The Wrestlers Pub — Restaurant in Cambridge

It was a Friday night and we had a craving for Thai food. Having not eaten out in Cambridge for many years we consulted Google and The Wrestlers had the best review - 4.4 / 5.0. We decided that this was the place to go and jumped in a taxi out of town.

We arrived at about 5 minutes to 9 and were told that the kitchen was shutting at 9 - slightly disappointing, particularly given that it was Friday evening. We were given menus and told that if we ordered quickly that they could serve us.

Then came the second disappointment, actually a rather limited menu for a Thai restaurant. No starters, meaning no spring rolls, ribs or chicken satay. There also wasn't any Green Papaya Salad which is one of my favourite Thai dishes. Needing to order quickly we went to the bar and ordered a Beef Red Thai Curry and a Beef Noodle Soup.

The next disappointment was that the food arrived at the table about 3 minutes after ordering, we barely had a chance to open the wine before it arrived. It was obvious that this couldn't have been made fresh and tasting it reaffirmed this. Very tough beef in both of the dishes that had obviously been pre-cooked and then re-boiled quickly to get the dishes out. Apart from that, the curry wasn't offensive, but distinctly average. The noodle soup looked like what you pick out of the plug hole at the end of service and again didn't hit you with the fresh flavours that you expect from a good noodle soup - most of this went back to the kitchen.

Finally, being a pub as well, there were a group of football louts drinking in there, generally being obnoxious and loud. Whilst I can't blame the venue for this it's worth considering that this is a risk when going.

All in all, a pretty disappointing experience and I have no idea how it has such good reviews. Limited menu, below average food and certainly not worth travelling out...

Thai Pub

Reviewing the Cambridge pubs therefore entered this pub.

It's a pub with very limited starters. Not even satay skewers and fish cakes?

The rice noodles, both the stir fry and soup, were broken mostly. So I need to use a spoon or fork rather than chopsticks to eat.

The beef were just basic, the beef in the curry and soup noodle were identical in shape and texture.

The portions of the dishes were generally small. It reflects from the prices I guess.

The environment and toilets were clean. The staff were nice and helpful.

As a restaurant with a Thai menu, the food was not as good as Giggling Squid or Luk Thai.

But as a pub, it's impressive to see it doing something different rather than just pub classics. Or customers might forget and...

We arrived at the Pub at 1.30pm yesterday afternoon, and went inside, where our host was waiting for us, at the bar, when he saw us we all went to a table to sit down, after a few minutes, a waiter came to our table and took our order, we ordered, two Thai Green Curries and one Vegetable dish with baby corn, sugar snap peas, beansprouts and noodles with sticky rice, as we all were waiting for our orders to come, our waiter came back to our table with our starter with were two wooden bowls of prawn crackers with two small dishes of sweet and sour dipping sauce, which we eat and they were all very good, when our mains came they were very good, as we had eaten here before, we knew what to expect, overall the service, and food...