Thai fine dining in London has moved a long way from the predictable pad thai and green curry circuit. The city now holds some of the most creative Thai-influenced cooking anywhere outside Bangkok — a Michelin-starred restaurant in Marylebone where no rice appears on the menu, a Bangkok Chinatown canteen in Soho that made Time Out's top four restaurants in London, and a Highbury kitchen that has held a Michelin Bib Gourmand for six consecutive years. This is Thai fine dining London as it stands in 2026. Complex, bold, and worth booking weeks in advance.
Whether you are looking for a tasting menu built on British seasonal ingredients interpreted through Thai technique, or a neighbourhood restaurant that sources its chillies from a Dorset nursery, this guide covers the restaurants that have genuinely earned their reputations. We have verified opening status, checked every website, and included only venues with confirmed real details. For tables at the most in-demand kitchens — where bookings open and close within hours — the PS London dining concierge team holds relationships that can secure access you will not find through standard booking platforms.
- AngloThai, Marylebone — London's only Michelin-starred Thai restaurant, no rice on the menu, built entirely on British seasonal produce
- Speedboat Bar, Soho and Notting Hill — Bangkok Chinatown canteen energy, Time Out Top 4 London restaurant, wok-fired dishes from a Dorset herb nursery
- Farang, Highbury — Six-year Michelin Bib Gourmand holder, chef Sebby Holmes, Thai Select Embassy-certified, feasting menus from £65pp
- Som Saa, Shoreditch — Reopened after a kitchen fire, long-running cult favourite for northern Thai and Isaan cooking in East London
- Kruk, Peckham — 2026 Michelin Bib Gourmand, railway arch, unapologetically spicy southern Thai dishes, nothing over £19
- A quick-reference comparison table, booking lead times, and pricing across all five venues
| Restaurant | Location | Award | Style | Approx. Price | Book Via |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AngloThai | Marylebone, W1H | ★ Michelin 2025 | Thai-British tasting menu | £65 lunch / £125 dinner | anglothai.co.uk |
| Speedboat Bar | Soho, W1 + Notting Hill, W11 | Time Out Top 4 | Bangkok Chinatown canteen | £25–£45pp à la carte | speedboatbar.co.uk |
| Farang | Highbury, N5 | Bib Gourmand ×6 | Modern Thai, seasonal British | £65pp feasting menu | faranglondon.co.uk |
| Som Saa | Shoreditch, E1 | Michelin Guide | Northern Thai & Isaan | £35–£55pp | PS London concierge |
| Kruk | Peckham, SE15 | Bib Gourmand 2026 | Southern Thai, railway arch | Under £19 per dish | PS London concierge |
6 of London's Best Thai Fine Dining Restaurants in 2026
London's Thai dining scene splits cleanly into two camps. The first is the fine dining end — tasting menus, Michelin stars, and kitchens that treat Thai cooking as a serious culinary discipline rather than a delivery menu fallback. The second is the best-in-class casual end, where a railway arch in Peckham or a Soho dive bar serves food at a standard that most formal restaurants cannot match. The restaurants below span both, because the question of where to eat Thai food in London well is not answered by price point alone.
★ Michelin Star 2025
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AngloThai
AngloThai arrived permanently in November 2024 after years of pop-ups, residencies, and a site deal that fell through once before. The wait paid off. Within months of opening at 22 Seymour Place in Marylebone, chef John Chantarasak's debut restaurant had earned a Michelin star — recognition that confirmed what the supperclub crowd had known for years. John is half-Thai, half-British, trained at Cordon Bleu Bangkok and the acclaimed Nahm under David Thompson. His wife Desiree runs front-of-house and oversees a wine list that favours natural producers from Austria and Germany, chosen specifically because cooler-climate wines carry the acidity Thai food demands.
The cooking here is singular. No rice on the menu. No Asian imports where British alternatives exist — chillies, galangal, and fish sauce are sourced or produced in-house from UK growers. What this produces is Thai fine dining that feels unmistakably British in its ingredient story but entirely Thai in its flavour structure: the salty, sweet, spicy, sour balance that defines the cuisine applied to Brixham crab, Hebridean hogget, and chalk stream trout. A massaman curry with hogget and black fig, a Carlingford oyster with sea buckthorn and fermented chilli, raw venison eaten by hand — this is cooking that takes risks and lands them. The private dining room Baan, named after the Thai word for home, seats up to 16 guests below the main restaurant and is available for private dining in London through PS London.
| Address | 22–24 Seymour Place, Marylebone, London W1H 7NL |
| Award | Michelin Star 2025, National Restaurant Awards — Opening of the Year 2025 |
| Format | Tasting menu only — £65 lunch, £125 dinner, £95 wine pairing |
| Covers | 50 above, 16 in private dining room (Baan) |
| Dietary | Vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian tasting menu options available |
| Note | Cannot accommodate: alliums, citrus, coconut, coriander, rapeseed oil, chilli |
Time Out Top 4 London
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Speedboat Bar
Speedboat Bar does not look like a fine dining restaurant. That is precisely the point. The ceiling of the Rupert Street site is hung with actual Thai speedboats. There is a pool table upstairs, TVs showing Muay Thai reruns, and a late licence until 1am on weekends. The music is loud. The rooms are packed. And the cooking — from chef Luke Farrell — ranked fourth in Time Out's 50 Best Restaurants in London in 2024, a list that includes every Michelin-starred kitchen in the capital. This is Thai-Chinese food in the style of Bangkok's Yaowarat Road, where Chinese and Thai flavours collide in neon-lit street-level restaurants that have been perfecting the same dishes for decades.
Farrell trained in Spanish-Italian kitchens before spending years cooking across Southeast Asia. He runs a herb nursery in Dorset — Ryewater — where he grows the chillies, makrut lime leaves, galangal, and other ingredients used across all his London restaurants. The menu is deliberately concise: around 20 dishes, all à la carte, focused on wok-fired stir fries, fragrant curries, drunken noodles, and zingy salads. The signature Tom Yam Mama is a nod to Bangkok's Yaowarat original — instant noodles elevated with roasted pork, squid, limes, and long-leaf coriander into something properly exceptional. Since summer 2025, Speedboat Bar at The Electric has been open on Portobello Road in Notting Hill, doubling availability for one of the hardest tables to get in London. Both sites take reservations for groups up to 12 and are well-suited for corporate dining and group entertaining.
| Locations | 30 Rupert St, Soho W1D 6DL & 191 Portobello Rd, Notting Hill W11 2ED |
| Accolades | Time Out Top 4 London restaurants 2024, JKS Restaurants group |
| Format | À la carte. No set menu required for groups under 7. £36pp set menu for 7+ |
| Price range | £25–£45pp food. Singha towers and cocktails additional |
| Hours | Mon–Thu & Sun: 12pm–11pm. Fri–Sat: 12pm–1am |
Michelin Bib Gourmand ×6
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Farang
Farang started in 2015 when Sebby Holmes began trading Thai food from the boot of his car at London street markets. A year later he took up residency in Highbury, the reviews followed immediately, and he has not left. What has grown around him is one of London's most consistent restaurants — six consecutive Michelin Bib Gourmand awards, four years of the Thai Select Embassy certification for authentic ingredients, a spot in the National Restaurant Awards top 100, and two cookbooks. Holmes trained in British kitchens before spending years in Southeast Asia, working at The Begging Bowl under Jane Alty and then Smoking Goat in Soho before launching his own concept.
The cooking at Farang balances loyalty to flavour over strict authenticity. Each dish draws from the regional diversity of Thailand — the coconut-rich curries of the South, the fermented, herb-heavy dishes of the North, the sour-and-spicy Isaan tradition from the Northeast — and applies the best of each to whatever is in season in the UK. Beer-battered chicken thighs in a sticky fish sauce glaze, salted turmeric prawns, whole sea bass with raspberry nahm jim, tiger prawn gaeng gari. The feasting menu at £65 per person lets you work through the kitchen's strongest dishes in a single sitting and is the recommended way to eat here, particularly for groups. For private hire and events, the Farang team also caters off-site across North London and beyond.
| Address | 72 Highbury Park, London N5 2XE |
| Awards | Michelin Bib Gourmand 2019–2026, Thai Select 2-star (2025), NRA Top 100 |
| Format | À la carte or feasting menu — £65pp sharing |
| Hours | Wednesday–Saturday, 12:00–21:00. Closed Sunday–Tuesday |
| Events | Private hire available on and off-site. Contact events@faranglondon.co.uk |
Three More Thai Restaurants in London Worth Knowing in 2026
Beyond the top three, London's Thai dining landscape continues to deliver strong options across the city. A Michelin Bib Gourmand awarded in 2026 to a Peckham railway arch. A Shoreditch institution that has survived a kitchen fire and returned stronger. And the second Thai restaurant to earn Bib Gourmand recognition in the 2026 guide cycle. These are not backup options. They are destinations in their own right.
Michelin Guide 2026
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Som Saa
Som Saa has been one of the benchmarks for serious Thai cooking in London since its early days as a pop-up. The permanent site on Commercial Street focuses on the less-represented regional traditions of Thailand — northern dishes with fermented flavours, Isaan cooking with intense dried chilli heat, and herbs that most London Thai restaurants do not bother sourcing. A kitchen fire forced a temporary closure in 2025 but Som Saa returned and was immediately re-added to Time Out's 50 Best Restaurants list. Book through PS London for assistance with reservations.
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Bib Gourmand 2026
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Kruk
Kruk earned its Michelin Bib Gourmand in the 2026 guide on the back of what the Michelin inspectors described as a "knack for balancing flavours" and vibrant southern Thai cooking that does not pull punches on heat. The restaurant sits under a railway arch in Peckham, runs a short menu focused on southern Thai dishes, and keeps pricing honest — the most expensive dishes, including the duck mussaman curry and southern yellow Gati curry, come in at £19. This is the Michelin Guide recognising that exceptional Thai cooking in London does not require a formal dining room or a tasting menu. For assistance booking, contact the PS London concierge.
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Bib Gourmand 2026
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Singburi
Singburi built its following in Leytonstone over years of consistent, well-priced Thai cooking before relocating to Shoreditch, where it was immediately awarded a Michelin Bib Gourmand in the 2026 guide. The Michelin Guide specifically highlighted the restaurant as part of the broader trend of East and Southeast Asian cooking earning greater recognition in London. The menu covers tiger prawn and cucumber curry, raw beef larb, grilled wild ginger chicken thigh, and smoked pork belly Panang — all at prices between £6 and £14.50. The Shoreditch site occupies a space that fits the restaurant's no-frills identity while delivering cooking that has now been formally recognised by the most respected restaurant guide in the world. Book via the PS London dining team.
Book Through PS LondonBooking Thai Fine Dining in London: What You Need to Know
Thai fine dining in London operates across a wide range of booking dynamics. AngloThai releases tables directly through its own website and fills quickly — Thursday to Saturday evenings go within hours of opening. Speedboat Bar now has two London sites and takes reservations online for groups up to 12, which significantly improves access compared to earlier years when walk-ins were the only option. Farang is open only Wednesday to Saturday, runs 50 covers, and fills predictably on weekends. The newer Bib Gourmand venues — Kruk and Singburi — have grown rapidly in profile since the 2026 guide announcement and require more planning than their pricing might suggest.
For all six restaurants featured here, the PS London dining concierge can assist with securing reservations, coordinating group bookings, and arranging private dining experiences where available. For occasions where availability has closed through standard channels, our team's direct relationships with venues represent the most reliable route to a confirmed table.
Need a Table You Cannot Get Yourself?
The best Thai restaurants in London fill fast — AngloThai, Farang, and the newer Bib Gourmand venues all operate at capacity most weekends. PS London's dining team holds direct relationships with venues across the city and secures bookings that are no longer visible through standard platforms. From a last-minute table for two to a private dining experience for sixteen, our concierge team handles every detail.
