Hi, I'm Tippy
Every dish on our menu started at my mum Niang's stall in Surin in 1967 — the same family recipes, hand-cooked the way she taught me. No shortcuts, no MSG, just proper Thai food made with the kind of love only a small kitchen can give.
Thanks for letting us cook for you. — Tippy x
Proudly small. Passionately national.
Always with a smile.
Our Story
Our story, from Surin to your door
1967 — Surin, Thailand
It starts with my mum, Niang. In 1967 she set up a food stall in Surin, north-east Thailand, cooking curries from scratch every morning. The recipes we cook today are hers, unchanged — passed down through generations before her and now the heart and soul of our menu.
2003 — Learning at my mother's side
Across the other side of the world my path began very similarly: by 10 I had learnt my first family recipe, and by 13 I was assisting my mother running her first UK market in Gloucester. Every Friday I would serve alongside her with pride — the culinary Queen to myself and many others.
2026 — Great Taste
Our Pork Panang Curry was awarded 3 stars at Great Taste 2026 — the first Thai curry ever to earn 3 stars at Great Taste. Our Beef Massaman took 1 star the same year. Nothing about the cooking changed to win them: same recipes, same pans, same long way round. We cap the week at 50 orders. When they're gone, they're gone — that's the only way to cook everything by hand.
Great Taste 2026 — 3 stars for our Pork Panang Curry, the first Thai curry ever to earn 3 stars at Great Taste, and 1 star for our Beef Massaman Curry. Ordered almost 3,000 times.
2010 — Bristol, my first market
Fully trained in all my mother's skills, I opened my first market — a small stall at St Nicholas Market in Bristol. Bristol is home. You'll still find us at Temple Quay Market, cooking the same dishes on the same burners for the lunchtime queue, and my little sisters have followed in my footsteps just like our ancestors before us.
Thanks & gratitude,
Tippy x
Proudly small. Passionately national. Always with a smile.
- Local Specialist ButcherWhatever's top-grade that week — never bulk wholesale
- Made with LoveEvery dish hand-cooked in small batches
- Recipes Through GenerationsFamily recipes since 1967
- No MSG. No Shortcuts.Real ingredients, real flavour, always
The only Thai food brand that sources this way
We've looked. No other Thai ready meal — anywhere — sources meat from a local specialist butcher and treats animal welfare as a founding value, not a marketing line. It's not the cheapest way to run a food business. It's the right way to run ours.