Great food and a great atmosphere, the grill was busy and people were enjoying them self. What a great place will definitely come back again, sooner rather than later...
Anthony Michael O'Rourke
+5
The seafood platter is to die for!! This place is amazing ��
Viet Grill was my first Vietnamese culinary experience. I ordered the cha la lot and the Mekong catfish clay pot with jasmine rice. Oh boy! What a tease to your tastebuds. This is Asian food that uplifts your soul.
The interiors and exteriors are such a stand out on the street. Pretty little place, ideal for couples and groups alike. Service was impeccable, even when the restaurant got crowded.
Ambience: Good
Food/Drinks: Very Good
Service: Very Good
Value for money: Very Good
My Recommendation: cha la lot
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On the Kingsland Road strip, I don't visit Viet Grill often despite the food being excellent. It is more expensive than some of the other spots and you can't bring your own wine. It's more civilized looking than a lot of the other Vietnamese restaurants in the area, so suitable for bringing a date. However, be warned that acoustics are not great, so it is very noisy when crowded.
My colleague and I both ordered pho but started with a shared dish of chilli salt and pepper squid. A smallish portion but perfectly exquisite. Great light texture, tentacles still beautiful, and perfectly seasoned. I preferred my companion's classic pho to my Saigon sate pho which was a novelty with peanut and chilli in the broth. We were both disappointed that the ox cheek pho is no longer on the menu as it had an incredibly powerful broth. In fact, the whole purpose of deviating to Viet Grill was to order the ox cheek pho.
The pho comes with the veg already mixed into the broth, instead of on the side. Their beef broth is considerably better than average for the strip, but I prefer my pho served in the classical fashion with bean sprouts and a selection of fresh herbs on the side that can be customized. Also there were no accompanying lime wedges.
With a bottle of house red at £20, dinner for two was £57 including service, which is higher than average for Kingsland Road.
Had a wonderful meal here. The place was seriously buzzing when we arrived. Each dish was excellent, could hardly fault one, and several reached lofty heights. Service was excellent. Brisk, efficient and most affable. Recommended.
I decided to go back to Viet Grill as I found the food here is pretty authentic. We get really good Asian food back home in Sydney so I do compare the quality we get here in London. This second visit I decided to test their Vietnamese authenticity by ordering Pho. I was really impressed! The flavour is definitely there, just wished it came with a little more noodles but overall I'm happy 😊 I've found a go to Vietnamese place in my local area.
Really delicious food, tastes fresh. Pho is a generous portion, however expected at an average price of £10! there is a downstairs too! Cocktails are maybe a 3/5.
The Food Connoisseur
+4.5
A must have at any Vietnamese restaurant is the Banh xeo, a wafer thin pancake, folded in half crammed with prawns, chicken, and mixed herbs. It’s engineered to eat in one-bit mouthful with the lettuce provided.
The seafood platter is all the seafood dishes from the chilli salt & pepper section, squid, soft shell crab, and Ecuador prawns. Insanely addicted simple ingredients dusted in batter deep fried until you have the perfect crunch, and seasoned with chilli salt and pepper with semi cooked onion slices, spring onions and chilli’s.
The lucky dip ice creams. Developed and made with Gelupo you’re onto a winner. You never know what flavour you end up with; a mix of three is scooped into a tall glass.
Delicious Vietnamese. Being very much into different Asian fusions and after reading seval reviews about Vietnamese places in London, I picked "Viet Grill" for a saturday late afternoon meal. Three of us and no reservation, the place was already buzzy and vibrant but we were promptly offered a table downstairs, Viet Grill looks much smarter than all other Vietnamese along Kingsland Road. In order to taste as many dishes as possible we decided to order five different starters and two mains and that did not disappoint. Despite Vietnamese being a sophisticated cuisine, everything just looked and tasted fresh and authentic, service was also friendly and fast. Will definately go back for more in the near future! Recommended.
Huge range of incredibly tasty and fresh food. Very informal and surprisingly cheap. Great little wine list and lovely service. Worth going to the other side of London for this culinary heaven.
Yum Yum. I tried this for the first time the other day and can only recommend it. will deffo go again
We’ve recently discovered the £5 before 3pm menu at Viet Grill and since it’s been our regular haunt for a cheap Vietnamese lunch. I usually don’t wander so far down the Hackney Kingsland strip but it does always surprise me that so many of the restaurant
I think this restaurant deserves 5-stars, and the Vietnamese foods here are one of the most authentic Vietnamese foods I ever have had in London. The taste of foods is rich and excellent. Will certainly come visit again!
A very surprising and impressive restaurant. Real good quality food. Great service too. A real surprising dish which everyone must try is the rice sheets with grilled pork, I’m sure restaurant can correct me with an exact name. One of the best dishes I’ve had in any restaurant this year. Wish I took more pics. I ordered a wok fried pho, very saucy and lots of meat and veg. Fried rice with pork chops was very pleasing to take home.
Spring rolls were nice, meaty and flavoursome.
Summer rolls were great. Only wish was just a bit more peanut sauce with my summer rolls.
9.5
Party of 5 on a Wednesday night. The place was buzzing and packed. Really enjoyed the food but the best was the house specialty steamed crepes. Very authentic and fresh. Way better than the steamed crepes in Hong Kong. The summer rolls and salt and pepper squid were also good. Hands down the best Vietnamese I have tried in London on this trip.
Went back on Thursday for lunch which is a nice quiet atmosphere. A great lunch set is available for £14.95 and the original pho is very good.
Viet Grill is an incredibly underrated Vietnamese restaurant that deserves more recognition. The pho they serve is simply outstanding, among the best I've ever tasted. Although the selection of side vegetables is limited to coriander, fresh bean sprouts, and mint, the broth itself is exceptional, and the beef is remarkably tender, cooked right on point. While the cold dishes may suffer from being made ahead of time and lack freshness, the hot dishes I sampled were truly outstanding. The value for money is impressive, and once you experience Viet Grill, you'll never want to go back to chain food restaurants like Pho.
Amazing Vietnamese food! Very delicious! Definitely come back! Thank you!
Excellent food and good service. 6 of us had lunch together and really enjoyed it. Loved my Hanoi char grilled belly pork.
Big portions!
Only 3 stars for atmosphere because it was lunchtime midweek and rather empty, but that suited us as we could have a good chat without disturbing anyone. Thank you to the other diner who kindly took an excellent picture of our group for us. Hope we weren't too noisy for you.
Zimo Tong (HongKongTongue)
+5
Best Spring rolls I've had in London. The beef pho was flavorful and had an ample amount of fat and umami. Really authentic taste, similar to the taste when I had pho in Hong Kong.
Food was great!!!!! but my drinks let it down a bit for me. I ordered the virgin mojito and had asked if it was sweet which they said it wasn't but the waiter said he would check with the bar staff to see if they could make it sweet and he said they could, however their version of making it sweet was just adding sugar to the drink which you can imagine was just sat at the bottom of the cup 😔. But aside from that the starters were lovely, portion sizes were decent and the food tasted great.
Dropped into this place before and after an event we were attending locally. The small plate dishes Betal Leaf Dumplings, salt and pepper squid and the special rice rolls with pork and Asian mushrooms were delicious. Portions were good sized. House red wine was inexpensive and ok. On the return visit we had pho which was also very good. Recommended place. Service a little inattentive at times.
Decent, local Vietnamese restaurant. Between the two of us, we shared the imperial spring rolls (good), Hanoi style bahn cuon (tasty and good portion size), the chicken breast pho (broth was clear and super hearty) and the Hanoi grilled pork bun cha (not bad but found the grilled pork and broth quite oily). The lychee martini was great as well. The service was efficient but as the night got busier, it was harder to flag down the waiters for the bill.
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