GRAB Everyday Thai Food

All around meh experience at Grab… from the moment I ordered my food (white rice, chicken kaprow stir fry) it all went wrong. The food I received was a brown rice, soggy chicken kaprow that was either sitting for hours or just isn’t made with good ingredients. Fatty chicken thighs and very little veggies didn’t help things. To top it off, as I love fish sauce dressing, I asked if I could order a side of it (like the sides they give with their vermicelli salad) and somehow they couldn’t spare any extra, even when I offered to pay.
All in all, not a great experience and definitely will be checking out the numerous other options in the area for lunch next time.

Small place with a few tables on a mezzanine level and the kitchen downstairs. It is mainly a takeaway joint but the seating meant we could eat in the warm straight away.
Clean and tidy with a small menu and pleasant staff. It was not busy at all at just after 12 on a Monday. Portions were generous and tasty, plenty of meat and not too much chilli — you can pick out the fresh red chillis if you’re cautious like me. A box of Pad Kaprow chicken on brown rice was £6.85 which is good for hot food in the city. I’ll be back to try other dishes.

Good Thai food. Very quick and efficient team. But the need to improve on not over cooking the rice.

After months of searching for great lunch spots in the city of London this ranks at number 1 as the tastiest lunch place for me. Thank you GRAB street Thai! I really can’t emphasise how delicious GRAB street Thai is — the portions are great and the dishes are just awesome. Prices very reasonable. I recommend the pad kapraw chicken — so yum!
Fine u may not be a fan of Thai food but even so this will surprise u. I don’t think the dishes are what u might typically think in terms of Thai food (eg satay chicken or pad Thai noodles) they do things differently here and u can only truly appreciate the difference if u try it :)

Grab is a small, cosy place which offers really nice Thai food. Sure, there’s also the street food stall nearby which sells similar Thai dishes and possibly offers larger servings for the same price, but, and this is Grab’s biggest selling point for me, Grab offers congee (or porridge to those of us who grew up in South East Asia or jook in Cantonese or zhou in Mandarin) and it is pretty damn amazing. I’m not sure my own family could do a better job. It comes with a great assortment of condiments as well — and I’m always a little surprised they have to ask whether I want soya sauce and the like because the answer from me or any other Chinese in the queue is always a silent «duh» followed by «YEAH!»
In case you haven’t ever eaten congee before, then these are the things you need to know about it:
1) It’s perfect if you’re feeling run-​down
2) It’s perfect if you’re recovering from an illness
3) It’s perfect if you’re a homesick South-​East Asian — we eat this for breakfast and for lunch, though rarely for dinner (mainly because it’s sold out by then)
4) There’s a lot of rice so there is a danger of you falling asleep at your desk after
The rest of the food on offer is also good, though perhaps not as good on the cost front as congee is. I’m fond of the massaman curry and the vegetarian curry (butternut squash) on the occasions I arrive too late for the congee. I’m not telling you when that is because there’s enough competition for the congee as it stands!

I have been here, but Amex Shop Small motivated me to revisit it and try some new things on their menu. In the past, I’d gotten the curry on rice and it is nice, but a bit inconvenient to have to scoop it all out of a long, tall container (though they do advertise things as «pots,» much as the chain Pod does. This time, I went for the pad kaprow chicken, as I love a good basil stir fry. The dish was tasty but not very pleasing to the eye, as all the vegetables looked wilted and brown, altogether worse for wear. I didn’t think it looked anything like the picture on their website. I also got a tom yum prawn soup, which had a very sweet flavour profile… I don’t think I would order it again. Finally, I got one of their small sides of tofu that comes with a dipping sauce, but I didn’t think it was anything spectacular. I am willing to come back to try their congee, as that is something I haven’t had in ages, but otherwise I find their offering pretty average in a neighbourhood that has some pretty great lunch options.

Great new lunch spot in the area — I enjoyed skipping past the queue out of the door at Japanese Canteen to this little place on the corner.
It’s a bit of a kerfuffle inside. You order from Guy A who turns around and repeats it to Guy B who is filling food boxes. Then you take a step to the right and repeat your order to Guy C at the till and pay, before stepping backwards to linger until your order gets passed from Guy B to Guy A to you. All of this happens in a fairly confined space which means the customers end up doing this slightly bizarre waltz around each other — but luckily it doesn’t take very long!
I’m loving their pad kapraw chicken on brown rice at the moment — £4.25 for the regular size and so tasty. Also a range of other noodley/​curry-​based dishes. It doesn’t exactly transport you to Thailand but some good flavours in there and all made fresh on the day.
Min spend on card is £5. There’s a sign for seating downstairs too but the weather’s been too nice to venture down them yet — I find a wander up to St Paul’s to sit in the sunshine with my pad kaprow makes me one happy bunny :)

I’ve been on a crawl around this area because my work is so near. So my wallet is poor but MY STOMACH IS FULL!
Anyways, this place is solid, I had the massaman curry with the chicken in the small sized because too much rice makes me hit that ‘sleeping on the job’ mark at 2pm! But was it stellar– probably not– also why do they keep the boxes facing the customers and not the staff? You have to grab your prepacked rice and then hand it over to the lady?! It’s a bit weird that’s allll!
It’s not the cheapest but good choice around the area!

I tried the Thai Green curry on brown rice from Grab for the first time today. So impressed with this place. The portion was enough, the heat was a good level (I didn’t need to add any chili and I usually have to add chili everywhere else), and the flavour was far and above the green curry at Pod.
Also, no MSG in Grab food, so now I’m just fine for breathing. Usually I eat at Asian places and feel short of breath shortly afterwards.
I’ll be returning to try the other dishes…