This restaurant has been around for many years located in NYC's Midtown area at 149 East 57th Street. The decor is a throwback to colonial French occupied Vietnam with ceiling fans and louvered faux window shutters.
"J" and I went to NYC Restaurant Week and enjoyed a 3 course prix fix dinner for $35. We both started with the shrimp dumpling appetizer in a yummy coconut sauce. "J" had the salmon entree and I had the seafood green curry which was not spicy (as warned by our waiter), but mild and tasted more like coconut. I was a little put off that after the waiter asked us if we wanted a side order of rice that it was a $3.50 charge. How else does one eat curry if not with rice?
Then we shared the only 2 desserts offered on the prixe fix: banana and coconut tapioca pudding (which was more liquid than solid) and assorted sorbet (a scoop of raspberry and coconut). But since we didn't start off our meal with a usual bread basket we made up for it by ordering a 3rd dessert: banana beignet which was a banana in a fried wonton served with ice cream and chocolate sauce.
Although the setting and service was very good this is the type of food you can get at more casual Vietnamese restaurants at a fraction of the price.
