Sukho Thai Cuisine

ben_e_h

very good food 12th September 2008

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The food here is excellent, with a few very interesting twists on the standard Thai dishes. I had a very tasty duck main. The wine recommended was very pleasant and fairly well priced. The atmosphere was friendly and the restaurant itself is quite cosy and you therefore get the feeling that your experience is important to them, compared to the bigger restaurants around anyway. The staff were polite and courteous. The restaurant is on a busy cross roads and you are aware of this if you sit at the window. The meal came to £110 for two with wine and two courses, which is probably about right for the meal. One of the nicest Thai restaurants in Fulham, highly recommended.

coldclimate

Quiet, polite and ver very tasty 22nd September 2007

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A few years ago now London seemed to suddenly be covered in Thai restaurants. No bad thing at all in my book. Sukho is very like many other Thai restaurants, very polite (very), quiet, and extremely good food.

A friend and I went without a booking on Friday night, and were seated easily enough. The menu contains nothing that unusual, and isn't vastly extensive,but everything we ordered was excellent. I stared with "fresh spring rolls", an interesting variation on the greasy deep-fried variety. These were much fatter, and cut into inch long slices, and not fried. Instead they were served cold, stuffed with cold cooked prawn and crab, with lemon-grass wrapped around them to hold them together. A thick peanuty-seameseed sauce came with them, which was good enough to justify dipping a craved cucumber decoration into once the rolls were finished. My friend had "traditional spring rolls", which were either whole king prawns wrapped in spring roll wrappers and deepened, or stuffed with bean sprouts and ginger. Excellent they were too.

Our main courses were pad Thai and a red Thai curry with king prawns and steamed rice. Unadventurous we admit, but once again, excellent. The pad Thai was chunky and not overcooked as is can often be. Many times it appears looking more like chow mein, but here the noodles remained their firm texture and apparently it was excellent. I didn't get a chance to pinch any.

My Thai red curry was deliciously spiced, with the sauce not been too hot, instead the heat came from sliced red chilies in the dish. These could easily have been sifted out by somebody who didn't want the heat, which is far preferable to having a sauce which contains the heat. The king prawns were huge and juicy, the veg' still crisp and holding its shape. The dish had obviously been constructed to order, rather than being served up from a Ban-marie as I had had it in other places. The fragrant steamed rice was wonderful, with a light jasmine scent and sticky whiteout being glutinous. It wasn't served in a shrink wrapped bundle fresh from the microwave either, as I have had it in one place.

The bill for two, included a couple of beers each, starter course and main, and a bottle of sparkling water was under £60, making it far from the cheapest dinner out, but excellent value for money. The food was superb, the service impeccable, polite and friendly without being cloying. Our drinks rarely got lower than an inch below the rim, but I didn't notice them being refilled, it just happened.

Not somewhere to go with a group of 10 for a dinner party, not after a few beers, but a really great place to enjoy the food and catch up with somebody you've not seen in a long time.