Good for a quick cheap night out. Very nice staff, nice food, expectations are not high but the food does not disappoint. Not the tastiest thai I have eaten, but it is honest food for a great price in a very bubbly area.
I've been in this place a hundred of times already and I will be back! Most of the time I order Tom Yum Goong soup which is absolutely delicious
I have been here on three separate occasions and I have not had a bad meal here. In fact, I have not had anything but earthshakingly good Thai food. The menu is small but because of its size I think it's virtually impossible to make a bad or even mediocre choice here. If you haven't been, just go - you will not regret it.
Brilliant new Thai in Brixton. Kaosarn has been generating quite a lot of buzz recently, including a very positive review from Jay Rayner in The Observer.
Believe! It's a really small, friendly restaurant serving very fresh, tasty and well-cooked food. Make sure you have both starters and mains - all the ones I've tried were absolutely delicious.
It's part of the Brixton Village market, so it's only open in the evening towards the end of the week (Thursday onwards). No booking, no licence, so turn up early (or be prepared to queue, and bring a bottle if you want to drink alcohol.
We decided to get one of the salads and two mains to share- all at the same time of course as is customary in Thailand.
My mistrust of certain cuisines being cooked well in London restaurants has left me either missing out completely or just eating my favourite foods on a very in frequent basis. The Mexican revolution that happened what, last year. Yes, I was the only one who never went to certain joints to try their tacos and wraps. Mexican food does not travel well. It should. Like any other complicated cuisine it just takes time and a bit of love to reproduce those wonderful dishes. But for some reason all we get here is a slap dash bad reproduction churned out to the masses as gourmet food. Tacos are not gourmet food. You go to Mexico and tacos are less than 10p each and sold on street corners as a quick snack. Thai food, also has that same feeling with me. I love Thai food, in Thailand, just not over awed with it here in London. Although I have found a few places that I think do a pretty bloody good job of recreating another great food on these shores. Kaosarn is another exponent of this. I'd been
Assuming my maths isn't wrong, Kaosarn has the proud honour of being the 100th London eatery to feature in my blog. And it's entirely fitting that somewhere like this Thai café gets that accolade. Whilst I really can't be that arsed to write about eating out in London nowadays, I will always blog about inexpensive unpretentious indies like Kaosarn. Especially when they have noodles on the menu! I did consider going for Kaosarn's signature dish of gai yang khao neaw som tum (£11.50) â" but I wasn't hungry enough to take on this combination of half a grilled chicken, sticky rice and som tum. Instead I plumped for soup noodles in the form of kuay tiew tom yum Bangkok style (£6.90) . The most important aspect of any soup noodle dish is the soup. And in this case, the tom yum soup was bang on the money, with deep hot and sour flavours seemingly sans any artificial enhancements. After that, it's imperative that the noodles are properly done, and I'm pleased to report that the sli
On my way home from a pleasant, cheap but ultimately disappointing meal at Kaosarn I texted a friend, sympathising with her similar experience a few weeks back. "Did you ask for authentic spicing?" she replied, and immediately a conversation we'd had around that time came flooding back - namely that Kaosarn will up the heat to face-burningly authentic levels if - and crucially only if - you ask. Naturally, I was annoyed I'd forgotten this bit of advice but annoyed not just with myself - why is getting more authentic (and by all accounts better) spicing incumbent upon the customer to happen to know to ask for it? Why didn't our waitress, when we'd made our selections, pro-actively offer at least the option of the hot stuff? Having to go through hoops to get better food from restaurants reluctant to serve the "authentic" dishes to anyone who looks Western (or otherwise) enough not to appreciate it is a depressing feature of dining out in London, and yet it doesn't need to be like this. M
The Food Connoisseur
+3.5
I got Gai Yang, Khao Neaw, Som Tum, as I fancied salad and some chicken and rice. A perfection combination of traditional sticky rice served in a bamboo basket and a half grilled chicken with green papaya salad. The green papaya salad hit the spot perfectly, a mixture of beans sprouts, green beans, chilli, carrots tossed in a sweet and sour dressing, on top of crispy iceberg lettuce with roasted peanuts. The grilled chicken came in a luminous yellow colour, with edges of charcoal brown from being grilled. Three big pieces lay alongside each other, chopped so neatly it still lined up together. Accompanying the chicken and sticky rice was two dipping sauce, one a sweet chilli one and the other green onions, chilli pepper seeds.
Very good food, it arrived in good time and hot. The atmosphere was good too, I had spring roll, chicken satay and pad Thai.
The food here was delicious! Proper Tom yum and the papaya salad were our favourites, the massaman was yummy too. It all tasted really authentic. We went on a Friday night so the service wasn’t as great as we would have liked. We were left waiting quite a while as they were dealing with a lot of take away orders. That would be my only negative though! Cash only, there’s a free cash point around the corner & BYOB but there’s a bar opposite and loads of shops around where you can get whatever you like. Overall, proper tasty, Thai food 😋.
This place was lovely. Got seated immediately on a busy Saturday afternoon. Food was hot, generously portioned and reasonably priced (around £10 a main, £5-6 a starter). Most importantly it was tasty. I really enjoyed my noodle soup and the papaya salad. They don't serve alcohol at the moment but allow you to bring your own with a small price for corkage.
Amazing service from the team accommodating our large group for a BYO dinner. Set menu was delicious, they made sure our gluten free and vegan friends had options too. Very attentive and food was so good!
Delicious food and quick service for a nice easy dinner out. Atmosphere is fantastic as well being in the middle of brixton!
Amazing food and efficient friendly service . I had the prawn green curry and I loved it . Will be definitely coming again and again .
Lovely mummy food. Brixton village
Not disappointed in the food. Good value, BYOB. Located in the heart of Brixton village.
Staff were friendly, fast service. Cash only FYI.
Good spot for Thai food. Very tasty and affordable. Place is cash only, no booze but you can bring your own and pay corkage.
One of the best Thais
restaurants in London. Food is delicious, with a homemade flare, good portions that won’t break the bank. The place doesn’t sell alcohol but allows to BYO. Our favourites are the prawn red curry and chicken green curry.
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