Kiln
Thai restaurant · Soho ·
Wood-fired Thai grill specializing in skewers, curries, and noodles
Wood-fired Thai grill specializing in skewers, curries, and noodles
"This Thai spot on Brewer Street continues to be one of the coolest and most exciting restaurants in London. It’s a bun fight seven days a week and polite ruckuses are a standard here, but boy is it worth it. Try and get a place at Kiln’s counter. With a blazing jungle curry in front of you, watching chefs wrangle open flames, and surrounded by those waiting for a seat, you’re reminded of what eating out in Soho should always feel like. Smug, flavour-packed and, most of all, invigorating." - jake missing, heidi lauth beasley, rianne shlebak, sinead cranna, daisy meager
"At Kiln, the heat of the glowing coals pulsates against your head and you won’t find respite in the blazing jungle curry. The Thai restaurant on Brewer Street is walk-in-only and the counter in particular is a bunfight all week, but boy is it worth it. There’s electric laab, aromatic curries, and crab claypot noodles you could eat by the trough. Sitting here, you’re reminded of what eating out in Soho should always feel like: invigorating and brilliant." - jake missing, rianne shlebak, sinead cranna, daisy meager
"Kiln isn’t just the best Thai restaurant in London. It’s one of the best restaurants in London full stop. The bar-cum-counter is where you want to be at this spot on Brewer Street, where the clay pots sizzle on open flames in front of your eyes, and a bead of sweat forms on your forehead as you take another bite of ox heart laab. The changing menu is fully charged, chilli-heavy stuff, and perfect whether you’re with a friend sharing a jungle curry and pork and crab glass noodles, or pitching up on your own." - heidi lauth beasley, jake missing
"“I saw Action Bronson eat there when he came to London. And I was like, ‘if Action eats there, surely it's good.’ Everything they have there is so interesting, so different, mad vibrant. I remember having the greens, the rice, the fish curries. Just like really, really leng. I don't eat pork, so I get the crab noodle without the pork. But the crab noodles are out of this universe. I can eat two of those glass noodles.”" - jake missing
"Fiery, sizzling, blazing, scorching. They’re all fitting words when talking about sitting at Kiln’s counter. The perennially heaving restaurant on Brewer Street has an energy that can only be understood when you’re sat at the bar, head bowed over a smoked kipper jungle curry, with what feels like the entire population of Soho pulsating around you. This British-Thai restaurant takes no prisoners. Its changing menu will see an electric northern laap with pollock one month, before it switches to a pork offal creation. Sit at the counter and watch flames dance over claypots as you sip a crisp beer and know that, if it all gets too much, you can always lean on those lush pork belly and brown crab noodles." - jake missing, rianne shlebak, sinead cranna, heidi lauth beasley