Brother Thai — Restaurant in Great Britain

Firstly, let’s start with the greeting & cleanliness. The bloke who greeted us was polite and courteous, the restaurant was clean and tidy. This is where the positivity ends, I’m afraid. Within a minute or so of entering the restaurant and sitting at our table with the menu, we were ready to order and our order was promptly taken. Our drinks were brought to the table fairly quickly after ordering. After roughly 20 mins of waiting, the waiter came to us and told us that there was a technical issue with the rice cooker and our order would be another 15-20 mins, which was disappointing but ok, it is what it is. After 25 mins, no food has arrived, many more people had arrived at the restaurant by this time. We called the waiter and asked how much longer and he replied “about 5-10 minutes”. My wife was chomping at the bit to abort and leave at this point. 10 mins later, I am also getting impatient and thinking about paying for the drinks and cancelling the food. The waiter than came and apologised for the delay and gave us a free spicy waterfall salad for the inconvenience. Another 10 minutes later, our food started to arrive at the table, starting with the beef roti and then a few minutes later, the Khua Kling. The portions were very small for the high price tag, although it did taste ok and was freshly cooked. Although it was a little spicy, it wasn’t really as spicy as we like it, but didn’t want to ask for any changes and suffer further delays. This is a personal preference so not really the restaurants fault, spice levels are very subjective. Therefore, we just sucked it up and ate it as it came. I did find the spicy beef roti pretty tasty and the roti itself was nice and crispy. All in all, a pretty disappointing visit to Brother Thai, so this will be our first & last visit here unfortunately.

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Had a definitely recommendable experience at Brother Thai.

Between two people, we ordered quite a few dishes to share plus one of the rotis each, which I'll detail below:

Thai fried chicken: This tastes just like the traditional Hat Yai fried chicken, and I'm glad to see this on the menu! A few times I've ordered fried chicken at a Thai restaurant, and it'll just be a spicy fried chicken (which, don't get me wrong, is still great), but this was a very succulent, flavourful and slightly herby plate!

Khua kling: Another thing that I'm excited to see on the menu. Had a good level of spice, and the turmeric flavour came through well! I love how you can get somewhat homestyle stuff here alongside the streetfood.

Spicy waterfall salad: This is like a nam tok without the sliced beef, which may not sound great however alongside the heavier dishes, it was great to have something lighter and more leafy. Very herbaceous and flavourful.

Red curry chicken: This was the more streetfood style dish that we ordered on this menu, and kind of the USP of this place; I thought it was delicious, although perhaps it could have been a touch spicier. My friend also got the sticky, spicy beef roti, which I tried, and that was fantastic.

Overall, make sure to give this place a try, although it is advised to book a table rather...

The interpretation of rotis at brother thai is amazing. Not traditional but can really recommend them!! We also have enjoyed their version of Khao Soi, which is a very special dish from northern Thailand, happy to see it on a menu in the UK! Cocktails are also unique and delicious.

Unfortunately we felt let down by some of the other dishes - and if you're Thai, it's easy to spot the "missing" flavours in certain dishes. For some reason the krapao was heavy on the dark/sweet soy, and light on garlic and fish sauce, which imo is what makes a krapao a krapao. We even requested the filling of the chicken basil roti to be served on rice (we felt that filling really reminded us of a pad krapao, also fyi translated it just means basil stir-fry), but again, we got a krapao that was heavy on the sweet side. Would also be nice to have fish sauce served on the side for the fried egg (small addition that would make a huge difference!). The crispy mushroom salad also lacked flavour (realised in hindsight probably because it is veggie it's made without fish sauce, maybe make that an option?)

Stick to the rotis and Khao soi and you'll have a great dining experience here (I would've rated 3/5 if it wasn't for...