Saigon Saigon

I love Vietnamese food, but I have had it at the chains with amazing food but limited choice. Saigon Saigon is a place we tried accidentally… no reviews read, no recommendations by friends. Did we stumble on a gold pot or what?
The menu is extensive to the extent of being spoilt for choice (read confusing). I chose a prawn starter and chickn for mains. Loved it all. The prawn especially — grilled prawn flesh on sugarcane! The whole DIY, roll your own prawn spring roll made it fun and yumm. The husband had Mackerel and Mr. Fussy-​about-​fish said it was the best Mackerel he had eaten in a restaurant in the longest time. Food here seems as authentic as it can get!
Enjoyed our experience thoroughly. Staff is friendly and warm. Only negative would be being served regular green tea in the name of «Vietnamese Organic Tea». Otherwise, a must go for a first timer and must go again for someone like me.

Authentic Vietnamese food with lovely decoration, we had a great time there! It’s £40 for 2, w ordered two starters, 2 main and fried rice. 12.5% service fee included. Really impressive food! The Phở is many times better than the chain restaurant Phở, and cheaper! The starters are my favorites (fried spring rolls and meetballs, which go perfectly well with coriander) I’ll defo come back again! Miss the food already!
FYI: it’s close to kew gardens which is worth a lovely visit. Saigon Saigon+kew garden gives you a relaxing getaway:)

Best phở I’ve ever had, although I wish they had hoisin sauce. I asked for hoisin and sriracha at the counter, but I don’t think the employee knew what hoisin sauce was so he only handed me sriracha. Aside from that I thought the texture of the noodles was really great, and I thought the lunch specials were decently priced. I got the chicken satay, which was also pretty good!

All in all it was another very pleasant meal at Saigon Saigon, service is a lot better than most Vietnamese restaurants in similar priced brackets. In terms of the food, don’t expect any real firework or exceptional quality, this place is more about classical Vietnamese cooking done properly at a reasonable price. With starters ranging around £7 and mains around £11, it is indeed pretty good value for money and it is perhaps the best Vietnamese restaurant Hammersmith has to offer.

Great beef soup, unlike the traditional AMERICAN style phở, it’s smaller portion but tasty

Saigon Saigon
Prompt service.
Good flavors. Extensive menu.
Spring rolls: delish
Would not order chicken satay again.
Shredded pork in chilli was my favourite.
Chicken curry: sauce is a classical Asian. Very nice. My son loved.
Phở soup: the original.
Sizzling prawns with scallops and squid: Excellent sauce spicyfull.
Desserts are surprisingly worth the detour. Flanc is a delight. Sticky rice authentic. Will return.

Vury tasty local spot. Cool décor and attentive staff as well. A bit pricier than some of the other neighborhood spots, but definately worth a visit.

Lovely décor, great atmosphere, excellent service, fantastic food! Highly recommended!

I was in London this past summer for a week and was craving Vietnamese food halfway through, so I Unilocaled and this place came up.
This restaurant is quite large considering other small restaurants and cafes I’ve seen around the area and it had a warm and cozy ambiance.
They had a lot of menu items and I ordered the spring rolls and bun bo hue.
The spring rolls were delicious. It reminded me of my mom’s, which made me miss home cooking. The bun bo hue was decent, but really small. That bowl cost about $ 15, so it definitely wasn’t worth the price to me. That small bowl was probably smaller than a small bowl here in the states, which is super small. But everything in the UK was smaller portions, so I guess I can’t really complain.
Other than pricing and portion of food being a disadvantage for me, everything else was great. Service was good, food tasted just like a home cooked meal, and the atmosphere was great. I came back again when I had to stay in the area for a night before flying back to the states. Definitely hit the spot.

Simply the best Vietnamese food I’ve ever tried in London so far!
The food portion is generous and full of flavour. You can enjoy a high quality dining with a good ambience & great customer service at a reasonable price.
P.S Worth trying out the desert menu

Very big restaurant so you can just turn up. Been there a couple of times and the food has been top notch every time. Service is friendly and efficient. Reasonable price and nice atmosphere.

Summary:
+ Very large restaurant with dark wooden furnishings
+ High ceilings and chic décor
+ Excellent food and very reasonable price
Overall:
Saigon Saigon is Viet Grill of West London. Or should I say Viet Grill is Saigon Saigon of East London.
This is a widely debated topic that divides the capital into left and right.
No, not really. But I just find it interesting that two of the great Vietnamese restaurants are located at both ends of London. But I personally prefer Saigon Saigon. Here is why…
Saigon Saigon is a gorgeous Vietnamese restaurant in West London that has the grandeur of French colonial Vietnam. Food is really good and portion is not particularly small. But they somehow keep the prices pretty reasonable. I want to know how they manage that. Wait, maybe I don’t wanna know.
Surrounded by the gorgeous décor, you can dine like a tycoon and pay like umm a buffoon??? My silly pun aside, their cost performance is amazing.
I’m not Vietnamese but my Vietnamese friends speak highly of this place too. (Borrowing authority)
I have only come here for dinner but I’ve heard their lunch is really good value for money. One day.
When I have friends coming over from out of town, I try to take them to this place. I don’t always succeed, as it’s not very conveniently located. But when I do manage to lure them out here, people always enjoy the food and dining experience.

This place knocked my socks off — everything was sooo delicious. Highly recommend the beef wraps and phở aaaand the something with shrimp and greens… all amazing. The staff are excellent and attentive and very sweet. Very fairly priced.

Good sized portions, great taste and very reasonable prices (mains are £7-£10).
We had the papaya prawn salad, 5 spiced chargrilled chicken with rice and the pork vermicelli bowl. All were really tasty.
The wine was cheap but flat, if you skip the wine and go for beer you shouldn’t go wrong here.
Left feeling very satisfied, will definitely come back.

This place offers some of this best service we have had in London. The food was good — not the best phở I have had (the best was in Paris).
We ordered the steamed rice rolls as a starter and they were good but the pork sausage on top of the rolls scared me. It looked like bologna, so I stayed as far away from it as possible. I don’t know what I was expecting but the steamed rice rolls were not what I was expecting, in any way, shape or form.
I ordered the phở with beef and as stated in previous reviews, the portion size was much smaller than I was accustomed to, however, I was full after eating half of the steamed rice rolls and the entire bowl of phở. Also, the «toppings» for the phở were lacking. First, there was no mint. Second, there were only a few chili slices and literally six bean sprouts. So, overall, they could increase the amount of toppings but the phở was good. I’d totally order it again.
My husband ordered the stir fried spicy beef with rice noodles and he said it was’t that great but since this isn’t his review, I’m not going to incorporate his opinion on his main! I will say that he had food envy, however.
I’m excited to return to Saigon Saigon on a cold (and probably rainy) day and slurp down a delicious bowl of phở sometime in the future.

I love this place. And phở. While this place does not have the absolute best phở I’ve had (that’s in LA… like most of my Asian food experiences…), it is pretty darn good for London. It doesn’t hurt that it’s not far from my house either :)
The bowl of phở isn’t very large, which is sad, but it’s fine by London standards. I think it’s just under 8 for a bowl. I usually am full after sharing a large starter and having the phở after. The broth is pretty flavorful, though there isn’t as much beef as I’d like. Also, they don’t have sriracha, but instead have a different chili sauce. I also always order more chili sauce and hoisin since it’s never enough. The hoisin is also kind of a more bland one than I’m used to, but it’ll do. The starters are more expensive (6 – 7) than I would think, given how reasonable the rest of the mains are, but they’re not tiny so that eases the pain a bit.
I’ve also had:
— steamed rice rolls with minced pork and mushroom: douse it in fish sauce. i usually order this with my friend
— spring rolls: solid, but not my first choice
— duck salad: super yummy!
— vermicelli bowl with spring rolls and grilled pork meatballs: lovely in summer or as an alternative to phở if you’d still like something noodley. i’d ask for the fish sauce on the side since sometimes they drown it.
— stewed pork with caramel sauce in clay pot: really flavorful pork dish that’s delicious with rice as it’s too salty on it’s own. i wish the portion was a bit bigger though.
Bonus is that the staff is very attentive. The décor is nice and for London, this place is pretty good value for money.

Edible, but not worth a return visit. My husbands lunch (chicken satay and bo kho) was quite heavy and dull. My lunch (vegetable rolls and phở) was deep fried and unauthentic. Maybe growing up in California spoiled me, but to me phở has never meant a small bowl of beef broth, a few noodles and onions and a couple pieces of low quality meat. Where are my herbs, sprouts, limes and chilies? Where are the flavours?
We left hungry and disappointed.

Gooooodmorning Vietnam was yelled on the air by R. Williams, and Hello Saigon Saigon should be yelled by us all! In my opinion this place is just that good!
Lets get some, imho, less important things out of the way before I attest for what is really important, that being the food! The Saigon Saigon is a nicely decorated, well designed and spacious place yielding to a great ambiance that together with prompt, professional, friendly and capable service ensures your dinning experience to be nothing but good. Now lets move on to what makes the entire experience great which is the food.
I am not a fan of Phở, but this is the place for you Phở lovers as I find the broth to be the best I had outside Vietnam. You still get the chance to flavor your Phở according to your taste but right out of the kitchen it is great.
Don’t get me wrong, I do love fried things, but at Saigon Saigon the freshly made, wraps or rolls in rice papers are the way to go, however the well balanced sourness of the Grilled tumeric white fish makes it another worthy contender. Lotus root salad with prawn and beef is another starter I would highly recommend. But if you looking to share why not try a meal really for two and get the char grilled prawn meat wrapped on sugar cane, juicy and aromatic.
Seriously well balanced, well seasoned, slightly sweetened by coconut beef on fire is what will make you come back to this place again and again and again. But when and if you ever get tired of it you can always rely on duck breast with pineapple & green pepper in tamarind sauce or Sweet & sour battered snapper with green peppers.
In regards of noodles I found the fried ones be less great but this is only due the fact that they go somewhat soggy laying in the sauces at the end. But don’t worry portion-​wise the size is great so getting to the end of your plate will take some time and usually you are full by then. The fat rice noodle dishes are my all time favorites, there is just something heavenly with fat noodles and at Saigon Saigon they are cooked to perfection and al dente.
Dinner for two, with this level of quality and taste, anywhere between 40 to 60 depending on what you choose as to drink including the service charge of 12.5% is in my book a find. And considering the fact that I haven’t even yet mention the generous, tasty and playful Steamboats, or as some call it Vietnamese fondue, for around £20 to gather around and enjoy as couples makes it hard not to say hello to Saigon Saigon again and gain and again!

Truly blissful Vietnamese food. Not the cheapest, but clearly excellent quality, as the crowds will attest. Seriously, book ahead and request a table against a wall, away from the bustling ‘highways’ with diners and waiting staff whizzing by.
I’ve never had better green papaya salad. At around £8.50, it had bloody better be good as a starter, and it is. Then go for the seafood soup which is astonishingly good, and I also like the beef in coconut hot pot thing.
Very easy to spend £30 a head just on food here. Really fresh and fantastic, with a lovely dark wood ambience.

We like it here, elegant and ideal for an intimate meal for two. An extensive menu allows you to choose carefully whilst taking in the wonderful ambience and charm of this place with little oils burning candles glowing in the otherwise dim lighting add to the mood. When your food arrives it is very well presented and matches the décor in terms of attention to detail and a wiliness to please.
Great attention to detail is therefore the key to this restaurant along with an authentique and romantic atmosphere and the food is shown as much care as do the excellent waiting staff.
If you are looking to impress, order a taxi to take you there, take a small present as a token of your love and make the most of what is a wonderful place for couples.