Easy Tiger

Aptly named Easy Tiger recognises that punchy Thai food too often comes with Bangkok-like hustle, bustle and noise, so here things are calmed down with a sleek Scandi fitout and an almost European feel. Begin with street-food-inspired snacks – perhaps a chicken-and-peanut ball positioned snowman-like on fresh pineapple wedges – while starting a well-guided wine journey full of possibilities for happy food-and-wine marriages. A bowl of wok-fried duck meat with green mango and watermelon comes with crunchy sang-choy-bao-like iceberg. Or go harder with a hot bowl of soupy sour-orange fish curry with floating Siamese watercress. All is pretty as a picture, yet flavours deliver and service is friendly. If proof is in your pudding, even Scandi Vogue would love salted coconut cream poured over green and orange spheres of chocolate and pandanus dumplings with melon. Foodie-rich knockabout Smith Street boasts some renovators’ delights but, on the eye, this one’s easy.

And … If you want to fire up the heat and acid, just ask.

THE LOW-DOWN
Vibe If Georg Jensen was Thai ...
Best bit Winning service, with a wink.
Worst bit Courtyard less sleek than up front.