WES’s restaurant review - Kiln, Soho

[Burney]

Firstly, the food. We ordered three types of skewers, a fried greens dish, one fish and two meat curries plus their signature glass noodle dish and rice. Let’s start with the rice; they have one type only and it’s brown. If you have never eaten brown rice, you aren’t missing anything. It was dry and awful. The skewers were all good, the curries varied from average to good. The fried greens were nice and the glass noodle dish appeared to be their version of Pad Thai and it was very average.

Now the general experience. Awful. Utterly awful. Small, cramped, hot, loud and their idea of an enjoyable meal is to throw as many dishes at you in any particular order as quickly as possible. A family of four arrived, ordered and ate in just over half an hour. It bordered on uncivilised.

Quite why anyone would want to eat there is beyond me. Had the food been exceptional I could have tolerated the appalling ambiance but it really wasn’t.

Summary
a) Food 6/10
b) Ambiance 0/10
c) Monty needs two new hobbies

As regards c) I'm trying to gather support for burning him in a wicker man in order to prevent Tottenham winning the Champions League.

I take it that, after last night, you're in?