About Old Hanoi Lakeside
Old recipes, an old city, and a table by the water. Plain cooking, nothing dressed up — it is how we cook and how we would like you to feel about eating here.
How we got here
The cart came first, in 1979 — one pot, one charcoal burner, one recipe for grilled pork. The room by the lake came in 1996, when the family finally had enough saved for the lease.
We have changed the chairs twice and the menu very little. The broth still takes eight hours. The fish sauce still comes from the same family in Phú Quốc.
How we cook
Bought each morning
Herbs, greens and fish come from the market before eight. What does not arrive is not on the menu that day — which is why you will sometimes see a dish marked sold out.
Charcoal, not gas
Everything grilled goes over charcoal in the courtyard. It is slower and hotter and it is the reason the pork tastes the way it does.
Ask us anything
Allergies, chilli, no pork, no fish sauce — tell us and we will tell you honestly what we can change and what we cannot.
When we are open
- Monday
- 11:00 – 22:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 22:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 22:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 22:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 23:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 23:00
- Sunday Today
- 10:00 – 22:00