Mien Tay Restaurant

Mien Tay Restaurant

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.

http://www.mientay.co.uk

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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, Battersea

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Our dinner at Mien Tay was booked on one of those increasingly familiar nights when union leader Bob Crow – a man who looks like a swollen testicle but is half as likeable – once again stuck a rusty spanner in the works of London’s transport system by calling a general transport workers union strike.

As a result, by the time I trudged through Mien Tay’s front door into the chintzy turquoise interior, I was half an hour late and in a mood as disgusting as the blustery wet night I had just come in from.

From very first impressions, Mien Tay is an endearing hotchpotch of authentic South Vietnamese culture and kitsch imitation, exemplified by the assortment of miscellaneous oriental-style knick-knacks that cluttered every available non-dining surface around the restaurant.

Finishing up our meal, my partner and I made our way back into the grizzly night in far better moods than the ones in which we had arrived, considering how best to describe Mien Tay to Fluid readers.

We concluded that the best indication of what Mien Tay is like is if you have ever been to a Turkish restaurant in Dalston, a Caribbean in Brixton, an Indian on Brick Lane, a Chinese in Chinatown or a Vietnamese in north Shoreditch, Mien Tay is cuter than most such venues, but offers a broadly similar rough-and-ready, cheap but wholly satisfying experience - a welcome alternative to the more soulless chains that typically populate the Clapham Junction area.

Mien Tay - 122 Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, London, E2 8DP ...

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The Venue Mien Tay is nestled, unsurprisingly, on that stretch of Kingsland Road which includes Vietnamese restaurants, Vietnamese restaurants and more Vietnamese restaurants.

The staff at Mien Tay are astonishingly friendly – especially for London – and care so much about how you like the food that at the end of the night you’ll feel like you’ve left their home, rather than their restaurant.

From Mien Tay’s main dishes, prawns with garlic sauce are almost obscenely large and come head, tails and all, dressed in a thick, savoury, garlic sauce.

Pho, the traditional Vietnamese noodle soup, comes in a few different varieties, including beef, brisket, meatballs, chicken, prawns, mixed seafood, plus spicy versions.

The Last Word Although you’re pretty much spoilt for choice if you’re looking for Vietnamese restaurants on Kingsland Road, don’t pass Mien Tay by.

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