Cay Tre Soho

Food was good but the women staff is incredibly rude and unprofessional.

This restaurant used to be my favorite Viet restaurant, however it’s huge disappointing yesterday. I ordered Saigon sate pho, as a Vietnamese who lived in Saigon, I can confirm it’s not authentic Saigon sate pho, they used pho broth mixing with peanut paste, it doesn’t taste sate at all, they didn’t season either. We don’t even eat sate pho with big pieces of cucumber and mango. I would never come back to this place and won’t recommend to my friends.

Food was tasty albeit expensive however, that is to be expected due to the location. They weren’t able to find our booking due to changing reservation provider however, they did manage to find our group of 5 a table after we showed them our booking email. I tried the catfish hot stone pot which was very yummy but had lots of small bones. Ordered rice separately. Decor was pretty with all the lanterns. Service was okay.

I was recommended this place by a Vietnamese friend and it did not disappoint. The food was delicious and the portion size of the Pho was respectable. Would return.

This was the worst restaurant that I experienced in London. The food quality was terrible and the service was more terrible. The restaurant staff brought me another drink that I did not order. I told him to bring the correct drink that I ordered and repeated the drink's name clearly but very surprisingly he kept insisting it is the same one. I am not sure whether it is due to his mere ignorance or trying to avoid his mistake in receiving guest's order wrongfully or an act of deliberately selling expensive drinks to customer but it would be definitely one from the three reasons. If the drink I ordered was out of stock, they should have told me frankly. The drink he gave me was a little more expensive than I ordered. It was definitely an abnormal situation but I generously forgave him for his mistake and had the drink because I did not want to ruin pleasant mood during trip. The main dish was served later, but regretfully the food was too greasy and salty to eat. I imagined the food that I enjoyed in other restaurant before and ordered the same food and expected similar level of good taste but could not enjoy it in this restaurant. The food tasted so bad. I wasted money here but did not want to waste my valuable time further and stopped eating the terrible food and left this awful restaurant as soon as possible for finding normal and better one. I do not recommend this terrible place.