Eat Out London!Hanoi Cafe
Vietnamese cafe on Kingsland Road, Shoreditch. Serving homestyle and street-food inspired Vietnamese food since 2000.
Hanoi Cafe
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bellaphon: The Pho Mile
The Phở Mile that's also Kingsland Road, E2 To date I've been to all eleven of them and only a few have been blogged.
The general gist is that none of the eleven twelve joints are bad, they can't afford to be, but anyone of them can also be hit-or-miss.
The Vietnamese staff hate getting wound up by whim-hungry diners, and in any case one shouldn’t ask for the earth anyway, the food served is dirt cheap and nearly, always delicious.
Please do let me know if there are new restaurants that crop on this road and you're more than welcome to contribute any testimonials for any of the restaurants listed below.
Viet Grill – The Vietnamese Kitchen 58 Kingsland Road London E2 8DP
Hanoi Cafe, Shoreditch
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Wonderful night - great people there too.
But so sad to hear that the Club may not..." Which venue is this?
"Demetrius review of the coffee is very unfair.
The milk is not burnt the coffee is hot but I cannot imagine how he burnt his tongue.
The quality is a little over the average compared to Costa coffee..." Which venue is this?
London's best bowls of bun cha | London Evening Standard
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Obama and Bourdain had a beer and ate bun cha — pork with rice noodles — at a Hanoi café.
Info: 134B Kingsland Road, E2, bunbunbun.co Bun Cha Café The clue is in the name.
This little restaurant in Exmouth Market serves succulent bun cha at low prices.
It’s worth the trip — bun cha served with lemongrass pork won’t disappoint.
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First stop: the Song Que Cafe, a new Vietnamese restaurant that opened to a couple of rapturous reviews and a general rush in the direction of its Shoreditch, east London, premises.
The furniture is your bog-standard Chinese restaurant issue, with white paper cloths on the tables and trays of ferocious-looking condiments and pickles.
The overlong menu features many all-too-familiar Chinese restaurant staples, but the Vietnamese specialties are the things to go for here, if freshwater eels with lemon grass and chilli are the kind of dish that floats your boat.
So we order a less esoteric mixed-beef pho, a green papaya salad, two types of rice paper rolls and a stir-fried beef dish with pickles and onions.
Daphne's is my last hope, a place that was once the fashionistas' favourite restaurant and has now been taken over by Caprice Holdings, the group that owns three other hugely popular restaurants in London.
Hanoi Café | Restaurants in Hoxton, London
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In its owners’ own words, Hanoi Café offers ‘homemade Vietnamese cuisine in a relaxed atmosphere’, which is a pretty accurate description of this charming ‘mom and pop’ restaurant.
We had plenty of fun with the rustic ‘roll your own summer roll’ platter, which arrived with personal bamboo mats, circles of rice paper wrappers that had to be soaked in an accompanying bowl of water, and mounds of shredded vegetables, herbs, and vermicelli noodles.
The menu features pho (noodle soups) and bun (rice noodles), served in massive bowls.
Hanoi bun topped with sautéed beef, chicken and king prawns was a satisfying meal in itself, especially when accompanied by a strong Vietnamese iced coffee.
Hanoi Café might not be the fanciest joint in town, but the food is honest and comforting.