Tay Do Cafe

MrGryff

Full On High Octane Dining! 28th March 2009

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Awesome kitchen pumping out fabulous dishes into a crowded friday night throng of ravenous twenty somethings. The service comes all at once with every course piled up in front of you and staff to busy to waste time with petty requests. Menu item 37 looked a lot of fun on the table next to ours with what looked like make your own summer roll with beef! The spicy squid was superb, the green mussels beautiful. Seafood came out tops on our table, will definately explore the menu further in future.

A take your own wine place that charges corkage at a pound a head!

Enjoy, don't expect a peaceful night out on the weekend! Jx

alba

Too hot, some dishes great, some just awful 19th October 2007

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I expected a nicer place after having reat all the reviews at Time Out and I was disappointed. The place was so hot you could barely breath (at least they opened the door so the air could circulate). The place is too kistch.

The food was ok. we were 5 people and the bill was 52£. The best thing was the Vietnamese rolls and the chicken satay. We also ordered duck and it was fantastic. however, the fish with mango which was recommended in alot of reviews was just awful...

The service speedy, I agree that it was too speedy in fact.

girlswear

I'm so pho from pho 12th July 2007

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Hackney prolly has the most Vietnamese restaurants. Just a bit north of Jaguar Shoes and Catch on Kingsland in Shoreditch, there are at least 3 restaurants but 2 are owned by Tay Do. I went to the "Cafe" one.

Hundreds of items on the menu. Prices from £2.50 for a starter to £9 for a main. Pho & Buns starts at a fiver. I had a pork Spring Roll, Rare beef pho and a milk ice coffee. My friend had chicken satay and grilled pork bun (vermicelli). £18 for all the above items. The food came really fast and it was hot. Spring rolls were good, satay was okay. Pho was pretty authentic but the beef was too cooked (suppose to be rare). I didn't like their tuong pho sauce (hoisin pho sauce) and I was disappointed that my ice milk coffee didn't came with the individual espresso drip cup into a glass with condensed milk, it was already pre-mixed.

One good thing about this restaurant is that they encourage customers to bring their own alcoholic beverage. Speedy service, maybe a bit too speedy, they were very eager to clear off our table even i wasn't finished with the food, but it was 11pm, I suppose it was closing time. It was okay, I much prefer Viet Hoa across the street which is also ironically beside the other Tay Do (which is bigger but always full).