Papaya in City of London, Westminster

Awful. Chicken was not chicken.

Cheap. Delicious. Huge portions. A gem for a quick lunch in the city.

Used to eat here a lot a couple years ago. Went today and had the cashew chicken and it tasted terrible. Sauce was very bland and watery, vegetables not cooked enough, chicken was sparse. I wouldn't have minded the price increase and smaller portion if the food tasted good.

This place is perfect to get your midweek Thai fix at a good price. Portions are piled high, especially if you order the mixed box. The brown rice option is delicious and always sells out quickest. Fave combo is the chicken chilli basil & chicken green curry. The staff are brisk and polite. Highly recommend all round

Nice friendly people and service. The food is a different story. The chicken had that nasty chlorinated flavour of cheap nuggets. I only lasted a few mouthfuls. That night, I got home and was violently sick. Swerve the chicken, folks.

Most underrated Thai place in London. Shocked there isn’t lines out the door. Food is fantastic, great portions and flavors. Have tried most of their dishes. Price and value for £ just is unbeatable. No better value for money in central London. Owners and chefs are friendly and great. Small area to eat in but usually I get takeaway. Crazy to think a place like this exists in central London.

Good take away! Delicious Thai curry! Good service 👍🏻

Food is nice, spicy, and not as small as the portions look. I’ve been here many times on my lunch break and although the food is mostly good it does sometimes dip in quality, with the rice tasting rather greasy recently.

Walked past this lovely restaurant and the aroma of the food drew me in and I was not disappointed. The quality of the food and service was excellent and despite being located in central London the prices were very reasonable. Would highly recommend

Thai prawn crackers are amazing and so is the red thai curry!!!!! 10/10. Such good value too with huge portions.

Very good vegan green curry for a more than fair price. Good for lunch breaks.

Little hidden jem in the heart of soho all I the food his amazing the pawn crackers are for the other world the staff are really lovely

I often tell people about the efficiency of this place. How you can have a 15 person queue be outside of the door and still have a man behind the counter call at you to get your order only for it to be ready by the time you walked in a few minutes later. I now live in Copenhagen and alas we have thai but it doesnt hit as well as Papaya's own. Can't wait to grab a box when I come back.

Great Thai takeaway. Food is delicious and great value for the cost. Recommend the noodle base!

Great value for money Thai takeaway in Soho serving rice and noodle dishes. Portions are huge and service is always quick and friendly. It gets particularly busy at lunchtime, with a queue out the door, and the takeaway has sometimes run out of favourites such as Thai red curry if you turn up after about 1.30pm.

Delicious flavour on a budget! I had a rice portion with green curry for lunch for less than 6£. Incredible.

Nice tasty food served in a box for takeaway. Only four places to sit and eat in, but the food is really good vale with generous portions.

Very good price and amazing food . Very high recommend 👍 Good job Guys

Great value for money and tasty

Honestly the green chicken curry is not that great. The rice is all lumped at the bottom, so that you can eat it only after the curry, which contains chunks of peppers and chicken and nothing else.

They are simply amazing with their 'made in home' stuff. For 5 £ u have a massive and delicius portion that will satisfy you for sure!

Quick service, this place offers good value for money tasty Thai food. Popular option for workers in the area, Papaya always has fast moving queues waiting for their lunch. Slightly hidden in the backstreets of Soho, you may accidentally walk past this place.

Best place to grab lunch to-go in Soho. Very big portions, they have over 6 different types of Curry. Staff is always nice and smiling.

Been going there for years. Great lunch takeaway in central London. Super cheap, tasty and big portions! Good value for money.

Omg. The food is great! And such great value for money. customer service is great too. Vegan and vegetarian options are so lovely!

Massive portions for a little over £5. Nothing special but efficient service, good quality and great value.

Delicious lunches - recommend the cashew nut chicken, green curry or Massaman curry. Decent price for central London and for the amount you get. Efficient queue system and small seated area but most people take away. Popular spot for local businesses on their lunch breaks. Good spot to stumble upon as it’s subtly hidden down a side alley.

Cheap, cheerful Thai food. The deep fried chicken dishes are not great, the chicken isn’t fresh or crisp at all. The other dishes though are nice. Good value for money and quick service. Very busy at lunchtimes.

So good it didn’t last long!! Quick Cheap Tasty 😋

Always packed with people and for good reason! Try and get there not during rush hour(lunch), but still they are super quick with getting the food ready for you and always remember you! Good value for money.

Went in, picked my food to take out and left within a couple of minutes. Food was fresh and very tasty. Huge portions for £5 lunchbox deal, friendly staff too. Would recommend Chilli chicken and the panang!

Great portion, very yummy. It is a tiny eatery with some tables but it is a good choice for take away. Lunchtime can be very busy but the service is quick.

Been here a couple of times and I always get the prawn noodle tom yum soup. It’s large, filling and super tasty. They cook the prawns fresh so there’s a little wait for them to prepare it, but so worth it. Service with a smile and good food 👌🏼

Really good food. Would highly recommend and still feel the same as said in my previous review. However one thing that does annoy me about this place is that they charge 20p extra if you pay by card. And that stands for ANY card - debit or credit.

Packed with flavour, full to the brim. For £5 you really can't do any better nearby (that I know of). Recommended for a very tasty lunchtime bargain, specifically the chilli/basil chicken.

Absolute rubbish, nearly as bad as Calcutta Street around the corner. They actually had the cheek to charge me for this mush of what is titled Sweet and Sour Chicken. Save yourself the stomach upset and money and avoid at all cost, run to tesco over the road and get a sandwich!!!!!!!!

Cheap, tasty and filling. Spending between £4 and £5 on a big portion is great. I would highly recommend it and it's cooked freshly with new batches served frequently. Good selection of food.

Good food and cheap but they need to STOP cutting onions in the shop whilst customers are still in there eating. It doesn’t make for a very comfortable experience when your eyes are burning.....

I love papaya, it is small and cozy. Most people do takeaways but they have few seating. I have ordered off menu dishes because most of them are Thai and they sometimes can make you off menu dish but that was only 1 time. They have Satay as well but I find it expensive. car

I will start by saying that this review would have been a 4 or 5 out of 5 if it wasn't for that fact that Papaya give out a huge number of unnecessary plastic bags at a time when everyone should be acutely aware of their damaging effect on the environment. If you get your takeaway from there, please say you don't need a plastic bag (the closed box they put the food in is sufficient, but you could take your own bag if you feel like you really need one, as many now do with supermarket shopping). Plastic bags aside, their food is really tasty, with huge portions for a fair price in a location filled with overpriced chains!

For the Goodge Street area recommended to grab a dish at lunchtime.especially with the noodles.Enjoyed the chicken sweet and sour. The portion is large but if i can not sit in suggest taking your portion around the corner to the little park fresh air and lunch isa bliss

I go here at least once a week, it's so tasty and incredible, very reasonably priced too for how good the food is and the portion size! I recommend the Red Beef Curry. Only criticism I'd have is that the lack of seating can be annoying if you want to sit in

Incredible lunch spot on Goodge Street - can highly recommend the noodle broth (I have mine with extra fresh red chilli!) and doesn't break the bank. Totally worth the queue out front - goes down quickly! I also hear the hot rice and meat dishes are super tasty too. Enjoy :)

Was a go to place but on 2 recent visits was really disappointed. Chicken and cashew tasted horrible , frozen ? And rice tasted stale... Certainly not fresh. Portions are big yes, it's cheap under £5 which us great for a hot meal but it's nowhere near as good as before.

Really love this place. Its fresh as it comes, healthy, tasty and CHEAP! I actually walk 15 minutes on my lunch break just to get a takeaway from there. They are also doing brown rice there now and the portions are very generous. The Thai red curry is my favourite and try the grilled dumpings as they are really yummy. Great little gem.

I live and work in Oxford Circus and visit these guys at least twice a week. For £4.50, their value is simply unmatched in this city, as you get a very good size for that. The food is tasty, and packed with vegetables and they...

Massive portion just £4.50. Perfect for lunch at work. Red curry and rice was great, lots of other options too.

I saw this on my way to a couriers and popped in. There was a limited selection of food, but for a lunch, this was all you needed. Select the size of box, rice or noodles and then your main to go with it! I...

If you are looking for quick and easy thai food to take away, look no further! Served in a cardboard box, you can get yourself a delicious meal for under £5. Most Thai restaurants you would be paying over £10 so it was a real...

You could walk past this place and dismiss it for it's shabby exterior and lack of anything aesthetically pleasing. And yet almost every day there is a queue that stretches out of the door. The various curries they do are brilliant, as is the sushi...

Small shop selling Thai food to take away, ok for a quick lunch. Prices are really cheap: £4.50 for a large box. It is good value for money. The food is less than average in term of quality, but people who go there don't come...

Can't say I was particularly craving a spicy curry in what might be the hottest week of the year so far, but I had to walk past Papaya and it smelled so good I had to check it out, amazing little place for lunch under...

Value for money definition right here. £4.50 for a huge cooked meal. Choices are mostly Thai curries. The quality is very good considering the price too. I go here regularly during lunch breaks, and the queue that goes outside into the street is testimony to...

Pretty big portions at a reasonable price: a box of meat/tofu/veg + rice or noodles is only £4.50. I've even managed to save some for dinner. I had the cashew nut chicken, I was expecting it to be more tasty to be honest, but it...

Papaya has "value for money" lunches. Come here if you're looking for a cheap, quick lunch fix that is hot, fresh and flavorful at the same time.

I have been working in the area for a few months now and this is one of my favourite places to go for lunch. There's always a big queue - a common sign of good food. However the staff rapidly box up your meal so...

as other reviews suggest, good size portions for less than a fiver. The chili and basil chicken is really spicy! Brilliant.

Been here a few times for a quick lunch. Food is quite good and very filling. I'm surprised at how much they manage to fit into the box they serve the food in. The price and convenience are probably the major selling points for this...

I wish I had discovered this place sooner. The portions are huge and the Thai food delicious and authentic. I had the Tom Yum noodle soup with chicken, nice and spicy! A perfect cure to that horrible winter cold that seems to be going around...

Ultra fast service, rock bottom prices, pleasant staff, delicious food and large choice of tasty dishes. Highly recommended

Papaya was a staple for all of my colleagues a couple of months ago and now it appears to have taken a nose dive. Our go-to favourite, cashew nut chicken, seems to now be made with some kind of frozen breaded chicken that is charred...

Easily the worst pad Thai of my life, so shockingly bad I'm finding it difficult to muster the words. All I can think of is super dry and really horrible.... Do not eat here!

Seriously this is what gives asian cooking a bad name... ive tried this places twice now and its utter rubbish...Yes its cheap and you get big portions and if thats what you are after then great. If not, the sight of the sliced chicken pilled...

Reasonably priced good food however the selection is limited and there is too much vegetable involved for my liking!

I work near Papaya and have been pretty regularly and it use to be amazing, in particular the cashew chicken. However last 3 times the cashew chicken has been burnt, so obviously visibly burnt this last time I didn't order. Real shame I hope they...

I've known of this place for sometime, but never tried the curries until today. I had the green chicken curry with noodles and it was fantastic. I have no idea how so much food fits into a little box, but upon returning to the office...

This place always has a queue therefore only just recently ventured in. Sold out on spring rolls so had a large mushroom and noodle soup £4.50. There was enough for two people and was prepared there and then, unlike other places. Been to Thailand and...

Who would associate Papaya with Thai food ... ? I wouldn't that for sure. I had the same thought in my mind when a colleague took me there. I was impressed with the speed of service and the options available were not mass but they...

Great place for students to grab a filling meal. If you go to wasabi to get lunch for a fiver you've been doing it wrong. You can get way better food at papaya for less than a fiver. All that extra cost that wasabi is...

This is one of the best places to grab a cheap lunch that is authentic and tasty. You don't realise how much food is given to you in the box as it looks quite deceiving. I would 100% recommend a visit here - and if...

Always a reliable stop if you are in need of a big lunch. Portions are very generous and will cost about £5. Green Thai and the Chicken and Cashew are personal favorites. The team are always very friendly and serve amazingly fast so if there...

They always have a queue. Sometimes really long queues, but they're so fast you will not wait for more than a couple of minutes. All their food is delicious and they're really friendly. One of the best places in Soho for lunch.

One of my favourite places in Soho to get lunch from. The rice + cashew chicken/curry or pad thai boxes are only £4.20 each! The box may look small, but the content magically expands to take up an entire big plate! The service is efficient...

This is a tiny little take away place, there are a few seats at a bench looking out of the window, but I've always felt a bit cramped in there even when just queueing so I've never eaten in. The food is great, really great,...