The best restaurants serving Thai food in Derby Road East Erewash East Midlands

Friendly reception (had pre-booked) on arrival and shown straight to a table and issued menus and drinks cards. Wait staff all very friendly and efficient. It's the food that lets it down! Starters were brought quickly but the (overpriced) starter platter was mostly garnish; the 2 chicken satai and 2 pork skewers were interchangeable (but the sweet chilli dipping sauce was very good), the tiny portion of battered squid was well cooked. The Thai fish cakes were tasty but lacking in chilli and lemon grass. Mains were also overpriced and the small portion of beef massamann curry was lacking in flavour, had only 2 small cubes of beef in it and the sauce had an oily layer on top, as if the coconut milk had split. The pad Thai was average with two small pieces of chicken in it but lots of noodles. Sadly there was no omelette, flavour was again lacking and the whole thing was excessively sweet. Somewhere in the curries there was an underlying taste reminiscent of dried sage but there was a distinct lack of traditional Thai flavours like Holy basil, fish sauce, lemon grass and chillies! The red wine we chose was thin and acidic - certainly not worth the £25ish per bottle they charged. Did not have any dessert as nobody offered us anything after the main courses. Overall, ambience OK, service VERY GOOD and food VERY DISAPPOINTING.