The Patara restaurant group has been creating contemporary fine Thai cuisine for over twenty years and has four branches in London and a further five worldwide in Singapore, Vienna, Geneva, Beijing and Bangkok. Patara’s London venues are run by Saipin Lee, recently named alongside Nigella Lawson, Ruth Rogers and Angela Hartnett in the ‘Women 1st Top 100 Most Influential Women’ listing for 2011.
With a focus on quality and fine presentation Thai restaurant Patara uses exotic meats, seafood, vegetables and spices to create a range of fine dining dishes including delicate curries, shellfish and meat dishes, fragrant Thai soups and light salads.
Described by Time Out (London Eating & Drinking 2010) as being ‘a chain only in the same way as Harvey Nichols’, Patara chefs create seasonal menus with a focus on delicate flavours and elegant fine dining presentation. Fish dishes include sea bass and blackened cod and shellfish options such as poached king scallops and rock lobster tail. Meat dishes range from exotic wild boar steak, curries of veal osso busco and tender beef fillet sautéed in cracked black pepper sauce with shitake mushrooms. The dessert menu is light and modern with pineapple carpaccio and coconut tart with stem ginger ice cream.
Patara restaurants are contemporary in design with dark wooden interiors off set by neutral colours. Wall mounted carvings and a miniature gold-leafed Buddhist temple in the centre of Patara Soho add a dramatic touch while tea lights set into the pale brick feature wall add soft flickering light.
About Patara London
The first Patara restaurant opened on London’s Fulham Road in 1990, followed by Patara Beauchamp Place in 1996, and Patara Maddox Street in 2002. The fourth Patara restaurant on Soho’s Greek Street opened as the flagship venue in 2010.
Patara Soho
15 Greek Street,
W1D 4DP
Patara Oxford Circus
7 Maddox Street,
W1S 2QB
Patara Knightsbridge
9 Beauchamp Place,
SW3 1NQ
Patara South Kensington
181 Fulham Road,
SW3 6JN