Situated on Wellingborough Road, only a short distance from Northampton town centre, you will find Dang’s Vietnamese restaurant. Opened in 2007, Dang’s is Northampton’s only Vietnamese restaurant and has been recommended by the Michelin Guide for 3 consecutive years, an achievement that very few restaurants in Northampton have achieved.

Owner Hao Dang has enjoyed seeing her restaurant flourish and has received recognition for her hard work by winning the ‘Best Curry Chef’ award at the 2010 Northamptonshire Food awards as well as being voted runner-up in the ‘Booker Chef of the Year’ awards in 2011. Upon your arrival, Hao offers you a warm welcome and leads you to your table. The basement level restaurant is beautifully decorated with family-painted canvases and Vietnamese artefacts and has a cosy, intimate ambience.

Drawing on her 30 years catering experience, Hao has created a menu that presents Vietnamese food in an accessible, yet authentic, way. She describes Vietnamese food, to those who have never tasted it, as a cross between Chinese and Thai. The menus have English explanations of each dish and even tell you how to pronounce the Vietnamese names of each dish and for the fussier diners, a small selection of British dishes are available.

The food is the real star of the show, with all dishes prepared using fresh ingredients and cooked to order, you have never have tasted food like it. If you can’t decide on a starter, the sharing platter with spicy wings, handmade spring rolls, vegetarian dumplings and seafood fishcakes is the perfect way to sample a little bit of everything. The mains are mouthwatering and highly recommended dishes include Ca Hup, a whole steamed seabass with mild spring onions and a garlic soy sauce; and duck cooked with bamboo shoots and choi sum served with fried spring onions, fresh chillies and coriander in a light soy sauce. Traditional Vietnamese whole meal noodle soups offer punchy flavours and a mix of all the best bits of Vietnamese cuisine.

With on-street parking to the front of the restaurant, Dang’s Vietnamese restaurant is the ideal base from which to explore Northampton. With a highly coveted Michelin recommendation under their belt and the passionate and highly skilled Hao Dang at the helm, Dang’s is set to be a successful venue for years to come.