St. Cloud Eating House

Great place to have lunch with friends. Cool ambience, friendly staff and fantastic food. They are checking covid certificates pretty closely, which is a positive for me. Would recommend. Only downside was parking, which was super hard to find a place for longer than 2 hours, had to shift the car mid way through our meal

Considered one of the healthiest cuisines in the world, Vietnamese food is characterized by it's bright, fresh ingredients.  Most of the dishes incorporate ginger, fresh mint, fresh coriander, cinnamon, bird’s eye chili, lime and basil leaves. Was super happy to find this super authentic eatery in hawthorn east @stcloudeatinghouse , Food which is dynamic, lively and their recipe for making Vietnamese culture come to life. Not to mention it’s a great value for money! We had an their feed me menu and its such a big feast- over two courses, feast on a banquet of their classic dishes with delicious cocktails! My favourite from the lot was Sot Vang Braised Beef Ribs, melt in mouth and delicious. The cocktails were really refreshing too, this one is one of my last and most cherished summer meals this year❤️

Finally went here after my wife kept nagging me for ages. Glad I did as the food was delicious! I've never had Vietnamese food that I have enjoyed before, but this was great. We had the fish sauce caramel wings, beef ribs and chicken rice paper rolls. Staff were lovely and friendly too. Looking forward to coming back!

Nice relaxed environment and lovely waiting staffs, but it doesn't make up the fact that food is quite disappointing. Dinner time only offers set menu aT $55 or $65 pp without drink or dessert. We took the $55 option. Rice paper rolls taste not freshly made as the skin has lot its chewy texture due to sitting in fridge. I don't like the fish filling but that could be personal. The zucchini and tofu taste quite plain, although tofu itself is nice, I just don't see the reason of this boring dish. Chicken wing is probably the best on the entire menu, would be perfect if they give two pieces of sticky rice cube instead of one, as it is a two people portion. Beef in main has good charcoal flavour and you can tell it's good quality beef, but they over cooked it and it was tough. Pork belly is very salty and lack of other flavour, also very dry. Salads are good but nothing impressive. Over food quality can probably reach 3 stars but given the expensive price, it drops to 2 stars.

Found a local Vietnamese feas. Pham’s Classic Feed Me menu for 2 just for $110. The food and cocktails here are delicious and so refreshing. The feed me menu is more than enough for 2, you get 3 entrees - 2 mains - 2 sides + Rice. Love the pork belly and lamb. Soooo soft and tender, full of flavour. We were so full and satisfied after our meal. The Viet Slaw is addictive and easy got demolished Excellent quality food and portion size. The staff are so kind and lovely. Service is top notch, always making sure customers are happy and satisfied. Featured: 🍴Chicken Wings 🍴Lemongrass chilli chicken rice paper rolls 🍴Roasted Pumpkin 🍴Caramel Pork Belly 🍴Coconut Braised Lamb Shank 🍴Vietnamese Slaw 🍴Wok Tossed Broccolini 🥃Citrus Lantern 🍸Lady Boi Definitely recommend and their feed menu. You have to try all the above dishes

We booked weeks ago for mothers day for the $55 menue, when we got there we were told it was set menue and was $65 a head. We tried to tell them that's not what we booked and was told nothing they could do about it. The tables were so tightly packed/ pooly laid out we genuinely couldn't get to our seats. Despite having noted at booking and confirming over phone the diatries of the table they had no idea about them when we got there and whilst they swapped out some items on the menue all the gluten free items kept coming out way later than everything else meaning people with diatries had to sit there waiting. The menue was so confusing and the wait staff was just as confused. Some courses were to share and everyone got a portion, some courses we were told by wait staff was each person gets there own however they were served sharing style (e.g if two people ordered pork belly they came in the same bowl despite being on the other side of the table and not having been given sharing plates). There was two desert on the menue which did not say they were to share hence we were very confused when for a table of 8 there was 4 small plates put on the table (2 brownie and 2 cheesecakes ) which were very much single person serves and were told we needed to share them between us. Photo below of the tiny cheescake serve that was meant to be split 4 ways. On top of that there was no concession given to the person who couldn't eat gluten so they were only able to have 1/4 of a gluten free brownie.even more confusing was that we weren't given any utensils to share the deserts?! Even as im writing this review I'm baffled over how poorly planned this event was. Every wait staff we spoke to gave us a different answer on what was happening with the deserts. The waitress had to reconfirm what our mains selection was multiple times before getting it right instead of just writing it down and when we complained to the manager about it we were met with a lot of attitude and told sorry but thats the way it is. The manager did agree to honour the original price we booked at but there was no apology or sense of caring that we had had a really bad experience. Especially since this was for mothers day we were really upset. Some dishes were good some were very average. The pork belly which was meant to have crackling did not and was very soggy. The tiny morale of desert we did get was meh and again the cheesecake base was super soggy. We were told good things and were excited to come here but won't be coming back.

St Cloud focuses on share plates and drinks, leaning a bit more Asian fusion than authentic Vietnamese. We ordered a serve of the chicken rice paper rolls and chicken spring rolls (2 pieces per serve) to share between 4. Both were nice but quite pricey for the size. For main, we ordered the beef ribs with 2 serves of rice. Ribs were quite rich due to star anise and red wine but a huge serving. My favourite dish was the wok tossed rice noodles in satay sauce. This dish was refreshing and the perfect side to a meat. The 2 entrees, main meat and 'salad' noodles between the 4 of us was enough ($90). If you are big eaters, it may be better value to get the Feed Me menu. I have previously enjoyed the poached chicken and jungle curry takeaway. The interior upstairs is lovely and cosy and would make a great function location though it can get noisy. Service was a bit pushy with a few instances of trying to take our plates when people were still eating.