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Cafe East is a Vietnamese cafe/restaurant that used to be situated on Evelyn Street in Deptford. In Spring 2009, they moved to the Surrey Quays shopping/leisure complex, near the cinema. Kake and bob attempted to visit the new location a week after they reopened, but they'd had such great demand the day before that they'd run out of food and had to close! A visitor known as MC tells us that the food is as good as ever, though the prices have gone up marginally. MC adds that the new premises are much bigger, seating around 100 people, and there's now a waiting area.
(The original Cafe East premises are still in the hands of the same landlord, and his son has opened yet another Vietnamese cafe there, known as Mama Pho.)
Our review of the old location is at the bottom of this page - we'll be trying another visit to the new location soon!
See also:
- Chowhound thread (covers both the old and new locations)
- Eternally Neurotic review (new location)
- Elitist Review review (new location)
- Hollow Legs review (new location)
- Food Stories review (new location)
- bellaphon's review (new location)
- tehbus' review (new location)
- Cheap Eats In London review (new location)
- No More Big Menus review (new location)
- Culinary Hags review (old location)
- Darren Ferguson's review (old location)
- Frankly Cross Eyed review (old location)
- The Belly Rules The Mind review (old location)
- Facebook page
Old review:
Kake and doop visited on a Saturday evening in December 2007; we'd been warned that we might have to queue, but we got a table straight away.
We shared summer rolls to start, then both had pho (Vietnamese noodle soup) - doop had chicken, and Kake had chicken, beef, and prawn. Kake liked everything about hers: the base stock was really clear-tasting; the noodles weren't even slightly stodgy; the prawns were good big ones and not overcooked; and although the beef was well-done, it was still tender and not at all dry. Portions were very generous. Our bill was £18.20 in total, including tea (50p per person) but not service.
Will try the Bun Bo Hue (spicy beef soup) next time, as it's been recommended on Chowhound.
Note that the owners of Cafe East close up and go on holiday for a month or so every year, generally around August/September.
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