Market Thai Restaurant (The), London

Wonderful smells waft out of this Thai restaurant above the Market Bar, beckoning you upstairs. The food is delicious - try the red curry with roast duck, pineapple and cherry tomatoes or the Pad Thai noodles. The one-plate express menus offered at lunchtime are a tasty bargain. The deco of carved Indian wooden arches and doorframes is interesting and the vantage view of Portobello Market from the large sash windows is fabulous. When they are thrown open on warm, dusky summer evenings, the atmosphere is positively divine.