MẸT Vietnamese Restaurant & Vegetarian Met 2, Vietnamese vegetarian restaurant in Hàng Đào, Vietnam.
MẸT Vietnamese Restaurant & Vegetarian Met 2 is a restaurant in the Hàng Đào street area of Hanoi's Old Quarter, offering both traditional Vietnamese dishes and a full vegetarian menu side by side. The space accommodates groups of different sizes across a dining room that draws on natural materials and simple decor.
Hanoi's Old Quarter was historically divided into trade streets, each linked to a specific craft or product, and Hàng Đào was long associated with the silk trade. Over time, these streets shifted from specialized markets to mixed commercial areas where food and hospitality took on a growing role.
The name "MẸT" means "bamboo tray" in Vietnamese, referring to the flat woven mats once used to serve food in rural homes. This idea of sharing food from a common surface still shapes the way dishes arrive at the table.
The restaurant is on Hàng Đào, one of the more accessible streets in the Old Quarter, easy to reach on foot from most nearby guesthouses and hotels. Groups and anyone planning a longer meal are better off booking ahead to secure a table.
Although the menu looks the same across locations, each branch adapts its vegetarian dishes to local produce available nearby, so the flavor of a given dish can shift noticeably between one branch and another. This makes visiting more than one location a way to compare how the same recipe changes with its surroundings.
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