Nem Viet North Sydney — Restaurant in Sydney

Definitely only a lunch spot! On my second visit I booked a table for us for Saturday night dinner and it was less than average. There were only two staff on, who were focused on all the take-away and food delivery orders and did not have time for the dine in customers. We had to ask for any water, glasses and sauces etc and had to wait for ages. The food was not good either. We ordered the famous ‘crab and pork rolls’ that were cold and oily and the Betel leaves for entrée which had no flavour and both very small serves. Mains we ordered the chefs special beef dish – that was just basically a whole red onion, a few pieces of capsicum and tiny pieces of dry beef with little flavour. The lemongrass chicken with fried rice was ok – but the chicken was dry. The fried rice was the only good thing.

We considered going across the road to the Chinese as we were all starving and not impressed.

Would only go...

Just had the most horrible experience. The food is tasteless not very authentic at all, to top it off with really BAD customer service. We ordered 2 Combo Pho, one without cooked beef so when both combo pho came, the chef clearly forgot to add the cooked beef to the regular combo and when called the long hair 155cm (height) waitress over, she was SO RUDE and said you have started eating and we said yes the food just arrived and we have just started eating and noticed your mistake, waitress replied "we dont care! no refund and we dont exchange!" . So if you are the owner, well done on training your staff to be pathetically rude and...

Went twice and simply not happy with the food. Can’t recall the first time but probably so traumatised I purged the memory. It just doesn’t have that kind of Vietnamese restaurant vibe. The rice dish I’d ordered should have come with the soup, but was told they “don’t do it here”. Instead of serving it in the plate, the whole thing was in a rice bowl and sprinkled with dried overcook shallot. On top of the food they put more salad (with no dressing), creating the driest dish I have ever come across. After finishing the food I was left feeling very thirsty, they must have add a lot of MSG to the dish!...