Kaosarn - London

Brilliant new thai in brixton. kaosarn has recently produced quite a lot of buzz, including a very positive review by jay rayner in the observer believes! it is a very small, friendly restaurant with very fresh, tasty and well cooked food. make sure that they were both beginner and most of all all I tried were absolutely delicious. it is part of the brixton village market, so it is only open in the evening towards the end of the week (on Thursday). no booking, no license, so they get up early (or ready to delete, and bring them a bottle if they 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.

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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 **** 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 cafà 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) †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