Mien Tay Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Specifically, their spring and summer rolls are very good, and to be fair better than SQC, particularly the summer rolls."
• "The beef brisket pho is amazing."
• "The food is wonderful and really well priced"
• "The sea brim and mango fish sauce is amazing! It is great with egg fried rice... Highly recommended!"
• "The food was great in particular steamed sea bass was top notch!"
• "On par with the best Pho we've had in London."
• "Everything is freshly prepared and always cooked to perfection."

Cons:

• "Food was extremely cold, they messed up our order bringing different dishes."
• "Have had the worse food poisoning after eating from this establishment on 06/09/14. We will not be returning."
• "The food is bland and average."
• "I've been served an oil puddle ... everything was swimming in very heavy orange color oil."
• "Food just average and overpriced."
• "Food (spring rolls, betel leaf beef, and spicy and sour soup) was a sub-par imitation of classic Vietnamese dishes."
• "The food is not traditional, fresh Vietnamese (with really cheap cuts of 'meat')."

Service

Pros:

• "Really friendly staff, very warm and welcoming!"
• "Service is great and the food very authentic."
• "For such a busy service the staff coped well."
• "good service and the best selection of gluten free meals I've ever seen in my life"
• "The waiter was also very friendly and was good about recommendations."
• "Great service too! An excellent experience and I'll definitely be returning."
• "Service is efficient and friendly."

Cons:

• "The atmosphere and service is chaotic."
• "The waiter made a lot of fuss and began ranting at us."
• "Half the staff was just lacking manners"
• "The rude waiter brought it back to the table saying he can’t return it as we had started it."
• "It was quite hard to get the staff's attention to order or get the bill"
• "Pretty poor service in addition to that too - trying to grab my plate before I was finished, unpleasant tone etc."
• "Service was absolutely awful. Extremely rude staff who made us feel like we were inconveniencing their evening by visiting the restaurant."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "It's nice to have an atmosphere but it was hard to hear other people talk."
• "Real buzz about this place when it's busy!!"
• "All in all, it felt like a great place for friends to meet up over a tasty and good-value meal."
• "It's really low key & small, and the more you go the more charming the place gets."
• "Loved how the tables are inlaid with little bamboo villages."
• "always a fun atmosphere"
• "The restaurant decoration was a bit old but feel like we were in Vietnam"

Cons:

• "It's a bit too noisy and crowded - even by Vietnamese standards!"
• "The dining room is incredibly noisy to the point you have to shout at each other."
• "The restaurant was so noisy due to the low ceiling upstairs and therefore you had to shout otherwise the people you're dining with won't hear you."
• "The room upstairs has no proper fire escape. It felt cramped and the window couldn't even open properly."
• "They crammed as many seats and tables into this money-making machine as they possibly could therefore waiters will bump into your chair every 5 seconds trying to squeeze through between rows carrying plates of food above your head."
• "It's not the nicest place, quite crumby honestly and the furniture looks run-down."
• "Horrible environment, bad decor."

Value

Pros:

• "You can't get any more cheap, simple and good when it comes to Vietnamese cafes."
• "You can pretty much guarantee a tasty, reasonably priced meal here"
• "Incredibly good value for money."
• "Food is reasonably priced and the drinks are cheap."
• "Their lunch menu is also extremely good value."
• "It's all reasonably priced."
• "You will get full without spending a fortune."

Cons:

• "prices understandably have gone up"
• "The prices are nothing like they used to be (they are basically 2x compared to before the pandemic)."
• "It's not a cheap or cheerful meal."
• "Especially when your customers are paying £9.80 for one dish?!"
• "Overall the bill exceeded £20 per head for a pretty awful meal and a beer."
• "Wine is limited to one red and one white, neither are very good."
• "Maybe they could hoover the stairs so you don't have to stare at a years worth of dust and goodness knows what else (inch thick layer of dark grey matter) while you are eating."

Hygiene

Pros:

• "Everything is freshly prepared and always cooked to perfection."
• "The food was really really delicious and very well presented"
• "You will get a free prawn cracker and orange"
• "They gave fresh fruit as a complimentary dessert which is a sweet touch!"
• "Free prawn crackers n fruits were treat!"

Cons:

• "There was a COCKROACH crawling on our table!"
• "We were eating and saw a MOUSE walking beside our table!"
• "99% sure I got food poisoning from this meal."
• "Worst Vietnamese- they served us prawn crackers with chewing gum stuck to it and didn’t even apologised but replaced it with another."
• "The seafood pancake was so oily"
• "Heavy use of MSG made all the food taste the same."
• "The only thing that was really disappointing was the soft shell crab - it was different to the time we had been there before."