15-Feb-2019 By Sophie Witts

Thai restaurant group Giggling Squid has appointed advisors to explore options for its next stage of growth.

How I Got Here: Saiphin Moore

24-Jan-2019 By Joe Lutrario

Born in Thailand, Saiphin Moore founded Rosa’s Thai as a street food stall with husband Alex in 2007. Later this month the pair will open their first northern site in Liverpool, taking the chain to 16 locations.

Duo of new Thai restaurants promise to bring ‘reinvented Thai food’ to Soho next month

23-Nov-2018 By Stefan Chomka

A double-headed restaurant is promising to bring ‘reinvented Thai food’ to London’s Soho when it opens next month.

Thai restaurant group Mango Tree to lay roots in transport hubs

16-Nov-2018 By Stefan Chomka

Thai restaurant group Mango Tree is looking to gain a greater foothold in the UK with expansion into transport hubs such as airports and railway stations.

The Begging Bowl kicks off crowdfund drive for refurb

08-Oct-2018 By Georgia Bronte

Renowned Peckham Thai restaurant The Begging Bowl launches its Kickstarter campaign today, aiming to raise £25,000 to renovate its kitchen and launch a new bar.

The Begging Bowl is set to launch crowdfund for new kitchen and cocktail bar

25-Sep-2018 By Georgia Bronte

South London Thai restaurant The Begging Bowl will launch a Kickstarter campaign next month to finance the renovation of its kitchen and to launch a new bar.

Restaurant Eats Out: Thai and Burmese restaurants

22-Aug-2018 By Joe Lutrario

Restaurants latest Eats Out food tour was focused on venues serving Thai and Burmese dishes and included Rosa's Thai, Lahpet and Som Saa.

Leon's Thai Tuk Shop 'pops down' and disappears from Shaftesbury Avenue

10-Jul-2018 By Georgia Bronte

Leon has closed its experimental Thai fast food restaurant Tuk Shop on London’s Shaftesbury Avenue after just two months of trading.

Friday Five: The week's top news

16-Feb-2018 By Sophie Witts

We round-up the top stories you might have missed this week.

Latest opening: Greyhound Café

25-Jan-2018 By Georgia Bronte

The beloved Bangkok restaurant is now strutting its stuff in Fitzrovia.

Mike Palmer eyes Brighton Thai BBQ concept

12-Dec-2017 By Finn Scott-Delany

The team behind the Brighton-based Redroaster, Pike & Pine and Lucky Beach brands are planning to launch a new Thai barbecue restaurant concept, Lucky Khao, BigHospitality's sister title MCA has learnt.

Latest opening: Smoking Goat

24-Nov-2017 By Georgia Bronte

The team behind Kiln are bringing their sister brand to Shoreditch, staying open until late to serve a menu of Thai drinking and comfort foods

Bon appétit: Parisian brand Cojean is opening a second London site

08-Nov-2017 By Georgia Bronte

Healthy Parisian fast-food outfit Cojean will opening its second London site on 27 November on Berkeley Street.

Rosa's Thai Cafe to run vegetarian pop-up

06-Nov-2017 By Joe Lutrario

Rosa’s Thai Cafe has revealed further details about its upcoming vegetarian-only pop-up in Soho.

Duo behind Rosa’s to extend Lao Café brand and open Thai noodle restaurant

04-Oct-2017 By Joe Lutrario

The husband and wife duo behind Rosa’s Thai Café are planning to open further Lao Café locations and a specialist Thai noodle restaurant following the sale of their 10-strong Thai restaurant chain, which is currently on the market.

Exploring new flavour trends

07-Sep-2017 By Rachel Graham

Exotic food used to mean a Chinese or Indian takeaway, but no more. Restaurant, pub and even grab-and-go customers have never been more adventurous. For proof, one only needs to look at the UK’s fastest growing cuisine styles. 

Estrella Damm National Restaurant Awards 2017: The top Asian winners

16-Jun-2017 By Hannah Thompson

This year's award winners featured an unmistakable rise of new wave Asian restaurants, from A. Wong to Som Saa to Gunpowder. We round up the best

Opening of the week: Go-Viet

26-May-2017 By Joe Lutrario

Jeff Tan's follow up to Vietfood may sound like a fast-casual offshoot, but it's his new flagship, offering a refined yet authentic take on Vietnamese cuisine

Rosa’s Thai Market Kitchen: A “break away from shopping centre food”

25-Apr-2017

The Rosa’s Thai Café group has explained its new concept, Rosa’s Thai Market Kitchen, as a “faster way of delivering the Rosa’s offering” and a “break away from shopping centre food”.

Cocktail demo: Chaophraya Newcastle’s gin with Thai-style kaffir lime

30-Mar-2017 By Hannah Thompson

Ben Escobar, bar manager at Chaophraya Newcastle, demonstrates a Reverse Reviver cocktail, one of the restaurant-bar’s most popular and distinctive drinks.

Hot Pot chain brews up UK debut

21-Feb-2017 By Sophie Witts

Thai restaurant group Hot Pot is to open its debut UK site in London’s Soho this spring.

Som Saa: From pop-up to permanent

12-May-2016 By Joe Lutrario

Som Saa blew people away at its temporary location in London Fields. Now its permanent site, just opened in Shoreditch, promises to be the hottest restaurant of 2016.

Som Saa set for first permanent site

28-Jan-2016 By Liam Garrahan

Popular Thai pop-up Som Saa is set to open its first permanent site in Spitalfields, London, this Spring, following a successful crowdfunding campaign that saw it raise £700k in three days.

Giggling Squid speed up expansion plans after investment

16-Nov-2015 By Mark Wingett

Giggling Squid, the Thai restaurant chain led by Andy Laurillard, is set to accelerate its expansion plans after confirming that the Business Growth Fund (BGF) has taken a significant minority stake in the business and investing £6.4m in the process,...

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Andy Oliver of Som Saa on crowdfunding and opening his first permanent restaurant

09-Oct-2015 By Joe Lutrario

Smash-hit east London residency Som Saa closes this month, but Thai food specialist Andy Oliver and his partners have already reached their crowdfunding target for their first permanent restaurant, also to be called Som Saa. 

Andy Oliver on Som Saa and the Thai food “revolution”

09-Sep-2015 By Liam Garrahan

Andy Oliver and Mark Dobbie of Som Saa, a popular Thai cuisine pop-up operating in London, have overreached their crowdfunding target and are ready to move the restaurant to a permanent location within the capital.

Pan Chai opens casual dining pop-up

05-Mar-2015 By Carina Perkins

Restaurateur Eddie Lim has expanded his Pan Chai restaurant brand with the launch of a new casual dining concept in Bicester Village, Oxfordshire.

Som saa Thai pop-up to open in east London

17-Oct-2014 By Lauren Houghton

Pop-up Thai restaurant Som saa will open at Climpsons Arch in London Fields on 25 October.

Chaophraya owner reiterates London expansion focus

14-Aug-2014 By Mark Wingett

Thai Leisure Group (TLG), which operates the Chaophraya and Thaikhun brands, has reiterated plans to launch in London after a successful year of growth, with like-for-like sales up 9 per cent over the last 12 months.

Thai street food concept to launch in Manchester

06-May-2014 By Carina Perkins

The Thai Leisure Group will open the first of its new Thaikhun street food concept restaurants in Manchester next month.

The Noodle House arrives in the UK

09-Apr-2014 By Lauren Houghton

Jumeirah Restaurants’ Southeast Asian casual dining brand The Noodle House is opening its first UK restaurant in London on 17 April under a franchise agreement with the EQ Group.

Singha beer brewer opens Asian restaurant in London

04-Mar-2014 By Luke Nicholls

Boon Rawd Brewery, the Thailand-based company that produces Singha beer, has brought its Asian street food concept Pacata back to London with a new restaurant opening in Covent Garden.

Food trends 2012: Asian ascension

29-Jun-2012 By Joe Lutrario

Asian food may already be a huge part of the UK restaurant scene, but the world’s largest continent has a lot more to offer. Restaurant magazine's Joe Lutrario looks at the rise in Asian food in the UK and at how some of the less familiar cuisines...

Bite-size Britain: Tapas-style restaurants sweep the nation

28-Jun-2012 By Luke Nicholls

As Koh Thai Tapas prepares to open its third restaurant in the South East, a number of other new tapas-style concepts are springing up around the country, with sharing dishes and a more informal dining approach beginning to be applied to a variety of...

Blue Elephant relocation: Restaurant owners would have preferred Mayfair

13-Dec-2011 By Luke Nicholls

Thai restaurant The Blue Elephant has been forced to relocate from the site on Fulham’s Broadway that it has occupied for the past 25 years, to a new riverside site at Imperial Wharf, where it hopes to become the Thai version of the River Cafe.

Knorr & Blue Dragon unite to offer range of pastes and concentrated sauces

04-Nov-2011 By Luke Nicholls

Knorr has partnered with Oriental retail brand Blue Dragon to offer a new range of curry pastes and concentrated sauces specially developed for chefs.