Patara

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Patara

  • June 28, 2002
  • Rated 4 of 5 by food&fun from Truckee, California
This elegant little restaurant is more upscale than most Thai restaurants, and more expensive as well. However, it was one of the best meals we had in London, and we'd go back again.

We started with green mango salad with shredded chicken, and shrimp in a mildly spicy dressing. We always order pad Thai (Thai noodles), using it as the "gold standard" to compare restaurants. It was a little gooey and more sweet than we like, but it was served with humungous butterflied prawns, which set it apart from most. We also tried the prik khing (green bean curry), another Thai stand-by. It was unique -- it had what seemed like deep fried English bacon in it, which was coated with a mildly spicy barbecue sauce. Strange, but good. We just had to try the wild boar with water spinach in a coconut milk curry. It disappointed only because it just tasted like ordinary domestic pork, but the curry was good. I ordered lemongrass tea, refreshing and gingery, a perfect foil for the food. The food was nowhere near as spicy as other Thai food, I've had. Even the dishes the server warned us were hot were not.

There is another branch of the restaurant at 9 Beauchamp Pl., London SW3, phone 0171 581 8820. (There are also branches in Geneva and Singapore.)

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