Started out as a popular spot in Hackney, Lahpet has managed to find its way closer to the city. First opening as a stall at Old Spitalfields Market, and now a nice restaurant space in Shoreditch! Featuring huge windows, decorated with a bamboo stems & leaves, the restaurant has a fairly light setting. Its interior in overall has a contemporary style with a slight cosy touch.
Actual rating: 3.5
Lah Pet can best be described as a trendy restaurant/bar serving modern Burmese cuisine. Overall, we thought that the food was delicious and well-cooked. Highlights were the pork and green mustard curry, the hake masala (served with a tasty potato rosti) and the tea leaf lah pet salad. We also ordered the fritters trio - personally, I'd just order 3 x serves of the Shan tofu fritters. The split pea fritters were quite nice but I wasn't a big fan of the mandalay. "House rice" was meant to be cooked with coconut milk but frankly, it just tasted like plain rice. Service was friendly and the food came out pretty quickly.
For a restaurant with plenty of opportunities to hone its craft due to its time on the street food and residency circuits, there were more missteps than I would’ve liked at Lahpet. The tofu nway, in particular, has the dubious distinction of being the dullest dish I’ve had so far this year.
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