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Where To Eat And Drink In... Camberwell | Londonist
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Cute caff-cum-furniture shop Pigeon Hole Café has a recently added selection of pastries and No. 67 on Camberwell Church Street will set you up for the day with their selection of fresh juices, porridge, eggs or the 'Full Spanglish' – a full English with chorizo and morcilla.
We've got a real soft spot for the chicken satay bánh mi from Viet Café on Denmark Hill, a long time Vietnamese caff which used to be called Café Bay, serving a range of baguettes, Vietnamese summer rolls and other dishes with rice.
Newcomer Lumberjack replaced the House Gallery and café near St. Giles Church and seems to be doing a good trade in coffee and towering cakes supplied by local baker Cat Food Cakes.
The Hermit’s Cave over the road has more of an old man vibe but is popular still (although we wish they’d sort out the seating) and of course, The Camberwell Arms is nearby if you'd rather have a glass of wine (they also make a good cocktail).
The Bear has just reopened after a refurb, as has The Phoenix inside Denmark Hill station — a light, bright space with generously portioned food and a good fish finger sandwich, it’s really quite good for a station pub.
The best and worst banh mi in London – Vietnamese sandwiches ...
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Updated 26/2/14 – tweaked Bun Cha review, added a missing photo and added reviews of Chao Kitchen and Chao!Now Updated 05/3/14 – added review of Bep Haus, tweaked The Verdict slightly to reflect its inclusion Updated 12/3/14 – added review of Miss Chu Updated 13/7/14 – added reviews of An, KP Banh Mi, Ladudu and Sticky Beaks Pho, or beef noodle soup, is the dish most commonly known Vietnamese dish but there’s another that deserves just as much attention and love – the humble banh mi.
An Aobaba Banh Mi 11 Banh Mi Bay Banh Mi Hoi An Banh Mi Saigon Bep Haus Bun Cha Caphe House Chao Kitchen Chao Now Chi City Caphe Keu KP Banh Mi Ladudu Miss Chu OA Com Tam Panda Panda Pho Express Sen Viet Sticky Beaks Velo Vieteat Viet Cafe (formerly Cafe Bay) Walk Thru The simply named Ăn (‘eat’ in Vietnamese, apparently) is one of the few Vietnamese eateries in Woolwich which is a little odd considering the much larger number available in nearby Deptford.
Like the beef stew variant above, the chicken curry banh mi is served with the curry and baguette separate from each other.
The spiced pork variant uses pig flesh that’s smooth, sweetly caramelised and slightly fatty, but the taste of the pickled vegetables and coriander easily dominates this sandwich.
Banh Mi Bay’s coffee, whether hot or iced, tends to be very milky and sweet, with little taste of the coffee itself.
Viet Hoa Café, London E2, restaurant review - Telegraph
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A young chap, fetchingly clad in a white paper hat and yellow rubber gloves, sat on a chair by the window a few feet from our table, running his mop back and forth over one tiny patch of floor.
At a Chinese place not far from the Viet Hoa, which stands in a corner of an East End road that is forever Saigon, someone took the Hoover for a spin up and down the centre of the room.
The oddity here is that the Viet Hoa has soared upmarket since I last ate there some seven years ago, when it was a Formica-and-paper-napkins “caff” in which elderly women sat on rickety chairs making the summer rolls.
Deep-fried tofu came with a lavish helping of the same rich peanut sauce that accompanied the chicken satay (four juicy pieces for £4.30), but the pick of the starters was a fat and glorious soft-shell crab, fried to greaseless perfection, studded with red chilli and doused in a garlicky dressing.
The waitress arrived to offer ironic congrats on our gluttony, and as the empty plates made their way towards the serving hatch at the other side of the room, so did the Big Mopper.
VietCafé | Restaurants in Soho, London
Viet Café presents you Northern-style Vietnamese cuisine.
There’s a lot more than pho... It's the harmony of all flavours: sweet, salty, spicy, bitter and sour.
Northern Vietnamese dishes feature a light and balanced taste that result from the combinations of many different flavour ingredients.