Can anybody recommend a good local Thai restaurant please.

[Lesley1980]

I am looking at taking my mother for her birthday as she loves Thai food.

Thank you in advance.

[julijux]

Tamnag Thai.. Crystal palace

[Lesley1980]

Thank you, I've just looked them up and it looks lovely.

[VOXPOP]

The Begging Bowl on Bellenden Road has a very good, small menu.

[Townleygreen]

Crystal Thai in C Palace is probably better than Tamnag Thai

[MissDumpling]

Thai Duck do the best Thai food I've had locally. It's BYO and it's cheap as chips.

It's open Friday and Saturday evenings in the Duck Egg Cafe in North Cross Road. Not sure if the decor is what you're after, though, if it's a special occasion...

[Jeremy]

Any opinions on "Chai's Garden Thai", between Nunhead and Brockley? I've always thought it looks nice in a charming-but-kitsch sort of way.

[Guest]

Thai Duck and also Tem Ban at Waverley Arms on Thursdays is really good

http://www.tembanthai.co.uk/

[Lesley1980]

I have always wanted to try Chai's garden Thai as I pass this quite a lot but the tamnag Thai does a lunch menu so I am going to try here first but when I get to Chai's I will post about it as there is nothing on here regarding that place.

Thank you all for your replys.

[Tanza]

MissDumpling Wrote:

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> Thai Duck do the best Thai food I've had locally.

> It's BYO and it's cheap as chips.

>

> It's open Friday and Saturday evenings in the Duck

> Egg Cafe in North Cross Road. Not sure if the

> decor is what you're after, though, if it's a

> special occasion...

Is Thai Duck still going? It's been shut every time I've looked in recently.

[Jeremy]

Lesley1980 Wrote:

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> when I get to Chai's I will post about it as there

> is nothing on here regarding that place.

Please do! I had a look at their website, and there appeared to be a pleasing selection of fish-shaped plates. Hard to argue with that sort of attention to detail.

[sugarkanedee]

Can't believe no one has recommended the begging bowl.. its amazing thai food.

[gorgeousophie]

Sugarkanedee, someone has. Above. Scroll up.

Tamnag Thai. Beautiful to behold, falsely chic, prices high enough to delude that quality might match style...appalling service, epically mediocre food...the cuteness of it all is inversely proportional to the dining experience. I went twice over two or three years, giving them a chance to have improved, so to speak. It did not.

I trust the quintessentially colloquial - and hilarious - English expression that springs to my French mind, my little British chums, mentions fur coat hiding a cruel lack of underwear ;)