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Restaurants, bars, oysters, organic food and a promotion where the stars stayed. What’s new in Hanoi
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1. Delisa salads now come with baguette options 2. Don’s new weekend oyster promotion 3. Stay where the stars of Kong: Skull Island stayed 4. New Italian restaurant Goodfellas in Time City
Delisa After completing a successful period of delivering some of the tastiest and freshest salads around, Delisa has finally opened a dine-in location. “Our main theme is fresh and healthy,” says founder Hoang Ngan Ha. “We follow this with everything; menu, logo and store design.” The new restaurant is a bright, neat space located in the trendy French quarter around Ly Dao Thanh, with light wooden furniture and a variety of seating areas. The most exciting new addition to the salads that made Delisa so popular so quickly, are the new wholemeal baguettes. All of the previous Delisa salads are now available as baguette options, such as the Waldorf (VND69,000) which includes grilled chicken, apple, celery, walnut and yoghurt dressing, on a bed of crunchy romaine lettuce. The Delisa signature green mango smoothie (VND49,000) makes a
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return, along with the avocado (VND49,000), banana (VND39,000) and passion fruit (VND39,000). Located at 8A Ly Dao Thanh, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi. Open daily from 9am until 9pm. For more information, call 0912 050868 or visit facebook.com/realdelisa
Don’s Bistro Weekend Oyster Promotion If it’s Don’s, it’s good. And this one’s even better. Don’s Bistro has just announced its weekend special oyster promotion. At VND60,000 per oyster (normally VND129,000), you have a choice of having them done six ways: — spicy Bloody Mary shooters — jet fresh Canadian Chefs Creek style — BBQ with lemon, crispy garlic and chilli sauce — freshly shucked on ice with lemon, wasabi and soy, mignonette — fried in cornmeal then wrapped
in cabbage with spicy peanut sauce — baked in an edible pastry shell with sundried tomato, bacon, cheese and spinach Don’s promotion is for Saturdays and Sundays only from 7am till late, so why not hit the rooftop oyster bar and take in the views of West Lake over a few drinks and a plate of oysters? Don’s Bistro is at 16 Quang An, Tay Ho, Hanoi. For more info, go to donsbistro.com or call (04) 3719 3719
Don’s Bistro Summer Menu Beat the summer heat with something to eat from Don’s Bistro new summer menu. The lunch and dinner menus have been refined to take on a more Canadian feel with Vietnamese accents. The new lunch menu (VND300,000) is a delicious collection of quick and healthy comfort dishes that has something for everyone, including amuse-bouche