Brighton Forum: Thai Food

We really like chameleon. They have a restaurant in western road and one a 5 ways. Lovely food and very reasonable prices.

Thai Spice was my fav (is it still open - in Boyces St?)

I liked Sawadee in KT, and i liked Street Thai in the Lanes, but actually the best ive had was at Tookta's Cafe.

There are so many Thai's in town now (King & I, Sukhothai, Giggling Squid, Sabai Thai).

Giggling Squid is getting very good comments from folk I know but I've not been myself as rarely eat Thai for dinner in Brighton, in fact never. I've used Sabai a good few times for lunch and find it's good value, the food and service is definitely very good but it's a small place in cafe style, very informal so perhaps not best for a special evening out if that's what you seek, but if passing for lunch it gets my vote. If visiting for dinner myself I'd book Giggling Squid.

Stoofer

P.S. I should add that friends go to the Hove Branch of 'The Squid' , I think it's a bigger restaurant.

Stoofer

I used to go to The Giggling Squid a lot, but the last couple of times gave me an upset stomach, and a friend of mine had the same thing happen to her the other week, so I've gone off it, rather. <_<

I went to the Hove "Squid" last year and the food was ok, not exceptional and the squid we had was tough and inedible. Bit of a joke if you base your name around a dish you can't cook! We used to go to Thai Spice a lot, but as their popularity grew, so did the cost of the meal. For example, where once you would get the sea bream with rice, you had to order the rice separately. Have to say though, the food there was consistently good. I did have a bit of a disappointment with the crispy duck with tamarind which sounded lovely, but wasn't crispy at all and not as flavoursome as hoped for. Everything else though was tasty.

Two good Thai restaurants are the Thai Connection its in Hove and the Red Snapper which is just off Western road. Both do good thai food. I have not been to the giggling squid in a while but was not impressed last time I went.

The Green Mango is also very good, the food is great and I always like the atmosphere in there!