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Greene King Local Pubs | Greyhound pub in Kensington

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Greyhound Cafe to open in London's Fitzrovia | Culture Whisper

Known for their hip style and modern, quirky take on Thai food, the quintessentially Bangkok Greyhound Cafe has opened with great verve in Fitzrovia.

On opening night, founder of the cult fashion brand and the restaurant group too, Bhanu Inkawat to us that they wanted to do something different with Thai food, as in fashion, giving it a distinctive style of their own.

Some of the staff sported jackets saying "I may not speak Thai but I can recommend good dishes."

The menu itself is a gorgeous work of art, more like a magazine, with stunning highly colourful photography that makes every dish look irresistible.

Crab wok fried rice, a main dish, comes with a hugely generous mound of crab and a somewhat bland broth.

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I’d barely been back from Thailand a week and three people had recommended the Greyhound Café.

The first Greyhound Café opened in Bangkok’s Sukhumvit district, a backpacker-hipster hotspot of trendy hostels, co-working spaces and craft beer joints.

UCL and London College of Fashion students buzz around streets of trendy juice bars and restaurants with ampersands in their names.

Maybe in the Noughties, when we were still perving over Leonardo DiCaprio in The Beach, this would have passed for Thai food.

Those of us who’ve been to Thailand know the real cuisine is street food, eaten with your fingers beside the heat of the grill.

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Part of the issue is that Thai food in London has, in the past couple of years, been taken over by a bunch of British-born cooks, many with beards, who brought back a few things they learnt on their holidays.

There’s a beef massamun in a deep broth heavy with roasted spice and coconut, a long-cooked curry of richly sauced ground pork and a larb of finely diced mushrooms dressed with lime juice, fish sauce and lots of chillies.

Satay of rib-eye is a generous portion of extremely tender beef for £7.80, smoky and seared in all the right places, with a dish of a powerful, chilli-boosted peanut sauce to dredge it through.

We go instead for a slow-cooked herb garden and vegetable broth, which is a Ronseal name for something that tastes like it cares about your welfare: a deep seafood soup, bobbing with fat prawns and vegetables ripped from the ground while still practically foetal.

From the side of the menu costed in the teens come pearly flakes of poached cod, drenched in chilli, lime and fish sauce on a vibrant Asian take on sauerkraut.