Kin - London

Finally found a khao soi that stands up to the ones we tasted in Chiang Mai! Really fantastic broth and tender chicken, nice buildable heat ask for extra mustard greens. The noodles are rice noodles which is incorrect for khao soi, and the fried noodles on top were not crispy enough, but I was so happy with the flavor of the broth I didn’t mind much. Really rich and flavorful coconut sorbet for dessert as well (we like to add peanuts on top). Other food was okay, but I’d come back for the khao soi.

Thoroughly agree with one of the comments below. The food is really excellent but the experience of eating here is made less enjoyable by being given the starters and the main courses all at once. You then find yourself eating the starter really quickly before the main course gets cold. And the table is uncomfortably crowded with dishes. I also dislike having to use an app to view the menu.

I've been loving and using this place now at least once a week for over 6 months. I have issues finding food I like and once I found here I was really happy. Today was rather strange though. I order through deliveroo as I'm disabled, and always order my green curry with prawns. This was not an option on the deliveroo menu so I always ask for that in the comment box. Always been fine. Today they phoned up and quite angrily garbled that they could not do prawns in the curry, and would instruct all staff not not allow me to have this in future. They said something about changing the price. But hung up abruptly and rudely. This is fine if they want to change the price, I will pay it. But to call up and angrily berate my partner who wasn't even the one who ordered the food... It just seems rude. I'm such a loyal customer and love their food. But I won't be returning after this bizarre situation.

This is a great Thai restaurant, and although the menu is pretty traditional, the flavour is excellent and portions fairly large, on that basis alone I’d definitely recommend a visit as one of the better Thai restaurants I’ve been to in London. Other reviewers have complained about the overly attentive waiting staff, and it’s fair to say you do see a lot of them, including clearing plates throughout the meal which is a little odd. So I’d avoid this place if you want to have a deep conversation, but for casual dining it’s not the end of the world and in fairness the staff are incredibly friendly. One other weird feature of this restaurant is that they bring starters and mains at the same time. While they do explain this when you order, it seems like a kitchen geared up for takeaway which can’t be bothered adapting to phased table service. To be clear, it’s understandable in small plates (e.g. tapas) restaurants to receive each dish as it comes, but this is not that you will literally get two plates of spring rolls/dim sum alongside two large bowls of Pad Thai. The waitress also warns you in their introduction that you should give them 10 15 minutes warning before you need the bill (it didn’t take that long in reality). This again gives a bit of an impression that the service is set up for the convenience of the staff rather than the customers. There appeared to be plenty of front of house staff and the restaurant is quite small, so I’m not sure why all these accommodations from customers are needed. I stress this point because this really is a great restaurant, that has just made some annoying choices with how they serve their excellent food. It’s still a four star place, with potential.

Someone came over to the table every 5 minutes to take plates, shove the card reader on the table, and actually argue with us when we said we'd just like a bit of time to relax and chat without interruption. Hospitality and good food this is not!