A few months ago, a group of friends and I went to see the Lego exhibition (Art of the Brick) in Brick Lane. Afterwards, we decided to walk to Kingsland Road to go to one of the Vietnamese restaurants. Kingsland Road runs from north to south with Shoreditch High Street at its southern end and Dalston at its northern end. The middle part of the road, near Hoxton Station, is famous for its Vietnamese restaurants.
We had visited Kingsland Road for a Vietnamese meal a little while ago and we really enjoyed it. This time, we decided to try a different restaurant. The restaurant that we did want to try was booked full, so we had to make do with a restaurant a couple of buildings away, named Cu Tu.
My friends shared the cold goat starter, and I had vegetable spring rolls.
For the mains, we shared fried rice, and I had a chicken stir fry. My friends had a beef chili stir fry and a goat meat stir fry.
The food was average and the service was a bit too slow. (It took awhile to get served initially, our orders, drinks, and we waited an age for someone to see that we had finished in order to get the bill.) Overall, we all felt that the first Vietnamese restaurant that we had visited a year previously was better and that the food was better. We would like to go back to try the other restaurant, which we didn't get into because it was a Friday night and we'd arrived late due to seeing the exhibition first.
Anyway, Kingsland Road is the area of London to go to if you wish to try Vietnamese food.
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