Veteran Australian chef David Thompson has announced his return to the London dining scene, 10 years after the closure of Nahm, the ground-breaking high-quality Thai restaurant he operated from the chic Halkin hotel in Belgravia for a decade. A branch of Long Chim, the casual Thai restaurant he opened first in Perth in 2015, is […]
David Thompson, the Australian chef who brought modern Thai cuisine to London, will be cooking alongside his inheritors in a one-off evening at Som Saa in Spitalfields next month. Thompson ran the elegant and much praised Nahm at the Halkin hotel in Belgravia from 2001 to 2012, and is now based along with the restaurant in Bangkok. More recently he […]
A few week’s ago we reported on the interesting rise of crowd-funded restaurants as several high-profile restaurateurs announced plans to finance their latest ventures this way. We also pointed out that this strategy doesn’t always pay off – just look at the unfortunate case of Viajante. A slam dunk idea one would reckon. It’s a […]
