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Inside Madame Mew's, green and yellow walls under a ceiling of open paper parasols.
Aberdeen

Madame Mew's

A cheerful, colourful Thai restaurant on Summer Street in Aberdeen, run by Mew Garthley, known for good-value, authentic Thai cooking and its pad thai.

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Welcome

Churairat Garthley, known to everyone as Mew, began cooking Thai food for Aberdeen soon after she arrived in Scotland in 2013.

She started with a tiny cafe in Aberdeen Market, and her cooking won such a following that she moved to a restaurant of her own on Summer Street.

Madame Mew's is bright and cheerful. The walls are painted green and yellow, open paper parasols in every colour hang from the ceiling, and the tables wear checked cloths. The food is the everyday cooking of Thailand, and good value: soups, green and red curries, noodles, papaya salad sharp with lime and chilli, and skewers from the grill. The pad thai is the one everybody orders.

The restaurant opens from Wednesday to Sunday, from mid-morning until late in the evening.

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Before you go

Open Wednesday to Sunday, 10am to 10pm, in Google's current record.

Where
7 Summer Street, AB10 1SB.
Open
Wed to Sun.
Try
The pad thai.

Opening hours

Monday
Closed
Tuesday
Closed
Wednesday
10am–10pm
Thursday
10am–10pm
Friday
10am–10pm
Saturday
10am–10pm
Sunday
10am–10pm

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Where it is

On Summer Street, just north of the west end of Union Street, AB10 1SB.

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