Truly Viet

Newest addition of Vietnamese restaurant on the rare Vietnamese cuisine along Swanston Street. They have extensive menu ranging from entree, rice dishes, various noodles, and sharing dishes. We ordered the noodle soup dishes and they are surprisingly pretty good. The fried rice and spring roll also exceeded my expectations of a westernised Vietnamese restaurant. Food - 7 Service - 7 Vibe - 7 Price - $$$

Nice decoration, they use banana leaf and wooden staff to make people feel more authentically. I like how they do the open kitchen, people can see how they make "Phở" and "Bánh mì", they fill up the banhmi with the ingredients really careful. The smell of soup from "Phở" is really good and tasty, not too strong. It's cozy, bright and clean. As you guys can see the bowls, dishes, it looked very cool and traditional. So it can be meant that they really care about the decoration and guests feeling. It's different when they put 2 types of spoon for customers, because different spoon have different purpose for different kind of food. However when we came here, staff still leave red basket of chopsticks, spoon on the customers table near the cashier desk, maybe they just open so staff forgot to take it away. Next, about the food I'm really enjoy the summer rolls, fulfills of prawn, pork, rice vermicelli, herbs. Costs $6 for two, quite good with both the price and taste About the bowl of chicken "Phở", it's looked bland when I first saw it, however the taste is there. Soup not too hot, so not really heat up the body. I'm not really into the rice vermicelli material, not really authentic. It's funny when I saw some reviews said that this one is not authentic. Because they asked for "hoisin sauce" and "pho's vegies - bean spouts". These thing is for Southern part of Vietnam they eat with Phở. Not from the North side, which we don't have. Different parts different cuisines!!! But overall it's still better than nearby shop, more flavour and nice cozy atmosphere. The price is reasonable in this cbd. ***Extra review: you guys should try Vietnamese ice milk coffee from this store, really good and close enough to the one in Vietnam. However, a minus point is that when I ordered it take away, the straw is not clean, which affect my satisfaction.

1) Decoration: Quite nice, with classic Vietnamese decoration style, well space organize (7/10) 2) Staff: They're super super friendly, dedicated staff with well advice for Foods and drinks (9/10) 3) Food: personally as a Vietnamese I will give this section 5/10. The food was "Okay", what i have is Beef noodle (BUN BO HUE). The noodle texture a bit hard, the soup just decent, not much of a flavor, the meat was nice but not the pork leg, it cool inside and it taste like boiled pork and you just add it in the noodle, not actually cooked with the soup

Today I just had Bun Cha, after a long time missing this signature dish of my hometown. I must say, it exceeded my expectations: the fish sauce was on point, and there was plenty of meat to satisfy my large appetite. Venue was clean and stylish, and staff were super-friendly as well. I would recommend Vietnamese and foreigners alike to give this place a try!

Worst Vietnamese restaurant I've ever been in Melbourne! 1. No bean sprouts: the waitress claimed their restaurant is not "that" type of Vietnamese restaurants. 2. Extremely Low quality noodle soup: I ordered Rare Beef & Fat Beef Noodle Soup, $14.50, Medium. The Fat is un-chewable (like rubber) and there's ZERO vegetables (Not what's shown on the menu picture) 3. Stingy Servings: We ordered Viet Coffee in takeaway cup $5.50, the coffee level is barely half cup, filled with ice cubes all along. (as shown in the pictures below, I ate some noodles but didn't touch the coffee, it came as it is.) Conclusion: This restaurant is absolutely non-authentic.