Charuwan

As resident this area we went to this restaurant twice a week it look like i stay in thailand food and service was excellent,we can bring my own wine too.

As a Tufnell Park resident I have eaten at Charuwan three times now - twice in the restaurant and once a take away. The first time was good but the two others were terrible. The squid special was so over cooked it was actually inedible. I think perhpas the only explanation is that standards have slipped over time - which may account for the fact that it is now often nearly empyt, even at weekends.

Been there twice, good food and service, looking forward to hosting a mini party there!

I went to this restaurant on 30/05/2010 and found the place to be rather confusing. The food itself was good. The service, terrible. To start we shared the mixed platter. This consisted of dim sum (pork), chicken satay, spring rolls and sesame toast. For the most part this was a fairly average experience served with peanut sauce and (possibly watered down) sweet chilli dip. The Dim Sum however was excellent. For mains I had Jungle Curry whilst my partner had a vegetarian option. We shared a coconut rice and plain noodles. The mains were excellent authentic dishes and further confounded the fact that the starter was so obviously average. We had a very nice bottle of house white too and the bill totaled £53 Unfortunately, this whole experience, on a quiet Sunday night (us, 1 x table of 2 and 1 x table of 4, both of which had been in and ordered before we arrived) took over 2 hours. We waited 20 minutes just to get menus/drinks order and the waitress was quite odd. It really let the place down and has put us off eating there again. A take away may be on the cards, but dining in.... not if it takes 2 hours on a quiet night.