Monday, 26 July 2010

Thanh Binh

Address17 Magdalene Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AF   [google map]
Telephone:  01223 362 456
Opening hours:  Closed Monday; 12:00-14:00, Tuesday; 12:00-14:00, 18:00-21:30, Wednesday-Sunday. (I think).

Type:  Vietnamese.
Posh or common:  Posh.
Take-it-away:  No.

Lavoratoire Garniers:  Really clean.  Gentlemen and ladies share.  My camera ran out of battery, so unfortunately I don't have a picture.
Number of tables:  13.
Clientele:  Mixed.  Romantic upstairs.  Groups downstairs.

Could I take my parents?:  Yes.  My mother would like the fish and my father would like the curries.
Would I return?:  Yes.
Service:  Odd.

Price for a main course:  10.00-14.00 GBP.
Portion size:  Very good.
Menu choice:  8 starters (2 vegetarian), 24 mains (5 vegetarian).

Good:  Excellent food, and if you eat upstairs, a really romantic feel.  The food is full of flavour and different from anything else in Cambridge.  Eat here if you fancy different food.  Oddly, they have handbags in the window, so we walked past at first thinking it was a handbag shop.

Bad:  There is no liquor license, so you need to bring your own alcohol.  There is a wine shop over the road.

There is a big fat man behind a bar upstairs, who does the crossword and tells the boy waiters off.  I asked him for some water and he waited to tell a boy to get the water, instead of giving me water himself.  I didn't like this.  He is like a grumpy ogre, but when Big Fat's friend, Lulu, talked a bit too loudly about a cunnilingus agency serving 80+ women in London, he had a chuckle.  Maybe he is half grumpy and half not grumpy.