Thai cafe moving into former Loch Fyne seafood restaurant
COUPLE STARTED OUT IN SPITALFIELDS AND NOW HAVE MORE THAN 30 BRANCHES ACROSS THE UK
A RESTAURANT chain with more than 30 locations around the UK is set to open in Nottingham.
Rosa’s Thai will be moving into the former seafood restaurant Loch Fyne, in King Street, following a makeover.
Rosa’s Thai has grown rapidly since the first restaurant was founded in Spitalfields, London, in 2008 by Alex and Saiphin Moore.
There are branches in York, Cardiff, Birmingham, Manchester and more than a dozen across London.
Saiphin grew up on a mountain farm in Khao Kho, northern Thailand.
When she moved to the UK with her husband, she started selling homecooked meals at offices and markets.
Each region of Thailand has its own unique style of cuisine and the food in Isaan, which Saiphin calls home, is synonymous with ferocious heat, punchy salads and fermented specialities.
Diners will be able to look forward to specials such as glass noodle salad, a whole sea bass plaa style – deep-fried and spiced up with chilli oil, lemongrass, ginger and coconut milk, with a refreshing salad of mango, cashew nuts and red onion – and som tum sweetcorn, a play on the traditional papaya salad, with sweet, sour, salty and spicy flavours to make the tastebuds sing.
An all-day menu will be served, with noodles, curries and stir-fries, and around 30 per cent of dishes are vegetarian or vegan.
Diners can look forward to starters of crispy prawns, sweetcorn patties, chicken satay, fresh summer rolls and honey-marinated pork skewers.
Loch Fyne closed for good in September 20, 2020, an apparent victim of the pandemic.
It was one of the city centre’s oldest restaurants, and originally came to Nottinham in 1990 as an oyster bar.
As the business expanded it was bought out by brewery Greene King in 2007. However, the Nottingham restaurant was one of 11 in the country that didn’t reopen after the lockdown.