Last week it was time for another Vietnamese. As I have
mentioned my old favourite Mien Tay stopped being BYOB and raised their prices
during the Olympics. Error. So it was time to move onto pastures new. My dinner
and myself date decided to go for Que Viet, after doing some constructive day
time googling. Now although not BYOB, we did get a very nice bottle of Prosecco
for £20. Not bad really!
The menu is pretty extensive as seems to be standard for
Vietnamese places. I went for the prawn summer rolls to start. I always feel
pretty virtuous when I order these – must be the herbs. For £3.50 though, a
pretty cheap and tasty way to start the meal.
Alex went for the salt and pepper squid. Now she is a squid
pro. This being her favourite – Que Viet had a lot to live up to. Luckily for
them it was great. A huge portion of well seasoned and not even the slightest
bit chewy squid. The only thing I will say is that it could have done with some
kind of dipping sauce with it.
Onto the mains – I tried to move away from my usual spicy
pho… and went for one of their ‘speciality dishes’…which was basically a pho
which a range of slightly unidentifiable meats including one which looked and
tasted suspiciously like german sausage. Dubious meat aside the broth itself
was well seasoned and not at all greasy.
The other main was their Red Duck curry – now maybe its
because you expect a Thai Red curry which is all coconut and spices but this
one seemed slightly bland. On the other hand you can’t fault their portion size
and they were kind enough to pack most of it up for her to take into work for
lunch the next day as we had filled ourselves up on starters.
All in all Que Viet is decent. The starters are great and
the mains average but not unpleasant. All in all the bill was about 25 each and
given the fact that this including the bottle of prosecco, I would say pretty
good value.
The search for my new favourite Kingsland Road Vietnamese
continues…
102 Kingsland Road
London
E2 8DP
0207 033 0588
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