5 Best Vietnamese Restaurants in London (2026)

Viet Food has anchored its Wardour Street corner in Chinatown for years, serving the Vietnamese classics: pho, spring rolls, grilled scallops, and summer rolls. Reviewers describe the kitchen as MSG-free, with recipes shaped by a Michelin chef, and the drinks list built around lychee and passion fruit has its own fan base. It's a full sit-down restaurant with upstairs seating, not a grab-and-go counter, and even with the volume of diners passing through, reviewers repeatedly note how quickly the food arrives.

Pho Covent Garden is part of the UK-wide Pho chain, and this Long Acre branch leans into the group's health-forward pitch: phở noodle soups, bánh mì, and a gluten-free program that's accredited by Coeliac UK. Staff are trained to flag which menu items are safe for coeliac guests, and multiple reviewers mention being walked through the menu with specific allergy guidance. It's positioned as a pre-theatre stop as much as a destination meal, a few minutes from Covent Garden's main theatres.

Med Salleh Viet is the halal Vietnamese offshoot of the Med Salleh Kopitiam group, run by chef Syphong Lam, who learned the cuisine from her parents' own Vietnamese restaurant. The Westbourne Grove kitchen focuses on halal versions of Vietnamese street food, rare beef pho, oxtail pho, grilled skewers, bun cha, and vegan options, served in a small, warmly decorated dining room. It's one of relatively few halal-certified Vietnamese kitchens in London, which reviewers who keep halal specifically call out.

Pho Baker Street is another branch of the same Pho chain as the Covent Garden location, running the same gluten-free program and healthy-Vietnamese positioning from a Baker Street address. The menu covers phở, bánh mì, and rice-roll starters, with the same nutritionist-reviewed approach to the recipes across the group. What stands out in the reviews here specifically is the service: several diners name individual staff members for going out of their way on dietary requests during slow, unhurried lunches.

Sen Viet is an independent Vietnamese restaurant on King's Cross Road serving the classic regional repertoire, tamarind fish soup, banh xeo pancakes, bun hue, and caramelised pork belly, at prices reviewers repeatedly call reasonable. The kitchen doesn't charge a service fee, which several diners mention as a point in its favour. It's a smaller, no-frills room built for quick, satisfying meals rather than a special-occasion night out.