A Slice of Chaotic Thai Americana Gets a Permanent Home in Shepherd’s Bush
Chet’s, the Thai American restaurant devised by Night + Market founder Kris Yenbamroong, will get its expected permanent home when the Hoxton hotel opens in Shepherd’s Bush in December this year.
A Slice of Chaotic Thai Americana Gets a Permanent Home in Shepherd’s Bush
Chet’s, developed by Night + Market star Kris Yenbamroong, will anchor the new Hoxton hotel in west London.
The Los Angeles chef, whose duo of restaurants now represent archetypes of both nu-Thai cuisine and modern American restaurant design, originally created the menu for a pop-up at Rondo la Cave in Holborn.
The fully fledged restaurant will debut in December, and is likely to revolve around staple dishes of the initial residency: the pork and beef diner smash burger with chilli and coriander; a beef tartare which Yenbamroong has labelled an evolution on the Los Angeles original; and a pasta dish flavoured with nam plaa, similar to a staple of the early days of Night + Market’s repertoire.
It also represents another step for the burgeoning style of cooking that Eater’s Jaya Saxena calls “chaos,” a rejection of staid attitudes around “fusion” allied to a technicolor, freewheeling sensibility. Stay tuned for more on how that’s coming to life in London.
