Viet-anh Cafe

My wife & I had a great meal again last night at Viet-anh. We live locally and this is one of the most consistent restaurants on Parkway. The menu does have many "chinese style" dishes as well but this is not a problem as they are well prepared. We are both fish eaters and the steamed sea bass with ginger and spring onions is always excellent. We love the vegetable dishes -the crispy fried noodles with tofu/vegetables and black bean sauce was a dream.

The restaurant is always busy and they do a quick turnover of tables. The service efficient and friendly.
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Stephen
8 Overall rating
Food 8 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 8
Friday, July 29, 2011

This is a convenience stop. One comes to this restaurant for a quick bite, not for an evening meal.

The food is passable. I take the point from another reviewer that it's a bit sloppy but I wouldn't say it was too bad either. I've been a few times and never actually been outright disappointed. But it could be better if they tried a bit.

I couldn't really fault the service. Again, I take the point about card charges from another reviewer, but one is really expected to pay by cash in these places. Leaving any debates about consumer rights for another discussion, this is just the "done thing". I have no problem with this. And I think the prices are quite reasonable, considering there is competition in the area.

The only real complaint I have is the cleanliness. I always seem to end up with a slightly sticky table and there does seem to be a fair amount of dirt visible around floor edges, etc.
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Alan Ingham - View all reviews by this user
6 Overall rating
Food 6 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 8
Sunday, June 26, 2011

Having just spend 2 weeks travelling through Vietnam, and having also been to 4 London Vietnamese restaurants since I came back, my girlfriend and I didn't recognise what we were served as being Vietnamese, more like a cheap Chinese takeaway with plenty of gloop and tasteless, shredded lettuce. Vegetarian spring rolls could have been bought frozen from Iceland. Very disappointed to come away with a bill for £40 for 5 disappointing dishes and 2 beers.
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Olly
3 Overall rating
Food 2 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 2
Sunday, February 13, 2011

After living in Camden for 4 years this is my guilty favorite.

Deep fried tofu and balanced off with some healthier choices.

The place is packed... you will be shoved in with strangers near you... it gets really hot in there.... so if you don't like that, this isnt the place for you and you would be missing out! If you are a Camden local, you will most likely know the person next to you anyhow.
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9 Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 10
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

I cant believe people on here are saying that this is a Top, good viet cafe WTF! these people have obvously never had proper asian food in their lives. this place is one of the worst asian cafes i ever been to and is the prime reason why people can be put off by asian food as it is sloppy, covered in sauce to the point that you dont even know what you are eating. Asian food is inexpensive and not hard to do so saying that 'oh but it is cheap' is a cop out. I consider places like this a complete rip off.

To start the menu is ridiculously long giving a hint at what is to come as no cafe let alone restaurant would even be able to have a good turnaround on this menu - its massive! I ordered deep fried butterfly prawns which weren't deep fried but covered in breadcrumbs and zapped in a microwave, they were dry, no taste and prawn did you say? i could hardly taste any they might as well be called just hard breadcrumbs. i refused to pay for these. next up spare ribs yet again dry over cooked covered in sauce. for main decided to order something simple as the menu was just so big i couldnt decide so ordered a standard beef stir fry- not difficult but was overcooked, sloppy, tasteless, rubbery beef.didnt eat this just the noodles. my gf had sweet n sour pork needless to say that was rubbish covered in sauce couldnt taste any pork only half good thing about it was the rice!! these places should be shut down in my opinion .i would have rathered macdonalds , would be at least 10 times better and thats saying something!

we left the place leaving pretty much all the food on the plates, nearly wasnt going to pay for the whole meal but really didnt want to cause to much hassle and kick off as we were going out for the night at the jazz cafe and were running late. by the way the prawns were better at the jazz cafe got double the amount and were pretty much the same price.oh and they were actually prawns not bread. you want good asian food try new culture revolution(stir frys pretty much same price, double the portions, very good meat, no msg, fresh veg etc), theres also some great ones on oldstreet/kingsland. what i have learnt from this is never go to an asian restaurant on the spur of the moment because if you know and like your good food most prob you will be let down. i never used to like asian food because of places like this until i had the experience of actually eating proper asian quisine.
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1 Overall rating
Food 0 | Service 2 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 0
Tuesday, December 29, 2009