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    Viet Shack

    4.2 (30 reviews)
    Open 11:00 am - 5:00 pm

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    Jonny Q.

    If you're a real foodie in Manchester and especially like your street food, the Arndale food market is an often overlooked gem even though it's got some amazing places on offer if you have a look around and get 'face deep' in some of it's tasty treats! Amazing Mexico city burritos at Panchos, Caribbean at Onje, Cypriot delights at Zorbas and then of course the Queen brie selling great cheeses and bread, with Boggart microbrewery perfect for a quick pint or to stock up on some craft beer bottles to take home. So I'm really pleased to see a new addition to this list in the form of Viet Shack - a counter service which was quick and efficient, had friendly staff and most importantly had damn tasty looking food! Viet Shack is all about cool and funky takes on Vietnamese traditional food with the marketing to back it up. Calling for lunch yesterday I made a very snap decision to go for their Viet dogs which were great value at £5 for 2 - basically a hotdog with Vietnamese chicken and salads, spicy sauce and delicious crispy onions. It was tasty, filling and a novel take on the 'dog' - and it's now ticked off my list - as there's another 5 items I want to try and I'll be back to have more again soon (The Cow Burger next I think).

    Laura F.

    I first tried Viet Shack at Up in Your Grill - Manchester's outdoor foodie, boozy block party that ran over the summer, and I was super impressed. Their Wooded Prawns were amazing - and the Bahn Mi was very tasty. Since then I've been wanting to visit their food stall, situated in the very busy Arndale Food Market. Today, I got that chance whilst passing though, and they didn't let me down. I had the Bahn Mi - part of me was curious to find out if it would be as good as the first time I tried it, and it was better! Pork meat with vegetables, cucumber and their spicy srirachi mayo in a fresh, warm white baguette.. And once I took the coriander off (can't stand the stuff) it was perfect! The sooner I try everything they have on the menu, the better! And at £3 for lunch, I can't fault it. If they ever open a restaurant, Manchester is in for a real treat - but for now, get yourself down to the Arndale Food Market and see how great it is for yourself!

    Prawn spring rolls
    Briony C.

    Ohhhh yes, Viet Shack you stole my heart. I'd actually tried to find Viet Shack last time I was in Manchester - now I know that it's actually inside the Arndale Food Court and as soon as we headed there for lunch, I was determined to get food from Viet Shack. Their signage actually makes it look like there's only a few options but grab a leaflet and be wowed by the full menu - many Vietnamese delights. I ordered prawn rice paper rolls as well as a chicken burger with chips (I was hungry, ok?!). I actually had to pop around the corner to Waterstone's while I was waiting for my food but it was ready by the time I was back, so it was perhaps a 3-5 minute wait. Everything is packaged up for easy transport (there is seating in the food court but it was totally full, so we went back to the office) and I got a tub of peanut sauce for my rolls. The rolls were excellent. Lots of prawn, delicious flavour, perfect noodles. I just loved them. They also have an option of pork or avocado filling and are all made fresh - just delicious. The burger was great, not quite as good as the rolls but just because I didn't love the bun it was served in. The chicken is lemongrass flavour and grilled and topped with pickled veg, sriracha and mayo. It's a really good burger but I found the bun tasted a bit like corn and was a bit squishy for me. Prices are cheap, food is quick and fresh and it's in a handy location for a lot of Manchester. I'll definitely go back here now I know where it is!

    Max H.

    Viet Shack is disappointing, and a tiny bit expensive. I've been twice, once discovering it through a quick trip to the Arndale, and not through yelp like most of my other Manchester restaurant 'discoveries'. It's hard to express how excited I was by the prospect of even vaguely authentic Vietnamese street food in the city - options are, at best, limited for Vietnamese food. Predictably, on my first visit, they'd run out of nearly everything, so I settled for the fresh spring rolls with king prawn Delightful, light and full of flavour, I was only slightly concerned with the price - £1.40/ea is not cheap! But I vowed to return earlier for the chance to sample some of Viet Shack's mains. Which I did. Less than three days later (I was that excited). I asked for a recommendation from the admittedly very cheery staff - and was duly recommended the lamb with rice. At £5.99, I was expecting something special. And the lamb certainly delivered on that - a wonderful garlicky marinade was easily good enough to drink. In fact, I've rarely tasted something so refreshingly new and different in Manchester. So surely this merits 5 stars? Nope. Not even close. Whilst the marinade was indeed spectacular, it merely masked the depressing fact that I was given three measly lamb chops, with so little meat on them I hesitate to even describe each chop as bite-size. I'm exaggerating - I managed about one and a half decent bites from each chop - but for £6 I was expecting significantly more edible protein. What really hacked me off, though, was the rice. Boring. Dull. More than plentiful. And not really what I'd wanted given the amazing flavours of the marinade. My suggestion to the owners: I'll gladly suffer a lack of protein, but at least make the carbs interesting - perhaps (please please please) by smothering it in much more of that marinade.

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    Victoria B.

    Vietshack is a food stall in the food market at the Arndale shopping centre. I had some major cravings for pho and was looking up places to go in Manchester- I had seen something on twitter about them now having a pho special on the menu so I thought I'd give it a try. As it was lunch time on a week day there was a long line of people waiting to be served and by the sounds of it, they had run out of a few things. The lady in front of me had to try and find something else to order. With 3 guys working behind the counter, it's a lot of customers- this place is popular! Having been to Vietnam I just love Vietnamese food and they have a lot of the classic things on the menu like prawn rice paper rolls and banh mi. It all looks delicious. My pho cost £6 and I got a big try of it- really delicious although I asked for medium spicy and could have had it a lot hotter than that. They ask you how you'd like your beef cooked which is nice. Delicious, filling food and an affordable snack stop if you're passing through the Arndale to do some shopping or you're on a lunch break from work.

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    Jessica H.

    During a recent sale shopping trip, we were looking for something fresh and filling to keep us fuelled for the remainder of the afternoon. With the Arndale Market emptier than usual due to it being a weekend, and resisting the temptation of Pancho's Burritos next door, we headed over to Viet Shack. They have expanded the menu since my last visit (be sure to get a leaflet to see the full range) and it now includes wraps and some rather delicious fries. Between us we ordered the lemongrass chicken with sticky rice; viet dogs; viet fries; and avocado summer rolls with peanut sauce, plus two soft drinks. The total cost came to around £15 - and believe me when I say we were stuffed for the afternoon! The lemongrass chicken was very tasty, especially when combined with the sticky rice and almost fluorescent hot sauce added on request. My post-Christmas body also thanked them for the serving of salad! The summer rolls were good, if a bit bland, so perhaps more avo or the addition of something else would improve them for me. The peanut sauce, however, was very moreish and had me dipping the fries throughout our meal. And trust me when I say these fries are worth ordering! Delicious. An affordable, casual dining experience which is sure to get you through the January sales and beyond.

    Saigon summer salad, summer rolls and peanut dipping sauce at Viet Shack
    Rebecca H.

    Whenever somewhere new opens in Manchester, it's all over twitter. And if I actually catch it, that somewhere new dishes up Vietnamese street food and it's 30 seconds from where I work... Viet shack is the latest in a long line of diverse culinary offerings in the Arndale food market, specialising in quick-fix sandwiches and salads, plus summer rolls, mint coolers etc, infused with the Vietnamese flavours of lemongrass, chili, ginger and mint. The Saigon summer salad (£3) was fresh, with well-seasoned pork and a brilliant spicy dressing (they ask how spicy you want it) while the summer rolls (£2.80) were (quite literally) bursting with carrot, vermicelli, prawns (and maybe peanuts?). You get a choice of dipping sauce too - and their recommendation of peanut was fab. The food's great, the people are great - as cheap eats go, Viet Shack is hard to beat. In fact the only downsides I can think of are a) the food runs out really fast (there were already serious queues at just after midday) and b) the location. It's tucked in a narrow area right at the back of the market if you're coming in from the Shudehill entrance, so be prepared to do some serious shuffling while you wait..

    Jess F.

    Ok for the price but not outstanding. I have a new job that is within walking distance of the NQ and Arndale food market. This has infinitely improved lunch options and I am making the most of it! I'd heard a lot of twitter noise regarding this place and headed down a week or so ago but was confounded by the huge queue. On that day I had a Panchos instead. Today I waited later and at around 14:30 success - no queues! I asked for a recommendation and ended up ordering a vege roll (couldn't resist the avocado), a chicken wrap and a raspberry and mint drink. The roll came with a variety of sauce options and I went for peanut. This sauce was really good, the first roll out of the two was great but the second was not as good for some reason I couldn't identify. The chicken wrap was a but disappointing. The flavour of the chicken was good but the texture was not nice, very chewy. I also didn't think the salad leaves they put in the wrap worked with this dish. I deconstructed the dish in the end and just ate the carrot and peanut sauce in the wrap! The drink was really delicious however and I would always go to buy one on a hot day if I was nearby.

    Calvin T.

    What can go wrong with Vietnamese making Vietnamese food. Nothing. The food was delish! You can tell it is fresh because they grill the meat right in front of your very eyes as you order. Although the price is not as cheap as I'd hope for a street food, but it was the taste makes up for it (meat in general is quite expensive, perhaps they had no choice but to accommodate to the costing of meat). I would definitely return for a good Vietnamese food when in city centre. Even though its only a small little vendor, it is better than many other vietnamese restaurants in Manchester.

    Yummy food!
    Ben W.

    We found this place online as we looked around for good places to eat in Manchester. I was particularly focused on finding good street food. We ordered two burgers and some fries (which I cannot remember the specific names for any of them) and we devoured them. There was so much food involved in that order that we must have barely finished it. We wanted to try a cooler as well, but they were all out! It sounded like it would've been the perfect drink to go with this food. The food was great and there's something really cool about ordering from a little stall in a giant place like the Arndale.

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    Thomas B.

    Viet Shack is serves vietnamese street food from a stall in the arndale market including spring rolls, bahn mis, burgers and fries. The quality of the food is fast above anything you'd expect from a market stall - let alone one in the arndale.

    Andrew Y.

    Been to Viet Shack a few times. Nice place to get lunch whenever I am around the Arndale market area. Last time I went I had the chicken burger which was really tasty. They recently updated their menu (and also the stall) - and they had some nice photos of what was on offer - photos taken by fellow Yelper Lucas S. Every time I have been here the food is really good and don't have to wait long. Perfect combo!

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    The prices are just right at around £5 for a meal although you can get cheaper menu choices luke the bahn mi for £3.

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    3.3(3 reviews)
    0.4 miAncoats, Petersfield

    Before I start with the actual review, I am not sure if to rate this 2 or 3 out of 5. A 2/5 rating…read moremakes it sound like it was a bit "bad". It wasn't bad - just "OK" (the food). Maybe since they gave us free prawn crackers and we had no problem with the service, should give it 3? Bad the description on Yelp of 2/5 is "Meh. I've experienced better" is pretty accurate. Once again its another one of those situations could do with half marks and it would be a 2.5. For now leaving it on 2/5 but I would have not be against going for another visit. Right, the actual review.... Vietnamese restaurant/bar opened up in Cutting Room Square around August last year. Its one of many new food/drink places to open recently (ish). Rudy's has been there for a while but over last couple years ish there has been Elnecot, Seven Bro7hers, Second City, Sugo, Canto to name just a few.The restaurant has 2 levels. The restaurant/bar on the top level and then in the basement is a DJ booth, a load of records (LPs) on shelves and lots of seating. As a group of 4, we decided to share starters. (Actually before the actual starters we ordered, they gave us some prawn crackers - with some chilli and a peanut sauce. According to menu, this would normally cost £1.50). I like prawn crackers - although these were just from a packet. We ordered some summer rolls. The pork and prawn one and the mango and pepper one (those are the only 2 summer rolls). They were OK. Nothing really much to them. I didn't really taste the pork in pork and prawn ones and didn't really taste any mango in the mango and pepper one. I forgot to mention about no coriander but luckily didn't taste any - until pretty much the last bite. There was a bit of garnish on the plate which was coriander so thought that may have been all the coriander! For my main, I went for the Vietnamese pancake (Bánh Xèo). I have had this a few times before and like it - although I think it can be hard to make. First time I had it was at Mi and Pho and loved it. But also had it I Am Pho (in Chinatown) and it was a bit "doughy". It needs to be crispy! So guessing its hard to cook - or maybe was cooked wrong? Bánh xèo is a crispy "pancake" made of rice flour - it looks like its egg because of the colour but thats from the turmeric. You get different fillings but the "base" is beansprouts, spring onions, some herbs and then could be pork, prawn, mushroom..... The one from Nam had both pork and prawn in it. Tasted good - maybe a little bit on the small size though.  But I just love the taste, the texture. Yum. (The one from Nam was good although not quite as good as Mi and Pho). We bought a couple vouchers from (Manchester) Confidential app - its one of those where you buy a voucher for half the price e.g. a £10 voucher for £5. Maybe we should have bought more vouchers?? (Strangely, Nam does not appear on the iOS Confidential app?). It does make it complicated when trying to split the bill if people had different things!! LOL. So if you do go, its worth checking on Confidential app to see if still has offer. Worth checking for all restaurants actually. So overall Nam was OK. I like the place, the service was good. The food was alright - the summer rolls were not bad but just not much to them (plus lacking the taste of the pork/mango). The Vietnamese pancake tasted pretty good (plus as I said, it can be made bad). I think next time would order more because a couple summer rolls and the pancake were not that much food!

    TL;DR - Trendy bar slash restaurant with great service and food…read more We were actually en-route to a different Vietnamese restaurant when we spotted Nam and decided to give it a try. The first thing that strikes you is how swish the unit is, split across two floors with seating and a bar upstairs, and more seating downstairs plus a DJ booth. We came for food, and were warmly greeted and given a detailed explanation of what everything on the menu was (at our request, we knew next to nothing about Vietnamese food!). Everything sounded great and so we went with a couple of bowls of Pho plus some spring rolls. Everything was really delicious, but my favourite were the rolls... I could have had a conveyer belt serving them to me non stop and I still wouldn't have been satisfied. We also had some of the house beer which, frankly, was one of the nicest beers I've drunk in quite some time. Although this is a restaurant they're keen to promote it as a place to hang out - the bar is great and they have DJs at night, but were keen to make clear that the music is there to enjoy whilst you're having conversation - preferring some older tunes than new stuff. Take note: when you pay by card there's no option to leave a tip. I was mortified because we had zero cash on us, and I can honestly say the service we got was some of the best I've had in Manchester. Make sure you bring some cash to tip with!

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    4.4(5 reviews)
    0.1 miNorthern Quarter

    I initially baulked at spending £7.99 on the KFC for lunch, as I try to keep lunch under £6…read more(including drink) but as it turns out this portion is so massive you won't be hungry for much dinner, so you can save money that way! Generally very tasty - make sure you dig around for the kimchi at the bottom as it's a nice contrast to the relatively heavy chicken and chips - both done very well though. Will def be back to sample more options!

    I have eaten at Fusion Lab about 3 times, trying different things each time. The price, as…read morementioned by Natalie, is maybe a bit on the higher side for a lunch but I think its overall worth it. (Although maybe not the sort of meal that would really fill you up if you were really hungry). I have had the fish tacos, the slow cooked short ribs and most recently the Dragon Bowl. The fish tacos were pretty good, short ribs tasty and the Dragon Bowl was good too. Fusion Lab is located right next to Viet Shack - part of the same family - and they serve similar sort of food. Also just opposite is Gym Shack which is all part of the same family (and opened by the same people). This is similar to Kettlebell Kitchen with high protein and healthy carb meals - (still not had a chance to try Gym Shack yet). One thing to mention, with Vietnamese food generally, it often has coriander in it so if you don't like it, mention this and can you have what you order without it - which I forgot when I got the short ribs.

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