Had a really nice meal here for my sister's birthday. It's good for a special occasion because of…read morethe lovely views over the river from the large glass windows along one whole side of the building on the second floor. While perhaps the food is not the most authentic or avant garde Thai in the world, we all really enjoyed it. I thought the drunken noodles and soft shell crab were spicy and satisfying. Service was excellent throughout the evening. It's not the cheapest so save for date night, birthday night etc.

Went here for a friend's birthday and had a fab meal. Food was great and excellent value. The…read morerestaurant has a great view and nice atmosphere. Service could have been a little quicker (although given that there were 12 of us on the table that can be forgiven). Cocktails are 2 for 1 in happy hour so definitely worth going early!

I just wanted to add my vote to this great Thai restaurant. The food is very good, and the prices…read moreare very reasonable for London. It does have a cozy and friendly atmosphere. I just wanted to clarify a few points that were raised above but not fully discussed: 1) This restaurant does NOT serve any alcohol at all. Consequently, they do allow you to bring your own wine (which is great for saving money). So be sure to stop into one of the local shops on your way there and buy a bottle of wine. 2) Space is VERY limited. The restaurant is basically the dining room of an old house that's been converted into a restaurant. So it can get very crowded. Be sure to call first and make a reservation. I've seen people waiting outside this place for 30-40 minutes to get a table otherwise, and the first thing the waiter asks to in-coming customers is "Do you have a reservation?" And it can get crowded on week-days as well as weekends.

It can be hard to get a table but it's worth the wait. The restaurant is justoff Lordship Lane so…read morethere are plenty of pubs and bars to hang out in before hand if you're queuing for a table. Take out is also a great option as the restaurant works pretty quickly, you just have to make sure you have cash as the restaurant is not registered on just eat or hungry house. The dishes are great value for money. My all time favourites are the massaman and yellow curry with coconut rice. Pad thai and pad see eew are amongst the best I've had in London. A diverse menu that would please a big group. They also have a selection of delectable starters and tasty salads that will make sure you don't leave hungry. They also allow bring your own so it's a great cheap and cheerful night out catching up wih friends.

I am a huge Thai food fan and there is little better, than finding a little no frill eatery that…read morecooks food that make you 'umm' and 'arhh' all the way through your meal. My very good friend had just returned home from holiday, so I suggested that we have lunch to catch up. I had head about KaoSarn but had never made time to go and eat there, so I thought what the hey! As we approached we noted that there were tables outside even though it is the early December, however as we got closers we saw that there were blankets on the chair for diners to put over their knees - nice touch! Even so, we opted to sit inside and thankfully we timed it well, and were seated immediately at the last available table. Inside it is small and there a probably around 10 tables so a full house would accommodate approximately between 20 to 25 people maybe at a push 30, that's excluding the outside area. I ordered the spicy deep fired spare ribs (healthy I know) with a prawn red curry to follow, and my friend went with the hot and sour soup to start and a Pad Thai for her main. All the dishes were fantastic and what particularly struck me was how I could tastes all the different notes in each dish and how clean the flavors were. I got chatting with the hostess and she proudly told me that they made, 'real Thai food that you eat at home. Home cooked Thai food!' You had me a lemongrass spare ribs! Another touch that I loved was that the kitchen was open, towards the back of the shop and you could see about four or five chefs making everything from scratch. The best bit for me was that once my food was ready the chef actually brought it out himself, which not only made me feel like I was just dinning at a friends home, it was really humbling on a heart warming way.

KaoSarn - A Haiku…read more People stare at me with their hungry hungry eyes whilst I slowly gorge

This is the best Thai restaurant I've personally been to & definitely the biggest! Being situated…read moreon top of a multistorey carpark doesn't sound like the most romantic setting but does give one quite a different take on inviting someone along! If you want an intimate night out with you beloved (or someone else's!) be prepared for a lot of company - this place seats well over a hundred diners & usually does. This place gets busy! If on foot you can approach from the High St by turning down the alley below The Tudor Rose until you get to the Sydenham Rd carpark. The restaurant has its own lift. Being so high up means you get great views across Guildford including the floodlit cathedral in the evenings. Smokers don't have to return to earth because there is a large outside area with plenty of seating & a covered corner. There's also a large seating space opposite the bar. The restaurant was noted for handing out handheld vibrating plastic buzzers to waiting cutomers - I'm not sure if they still do! Seating so many people, you may question the efficiency of the (many) staff. Fear not, this restaurant runs like clockwork with the waiters & waitresses wearing walky talkies aided by a person outside the kitchen who looks to be checking the orders. The staff have always been very friendly & helpful. There are also enough of them to regularly refil your glasses & attend to you culinary requirements. Now to the most important bit - the food! One word describes it - stunning! So much so, I think this is one of the best restaurants I've ever been to. One thing that stands out is that the Thai Terrace has remained brilliant time & time again. I've been to many restaurants that have been excellent but have failed to met my high expectations on consequent visits. Although not particularly cheap the prices aren't outrageous either.

As I'm not familiar with Guildford, one of my nursing colleagues recommended Thai Terrace to me as…read morea nice venue to meet a friend Its location just off the High Street on the 7th floor of a multi storey car park may not sound the most salubrious. However, the attractions of being so high up are obvious once you're up there (there's a lift if your legs don't fancy the walk up) - you get a lovely view and on the evening I visited, I saw Guildford Cathedral looking all pretty and lit up They've made a real effort to make the rrestaurant feel an oasis from the harsh reality of the concrete car park and the moment you step in, you're greeted with an authentic 'Namaste' from the staff with the traditional Thai hand together greeting. The decor is great, from the Koi pond to the lovely relaxing bar area with lots of comfy sofas. My friend and I were almost too comfortable to want to move through for our meal! We started with grilled chicken with a sweet chilli sauce. The chicken was nicely moist and enhanced by the sauce. The star of our main courses was the mixed seafood dish, which had lovely large pieces of fish, sweet scallops, prawns and squid. We also had a subtly and sympathetically spiced pork with aubergine. The chicken pad thai arrived with a unique lacey crepe covering the noodles. The pad thai was probably the most ordinary of the dishes. A solid Thai restaurant with a great ambiance and lovely view

You'll be hard-pressed to find any oriental restaurants in Blackheath, with the exception of…read moreLaicram, which is tucked away in a side street behind Barclays. Don't be fooled by the decor - the food does not disappoint, and is well priced!!! A definite recommendation for those tired of eating Indian food in Blackheath, and looking for something different. This restaurant is small, and finding free seating between 7PM and 9PM is tricky. In fact I've only been able to find seating after 9:30PM.

Granted there are a lot of Indian restaurants in Blackheath, but the real secret is that there is a…read moregreat little Thai restaurant on the off street across from the rail station called Laicram. It's not big, easy to miss, but worth finding! They have a really good selection of Thai cuisine, have good service and the food is really good! As the place has a limited number of tables and isn't open on Monday's, it does get quite busy post-7:30pm from my experience.

My review is based on a discounted price: Groupon - £20 for £40 worth of sushi…read more Crazy bear reminded me instantly of upscale Vegas. From the outside, the restaurant is glowing with drape curtain lights and no obvious sign. The fact that there is no sign makes it feel like an elite club and seeing the ladies and gentlemen walk in and out of there, it reinforced that feeling. As soon as you step in, it's as if you stepped on the bespoke club from the 1950s - dark, romantic lighting, velvet style seating, steel dimmed lighting secured to the table tops, old vintage wooden walls and cabinets. It's a nice setting for a date, apps with your girlfriends, or even a swanky birthday celebration. My boyfriend and I came with a Groupon voucher for £40 of sushi, sashimi and/or champagne. If we didn't have the Groupon, we wouldn't have come here as the cost of sushi is significantly more expensive than what we'd be comfortable paying for. For just over £40, we ordered a tuna, salmon, dynamite and dream roll - 8 pieces per roll, 32 pieces total. To our surprise, it was as delicious. However, at £9-14 per roll, it's not worth it at full price - perhaps this is just a foreigners opinion as Toronto prices are much more affordable. Putting cost aside, we really enjoyed the restaurant. That is why I gave it a 4*. We were treated well, even though we had a Groupon voucher to use. Our sushi came out at a reasonable time and the rice was just right - not too much, not too little. The service was good, water was refilled and never did we feel like we were less than anyone else eating there because of the groupon and that it was a dry dinner. One thing I really appreciated was when I asked for the restroom. The waiter walked me all the way there and for good reason as the doors were hidden behind a discreet wall door. If you had walked to that corner, you would never have thought that mirror looking wall was actually a door.

This was by far the worst experience I have ever had in a restaurant. My friend had booked Crazy…read moreBear for her 25th birthday celebration for 10 people to have dinner. We were shown to a booth table with a ceiling and back that resembled a crypt and was very clearly for 6 people at maximum. When we brought this up with the manager, we were told that 'Fiona did the booking', not him, and so he couldn't be held responsible and if it were up to him he would never put 10 people in the booth. Despite this, he seated us anyway and told us that there was nowhere else we could sit and reminded us again this was Fiona's fault. When we were all seated and had our drinks, already the table was full without any food on it and it was very uncomfortably hot. As the food started to arrive, the waitress and manager were standing at the end of our table holding food, or passing it to me, leaving me or another of our guests to serve out food. By the end of the dinner we had practically worked a shift as they refused to actually place plates on the table. If this wasn't already bad enough, the waitress then spilled an unidentified drink all over one of our guests meaning her suede boots were covered in a white liquid. There was no apology made by the manager or any sort of offer from a senior member of staff. We then ordered more drinks which we waited 45 minutes for before asking again, at which point we were brought the wrong drinks. Whenever new food came, we had to send other food back without having finished it as there was no physical way it could be placed on the table. 2 of our guests ended up having to put their plates in their laps, and one guest ended up having food spilt all over them as the table was so full. When the £700 bill came, I asked the manager if there was something he could do about the fact that my friend's birthday had been ruined by this meal from the table to the service, and he told me again that it wasn't his problem. After hours of speaking to the general manager where we were never apologised to, we were accused of lying about the amount of people we booked for and we were told that the CCTV would have to be checked to see if our guest 'provoked' the wine spilling, we eventually got some money off the bill. The service we encountered at Crazy Bear was the worst I have ever experienced. It would have been bad enough having to go through this dinner, but what made it truly shambolic was the way senior management deemed it appropriate to deal with complaints. I didn't hear one apology, I was accused of lying multiple times, and every member of staff was simply trying to shift blame. Crazy Bear has always had a good reputation but I would rather be mauled by a crazy bear than return to this place. Please save your money and eat anywhere else.

Really delicious and authentic Thai food! Great location not to far from Peckham Rye station.read more

Some of the tastiest Thai food I have had outside of Thailand:)…read moreMy wife and I were very happy to share 3 small dishes and a whole salt crusted Bream. I love spicy and she doesn't and the meal was able to more than satisfy both of us. A new found London favourite!!

We had dinner at this place which bills itself as "the best Thai food in town," and we cannot argue…read morewith that claim. (Although, to be completely honest, we haven't been to any other ones!!). For starters, we had Paper Prawn (#9) and Crispy Aromatic Duck (#11). Both were excellent. For dinner, we had the Moo Pad Prik (#41) and the Pad Woon Sen (#62) and, once again,. both were outstanding. This is a terrific restaurant and we would happily go there again.

This place is now Pin Thai…read more Terrible service, mediocre food, and they tried to overcharge us twice. We both had variations of fried rice. 2 stars for the food. Nothing special. Asked for soy sauce and hot sauce and got about a tablespoon of each. Sat for a while before our order was taken, then no-one bothered to come make sure the food was good or ask if we needed anything else. When we got the bill they had charged for 2 beers instead of one, then added a 10% "Service Charge"! Service? What service. Made the guy take it off the bill as it was a "voluntary" charge. I don't think so! We won't be going back and I sure as anything wouldn't recommend this place.