HAI Coffee & Asianfood — Restaurant in Berlin

Summary: very good Vietnamese food and ok sushi at a good price for value and friendly service in an easy fast-dining atmosphere with a beautiful smell from the integrated flower store

Best dish: pho with beef

Dishes (- negative / = ok / + positive): pho with beef: the broth is well-seasoned and tasty, the noodles are fine and beef is ok, it could be more tender udon noodles with tamarind peanut sauce: well-seasoned tasty and fresh dish with good udon noodles

Service: friendly and fast

Price: good price for value: pho with beef for €12.5 and udon noodles with tofu for €12.5

Atmosphere: = easy casual atmosphere nice smell from the integrated flower shop on one side of the restaurant

My rating system - I focus on the food first and foremost. I aim to be truthful and try not to be biased by friendly service or other circumstances. 5: excellent - I am rigorous in handing out 5 ratings 4*: very good 3*: ok 2*:...

The food here is actually really tasty and worth the money. However, I have been at this restaurant two times, and both times the waiters insisted that I need to tip, like it is a standard or something. When I visited the first time, the waiter just frowned when I declined to tip and wanted to pay only the actual amount of eaten food. But the second time the waiter, when I asked to pay with card, left her device at our table, so that we insert the tip while she was away fetching the card reader. When she came back and saw that I did not enter a tip, she had the audacity to ask “Oh, why did you not tip?”, to which I replied “Because I want to pay for food”. After which she did not say a word, but again, she frowned at me so much like I was expected to tip, which I did not like. I do not like the approach of expecting the customer to tip, if you do not earn enough, you need to talk with the owner about...

I rarely give food reviews but I wanted to say that this restaurant really deserves 5 star. I've been trying food around Berlin, mostly asian food and I would say that their food really tastes good, freshly cooked, well prepared and packaged! I've been living near the area for more than a year now and it's was my first time today to try their food. Really well done! Restaurant has a good location, well enough space for many customers and really affordable price! The small point for improvement would probably be a better ventilations inside the restaurants because you can easily smell the food everywhere and you may end up smelling the food once you went out of the restaurants. This was the reason why I only took out/away the food and eat at home/office instead of dining in. Nevertheless, great job to the owner of the restaurants. I will definitely try each of their dishes in...