New York City Restaurants

Doyers Vietnamese Restaurant

#13 of 1880 things to do in New York City

#43 of 19972 things to do in USA

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Good for: atmosphere, food, Solo Travellers

  • Address
    • 11 Doyers St Chinatown, 10013 btwn the Bowery & Pell St
  • Transport
    • J, M, N, Q, R, W, Z, 6 to Canal St
  • Website
  • Phone
    • tel, info: 212 513 1521
  • Hours
    • Lunch & dinner

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Lonely Planet review for Doyers Vietnamese Restaurant

A huge part of the appeal at Doyers is the fascinating street it's on - it used to be known as the 'Bloody Triangle' during the area's gang days. The menu's as long as your arm and has veggie and meat dishes, served in the below-ground dining room.

 

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    I went there last week and found it's under renovation

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    Cheap, fast, and there is always a table ready.

    micheledelia recommends this,

    My boyfriend and I took a chance at this basement dining room on Doyers Street in Chinatown. It was a chance well-worth taken. Let's start with the Chicken Vermicelli Soup or Pho Ga. For $4.50 -a steal!- this could be your entire meal. However, we chose to split this steaming hot noodle soup with tender rice noodles, fresh mint leaves, and shredded white chunks of chicken as our appetizer. Within seconds, two fat shrimp Summer Rolls appeared on a small plate, accompanied with a small finger bowl of super-thick peanut sauce and more mint leaves. The rolls were fresh, crunchy, and soothing to our burnt tongues from the soup we were too quick to slurp down. By this time I was getting full but still managed to have to pleasure of the first few bites of my main entree, the Spicy Chicken Basil dish, which came with one bowl of steamed white rice (to split). My boyfriend's dish, the Stewed Curry Duck, was a bowl of opaque tamarind-hued sauce with chunks of lamb bobbing throughout. He ladled the stew out over the rice and added more spicy chili paste from a glass potted condiment jar on the table.

    Sitting back in the stiff small chairs, the staff watched us attentively, making sure we had eaten everything before coming by to clear our plates. Gazing around at the cheap decor, it only made the food stand out as more exceptional. We didn't need to ask for anything else except the check. And, since I couldn't finish my entree, I'm pleased to say that it tasted even better cold the next day for lunch from its styrofoam container.

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    Shrimp Paste on Sugar Cane

    ayun recommends this,

    Don't feel intimidated by the hundreds of unfamiliar-sounding Vietnamese dishes on the menu. You'll have the shrimp paste grilled in sugar cane. And not that it matters, but if you want to look like you know what you're doing, tear off a portion of the rubber-y grilled paste, sprinkle with sauce, add a few leaves of mint and roll it all up in a bit of that lettuce that arrived on a plastic platter. Who'd you think it was for? Harvey? Not to worry, though. They've seen plenty of gringos here, and no one's going to look at you funny unless you do something really foolish, like order a glass of the house wine.

    I give it four stars for atmosphere because I waited tables for years and have no patience for the hush hush, creamy, dreamy, intricately staged nonsense that results in a 25 dollar slab of salmon garnished in lingonberries and a light shaving of decomissioned American Express cards. I like it utilitarian, like my Swiss Army Knife and my men. In fact I give it an extra star for leaving Xmas decorations up past Chinese New Year (which is the only bad time to come to Doyers as every other non-Chinese celebrant will be crowding in too.

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