If the words "You go in and grab the table while I drive around for half an hour trying to find a parking space" are starting to sound all too familiar you'll be pleased to know help is at hand.

Tamarai is yet another swankily-designed, Pan Asian canteen, but - and we're not just quoting from the press release here - this one really does have a difference.

Sure, the food is about as good as it gets in the Asian fusion realm. Created by India's premiere Thai chef Manish Mehrotra, the fragrant delights on offer include caramel pepper prawns with golden garlic and penang curry sea bass with spicy mee krob, which are sure to bring a twinkle to the eye of those who'd written off Covent Garden as a gourmet ghost town.

The impressive wine list has been compiled by Master of Wine and correspondent for the Observer Tim Atkin, and the cocktails, created by bar supremos the Gorgeous Group, are suitably oriental. There is even a gallery where photography and digital and video art will be on display.

But the thing that really sets Tamarai apart from the rest is, joy of joys, there's a free carpark. Just present your ticket to the waitress and they'll do the rest. Okay, it may not be quite the valet-parking you've come to expect at Cocoon (that street would be impossible without it), but now you're just being a brat!