Thai Square Strand in London

This location of a chain of Thai restaurants welcomes people into its bright and airy surrounds. Although not being as busy as I would’ve expected a place so central for a Saturday night, small parties of people continued to constantly arrive throughout our stay.

The menu offers a very standard selection of Thai dishes, everything from the classic fried starters, soups, salads to the noodle, rice and curry dishes. We tried the mixed starters and for £9.95 it offers very good value with enough to actually be probably satisfy a light meal. The other dishes aren’t too expensive with most of the curries between £6-£8. Where they do get you though is the small bowl of rice at £1.80 per person.

Personally I was disappointed with the Pad Kee Mao (Thai drunken noodle) that, while typically spicy, seemed to have a bit of an off flavour from other places I’ve had it. Fortunately we had the Penang curry to offset it.

Most of the attendants gave us reasonable service – nothing too in your face, although we did have to ask for more water and the bill.

Thai Square is a reasonable place to go out and dine with a large group of people, though it’s probably not the best Thai I’ve had around town.