5 Best Thai Restaurants in London (2026)

Speedboat Bar is a Soho restaurant serving street-food-style Thai dishes, with a second branch on Portobello Road. It skips the usual pad Thai and green curry in favour of dishes like naem fried rice, tom yum, and sizzling seafood, cooked in a lively, packed room with a pool table upstairs. It stays open until 1am on Fridays and Saturdays, making it one of the few genuine late-night Thai kitchens in central London.

Patara Knightsbridge is one of four London branches of Patara, a Thai restaurant group with a longer history of formal Thai dining in the city. It has earned a Thai Select award and serves a fuller menu spanning Southern crispy chicken wings, king prawn pad Thai, and pineapple prawn curry, alongside a dedicated Thai iced tea selection. The Knightsbridge branch takes reservations and is set up for sit-down dinners rather than quick bites.

Plaza Khao Gaeng Tottenham Court Road is one of three London branches of Plaza Khao Gaeng, a restaurant built around Southern Thailand's coast-to-jungle cooking style. Khao gaeng means curry over rice, and the menu leans into Southern specialities like fried sea bream salad, massaman curry, and stir-fried pork with chillies, all noticeably spicier than the central Thai dishes most London menus default to. It sits above the Arcade food hall near Tottenham Court Road station with its own separate entrance.

Rosa's Thai Soho is the Dean Street branch of the Rosa's Thai group, which began as a pop-up noodle shop in 2010 before expanding across London. The Soho location sits between Chinatown and the West End's bars and shops, making it a popular pre-theatre or lunch-break stop, and its menu covers classic dishes from Pad Thai noodles to massaman beef curry. It also runs a private dining space for up to 15 guests and a Feast Menu for larger groups.

Thai Square Trafalgar Square is the flagship location of the Thai Square group, sitting directly on Cockspur Street facing Trafalgar Square. It occupies a split-level space with a spiral staircase connecting the main floor to a mezzanine, and it opens 365 days a year including Christmas Day. The menu covers familiar Thai mainstays like green curry, Thai omelette, and stir-fried cashew chicken, aimed at a mix of tourists, theatregoers and central London office workers.