Som Saa founders to launch Borough Market restaurant

20 June 2023 by
Som Saa founders to launch Borough Market restaurant

The team behind London's Som Saa restaurant are to open a new site in Borough Market in October.

Andy Oliver and Mark Dobbie are to launch Kolae, which is named after a cooking style from the south of Thailand.

This sees ingredients, most commonly chicken, coated in a coconut marinade before being grilled over open flames.

Kolae will occupy an old London coach house and seat 80 covers split over three floors, as well as a small courtyard dining area and private dining room at the top of the building.

Dishes will include half kolae chicken, marinated in a sauce of lemongrass, fresh turmeric, black pepper, as well as seasonal fish, seafood and vegetarian specials cooked using a similar technique.

Drinks will include cocktails made using Thai ingredients, a list of 15-20 wines mostly available by the glass, and a small selection of beers and ciders.

Dobbie said: "Borough is an area that we've loved spending time in over the years, with an amazing restaurant scene, so it feels like a significant moment for us to be opening Kolae there."

Oliver added: "The concept for Kolae has been in the works for a long time and this feels like an exciting new direction for us. It will be a celebration of some very special dishes, ingredients and techniques that excite and inspire us."

Oliver and Dobbie met in 2009 at the Michelin-starred Nahm restaurant in London under the tutelage of chef David Thompson.

The pair launched Som Saa in a Peckham pub garden in 2013 and crowdfunded the opening of their first permanent restaurant in Spitalfields in 2016.

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