The café in the shadow of Strangeways where only one thing matters
manchestereveningnews.co.ukEstate agents talk a lot about ‘kerb appeal’. It can make or break a sale. If the same thing applied to That’s Thai, it would have closed its doors long ago.
They may not have opened in the first place. This tiny café, next to an MOT garage, is tucked away at the bottom of Cheetham Hill Road, behind the all-night snooker place that you’ve seen a thousand times but never been to.
On a good day with the right wind, the smell of sweet Thai basil and fish sauce must drift across to the exercise yards of Strangeways. Read more of Ben Arnold's food writing covering Greater Manchester... 'I had the best pie of my life on one of Manchester's last cobbled streets' The Rolls-Royce of pies and the warm est welcome at the UK's best pub, just an hour from Manchester On a dark Tuesday night, customers file in and file out like there’s a revolving door, and nearly all of them are called by first names.
One, who clearly works in the theatre, is discussing her latest production, and another, who casually wanders in in what looks a bit like pyjamas, is asked if he’s having ‘the usual’.
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