A Thai Restaurant
worth the drive from Wickersley

Wickersley sits about eleven miles south of our kitchen on Copley Road. The cleanest route in is the M18 northbound from junction 1 up to junction 4, then a few minutes through into Doncaster town centre via the A630. The drive takes around twenty-two to twenty-eight minutes depending on time of day - the motorway run is steady and the only real bottleneck is the A630 approach during school-run hours. Trafford Way multi-storey is the closest car park to us, two minutes walk from the front door on Copley Road.

Whether you set off from the streets around the village centre and St Alban's Church, the homes on Bawtry Road heading toward the dining strip, the residential roads off Morthen Road toward Wickersley Wood, or the newer estates spreading toward Bramley and the M18 junction itself, the motorway is the obvious north-south route. From the Wickersley Tarn and cricket club side of the village, dropping onto the M18 via Bawtry Road takes only a few minutes more than the village-centre roads. Once you are on the motorway it is a clean run almost to our door.

Public transport is a less natural fit from Wickersley to central Doncaster in the evening - most guests drive. The drive home in the evening is quieter still since the motorway has emptied out by ten when we close.

• Five tables, intimate by design
• BYO with no corkage, no service charge added
• Every dish cooked to order, taste-adjusted as Rin cooks
• Authentic Thai pastes from Thailand, the same ones used in Bangkok kitchens
• Twenty-two to twenty-eight minute drive from Wickersley via the M18

Wickersley is a sizeable village just east of Rotherham, on the Bawtry Road corridor heading toward Bramley and the M18. With a population of around ten thousand counting the immediate surrounding area, it has its own dining culture built around the village strip - the cluster of restaurants, bars and independent food places along Bawtry Road that draws in trade from across the wider Rotherham borough.

The village has St Alban's Church at its old centre, the cricket club and village green, Wickersley Tarn and Wickersley Wood on the eastern edge, and Morthen Road climbing south toward the rural villages. It is a settled, prosperous part of the Rotherham district that has always supported its own evening dining trade, and that trade traditionally extended to a takeaway Thai option in the village.

With Northern Thai no longer trading, Wickersley does not currently have a dedicated specialist Thai restaurant of its own. Diners looking for the kind of cooking where the pastes come from Thailand and the chef has cooked the food for over a decade now most commonly drive either south into Rotherham town centre or north toward Doncaster. Twenty-two minutes on the M18 is what most of our Wickersley guests reckon on for an evening here, and the run home in the late evening is faster still.

We are open Monday and Wednesday through to Saturday, twelve noon until nine in the evening, with kitchen orders typically taken up until around eight-forty. Tuesdays and Sundays we are closed. The five tables mean Friday and Saturday evenings tend to fill up by mid-week - book a day or two ahead if either night matters to you. Midweek you can usually book the same day, and walk-ins are often possible if you call ahead from the M18.

Book a table online via our booking system or phone 01302 210408 directly. The phone is the better route if you want to confirm spice levels or dietary requirements - Rin or one of the team will pick up and confirm in the same call.

Parking is closest at the Trafford Way multi-storey, two minutes walk from us. The Wool Market car park sits a similar distance away. Street parking on the roads around Copley Road is free after 6pm when restrictions lift. For diners coming in for a Friday or Saturday evening, parking once and walking is the easy approach.