ChuChu Railways — Restaurant in Hà Nội

Train Street is one of those ultra-touristy activities that sounds ridiculous but ends up being ridiculously fun. The attraction of Train Street is the blend of cold booze and (potentially) hot death. A very narrow corridor of bars and restaurants flanks train tracks for visitors to come THISCLOSE to a speeding train twice a day. Barkers do their best to convince foreigners to sit at their very unique tables with their very unique drinks and their very unique menu.

Spoiler Alert: They're mostly not very unique.

We try to avoid the folks whose entire job it is to steer you into their bars and restaurants, but something about the calm approach from the team at Chu Chu Railway changed our minds. The entire staff is extremely attentive (which, duh, they will get terrible reviews if one of their patrons gets smashed by the train!). Jenn was introduced to the Pineapple & Pomegranate Strongbow cider and Scott enjoyed local draft beer while we joked with the staff and waited the train to whiz by.

The team was funny, quick to move tables for new customers, and made sure we stayed a safe distance when the choo-choo came through with a furiously fun ferocity we didn't expect. We enjoyed the team so much that we stayed 2 hours after the...

Love the coffee with salt. Egg coffee was good too. But we were told that the train is arriving at 7pm and to quickly get a seat. We followed the lady and were seated at 6.40pm. Thereafter, we were told that the train will arrive at 7.20 and 8.30pm. But the train didn’t turn up. Eventually, the train pulled up at 9.35pm and we have wasted 2 hours waiting for the train. They should have told us the correct timings so that we could slot in some activities (massage) instead of...

We ordered egg cocoa but got egg coffee instead. When we tried to explain it, the waitress started arguing and even said we could check the camera if we wanted. She told us that if we were wrong, we’d have to pay double, like, seriously? That’s not how you treat customers. We also ordered a matcha milk drink, but it just tasted like plain green tea. Honestly, the service felt unfriendly, especially towards foreigners. Really disappointed with the...