Kanok Thai Restaurant — Restaurant in Great Britain

The Earth and Stars used to be one of our favourite destinations for a superb Sunday roast. The standard and quality of the food was spectacular (and, indeed, award winning). Having eaten here a few times during the week since it's change of management a couple of years ago I felt confident I would not be disappointed. Unfortunately, I'm afraid I was. We decided to eat here on Sunday with out of town friends. The general ambience and service were wonderful, what great staff! Efficient, friendly and very welcoming. I could not fault them. The menu looked very promising, although there were only 3 choices of meat for roasts, with the rather surprising absence of lamb, considering the time of year. There were, however a number of other options including vegan, vegetarian and gluten free choices. All members of our party opted for beef and pork between us, which arrived very quickly with a good selection of vegetables. First impressions were that the portions were a good size, but not huge, with a large part of the plate taken up by a big Yorkshire pudding and swimming in gravy. The beef was ok, but disappointing, not great, slightly overcooked. The pork was, however, delicious, with an impressive piece of crispy crackling. The vegetables were all nice, with the exception of the roast potatoes, which wouldn't win any prizes I'm afraid. They had that heated up from cold taste and feel about them, as did the Yorkshire pudding. Then we come to the gravy......there was certainly plenty of it, but sadly that's the only positive point. It looked thin and it tasted thin. There was very little depth or quality of flavour to it at all. The stars of the show on any roast dinner are the meat, the roast potatoes and the gravy.......unfortunately in this particular case they were all decidedly lack-lustre. It felt like their cooking needed a bit more love and care. This meal was perfectly edible and had some very good points, but was sadly generally rather uninspiring. We didn't want desserts, but had we decided to would have been rather disappointed as there was only one choice left on the menu, which, considering we were there relatively early in the day felt like bad planning. All in all a very average meal, made up for to an extent by the lovely service. I will no doubt eat here again during the week, but don't feel inspired to bother with the roast again. ...

Went to this restaurant but it was a through disappointment. The service was very slow given that there was one waiter who seemed to be prioritising people that came in after us who were walk-ins rather than us who had pre booked our table. We waited an eternity only to order our drinks to be told 10 minutes later they did not have our wine so we ordered another. The waiter then went away and took someone else’s food order who had come in after us and we never got the wine as we made the decision that having been there for 30 minutes already without our food order having been taken, nor having received the wine that we would go somewhere else where they actually gave a damn about their customers and served promptly. Having had the opportunity to scan the menu for w0 minutes the menu didn’t have a lot of choice available and some of the dishes seemed very expensive for what they had in them. Needless to say, we won’t be returning. There are better Thai restaurants in Brighton such as Thai Pad Thai that have more choice, are less expensive and the...

Small café style Thai with friendly service and superb food.

The seemingly bog standard menu and café interior, doesn't really tell you about the quality of food here. I found it a cut above other Thai places in the area. We had the seafood grill, which had suculent, tastfull king prawns, juicy squid and perfect green muscles. The Pad Thai had an unusual egg basket over the top. Some might find the Pad Thai too sweet, but I really liked it. The spicy duck could be adjusted to your specific spice tolerance, and I wish I had asked for mine a bit hotter, but the duck was tender and they did an excellent job of making a tamarind based sauce blend in with cherry tomatoes and green beans. The sticky rice was a good portion size and perfectly cooked. Lots of menu options have a tofu alternative, and a sign clearly states that dietary requirements can be catered for - aces! Our Thai rosé wine was ace too. Best of all our waiter was patient with our small. For me, this Thai eatery beats Street...