Vietnamese$$$$
In St Kilda,local favouriteSaigon Street Eats has bunked in with Trouper cafe after operating out of a nearby Carlisle Street shopfront for over 10 years. The Chapel Street corner premises now serves coffee in the morning,then morphs into a Vietnamese restaurant for lunch and dinner. At 11.30am,the milk cartons are put away,teaspoons are replaced with chopsticks,and customers come for pho instead of a flat white.
But the upbeat feeling remains at this Vietnamese canteen,always bustling with soup slurpers,spring roll munchers and busy folks grabbing takeaway. Slow-simmered pho is made to an old family recipe,but there’s a keen eye on innovation in dishes like the panko-crumbed eggplant bao and salt-and-pepper tofu banh mi – both vegan and rocking with flavour.
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Spice-packed cooking,all glowed-up.
All-you-can-eat hoppers and more.
The Windsor offshoot of a hatted CBD restaurant.
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