Eat Out London!Mien Tay
Mien Tay Restaurants | Cuisine from South-West Vietnam
We are a small group of four family-run restaurants specialising in authentic home-style cooking from our native South West Vietnam.
Each restaurant is managed by a different family member under consultation from our founders Mrs My Le and Chef Mr Su Tran.
In the kitchen Chef Su insists on fresh ingredients and in the dining room Mrs My Le insists on a warm welcome.
Our menu includes traditional dishes local to the Mien Tay region – why not try some?
We can highly recommend customer favourites such as Fresh Rolls with Prawn, Vietnamese Chicken Clay-Pot Curry, Crispy Squid with Garlic, Chicken with Honey and Spices, Goat with Galangal and Chargrilled Quail with Honey, Garlic and Spices.
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Cheese and Biscuits: Mien Tay, Lavender Hill
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You would be forgiven for assuming that out of the huge amount of restaurants on Lavender Hill, at least a handful would be any good.
There's a mind-numbingly dull, sub-Wagamamas sushi joint, a dreadful overpriced "gastropub", two equally awful Thai restaurants, a terrible fish and chip shop, a handful of middle-of-the-road Indians that could have been transplanted from any suburban high street in the country, and even a Nepalese which I'm yet to visit but which in its previous incarnation as a French restaurant once made me wait an hour for my starter and I left without leaving a tip.
So you'll forgive me for getting ludicrously excited about the arrival of Mien Tay, a proper Vietnamese restaurant which has been wowing the crowds in trendy Shoreditch for a year or two now and which has chosen this cursed stretch of road, amongst the estate agents and two-for-one cocktail bars, for its second branch.
Still in soft-opening phase until tomorrow (9th October), the meal we had was discounted by 10% and you can't yet pay by credit card (necessitating a hasty jog down the hill in the rain to the cash point), but judging purely by the standard of the food served, Mien Tay stands head, shoulder and toes over the rest of the dross in the area.
It seems odd to compare the light, fresh notes of Vietnamese cooking with the dense and meaty Pakistani grill house, but the parallels here were obvious - cheapish meat, albeit cooked intelligently, with such a brilliant command of spicing that the dish is lifted into another stratosphere.
Mien Tay Restaurants | Cuisine from South-West Vietnam
We are a small group of four family-run restaurants specialising in authentic home-style cooking from our native South West Vietnam.
Each restaurant is managed by a different family member under consultation from our founders Mrs My Le and Chef Mr Su Tran.
In the kitchen Chef Su insists on fresh ingredients and in the dining room Mrs My Le insists on a warm welcome.
Our menu includes traditional dishes local to the Mien Tay region – why not try some?
We can highly recommend customer favourites such as Fresh Rolls with Prawn, Vietnamese Chicken Clay-Pot Curry, Crispy Squid with Garlic, Chicken with Honey and Spices, Goat with Galangal and Chargrilled Quail with Honey, Garlic and Spices.
Battersea Restaurant | Mien Tay Restaurants
Daughter of Iconic London Vietnamese Restaurant Dynasty Opens ...
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Van Le, eldest daughter of My Le — owner of the Mien Tay restaurant group, which has four venues across London — has opened Mrs Le’s Bahn Mi and Grill on Battersea’s Lavender Hill.
Named in honour of her mother (and situated next door to Mien Tay’s own Battersea branch), the new restaurant aims to be the closest replication of the Vietnamese grill restaurant experience in London.
Mrs Le’s promises that menu items, along with their preparations and presentations are “exactly as you would find in a typical grill restaurant in Vietnam,” a style of dining said to be popular particularly in the south-west of the country.
Dishes such as one-day sunshine squid (inspired by a traditional preparation whereby fishermen clean their catch of squid, then leave them to bask in the sun for a day before grilling them to their namesake sunshine-yellow colour) and mackerel with lemongrass (an aromatic, charcoal-grilled mackerel served with rice-paper rolls and fresh herbs) are joined by a range of bahn mi featuring fresh house-made pate and whipped Vietnamese butter.
Other larger dishes include whole, charcoal-grilled chicken, and a range of noodle soups, while traditional Vietnamese drinks including condensed milk-sweetened iced coffee are available as accompaniments.
Mien Tay | Restaurants in Hoxton, London
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Sample top-notch Vietnamese cooking, with a forte in seafood, at this no-frills Kingsland Road stalwart.
Much derided for its rather unimpressive, run-down façade and pretty shabby, paint-peeling decor (which could all be remedied fairly quickly and cheaply), Mien Tay is nevertheless a great place to get authentic, top-notch food.
As for the food, stir-fried green mussels with ginger and spring onion was a delight: plump and tasty mussels, perfectly cooked à point, with a sauce that was spot-on.
Scallops with black bean sauce were equally brilliant; the chef here obviously has a way with seafood.
Lẫu, or seafood hotpot (for a minimum of two diners) seems equally appealing.