Viva Lewes June 2015 Issue #105

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A great British pub with some bistro oo la la The Pelham arms HigH Street • LeweS Vintage Hot Swing with AlligAtor Swing on thursday 4th June, 8.30pm FrEE! tasty lighter seasonal lunch menu served weekdays including a great value set menu option: two courses £13 & three courses £17 relaxed drinking & eating in our bar or dining room, sunny courtyard garden, children friendly & dogs welcome we can look after your special occasion whether its full, private hire or a family gathering opening Hours tuesday to thursday Bar 12noon to 11pm & Food 12noon to 2.30pm and 6 to 9.30pm Friday & Saturday Bar 12noon to Midnight & Food 12noon to 2.30pm & 6 to 9.30pm Sunday Bar 12noon to 10.30pm & Food 12noon to 8pm get in touch! Tel. 01273 476149 Email. manager@thepelhamarms.co.uk Twitter @PelhamArmsLewes Facebook.com/pelhamarmslewes Book online @ www.thepelhamarms.co.uk
food Photos by Rob Read Erawan Beau Thai When we visited friends in London in the 1990s, their favourite place to take us was in Southampton Way in Camberwell - a tiny front room Thai restaurant, now long gone. I’d never tasted quite the same flavours again, until Erawan popped up in Lewes. This bistro and takeaway on Lansdown Place occupies the site of a former Chinese takeaway, but the interior is completely transformed. Wood-lined walls, Thai décor and flowers on blocky wooden tables, it’s a warm and welcoming space. It’s also opened as a “bring your own”, so we pop into Symposium next door and grab a nice bottle of Kentish cider to go with our meal. Corkage is £5 for wine (£2 for our large cider). As we enter, the thing that strikes us most is the smell of fresh jasmine, taking us back to an idyllic Californian holiday, adding to the allure of the place. We’ve quizzed friends who’ve already been, and then also steer our own course as we study the menu. As Erawan themselves say, they seek to bring the “authentic savoury flavours” of Thai cooking - combining sweet, spicy, salty and sour tastes. Starters include satay, tempura, spring rolls, spare ribs, dumplings… and we opt for fish cakes (£6.15) and a lovely recommended concoction called Gliow Grob (£5.50), crispy fried wontons filled with a mixture of chicken and prawn. The starters are beautifully presented, since Thai food doesn’t just pay attention to how a dish tastes, but how it looks as well. Erawan get this just right with a clean modern style and traditional, delicatelycarved vegetables. The dishes are so good, we share. Between courses, some people drop in to collect takeaway orders and some to sit in at one of the six other tables. All seem as happy as us that Erawan has arrived in Lewes. For the mains, there are soups such as the classic hot and sour Tom Yum and noodle dishes like Pad Thai. We’ve also been recommended the Drunkard Noodles, but my tester is a Chicken Thai Red Curry (£8.50), since that was my Southampton Way standby, plus a bowl of sticky rice. My partner chooses a richer Panang curry (£10.50), with fish, cooked in coconut milk with lemon grass and lime leaves. These are equally delicious and well presented, and again happily shared. Too replete for a full-blown pudding, we are won over by the ice cream, a green tea for her and a sweet Thai special for me. We leave clutching a takeaway menu (prices slightly lower than eating in). After our visit we Google the name Erawan and discover it’s the Thai word for the revered mythic elephant which carries the Hindu god Indra: an important symbol in Thai culture and a fitting name for this exemplary Thai restaurant. Rob Read Erawan, 34 Lansdown Place, 471999, erawan.co.uk. Open evenings 6-10pm Tue-Sun, and lunchtimes 12noon-2.30pm Tue-Sat. 63
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