Viet-anh Cafe

Lets face it the food in Camden Market is over priced slop - the stall vendors motto is anything goes, an approach that's backed up with a verbal hard sell straight out of Apocalypse Now. Thankfully the Viet-anh cafe cum restuarant offers a friendly, buzzy haven with food to match. Tables are small. the turnover is fast - expect to get served swiftly. The waitress is cool like martini regardless of the pressure and the food comes fast and fresh. Highly recommended is the mixed seafood and noodle soup. Whipped up in around 5 minutes. The soup base was excellent, the rice noodles, thin but meaty and the whole bowl was topped with a mound of assorted perfectly cooked seafood. Yum. Just what you need on a cold day. Starters were cool too - all the ingedients were fresh and in good combos. At lunchtimes the media crew descend and the place can turn into a total hubbub with a resonant yak-fest. But as a recharge place it's hard to beat when your kness are wobbling and you really need that good food top-up and fast.