Estate 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...