Thanh Binh Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food was authentic, flavorful, and delicious."
• "Everything tasted just like in VN."
• "Tasty fresh Vietnamese food. Suprisingly cheaper than the market food and much better and you can sit down and relax."
• "As a Vietnamese person I would say this place serves authentic Vietnamese food."
• "The food is fresh and flavoursome."
• "Everything we had was freshly made and tasted out of this world."
• "The food was so tasty, fresh and flavourful!"

Cons:

• "The soup is nice, but the veggies they add on top are flavourless."
• "The Sriracha sauce has been watered down and is nothing like the real thing."
• "The quality is poor and it is expensive for what you get."
• "Very poor quality Vietnamese food, I tried several much better in London and in Vietnam and this did not taste like authentic at all."
• "The noodle salad was plain and flavourless."
• "The Pho was mainly noodles. Not nearly enough broth and beef and the little broth there was, tasted like water."
• "The noodle soup was bland and filled with what seemed like frozen veg."

Service

Pros:

• "Our new favourite spot to eat in Camden - would highly recommend."
• "Lovely, authentic food and great service."
• "The food and service are better than ever."
• "The service is very good and the staff are friendly."
• "Our waiter, Phong was really knowledgable and enthusiastic."
• "Staff and service was great."
• "The service was great!!"

Cons:

• "The service is quite slow because of the staff shortage."
• "The owner lady very very rude to us."
• "Never met an so unwelcoming restaurant staff."
• "Extremely rude and very poor service."
• "They rudely moved us off the table they'd seated us."
• "The service was terrible."
• "Never met a store owner as rude as her."

Value

Pros:

• "For all of the food pictured and 2 beers we paid only £30."
• "Great portions for the price."
• "Good value for money."
• "Food is great & portion is big with reasonable price, no service charge."
• "Value for money!"
• "Great food here and even better value!"
• "Even better value!"

Cons:

• "It wasn’t even the cheapest meal that I have had."
• "The restaurant would've been £20 better off in tips rather than be petty over a takeaway box."
• "We had to pay £1.50 per takeaway box."
• "The meal I ordered should have included prawns, but there were none."
• "The menu showing £8 for noodle but ask £9 from us."
• "This Vietnamese restaurant serves very ordinary tasting food which in my opinion tastes and looks more like Chinese food."
• "First of all, this is nowhere close to authentic Vietnamese food. I had Pho Ga (Chicken Noodle) and the soup was so salty."

Ambiance

Pros:

• "It's a comfy, family-run business I suppose."
• "Decoration is minimal, no mood music is played and the temperature is low."
• "Who cares about decor when the food is this good?"
• "The atmosphere was relaxing and minimal."
• "Cozy and relaxing restaurant, good for a conversation over tea or lunch."
• "Cheap and cheerful with gentle Vietnamese background music."
• "Restaurant has only re-opened again after covid and has been re-decorated nice, clean & bright with new furniture giving it a lovely bright fresh feel."

Cons:

• "Don’t waste your time and money here!!!"
• "The decoration is simplistic without a touch of Vietnam nostalgia, though."
• "The table very sticky."
• "The atmosphere in the restaurant is pretty miserable, with a slight undertone of 'why do we have to serve you, and why are you bothering me!?' attitude from both staff."
• "All the fixtures were from the 70s."
• "Basic no thrills restaurant which is what I liked as it was just like a place in Vietnam from the 90's."
• "The most ridiculous being her telling me to get up when I was mid eating my meal so she could pass through behind me because she was too lazy to walk around."