East-Street Restaurant

We hadn't been in London more than an hour before a text from Ashley popped up on my phone, asking if I'd like to go for pad Thai with her and her boyfriend that night. Ashley is one of my favourite people in the whole entire world, so I wasn't exactly going to say no...

That's how we found ourselves at East-Street, which is a three minutes walk from Tottenham Court Road tube station. It was absolutely tiddling down with rain, as this cheery photo of Garry will attest to.

But once inside it was warm, cosy, and smelt amazing. On their website they say that their "menu is composed from the best street food and signature dishes from across East Asia" and above each item on their menu it tells you whether the dish is from Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam or Korea.

Ashley and Jack both had Pad Thai — the little bit I tasted was gorgeous. Garry had a chicken Khao Pad, which is wok-fried rice with mushroom, beans, pineapple, basil and peanuts and looked like this:

But mine was my favourite. Chicken Abodo — Chicken breast in a peppercorns, garlic and bay leaf sauce with fried sweet potato. Yum.

As first nights go, this one was pretty wonderful. Thanks to Ashley for suggesting it x