Sapa Hills Vietnamese Restaurant

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112 Hopkins St
FOOTSCRAY, VIC, 3011
local (03) 9687 5... local (03) 9687 5729

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maria.f 2 reviews
Amazing food!!!!
1 month ago
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robstein Local Star 249 reviews
A lush, lavish, slick establishment that dishes out quality Vietnamese fare. It may have it's detractors due to it's polished decor, which makes it stick out like a sort thumb amongst it's neighbours, but as long as Sapa Hills keeps delivering tasty Viet Chinese faves at a decent price, I'll keep coming back. They have all the usual suspects on offer & a few interesting options, enough to make you want to return. This is the kind of place you might take the soon to be in-laws, makes you look a million bucks without breaking the bank
1 month ago
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ThomasKent Local Star 53 reviews
SAPA HILLS
I was once on a plane back from Thailand and there was this guy next to me. I can't remember what he looked like because I always remember him as looking exactly like Barry Mckenzie. For those of you too young to know who Barry McKenzie was, it means he had corks hanging from his hat. He confided in me that he had booked for a three-week holiday in Thailand and was coming back after two days because he was homesick for Australia. 'The food is different' he said.

In Footscray, there are like 400 ethic whoops multicultural restaurants. And the point is that 95% of these are intended for multicultural customers. Of the other 5%, half are hotels that serve steaks and the other half are Asian restaurants designed for us white folks.

Sapa Hills was PACKED on this miserable, cold Sunday, and it was all youngish parents with families, mostly Us White Folks. This is the target demographic. The big selling point is the decor. The decor is quite swish, rather spick and span, dark wood tables, a big pic on the wall of an anthropological Vietnamese peasant. Very nice. You can take your wife there and she'll feel like it is a treat and there's no food that the kids will go Yuk at.

The food's pretty standard - lemongrass beef, that sort of stuff, lots of Pho, also a few more interesting things like Scallops stuffed with crab. Basically it is not Footscray Vietnamese food. It is Boronia Vietnamese food. We had a pork sate and a lemongrass beef with fried rice. The fried rice tasted a bit funny, the rest was basically just dull. Footscray is known for spanking fresh ingredients. These were Boronia fresh not Footscray fresh.

Looking for a bit of interest, I experimented with an egg yolk lemon soda from the usual interesting Vietnamese drinks menu. This turned out to be something that I can see becoming a favourite in the future.

This restaurant is kid-friendly - I gave up on the loo because there were six kids in the passageway to the back of the shop and I couldn't work out whether they were waiting for the loo or playing or whether one was in the loo and the rest were just there - and it is LOUD! This place has been designed in such a way that every sound is amplified. It's better when it is crowded because then it is just a general hubbub. The staff have the kind of weary politeness.

If you are a young family and want to feed them all for less than $50 including drinks, or you have really conservative friends, this is the place to go. If you know something about quality Asian food, there's better places. These guys do what they do well, it's just a question of whether what they do is what you want.
11 months ago
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