"This Thai restaurant, situated in a residential side street off east Oxford’s diverse Cowley Road, proudly boasts that diners need to book three months in advance. There’s normally a couple of seats at the bar held back for walk-ins. The food, from chef Laddawan Thurston, specialises in innovative takes on traditional Thai cuisine, and the confit duck panang is justly famous, although make sure to leave space for an exquisite Portuguese-influenced custard tart." - Alexander Larman