Restaurant Review: Com Viet, Covent Garden

April 3, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

I was meeting my friend Louise and another of her friends, Martha, to see the much-acclaimed play, Home, I’m Darling at the Duke of York’s Theatre in St Martin’s Lane. Louise got the tickets; Martha chose and booked the restaurant (just round the corner in Garrick Street); Travel Gourmet turned up! It’s nice when other […]

Restaurant Review: Pho & Bun

December 14, 2017.Reading time 7 minutes.

It might seem that there’s a theme going on with the second review of a Vietnamese restaurant in 5 days, but just as the visit to Viet Pho on Saturday was completely spontaneous, so was last night’s meal at Pho & Bun – I hadn’t even particularly had a Vietnamese meal in mind. I was […]

Restaurant Review: Banana Tree, Soho

September 11, 2016.Reading time 5 minutes.

Banana Tree is a small chain of restaurants serving food from Indochina: Thai, Vietnamese, Malaysian and Singapore. The first Banana Tree opened in 1991 in Maida Vale, London, with the aim of serving quick healthy food from the Indochina area. They serve fresh and fragrant salads, slow-cooked curries and stews and barbecued foods. They also […]

Restaurant Review: Pho Saigon, Twickenham

October 21, 2014.Reading time 6 minutes.

When Liz suggested meeting up this evening and asked me to decide where we ate, it seemed like an excellent opportunity to try out Pho Saigon in Twickenham. We’d talked about it before. She’d heard from other foodie friends that it was good; I, too, had heard good reports and have been saying for ages that […]