Dining at Don's Tay Ho, Hanoi

Feeling the need for finer dining, we headed off to West Lake, to Don's Tay Ho bistro which promised a variety of cuisines, with the most promising to us looking to be French/Vietnamese fusion.

We reasoned that a rooftop terasse deserved attention, so we sipped cocktails as the evening fell across the lake. We resisted the temptation to have a Flaming B52 Hanoi-style.....

Entrees were excellent: fresh foie gras (Tracey's guilty pleasures) and a bowl of fusion lobster chowder. The fusion was apparent from use of coconut milk and lemongrass rather than butter and cream.....delicious, something like this is going to be added to our repertoire.

This deliciousness was followed up with Sapa duck confit and breast, with a good aromatic spice coating. However, we strayed from the fusion path when we spotted, ordered and loved the lobster & scallop Thermidor. Mmm.

A good bottle of Vouvray complemented it all very well, with the final piece of entertainment being the taxi ride back to the hotel - via a somewhat unnecessarily circuitous route. We haven't learned Vietnamese for "this isn't the most direct route, stop ripping us off", but it would have come in handy. Probably cost us 15,000 Dong extra....hmm, probably won't break the bank.