Oh my. This is definitely going in my London list. Amazing home-made Vietnamese comfort food. The complexity of flavours is amazing...Taste explosions in my mouth at every bite!! We had one of the soups (31b: spicy noodle soup with cooked beef) and 35h: rice noodles with spring rolls and chargrilled pork - Check out the pics (from Andy F :)) Cannot WAIT to come back and try more of the menu. Great service, great menu. read more

Fresh flavorful pho, quick friendly service, and nice prices. You're given a bowl of not-too-greasy prawn chips to start while you wait, but the soup comes out surprisingly quickly after ordering - perhaps because its just a matter of assembling the ingredients: The beef was really tender, just the right amount of noodles (usually I have so many left over), broth was complex and not overly salty. All the regular fixins (sprouts, basil, chili peppers and lime) are fresh. Don't forget to ask for a student discount! read more

not my favourite - was there for lunch. The lunch menu is quite extensive - it has everything form Pho to sandwich to stew to grill dishes. The pricing is also quite affordable - about £7 for soup noodles and some rice dishes are £5. Quality for me only was a reflection of the price - I found the soup noodles quite salty and filled with MSG whilst grilled dishes were not exactly char-grilled. Services were extremely unfriendly - I felt as if I was not welcome to dine in... to be fair, I ordered 10 minutes before lunch closing time so maybe that is why. :-D Anyway, think it may be worth trying but for me - once was a good adventure. read more

I've never made it into the actual restaurant but I've had delivery from here on multiple occasions.... It's not easy to find actual Vietnamese delivery, but having found this little diamond on hungryhouse I've now got it on speed dial. The food is always delivered to a standard I would expect in a restaurant, the packaging is suitable for the food and delivery time is always reasonable. The best thing though is the value for money... A meal is under £10 and usually more than enough for two! Shame delivery is £15 min!.. Just have to order more! :) read more

Wow the Vietnamese food here is great! We got the fresh rolls to start with and I got the beef pho. The rolls are good-sized and had lots of flavour and I especially liked their new BBQ pork roll. I initially thought the pho was a bit small and there wasn't enough noodles (and also thought the texture was a bit too soft) but it really filled me up in the end. My friend also liked the pho, but she wasn't a big fan of the fried icecream, which tasted weird with the outing being not crunchy at all. So I suggest to stick to the Vietnamese classics here. The place was really hard for me to find, so maybe it's good to service was so quick. read more

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So good. Serious. I could just have the beef pho broth alone and be content. This place was so good, I went twice. One for dinner and lunch two days after. The fried egg rolls are meaty and fried to perfection. The fresh spring rolls with shrimp and pork are also delicious. The pork thit nuong was delicious and seriously just the freshness I needed after overeating carbs and fat in Rome. Bottom line: go here. It's over priced, but it's so good!!!! Minus one star bc for dinner we didn't get shrimp chips like the other tables. Like, what gives? They were good shrimp chips too. read more

Sen Viet is a decent-sized friendly restaurant a few minutes walk away from St Pancras. It has a very large menu with options varying from the safe to the unusual. We opted for a sharing platter to start. Everything on here was good and tasty. It was good value too as there were quite a few varieties available. Particularly liked the chargrilled squid. Mains were a catfish claypot which was flavourful and not too spicy and a soy beef dish which was recommended to me. I never would have picked this dish without prompting so it was good to ask for the waiter's opinion. Soft fillet of beef, salty soy marinade and salad was different and delicious. Service is friendly, smiling and not too intrusive. I would definitely go back if I was in the area. read more

Fairly standard Vietnamese food not far from Russell Square. Bun buo hue (spicy noodle soup) had a good kick but did not have the pork blood and leg, and not much meat. The egg crepe was delicious on the other hand. Dessert was the mango rolls accompanied by mango-coconut sauce, it was a good way to finish the meal. read more

Authentic, tasty, well portioned and reasonably priced! Had the mixed platter, a chilli and lemongrass beef dish and a soup that I can't remember the name of! And of course... Vietnamese coffee! If you haven't had that, have it. read more

They make excellent food at a reasonable price. In fact, considering other restaurants, the price is actually slightly lower than average. Some clerks are not very kind and look slightly grumpy without any reason but the general quality of the service is still good. This is one of the must-go restaurants in London. read more

What's the first thing you do when visiting a new city? Hope on Yelp and bookmark all the awesome-sounding restaurants nearby? Well, that's what I did, and I found Sen Viet! I visited here on Sunday night with a friend from Uni, who lives about 5 minutes down the road. He's been living in the UK for over 3 years and had never visited, so I was excited to see if this place lived up to the reviews online. It did! This is a casual, no frills kind of restaurant but we just wanted to catch up over food and beers, so it was perfect. He did the honourable thing of letting me order for us both (and he was happy with the result too, double bonus!). We shared some prawn and pork spring rolls, a crispy chicken pancake, a sizzling beef and garlic dish as well as lemongrass chicken. The stand out dish for me was the crispy chicken pancake - crispy, light but thick at the same time and gave an awesome crunch to the soft, delicate chicken thigh inside. Wrapped in a iceberg lettuce leaf added another dimension of crisp. This was absolutely perfect and I would return to this restaurant just to eat this dish. Our other dishes were really tasty as well, and we had some rice on the side. On a Sunday night it was easy enough to get a table and it had a good turnover of people popping in for food. The service was really friendly in a warm, authentic way. This isn't the kind of restaurant to linger long in after you've eaten, you'd be better off heading to a nearby bar for a drink. Overall, a fab night with some really great tastes of Vietnam that are hard to find in Glasgow. read more

Yummo! We ordered the banh cuon (steamed rice noodles), and crispy spring rolls, beef pho, and spicy beef noodle soup. All were tasty and satisfying (read: I ate til my sides nearly burst). From the silky banh cuon with the fresh vegetables, dipped in the tangy fish sauce, and the crunch of perfectly cooked spring rolls, to the fragrant pho broth and the spicy kick of the beef noodle soup, everything was what I'd hoped it would be. 1 homemade lemonade, 1 coca cola and 2 beers and I still had change from £40. Definite keeper and will be back soon to get my vietnamese food fix! read more

I have visited this restaurant several times throughout the last few years; on every occasion I've been highly satisfied and have readily recommended it to friends. While I haven't been back since I finished university last year, I recently suggested it to another friend who has just enrolled and thought it'd be useful to repeat what I said to them here. So its location is very convenient (especially for those in university housing right round the corner!), right on Kings Cross road, so easy to get to if you need a meal before a train ride also. Each and every time I ate there I was warmly welcomed by the staff who make sure you're happy throughout the meal also and are happy to advise you on what to order. As for the food it was the first place I tried Pho, and while I've had it elsewhere now also I still really like it here. A decent serving amount and very warming, thick broth- I'd personally recommend the beef pho. The special rice I had was also brilliant, made fresh which isn't always the case in my experience with the dish in other establishments. While it might not be a concern for everyone, one of the best points for me is that food is affordable here with deals for students - a lifesaver for me! Looking forward to returning here in future. read more

We were visiting London for a few days and found this place near our hotel. The foods were just hit the spot. We liked so much that we went back for the second times! I have high expectation for being asian who love rich flavor foods. This place know how to make it. I highly recommended anybody who in this area to check out this place! read more

I wish I was hungrier or more than one person as I turned up just wanting pho but was impressed by all of the amazing looking dishes on the menu. There's a great range of salads, appetisers and desserts but I went for my standard order of beef pho and was not disappointed. It was very authentic and delicious. You can get large or small orders and they are very reasonably priced. My meal with a beer came to under £10! I'll definitely be seeking this place out again next time I get into Euston or kings cross. read more

Completely and utterly delicious food with excellent service. Ate here months ago and can't remember what starter I took, but the beef was cooked to perfection - tender as can be and so sweet and flavourful. Thank you! read more

This place is such a great find. The staff are so helpful and polite, service is fast, and the pho is delicious! I've been here quite a few times and never been disappointed read more

I have this place on speed dial for pho, summer rolls and spring rolls to go. It is my local and I have no complaints! It is no-frills and always packed (lunch and dinner). It doesn't have some of my favorites though like papaya salad--in fact they have very few salads. What they do they do well. read more

The attitude of the waiter at the bar was surprisingly rude. We waited for 30 minutes and the water was not served. We asked the waiter at the bar for at least our drinks just because we were thirsty and he replied angrily that its going on by queue, while the table who came and ordered after us already received their foods and drinks on 5-10 minutes after they sat down. We also complained about how other tables got foods before us, the bar waiter got pissed off and said "first come first serve" out loud without listening to us that we WERE the ones who came first. Another 10 minutes went by without any drinks or foods, the waitress came to inform us that the summer roll that we ordered was finished..???!! That was the point where our limits were reached. My girlfriend asked for the bill immediately as we were getting upset. The funny thing was that the waitress (not the bar waiter) was the one saying sorry along with her manager i believed and brought us the summer roll..!! So..it was NOT actually finished. This was the worst vietnamese food experience we had ever had in London. Despite the fact that I am a pho lover and I always look for good vietnamese restaurants in London for Pho, I have to say this place is very disappointing and I suggest you go somewhere else. The place that has about the same level in terms of taste (pho) is Cafe VN (Clerkenwell Road) and Banh Mi Bay (Theobalds Road). But the best pho and the best vietnamese restaurant out of more than 30 restaurants we have tried is Cafe East London. It's around Canada water (far), but really worth going. If Sen Viet still has this kind of waiter who does not want to serve customers, then there is no need for us to be there for them to serve or you can find out for yourself. We might be just unlucky. Ps. Not to mention that he was speaking irresponsibly badly about us and what he did in Vietnamese thinking that we did not understand because we were speaking Englisn, but unfortunately I am half vietnamese, so I know everything they said. It was very very unpleasant to hear I have to say. read more

I LOVE Sen Viet. If I could eat here every day I would. The food is fresh, delicious and the delivery is quick and painless. My favorites are the chili lemongrass chicken, and the vegie spring rolls!!! read more

This is the second time my friend and I had come and it was amazing. The portions were huge, the price was decent and literally after 10 minutes of ordering our first dish had already arrived. We were being served by a lovely young woman called Anne, she was really nice and got us anything and everything that we needed. Definitely going to make this a regular spot! read more

I judge a place by the quality of their Pho Tai. I've been to over 50 Vietnamese restaurants around the world. Easy to forget most of them, but this is one of the few that will stay in my memory. The Pho was excellent in every regard. read more

We were looking go for a place to go for dinner and through yelp came across this restaurant. It is quite simple and basic when it comes to the interior though it did seem busy and there was a bit of a buzz. The service is also friendly but average. We ordered crispy spring rolls, which were ok- steam beef, most of the beef pieces were tender but not all which I found odd- pork belly, this one was good and egg fried rice. I'd recommend taking cash, their card machine wasn't working so it was definitely awkward when we had to pay. read more

Had an okay time here. I've had a lot of vietnamese food and this place didn't particularly stand out. The bun bo hue was a little on the light side and didn't have the flavor I was used to. The summer rolls were good. The tofu we had (I forgot the name of the dish) was not bad. read more

Service was Meh, but the Pho was Phenomenal (sorry not sorry) - very balanced flavor, with both the lemongrass and spice coming through, and not overpowering the broth. The beef was added in rare and slowly cooked by the heat of the broth. Will definitely return. read more

We came here for CNY lunch. It was a bit further from Kings Cross so the pricing was better. Good portion, fairly priced, nice service, and good flavor. read more

The food here was delicious! I had a Bun Bo Hue (spicy chicken pho) and it was delicious. It wasn't an authentic Bun Bo Hue but it was so yummy that I didn't mind. It had hints of Thai flavours. The only problem is that the serving size was tiny but I would definitely come back here! read more

Love this place, so much authentic choices. I recommend the spring rolls and the banh canh which is a noodle soup not found in many places in London. Reasonable price and friendly staff read more

Delicious food at such a reasonable price! Quick service, even at lunchtime. I had the beef stir fry with the spring rolls - both were awesome :) read more

the best Vietnamese restaurant in London. Strongly recommend summer roll and Pho Noodle with soup

The food was great and savory, the waiter was very friendly and helpful, and the food was served quickly. I can definitely recommend this place, it's one of the best Vietnamese restaurants I've ever been to in London. read more

Lovely authentic Vietnamese food and great service. As I am Vietnamese myself, I go here for dinner or lunch every other day ;)

I ordered the pho and the portion was small :( finished it in 5 mins... There weren't enough noodles and they randomly put ginger in it like wtf read more

It's official, I have a pho habit. As a result, I've had pho in goodness knows how many Vietnamese restaurants in London now (plus in the far east). Sen Viet is pretty far down the list, and this was a disappointing pho. The (rare) beef was good, but the stock and the noodles weren't, and it was missing herbs. Poor flavour and noodle texture. Add into the mix a dark and unappealing rear dining room, and pretty indifferent service and I'd be hard pressed to go back. read more

Such an amazing little restaurant! Great food and great staff too! Came here at lunchtime and it was fairly busy so maybe reserve a table for the evening. I would strongly recommend the spring rolls; they're unlike any other spring rolls J have ever had! I would definitely recommend and such a nice little find in the chaos of London. read more

I enjoyed the food, service, and setting. It's a cozy and inviting, but not too small venue, the waitress was welcoming and helpful with recommendations for selections, and the food was quite good. I enjoyed their beef pho, and pork&prawn rolls with peanut sauce. All said and done, I felt that 15 pounds was a fair price for appetizers, large pho, beer, and sparkling water. I will keep this on my list of culinary options for my next visit. read more

stopped by for lunch upon arriving in London. Food was okay. Things were fresh but I was expecting more flavor and traditional dishes Food was not as flavorful compared to the items in Vietnam or New York. For the price, food was decent. read more

The food here is decent but in the last couple of months service has gone down. The owner is very reluctant to change any orders, even if it is the restaurant's fault. I'm allergic to peanuts and, after being warned about my problem with nuts, they still served me a dish that contained peanuts. When I complained they told me I was wrong because the dish had no peanuts. It was very surreal (not to mention dangerous).I don't think Sen Viet understands the meaning of customer service. read more

After dinner at Sen Viet on the recommendation of a foodie friend, I returned a couple of days later. I asked Danny the waiter for his suggestions and he nailed it both times. I didn't think they could top the scrumptious Aubergine with Minced Pork, but on the next visit I was dazzled by the Bo Luc marinated beef cubes. If you have room, indulge in the dessert of mango spring rolls with creamy mango coconut sauce - divine. Friendly, delicious, reasonable! read more

We used to order delivery from Sen Viet in Kings X. Delicious, hot food delivered quickly and at a great price. Recently, (I'm writing Jan 2016) they hiked their prices, which is fine and increased their minimum delivery charge to £20 per order, also fine. But the last 2 times we've ordered, the food has taken ages to arrive. This time, they said 1hour delivery, but at 90 mins we called to see if it was coming. We were told another 15 mins, because they were so busy. Fairly sure they dont keep diners in the restaurant waiting that long. It finally arrived while we were back on the phone at 2 hours after we ordered. The manager was completely uninterested in a proper discount (they initially offered a bottle of cola and then offered 10% off) so we sent the delivery guy back. Felt sorry for him, he was a nice chap and it wasn't his fault, but the attitude and dreadful customer service really let them down. Won't be ordering from them again. read more