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One of London's best restaurants has announced plans to reopen
After 25 years of trading, the legendary, family-run Thai canteen shut down its Leytonstone location in autumn 2024. It was revealed that the restaurant would be moving to Shoreditch this year, and news now reaches us that they'll be flinging open the doors to the new spot on June 19. That's so very soon! The new restaurant will be located at Unit 7 Montacute Yards, just off Shoreditch High Street.
Singburi was named Time Out's restaurant of the year in 2021. Famously hard to score a table, it had no website and you could only book by phone or when you were at the actual restaurant. Even so, Singburi gained semi-mythical status due to its famous blackboard specials menu, and dishes such as their phenomenally good crispy fried pork belly moo krob. Chef-patron Sirichai Kularbwong will be joined by chef Nick Molyviatis (previously at Oma, Agora, Speedboat Bar, Plaza and Kiln) for Singburi 2.0, with Kularbwong's parents - who ran the original Singburi - retiring from the kitchen.
Speaking about the new restaurant, Molyviatis commented: 'At its heart, the menu is an evolution of the Singburi blackboard menu, and a reflection of what we love to eat and cook. Thai food is communal - dishes are served all together, and they should complement each other.' The menu will include dishes such as dill and lemongrass pork sausage, tiger prawn southern curry, mussels and wild ginger pad phet, and smoked beef rib panang curry.
The interiors of the new joint will be somewhat sleeker than the former fish and chip shop that was the Leytonstone branch. The industrial-styled space in the Montacute Yards new-build will boast terrazzo flooring, as well as an open kitchen surrounded by 19 counter seats and further space for 40 diners on tables.
Unlike the original Singburi, you'll now be able to buy booze on site, with a cocktail menu devised in collaboration with Vassilios Kyritsis of award-winning Athens bar The Clumsies, including a clarified bloody mary and makrut lime leaf gimlet.
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