I went to Lanna Thai for lunch with a couple of colleagues in autumn, nervous as I usually am given I grew up eating Thai food all the time as my dad was a restaurateur in a Thai restaurant in London. The restaurant was fairly full – perhaps a reflection of the desert of good eating that is the Secheron area – so I thought that could be a good sign. My colleagues ordered a green curry and red curry with rice and it looked pretty bog-standard to me, and I went for the pad thai – what I consider to be a very good marker for how decent the restaurant must be. I have to disagree with many of the rave reviews on the likes of TripAdvisor. The pad thai was a real disappointment. Annoyingly for my colleagues, I kept lamenting at both the portion and the taste – and the price!! (CHF 27?!) and saying how I could do a much better job (I am not kidding). It really was too wet, lacking in the complex sour-salty flavour you get with real pad thai, lacking in the typical ingredients you would get in a pad thai – like peanuts and pickled radish – and generally just underwhelming. I think the price made me even more irritated, as I think it is ridiculously high for such a lame pad thai and resembled some fried noodle dish you would get at a grubby Chinese. If you want good Thai food (and don’t want to feel ripped off in the process), I recommend Bai Toey in Plainpalais- still the best there is.