City Càphê — Restaurant in London

This is a regular haunt of people in the area. If you arrive here on a clear day anytime after 11:45am, you'll be queuing around the inside of the restaurant and around the block. The queue will be there until around 2pm. This makes eating inside the café a bit of an ordeal as the members of the bustling queue will constantly brush by you. The food is all reasonably good but the real stand outs are the banh mi which takes second place. It is a standard Vietnamese sandwich made from French bread (which can be a little too crusty if you come later in the day) and their finest one is the beef and lemongrass one as the beef comes adorned by red chillis and a lemongrass broth. The best item by far though is the prawn Bun Hué. This is what most people queue up for. It is the perfect combination of hot and sour. Squeeze a little lime in there and it's the perfect winter warmer. Make sure you fashion a napkin bib if you're eating...

Dissappointed although this place is good. I ordered Veg spring rolls, no problems, tasty, handmade but lack of choice, only prawn and pork spring rolls or veg rolls, which is not good for people like me that hate seafood.

The bo bun is not genuine, the real Viet bun has glass noodles, salad, crispy onions, a marinated and stir fried meat, sometimes some soja beans, seeds and cashews and spring rolls. In the bun I've got from here there is no meat, you have to choose between spring rolls or meat, which is not the real Viet food.

Also they take cash only and bank card over 15 £, one exception because the cashier took my card for my order under this amount but it's very annoying to have to withdraw cash every time...

Always a queue out the door which is an immediate good sign. We'll worth the wait and the it moves quickly. The rice is lovely and chewy and the pork which I normally get is really nicely flavoured. I would have liked some more sauce with the pork but don't think that's possible as its more of a marinade. The spring rolls are spectacular and I always buy them. Get some of the sweet hoi sin sauce to dip them in.

The only downside is they require cash in store under £15 alternately you can now order online through their website and pickup in...