Start Up Cafe & restaurant — Restaurant in Hải Phòng

The only star I could give is for the atmosphere and attitude. Tomato soup and chicken honey sesame were oversugared. Be ordered friench fries will chicken but fries were swimming in the sauce. And the finale; veggies pizza. As soon as I grabbed a slice, it didn't want to come with my fingers and divided into pieces on the plate. I could divide one slice into numberous pieces. It was instant pizza most probably. But you put real pizza prices and pizza oven banner in front of your restaurant. This is heartbreaking. And I thought that there were mushrooms, pepper, tomatoes as ingredients. But there were tomato, onion, and cabbage. What ever, I'll keep...

Staff are amazing, the cocktails were weak and I requested a stronger one the next day (after eating here twice) and my server said he'd sort me out which I wasn't expecting, I was going to have a beer instead - alas the cocktail came back the same, there very very weak, the phone is also very weak, I imagine only a couple of hours are put into the broth. We had the chicken with pepper sauce, more expensive but quite tasty, the honey garlic wasn't very garlicky but I added chili and it was tasty. Overall a grand experience but the food doesn't live up to the reviews I read before coming here. Again the service so so soooo good, really...

Ordered two dishes - Grilled fish with lemongrass and chili (ca nuong xa ot) and a seafood rice.

The chilies were not spicy, didn't really taste like anything but the fish was well cooked. The seafood rice was pretty blend, only the squid was tasty.

My guess is they tone the spices down to tailor for tourists' tastebuds so if you like more authentic vietnamese food with spices, it might not be the place for you. If you are looking for a safer option, then the service was good, the beer was very cold and the food was okay.

Good location, close to the beach and most...