Rico South American Steakhouse — Restaurant in Hà Nội

THE BEST BEEF WELLINGTON IN HANOI!

I think RICO South American Steak House offers the best beef wellington in Hanoi because of the perfect, i.e. flakey, flavorfull pastry and the mixture of herbs and spices coating the beef tenderloin. We also ordered lamb chops and they were worthy of going back for as well. The menu is pretty well balances with some fine salad offerings. I ordered the turnip/bacon soup and it was very good, although if I didn’t know it, I would have thought it was a potato soup – but it was excellent nonetheless and I look forward to ordering that again too. They should add one or two more soups to the menu, it’s unusual to see just one soup on the menu of a restaurant like this. The service was professional; I really liked the friendly service Gam provided us. I’m already excited about...

I think this restaurant is trying to be something it just doesn't have the talent to be.

Food: ingredients are good, but the restaurant doesn't know what to do with them. Grilled steak is supposed to have some char: ours didn't. The chimichurri didn't taste anything like an Argentinian chimmi is supposed to taste and the side dishes (e.g. dry creamed spinach) were bland and mediocre.

Service isn't inattentive; it's just insensitive. Our server literally took the appetizer plate away from my wife while she was using it! They also left us a salad bowl with no serving tongs (server took those away too) and were generally crowding us and not paying attention to what we were doing.

The place is pretty but there are better options in Hanoi...

Excellent quality food. Treated my friend to Argentine tenderloin which was wonderful, great sides. However, they will bring unasked for bread to the table and charge you for it later (I was forewarned and refused it) but they will also ask what sauce you would like, naturally implying that it comes with the steak (as it does in any Western steakhouse anywhere else on the planet) but will nail you 60K each on the bill. Unfortunately for the waitress, it got deducted from her tip. Hence, the one star deduction. Nobody likes being nickel and dimed, it is just poor taste. Staff also seemed to have very limited English skills, so speak slowly, carefully, and in...