Nahm at The Halkin (The Halkin, 5 Halkin Street, London, SW1X 7DJ) VERY DISAPPOINTING – 4 of us went to Nahm last night for my birthday, splashing out on the £60 a head Thai meal, as we expected it to be the best of the best. Food was good (not astonishing or outstanding, just pretty good) but the evening was ruined by the deeply average overall exprience. The menu is laid out in 5 sections, starters, soups, mains etc – which give you the impression that if you order the Thai meal, your dinner will come in nice stages, so you can enjoy a full and nicely paced meal. How wrong we were… The soup course came with the Thai salad and the hot mains all in one – we queried it as it seemed ridiculous – it was all going to go cold by the time we'd had our soup. And salad on a hot plate? The stupid answer was that the soup was a palate cleanser to aid enjoyment of the mains – utter tosh as the soups were very strong hot and sour, and were pretty palate-blowing even for us, who all love spicy Thai food, hence booking at Nahm. We felt 100% ripped off and made fools of. Also not helped by the couple of questions we asked (e.g. of an unusual green bean in one dish, only to have the first waiter ignore us and the second one to proudly tell us it was ‘a bean’). I wouldn't waste your cash here – they may have a Michelin star but I had a better eating experience at my local Thai in Wimbledon or Fulham for £300 less than this rubbish cost us.
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