Hop Vietnamese

Vietnamese Restaurant in The City
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6 / 10 from 1 review
Address
2 Finsbury Avenue Square
The City
London
EC2M 2PA
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Cuisine
Vietnamese
Region
The City
Nearest Station
Liverpool Street
0.16 miles

Founder Paul Hopper aims to recreate the taste of his travels in Vietnam with Com Bin Danh – Vietnam’s amazing ‘Working People Food’. Fast, fresh, and so much variety that there's something for every palate... as long as you like rice!

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All In London Review

Vietnamese food in Broadgate’s newest “plaza”

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Finsbury Avenue Square is a new plaza in Broadgate which developers have described as “a mini urban oasis with seating and trees.” This seems like a misnomer as the next part of the sentence is “surrounded by office buildings occupied by UBS, ICAP, ETX Capital and others”, so go figure.

In terms of food there’s a Gaucho outpost, a weekly food market, and Hop, a daytime eatery offering Vietnamese street food. Set up by a City worker who has travelled across Vietnam, there are pho soups, hot meal boxes with meat and rice, and bahn mi.

We’re told the most popular dish is the beef brisket pho, which has sold out after lunchtime. Instead we order the hot and sour shrimp, although despite the huge size of the pot there’s a disappointing broth to prawn ratio, as it’s largely fish stock filled with noodles and not much flavour unless the “hot” refers to its scalding temperature. The 5 spice pork with crispy shallots is also a little on the bland side, with sticky rice, some fried onion shredded over the top, and a smattering of salad with red cabbage. Better are the puddings and drinks, we like the creamy rice pudding with chopped mango, the mango and coconut smoothie, and a savoury avocado smoothie.

The soup is £5.50 and the pork is £6.75, which is a little pricey given the quality.However this being the Square Mile, prices are in keeping with the area.

Reviewed by Leila anonymously on Aug 31, 2015
Published on Aug 31, 2015


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