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The restaurant is over 2 levels. The ground floor can seat 60 people at tables and 7 at the bar. The basement can seat approximately 50.
[[Kake]] and [[Bob]] visited on a Tuesday evening in October 2007. The area around Kingsland Road has quite a number of Vietnamese restaurants, but we decided to try this one out since a number of reviews suggested it was one of the best.
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[[bob]] visited at Lunchtime on Thursday in July 2018. There were 2 other customers when I arrived and one more joined us while I was there.

[[bob]] had the Saigon Feed set lunch for &pound;11 which consists of a limited choice of starters and mains. [[bob]] had the grilled piggy aubergine<small>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/rjw1/42789388884/in/album-72157689327030060/ photo]<small> and the Chilli Pork Chop<small>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/rjw1/29635214428/in/album-72157689327030060/ photo]<small>. They were both quite nice.

[[Kake]] and [[bob]] had previously visited on a Tuesday evening in October 2007. The area around Kingsland Road has quite a number of Vietnamese restaurants, but we decided to try this one out since a number of reviews suggested it was one of the best.

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* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/rjw1/albums/72157689327030060 flick photoset] by [[bob]]
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Accessibility info: 2 steps to get in. Toliets are down a flight of wide stairs with bannisters in the basement. There is also more seating in the basement.


<div class="last_verified">Last visited by [[bob]], July 2018. Opening hours taken from the Viet Grill website, March 2011.</div>
<div class="last_verified">Last visited by [[Kake]] and [[Bob]], October 2007. Prices determined on that visit. Opening hours taken from the Viet Grill website, March 2011.</div>

Vietnamese restaurant on Kingsland Road in Shoreditch, sister restaurant of Cay Tre.

Kake and Bob visited on a Tuesday evening in October 2007. The area around Kingsland Road has quite a number of Vietnamese restaurants, but we decided to try this one out since a number of reviews suggested it was one of the best.

We started with sliced beef grilled tableside and wrapped in rice paper (£5/person, for a minimum of two people). This is a self-assembly dish; a portable grill is provided along with a plate of thinly-sliced beef, rice paper wrappers, and various vegetables and pickles, and you're left to grill the beef as you prefer it before wrapping it up with the veg/pickles and eating it. Note that if you like your beef very rare, it might be wise to rest it for a minute before putting it in your roll, since otherwise the meat juices will leak out of the roll and make a terrible mess. (I speak from experience, and note that the staff member who showed us how to make the rolls failed to realise this would happen even though we told her we liked our meat rare.)

Our mains were slow-cooked catfish (£6.50) photo and Vietnamese quail curry (£6), and we shared a dish of water spinach in garlic (£5). The catfish was a little earthy-tasting, but steamed fragrant rice (£1.80) was very, very good. Bob thought the noodles with beansprouts and onions (£3) were good too.

It's worth noting that although the place was practically empty when we arrived around 7pm, it was full half an hour later.

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Last visited by Kake and Bob, October 2007. Prices determined on that visit. Opening hours taken from the Viet Grill website, March 2011.

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