Tay Do Cafe - Hackney

Pleasant atmosphere and service, but very disappointing food. The steamed rice rolls had tiny shrimps rather than prawns, the deep fried fish was bland and expensive for what it was. The Singapore noodles were just horrible. There are much better eating options nearby.

Wanted a Vietnamese meal,so many to choose from around this area but picked the one that had local families in. Our waitress was attentive and served us a great papaya salad with tofu and noodle dishes with lovely prawn toast and seaweed. For three of us,with drinks it was £47. Really reasonable for London.

It is sad that i feel compelled to write a bad review. I've been eating at this restaurant since 2008 but recently on two separate visits i was dissapointed. The food is generally great but the service was appalling. First visit was lunch, had to ask three times for the tea i ordered. The waitress, seems like family, was yoo busy on her phone. This was lunch and the place eas not busy. She just sat behind bar ingoring us. 2nd visit, also lunch, very quiet, sat at a tablen same ignoring waitress. Suddenly she stepped out of the restaurant with a family friend with a small child. We waited and waited. Finally some staff came out of kitchen. I signalled i was ready to order. Waited Waited Ignore Ignore Finally we got up and left after 15 minutes waiting for waitress to return. This same waitress served me before at their 2nd location across street. Frankly if she was not family ahe should be fired. Plenty of good Viet restaurants on Kingsland road. Not returning

Not sure how people are giving this place a bad review. You get amazing, authentic and delicious food here. It's BYOB (cossie livs) and is so well priced. The staff are warm and friendly it's can get busy so can understand if they're not the most present. But the food more than makes up for it. Fancy fine dining it's not, but endless tasty dishes it is!

This was my worst eating experience in London. The food was tasteless, drowned in a mysterious brown jelly like sauce, rice noodles were sticky. The staff were rude, we weren't told they would only accept cash payments on arrival and they didn't apologise about it when presenting the bill. They told us to go to the ATM machine and leave our belongings there, so as to make sure we'd be back. No receipt. Horrible experience through no fault of our own. We could not be paid to go back.