Nhà Việt Nam Ebisu

With a name that means Vietnam House, Nhà Việt Nam does a great job of transporting you to the owners’ home country: there’s the two-story building, reminiscent of Vietnam’s French colonial architecture, local specialities like coffee and lotus tea for sale, staff wearing the country’s traditional áo dài costume, and then, of course, there’s the food. The pho has its characteristic clean-yet-complex broth, topped with tender beef, rice paper rolls are packed with fresh vegetables and herbs and the bun cha gio is a bowl of crisp and chewy spring rolls on top of a bed of rice noodles. Where some other Tokyo Vietnamese restaurants blend in Japanese flavours, the chef at Nhà Việt Nam sticks with the traditional recipes.