Viet Grill – The Vietnamese Kitchen

I have a very good knowledge about modern vietnamese cuisine, and this restaurant has actually passed the test. Being a vietnamese myself and a passion of eating out, in Vietnam and now in England, I found this restaurant is the best Vietnamese outside Vietnam. It has old favourite dishes like Pork Bell and Summer Roll, to modern dishes in high end restaurants like Green peppercorn duck and Feudal Roasted Beef. My pork belly reminded me a lot of my grand mum, while the duck made me felt like I am dining at a 5 star restaurant in Vietnam. The wine is actually the best value you can find (they dont serve nice wine in vietnamese restaurant, except this). With £28 you can have a Otogo Pinot Noir, which cost £18 itself at Nicolas.

Top tips: Book in advance and come in the weekend as they have a seasonal menu changing every week.

Meat: 9 Fish: 7 Duck:10 Wine: 9
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Jimmy
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Food 10 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Tuesday, August 05, 2008

This place had been highly recommended to me but I was seriously disappointed.

We all found the menu really confusing, a strange mix of Vietnamese and modern English cuisine with not very helpful descriptions.

For starters the summer rolls were fresh but lacking in flavour. For the main course a dish with squid, tomato and chilli was delicious but everything else was disappointing. Most particularly the 'Torch Roasted Pork Belly' which could not be further from that description. It had been boiled and was wobbly and rubbery, yuck. The wine list was quite expensive although the wine we had tasted very cheap.

The accoustics were terrible, very difficult to hear my friend sitting right next to me and visa versa. Also the cost of £65 was a lot higher than I have paid at other local (and far bettter) Vietnamese Restaurants.

Very disappointing all in all.
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Food 3 | Service 3 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 1
Saturday, August 02, 2008

Excellent food, nice staff, delicious wine. We had a very romantic evening. Will come back :)
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Sonia
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Saturday, July 19, 2008

Warm and nice decor. Superb modern vietnamese food, best Pho and feudal roasted beef. Very attentive service. Down to earth prices. Special wine list (done by Malcolm Gluck). Celebrities spotted twice (Keira Knightley) Best place for birthday party (they have a function room which can seat 60 people).
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Helen
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Food 9 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 10
Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Some staffs were not polite, which obviously ruined the meal!
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Becky
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Food 7 | Service 4 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 5
Friday, January 18, 2008

Went on Saturday 13th Oct.

Pleasant atmosphere, good service, very relaxed, interesting menu - but found the food very underwhelming, highly seasoned in a 'lashings' sort of way rather than judicious use of salt and spice allowing natural flavours to come to the fore.

We had deep-fried tofu, Feudal roast beef and mackerel amongst other things. Highlight was the mackerel, grilled in banana leaf and filleted at the table. Tasty bit of fish, best ordered as part of a meal with a wet dish like a curry or a soup as they would eat it in Asia as it's a bit dry with just rice.

All-in-all it was ok, a decent local, but I wouldn't trek across London to eat here.
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Food 4 | Service 7 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 5
Monday, October 15, 2007

Having just moved to Shoreditch experimentation is our 'staple' dinner at the moment. We have eaten at a few of the Vietnamese places on the high street and this is definitely the best. We have never had to wait (long) for a table despite always being busy. The service is great (bearing in mind there is a small language barrier), the prices more than reasonable and the food is delightful. I life to try different things although seem to keep going back to the One pot dish of BBQ Pork loin on rice noodles for a whole £6. This dish is filling (not stodgy) and so beautifully fresh. I certainly found my local Vietnamese.
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Clare
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Food 10 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Friday, October 05, 2007

Gave this place a visit for the 1st time last Saturday and wasn't too impressed considering all the previous raving reviews.

For starters we ordered the Imperial Rolls to share and a Seafood Soup Noodle for me and Shredded Chicken and Pork with Egg Soup Noodle for my partner.

For £3.80 we got just 2 small rolls that were cut into 2 so it would look more and didn't find these as tasty as ones we've tried in London or even Brussels where we have found the best Vietnamese restaurants at reasonable prices without any service.

For the soup noodles, I had just 2 prawns, 3 or 4 extremely fine sliced scallops and some squid. Very disappointed in the quantity of the seafood considering they charged £6.50 plus 10% service on top! The majority of the dish was noodles (cheap ingredient) and soup!

As for my partner, there was the (small portion of) shredded chicken but the pork was processed meat and again the dish consisted of noodles and soup!

I don't mind paying their prices plus service just as long as they provide you with quality and quantity.

The atmosphere of the restaurant is very pleasent, but that can't be said for the toilets in the basement. I recommend you go at home before you set off!
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Charlie
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Food 5 | Service 7 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 3
Thursday, July 26, 2007

I visited the restaurant with three friends late Tuesday evening and had to wait 30 minutes for a table.

We had a varity of starters, the salad served with mango sauce was really nice but didn't like the cold squid over the top of the salad.

We also had this monk fish which was cooked up in front of us served with rice noddle and It came with a really horrible smelling fish sause. I didn't enjoy the dish as it was a little tasteless and the dish was over powered by the dill.

Overall the mains we had was really good but we were disapointed with the starters.
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My Lin
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Food 5 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 7
Saturday, July 21, 2007

Went after work on a Tuesday night at 7:30 with 6 people. It was almost empty but that never puts me off when you are early.

It meant we got good service and I was pleased to find the place bright and clean and not cramped.

The waitress was not the happiest person but maybe that's Vietnam for you.

We had a big variety of starters and main courses and it was excellent. The Viet pizza is a seafood omelette and the Viet steak dishes were high quality - both recommended.

I will be going back even though it's out of my way
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MrFussy - View all reviews by this user
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Food 9 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 10
Thursday, April 12, 2007