Brother's Café
PRICE:
Frommer's Recommended
ADDRESS: 26 Nguyen Thai Hoc
CITY: Hanoi
COUNTRY: Vietnam
PHONE 1: 04/733-3866
WEBSITE: www.brothercafe.com
Buffet only, Brother's is an inexpensive starting point to explore gourmet Vietnamese cuisine. Lunch includes dishes such as salted chicken, sweet-and-sour bean sprouts, shrimp, noodles, and spring rolls; a full dessert table of sweet tofu, sweet baby rice, dragon fruit, and other exotic offerings; and fresh lemon or melon juice. Dinner features grilled items -- shrimp, fish, lamb, and pork -- and a glass of wine. There are faux street stalls encircling the garden with Vietnamese favorites like
pho (noodle soup) and
bun cha (cold rice noodles, spring rolls, and lettuce eaten by dipping into a slightly sweet sauce with meat). But be forewarned: the place is virtually overrun by tourist buses during peak lunch and dinner times.
Copyright: Excerpted from
Frommer's Vietnam, 2nd Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

Hanoi
, Vietnam