Haggerston, Vietnamese Restaurant Guide

“The food is superb” at this Vietnamese canteen with a high reputation against strong competition on Shoreditch’s Kingsland Road ‘Pho Mile’. “You don’t come here for the service, but for the great pho.”

2019 Review: Long hailed as one of the better options on Kingsland Road’s ‘pho mile’ – this “cheap ’n’ cheerful” Vietnamese café only inspired limited feedback this year, but all of it positive.

This family-run Vietnamese quartet has won popular acclaim for 15 years or so on Shoreditch’s ‘Pho Mile’ as well as more recently in Battersea, Fulham and Wood Green. Hardly stylish but very “good value”, they’re “often rammed” with diners attracted by the first-class pho and dishes such as goat with galangal – one of the late critic AA Gill’s all-time favourites.