Eat Out London!Viet Food
Modern Vietnamese restaurants from ex-Hakkasan chef Jeff Tan, serving in Soho and South Kensington
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Bringing Street Food To The Streets Of Soho Chef/Proprietor Jeff Tan is one of the UK’s top Asian chefs and was, formerly, the opening Executive Head Chef at Yuan in The Atlantis Palm, Dubai and Chef de Cuisine at Hakkasan Mayfair from launch in 2010 for three years.
Jeff’s passion has always been for exceptional quality, reasonably priced Vietnamese food and his menu at Vietfood celebrates Vietnam’s vibrant street food culture.
As one would expect from a chef of this caliber, dishes are not only beautifully presented but packed full of favour, texture and bite even the dipping sauces are homemade using 100% natural, fresh ingredients with no artificial coloring, preservatives or additives.
The exceptional list of world wines has been created for Vietfood by Christopher Cooper of Drinkonomics to perfectly complement the complex flavours featured in Jeff’s range of dishes.
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Former Hakkasan chef Jeff Tan combines Vietnamese home cooking with French techniques to create a sophisticated menu, delivered with warm hospitality in a minimalist South Kensington dining room.
Chicken pho had a deep slow-boiled soup served with succulent pieces of free-range chicken, rice noodles and little pots filled with crispy shallots, Vietnamese mint, coriander, fish sauce and lime for added flavour boosts.
A main course of beef was marinated for four hours in fragrant spices then cooked for 24 hours until almost melting in texture, sweetened with oyster sauce, rock sugar and Vietnamese herbs, and served with spicy Vietnamese plums.
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Liquid libations More restaurants get tried and tasted The wine list is one of the things which really stands out at Viet Food – it’s diverse, good value and features a lot of options you certainly wouldn’t associate with a casual Chinatown spot.
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We’d just walked the length of Wardour Street (sans Google Maps, a rookie error) to find this new Vietnamese restaurant not in the Soho bit, as we assumed, but in the below-Shaftesbury Ave bit.
That’s right, people: Viet Food is just outside the entrance to Chinatown, next to the Play 2 Win arcade and across from famed-for-shouty-waiters Wong Kei.
Ex-Hakkasan head chef Jeff Tan has put together a pick ’n’ mix of stellar Vietnamese street food, and of the seven dishes we sampled, only one (an overcooked but otherwise delicious grilled scallop) was a letdown.
The rest combined tastes and textures with great flair, such as the intense flavours of a dish of stir-fried French beans with tender morsels of sticky beef and alternating bursts of chilli, garlic, and shrimp-paste saltiness.
Or the faintly sweet coconut crunch of deep-fried calamari with a sweet chilli dressing, which came delivered in a teeny test tube, because it’s that kind of place.