Takeaway menu as of November 2019. Reliably tasty food, good prices, friendly staff, long opening hours, and discount offered for cash on takeaway orders.
If you eat in be sure to check out the walls plastered with autographs, drawings, and commendations from politicians, minor celebs, athletes, kiddies and more.
A Canberra icon. The Sexy Squid is one of the best dishes in the city and the entire 'sexy' menu is amazing. The free and compulsory dessert the end is an institution. A must do.
Still serving authentic mum&dad-style Vietnamese food after all these years. The flavours are wholesome and strong and memorable. Definitely a Canberra favourite.
I've been here at least 3 times now and each time the food quality has remained the same. I.e. great!
Customer service was great too.
A la carte items are good.
But if you're feeling adventurous and with friends. Ask the chef to do up a special banquet for all of you. The dishes served may or may not be something on the menu but you'll certainly be in for a treat!
This place is nothing to look at, but the food is incredible. This is the best asian food you will get anywhere. Even my friends from Singapore say it's the best they have had. The menu is huge, but you don't need it. Just ask the owner to surprise you and you will get a selection of amazing food. This place is like no other. 12/10
My sons & I love this place. The food is tasty and Mr Tan's personality & sense of fun makes dining here very enjoyable. The food is tasty and comes out quick. It's noisy because it is always full. It's a great atmosphere to break bread in with family. It's unpretentious and welcoming. Highly recommend it. It's our favourite place in Canberra to eat.
I searched Urban Spoon – my go to place to locate restaurants and searched the best in Manuka and Griffith in ACT – the one that caught my eye was GRIFFITH VIETNAMESE – so off I went.
Love this place!. I absolutely love this place for a good cheap eat. They are so quick and unpretentious and the messages on the walls from various politicians often make for hilarious conversation starters. Even better, they are super accommodating with any dietary requirements (like being gluten free). Never fail to deliver!
My boyfriend and I are both on a low FODMAP diet, which isn't very fun when it comes to dining out. BUT... This restaurant is always really accommodating to us when we list the things we can't eat. Somehow they manage to pack in buckets of flavour even though we can't eat onions or garlic!! I unreservedly recommend this place for anyone and for any occasion.
Good food, good price. The food here is great and their prices are quite reasonable.
Quite a wide variety of dishes on offer and they are all great.
Interesting decor inside with many ex and current politicians who have filled out and signed pieces of paper for them to hang on the walls.
Simply delicious. Great food at great prices. Food bursts with flavour that is balanced and not overpowering. Griffith Vietnamese restaurant offers excellent value for good food and is now another regular and favourite for the wife and I. And now that it is a regular, with a plethora of dishes to entice and satisfy the palate, we've taken to trying out new dishes each time. We've tried:
- lemongrass grilled chicken (highly recommend!)
- crispy calamari but without the sauce (would avoid it, tasted of old oil and not much calamari),
- 'drinking' pork (recommended!)
- muc xao ot aka hot and spicy calamari dish with chilli sauce (highly recommend, love the smoky flavour juicy calamari rings)
Always great food and fantastic, friendly service!
Can't believe I haven't been here before when visiting daily that live around the corner. Loved my pork with chili & lemongrass, spring rolls also good but really disappointed they weren't served with lettuce and Vietnamese mint. Will be back to try some other dishes.
Fabulous all 'round. This restaurant is a fabulous place to eat - the food is fresh and fast, the flavours tasty every time. The bill is never too big - and the service is attentive. An all 'round great evening.
I love this place - been going regularly for about 4-5 years. Mr Tahn is a real character, the food and atmosphere are terrific - don't order off the menu, just get Tahn to bring you "something yummy"! Highly recommended.
Go to great meal. Come here quite often, awesome quick service have to get the quail and yum yum chicken.
Stop comparing it to Victoria St! This is just average Vietnamese food which is cheap for Canberra and quick enough. Totally agree with the aggrievous lack of pho, where is the pho?!? This place does not deserve the rave reviews. An don't let Tan have free reigb on ordering for you and swindle you out of your money.
Disapppointing. Recommened but didn't live up to the expectation
This place reminds me of the Vietnamese restaurants in Footscray or Richmond back home in Melbourne. Cheap, cheerful, noisy, colorful decor and excellent food. One thing those restaurants don't have is the wall of signed tributes from satisfied and usually famous diners. A lot of parliamentarians have visited here and given their praise. The best Vietnamese in Canberra. The lemongrass grilled chicken is a favourite.
Excellent cheap food, especially the grilled chicken. But it was incredibly noisy, almost too loud for a conversation.
Cheap and cheerful. Feels like I'm on Victoria St, Richmond, every time I come here. The queuing for a table, the wobbly laminex, the shouting kitchen hands and the crash and flash of the flames coming from the woks. Best Vietnamese in Canberra.
A great place for a group. We went here for a work dinner. Totally fantastic and really good value too. We just told them the number of people and they "invented" a delicious banquet for us to suit the budget and the few things we said we did not want to eat. It feels like customised cooking just for you and everything they recommended was great to suit a wide range of tastes. It's a bit noisy and does not win any prizes for decor, but the food says it all. As Canberrans we found the political placemats etc on the walls very interesting reading too - a bit of a who's who of the last 10 years or so. A great place for a weeknight when you just CBA cooking!
Having travelled extensively in Vietnam, I consider myself a bit of a snob with Vietnamese food (which I love). But this place is AMAZiNG!! Just ask the staff for the special banquet - tell them a couple things you like, and let them work the rest out. You won't regret it. The food is wonderful, the staff are lovely and I couldn't recommend more highly in ALL of Australia!!
Been twice so far and will certainly not be the last. The service is spectacular, the food is sublime, the atmosphere is unbeatable. Tan, you are a Legend with your restaurant. And of course, you can choose for me next time and all other times! Thank you for the wonderful times, may there be many to come! Rob Thomas
Warm and Welcoming. We went looking for something quick and easy for an early Friday dinner (without a reservation), and was warmly welcomed into Griffith Vietnamese. We were asked to finish our meals before the next sitting and were done well within the time thanks to the speedy delivery of our delicious food. Yummy chicken was a highlight and so was the sizzling beef. Would thoroughly recommend for those seeking a cheap and delicious meal.
Visiting Canberra from Melbourne and found this place on Urbanspoon. What a surprise - just like a real Victoria St Richmond deal!! We ordered nearly the same as we would in Victoria St at home and were sooooooo happy :) Tom Yum soup was authentic, yummy chicken wings were a dream, a chicken and a veg dish and rice finished us off. Make sure you book - we saw people being turned away. BYO was nice. The highlight ... Tan, our host - spent a good 10 mins talking to us and sharing his stories with us. Who'd go to Vietnam when you can get an experience like this in Australia! Try this place - you won't be unhappy :) :) :)
Tan is the man. Just rocked up and ask Tan what's good to eat. The food is always great.
Cheap. It's noisy, it has laminex tables but I wouldn't change a thing. The food is fantastic value for money and Tan the host is both entertaining and obliging. The walls are festooned with penned endorsements of the restaurant by appreciative guests many of whom are well known to us. Make sure you ask Tan for the "special calamari". Restaurant is BYO and you must book. My favourite casual dining venue without doubt!
he Griffith Vietnamese Restaurant is located on the main strip of the Griffith Shops, near Rubicon, and is fronted by large windows. The restaurant is modestly decorated; basic tables and chairs, a kitchen towards the back and a feel that it hasn’t been touched in decades. It’s quite a nice, refreshing change, within Canberra’s trendy restaurant scene but something that I suspect pretty much every local shops contains – it’s old school. There’s a hustle and bustle about this place, lots of take-away orders and the tables are all full – it has a great atmosphere. The walls of the Griffith Vietnam
Had a quick dinner here on a freezing cold night. To me this is more of an asian restaurant than a vietnamese restaurant. Food is not very vietnamese. However the hot food warmed us up.
A simple stir fried beef with veges was $23 (no rice). What do you think?
Fabulous old school Vietnamese restaurant serving old school Vietnamese foods - old school meaning -prawn toast!
The food was delicious, unpretentious and run by hard-working family.
We had spring rolls which had a lot of filling - more filling than pasty, stir fried satay (spelt sate) chicken, beef noodles and large special fried rice.
Love the retro deco. Book in advance as the book out quickly.
A classic non traditional Vietnamese food. Serving is hurried but not unfriendly. Mr Tam doesn't show up as much now. The flat noodles (no. 50) and hotplate beef amazing
Lovely family owned and run Vietnamese food - good authentic cooking
Very friendly staff, if not a little too hard to flag down sometimes, but mostly they’re lovely and helpful.
The food is reliably tasty, they cater really well to vegetarians - being vegetarian I really appreciate that they have a whole seperate menu, with a lot of dishes, that are vegetarian or vegan. But for the omnivores, the menu is very large, and from the feedback of my friends and family who aren’t vego like me, the seafood and meat dishes are, as has been my experience, reliably tasty, with food arriving quickly, very generous portion sizes, and a very affordable dinner out (or takeaway).
It’s not the most glamorous interior to dine in, it gives off strong 90s inexpensive restaurant vibes, but it’s kind of a cute quirk I find. I also love reading all the messages and autographs from politicians, to touring artists, to children’s drawings. It’s fun to try to spot different people who’ve sat where you sit now.
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