If you were among the foodies mourning the closure of acclaimed Thai restaurant Singburi at the end of last year, cease those tears. It reopens in a new location this spring.
Opening in Leytonstone in 1999, the family-run Singburi was noted for its “bracingly-authentic Thai cooking” — dishes like chicken gizzards and jungle curry, which Time Out raved about with five-star notices. But following a ‘sabbatical’ in November 2024, Singburi’s owners then announced they were retiring for good.
We’re now pleased to report that the baton has been passed onto son Sirichai Kularbwong, who’s already banding together with Nick Molyviatis (former head chef at Soho’s Kiln), and coffee-and-hot-sauce impresario Alexander Gkikas. And so Singburi is to be reborn in Shoreditch (a hop and a skip from the Overground station we’re told) in spring 2025. “The ethos will remain rooted in the spirit of the original,” says the new team, “while embracing a broader, distinctly London perspective… Same but different.”
Indeed, even if the food’s better than ever, Singburi won’t offer all the things we first loved about it. “There will be a drinks list,” states the press release pointedly. Friends, those heady days of BYOB are over.
