Thai home cooking · Tynemouth
Our dining room is a converted church on Front Street, lit low by lamps and lanterns. From its kitchen come curry pastes pounded by hand, a fierce wok and the recipes we grew up with.
Closed · opens tomorrow at 12:0076 Front Street, Tynemouth
Our story
Khob Khun is a family-run Thai restaurant. We cook the food we make for each other at home: curries built on pastes we pound ourselves, noodles tossed hard in a smoking wok, salads mixed at the mortar just before they go out.
Behind a plain stone front on Front Street is a room you might not expect.
Our dining room sits in a converted church. The vaulted timber ceiling and pointed arches are still there, now lit low with lamps, gold and deep red velvet.
We keep the menu short so every dish can be cooked to order. If you’d like it hotter, milder, or without something, tell us and we’ll cook it your way.
ขอบคุณ khob khun means thank you. We say it to everyone who eats with us, and we mean it.
Thai food
A good Thai dish is never just one thing. Each plate weighs four tastes against each other, then lifts them with handfuls of fresh herbs.
Palm sugar and coconut cream round off the heat and the sourness.
Fresh lime and tamarind keep every plate bright.
Fish sauce and shrimp paste bring the depth that salt brings elsewhere.
Fresh and dried chillies, used for flavour as much as for heat.
Lemongrass, galangal, makrut lime leaf, Thai basil and coriander root are the backbone of our pastes and broths. They go in fresh, which is why a curry here smells of the herbs before it tastes of the chilli.
From the menu
Visiting
Closed · opens tomorrow at 12:00
Also closed 25 December (Christmas Day), 26 December (Boxing Day).
Look for the stone church front.
Khob Khun
