As avid readers will of course remember, I wrote a pretty raving review of a Vietnamese restaurant in Shoreditch/Hoxton's 'Pho Mile' (as it has been coined) a while back. Well, that clearly wasn't pho-nominal (sorry) enough for me, so I had to try another of the area's Vietnamese apparent assets, just a few doors down from Song Que. Mein Tay looks humble on the exterior (and, indeed, the interior), but there is a reason it is regularly queued out the door, and recently had to expand into the next-door restaurant for more seating space. The food here is really excellent; reasonably priced and generous portions. The atmosphere at the weekends is great - with many large groups and a lot of noise! Try the fresh spring rolls (below) which are delicious, and they also, unusually, offer goat, frog and eel dishes (although none of us were brave enough to try these).
I would say it is recommended that you book, but it didn't seem to make any difference as we still had to queue for half an hour to be seated. Still, they kept us going with prawn crackers and it was worth the wait! Even worth enduring having to compromise leg room to accommodate a table with a built in diorama of a Vietnamese village, complete with plastic trees and bamboo huts.
122 Kingsland Rd
Shoreditch
London
E2 8DP
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