Monalisa Bar & Restaurant — Restaurant in Ninh Bình Province

Great spot to leave the bike, swerve past the lunatic locals in the street demanding you park with them. This place is about 100m short of the main entrance. Load up on good food as a precursor to hiking up the steps to the Mua Cave viewpoint, or crash here in the comfy seats for a tasty reward afterwards.

Only negative was the vegetarian pizza topping. It only consisted of chickpea, red pepper & onion, no eggplant or mushroom, or anything green, felt more like I was eating a mild chana masala on pizza dough. I'm used to Vietnamese meals having lovely green vegetables, so for a vegetarian pizza, it was a little disappointing, but excellent wood-fired base &...

I tried to order a simple takeaway coffee before my bus left, and apparently this order completely confused and overwhelmed the three people working behind the bar. This was the most cartoonish attempt at making coffee I've ever seen: They couldn't find the tool to stamp down the pre-ground coffee, they were using old water bottles to mix coffee and condensed milk, they used completely random vessels to move liquids around, they kept grabbing obviously dirty spoons out of the sink, ... Everything they did looked as if they had never made a single coffee before in their lives.

After 10 minutes I had to leave because my bus did as well. Without...

Amazing coffee, Good food, lovely and warm people. We went for dinner while we were staying at hang mua ecolodge at around 9:300 but the place was almost empty with only one another table occupied! But we still enjoyed the food, we ordered coconut, iced milk coffee, chicken Chintles, falafel burger, margarita, pizza, which were all good, we also ordered chicken burger which we thought could have been better. The ambiance is good, however would have liked if they could have some music playing. I also felt there was no light while we were walking back to the lodge and was a little creepy. The place is dead after 9 pm so try...