Delicious food and came out very quickly. The guava Bellini seemed a smaller quantity but the mango aperol spritz was decent. Huge seating area so reservations are not necessary, perfect for weekend. read more

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There is no excuse to eat here if you are in Shoreditch, especially if you are vegetarian or vegan. The food was ok, but there are so many fully vege or vegan options in the area I would have loved to try. (My excuse...Thai was requested, we were all very hungry, and this was the first thing we saw off the underground) With that out of the way, walking Shoreditch in the evening before Christmas was a nice evening out. Lots of stalls, small shops, no chain stores. A ton of small inviting vegan restaurants. Very different from the Piccadilly/Kensington areas. I would consider staying in Shoreditch on a (hopefully) future trip to England. read more

A nice restaurant set within the market so if you fancy a place to sit down and eat rather than picking food from a street vendor then this is the place to come. The setting is friendly along with the atmosphere. A place to come and relax the service is fairly quick but on a hot day if would be nice to have ice added to the water rather then having to ask. The food was good with good use of spices to make it taste nice and more importantly wanting more :-) Overall a good place to visit read more

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Came here because my friends and I were craving for some Asian food. I was really disappointed in the food we got here... they weren't that good. We got the curry, calamari, pad thai and most of them were flavorless. The calamari was really chewy. Service was also a bit slow even though there were only about 4-5 tables filled when we were there for lunch. Wouldn't really recommend this place, I think the food you can get out in the markets might be better. read more

Busaba Shoreditch - Thai Near Me - London, XGL

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Delicious! That's the right word for their sweet fruits juices.... You can enjoy meals I didn't tasted in Thailand... Even if it's a Thaï restaurant you're in London haha! When they note dishes as spicy don't acts rude! And taste veggy rolls! read more

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Love their lunch menu, good value and varieties of choices. For £9.5 it is definitely a no brainier. Tried Beef roti with sweet potato fries today and both of them are delicious and just the right portion. The pulled beef is juicy which lands on a roti full of butter flavour, not too oily and with a little crisp. And sweet potato fries are lightly salted and the hint of sweet is such amazing match. Highly recommend. read more

Busaba Shoreditch - Beef roti in lunch menu - Thai Near Me - London, XGL

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Came in close to closing time , but they still welcomed us and didn't shame us =) Service was really quick and friendly. Started off with the most delicious fruit drinks I have ever encountered: Guava Collins-please just get one so you don't miss out. For my entrée, I ordered one of the Rice Sets: Chili beef Jasmine rice. It was really flavorful and the spice level was hot and perfect. I've had this dish in other Thai restaurants back in Ohio-but they call it Beef Larb. I loved the décor and the cafeteria style dining experience. It's not too expensive either. I'm definitely coming back next time I am in London! read more

Busaba Shoreditch - Chili beef Rice w/ what's left of my Guava Collins....soooooo good! - Thai Near Me - London, XGL

I want to give a 3.5 since the food we got was delicious and came out pretty fast but they had about half of the menu available! No juices no seaweed no salads!? Basically nothing green... An extensive menu and cozy but fun atmosphere. The chicken satay was very tasty. The chicken pad Thai was dry and boring but some extra soy sauce and sriracha perked it up. I wanted to taste every single cocktail they sounded so good. Decent prices. I would recommend this as an easy choice for Thai food fusion. read more

The worst thai food I'd had in the world - so far. Service was ok, but didn't appreciate the constant upswell. The itself was rather bland, my jungle curry was chunks of meat and a unrefined sauce for 11€. Nothing worth mentioning other then I was still hungry. My friend had a pad Thai which was also on the plain sideS The servers were ok, but could tellv they disengaged when we didn't order an extravagant meal. read more

This is probably the worst service I have had and was on the verge of walking out. I was in the establishment for 10 minutes before I caught the eye of a waiter to take my order. The music is so loud they couldn't hear me and I had to ask them to show me what they had written down. 10 minutes after i ordered something appeared that definitely wasn't calamari which she tried to insist was. It went back then after 28 minutes of ordering my main arrived, no starter. He then realised the starter was on same tray and asked if I wanted them together, I said no and didn't want a warmed up starter. I also said that it was nearly half an hour to get my food to which he said the system says 20 minutes so it's your word against the systems. I had looked at the time when ordering as it had taken so long to get ordered so I know which I trust. Whilst finishing my starter I was asked if they could start cooking my new main. It arrived two minutes later... The starter of Calamari was ok, tepid rather than hot. The main was microwaved hot but reasonably tasty. I eventually got a whispered apology and a discount but not enough to bring me here again. Unbelievably when the bill arrived the discount had been applied but so too had a Service Charge, needless to say it wasn't paid! read more

You've read all the Busaba Eathai reviews so I'll keep it short. Love the fish cakes, chicken satay and the wok noodles which I consume with many lychee martinis. What makes this one different than most is that it's new, you can have your own table rather than share, staff are friendly and attentive and if you're a loo snob (like me) then you'll be fine here. Beautiful decorated as well. I dare you to hit the gong on the way out. Staff were shocked but made them laugh! read more

Busaba Shoreditch - Thai Near Me - London, XGL

Disappointingly slow service at the Shoreditch branch, despite it being a fairly quiet Sunday service. Thai calamari starter was delicious as usual, unfortunately the Pad Thai made for a poor follow to this; total of just THREE prawns in the entire dish, which was quite bland overall. Portions seem smaller than St Christopher's place branch. Definitely wasn't worth the expense on this visit, sadly. Sort it out, Busaba Shoreditch! read more

Note: This review is for THIS location only - I was very excited to visit this chain because it came recommended by a coworker but this location in particular left a very bad taste in my mouth (figuratively speaking). My friend and I arrived just before 10:30pm and although the restaurant doesn't close until 11pm, they refused to let us dine. I'm assuming because service was slow they wanted to get out of there, however, if you want to close at 10:30pm then change that on your website!! False advertisement. The manager was very short, dismissive, and unaccommodating. To make matters worse, he didn't tell us that we should try the Hoxton location less than 10 mins away (thank God for Google) who happily served us despite closing soon. I will NEVER recommend the Shoreditch location. Thanks for nothing. Shout out to the Hoxton Busaba Thai location for a great meal and great hospitality. read more

I have been to this restaurant before in a different location and enjoyed it, but the experience for brunch today was really poor. The service was terrible - we had to wait a long time for anything that we asked for and were lucky if it turned up at all. We had to ask for cutlery (no spoon with the porridge, no knife with toast and jam), were offered water that never came and had to ask FOUR times for a coffee. After asking the same man twice, I then asked a woman and was clear that I'd already ordered it but it hadn't arrived. Five minutes later, still no coffee. I asked her again if the coffee was coming and she said, "have you asked me for it?" Seriously?! "Yes! I asked you five minutes ago, and the other guy twice before that." Eventually the coffee came but by then I'd eaten all of my food. Very disappointing, particularly given that there are so many other great places to eat around shoreditch. My friends and I won't be back. read more

I'd give it zero stars if yelp had an option for it. The food tasted horrible. The kitchen was not willing to work with my vegetarian needs. They ran out of tofu and refuse to make any substitutions for it. Like pls give me some extra mushrooms instead? Sorry we don't do that. I still went along hoping at least the flavors would be good but oh NO. I just moved to the building right next to this and was looking forward to making it my go to thai spot but I will NEVER visit again. Try Kinkao thai instead which is a 2 minute walk,cheaper and yes MUCH better food and service. read more

We were 9 people who had an hour for lunch before a meeting. The atmosphere of the restaurant was fine, and there was plenty of space. When we ordered we asked how long the food would be, and we were assured that it would take only 10-15 minutes. Since the food did not arrive, we got complementary snacks. That was fine, and the food did arrive shortly after. We all ordered one main, and it was ok. The restaurant had a special offer for people paying through the app - 25% off. Quite the offer. But in terms of the chaos that ensued, the 25% could never be justified. Let me start by saying this: If the manager has to say that "the app is actually quite simple", it literally means that it is not. If indeed it was simple, we wouldn't be having a mess in the first place. The app didn't take international credit cards, so we had to set it up with paypal. Then it grouped the savings together in one, so even though we wanted to pay separately, only one person could have a (huge) discount. You have to "add friends" in the app, and the waiters quickly gave up explaining the system to us. So we ended up having the manager print out separate payments for us, and we got late for the meeting. Whoever the digital agency was who made this app, I implore them to test their efforts on different use cases before launching it. I still can't understand the benefit of having the app in the first place, but it seems like it is made for super-repeat customers - but it has totally failed to make repeaters out of us. The app-effort ruined our experience, and it is a shame because it could have been avoided with proper testing before deployment. Busaba, your food was fine and your staff were accommodating, but forward this review to your digital agency, and demand that they take you through at least 10 different scenarios. read more

First experience: many dishes on the menu were not available. The server managed to forget part of my order. I ordered the Chicken Katsu and it was not very good. My friend ordered a veg curry. That was OK but he had to wait forever for another serving of rice. My stomach doesn't feel so great after the meal :( read more

Solid Thai place with a great dinner special of starter plus main for 12.95. They also have a five pound off offer if you download their app but we had trouble getting the credit card to work for this one. The food was quite good and the ambience great - my mom and I shared a fish cakes and a king prawn green curry. The curry came with lots of prawns and the fish cakes were super flavorful. For someone whose last Thai food experience was in Thailand this was a great way to satisfy my Thai cravings - highly recommend for anyone in the area read more

If you really like Thai food this is one to avoid. There are plenty of better real Thai restaurants in town. Besides service is awful. We were asked four times our order to end up forgotten... Our drinks never came. Manager didn't seem to care. read more

We loved this place. Our former host son took us here. It is one of his favourites. We hosted him well. This is superior modern Asian food. We had a wide variety of dishes with chicken, duck, fish, calamari etc. they were all superb. We liked the space itself too. Service was efficient and friendly and prices very reasonable. We had a wonderful night here and wouldn't hesitate to return. read more

Food was lukewarm when it arrived. This is probably as a result of us waiting so long to be served. I informed the waiter our food was on the bar ready for serving once I realised upon checking. The drinks arrived as we finished our meal. Absurd! We also got our own menus in the first instance since the waiter deemed it unnecessary for us to know what the dishes were. Wine was off and was a struggle to get it replaced. Multiple requests for the same thing some of which never arrived. 20% discount was offered in mitigation (without requesting it to be fair) but this was the least they could have done. Actually no wait, they did far less in fact.... Horrendous service read more

Really bad service i had today, also i don't know if they changed the chefs, but the food in this place use to be good and now is terrible, really tasteless and bad quality food, last time for me I'm afraid read more

Thai is my favourite food it hard to find a good Thai restaurant busaba is the best one I will recommend

Happy with this place . Good food. Good service. Amazing cocktails. Chinese broccoli highly recommended. read more

Gorgeous décor, friendly and helpful staff, delicious Thai food at a fair price... would recommend!