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Gathering with friends and family at Trần Thái Tông's Heart Café on weekend evenings is simply incomparable. The steaming hot bowl of heart porridge, emitting a tantalizing aroma, coupled with the soft, smooth texture of each grain of fragrant rice, will leave an unforgettable impression. Let's explore this renowned heart café across Hanoi with Mytour.
Introduction to Trần Thái Tông's Heart Café
- Address: 18 Trần Thái Tông, Cầu Giấy
- Reservation: 0906 261 358.
- Opening Hours: Morning 09:00 – 14:00 | Evening 18:00 – 22:00
- Price Range: approximately 150,000 VND to 300,000 VND per person
The name 'Chát' Inn leaves a profound impression on every diner who visits to indulge. Firstly, the inn's name is strikingly unique and intriguing, stimulating memory recall. Secondly, the dishes here are deliciously prepared with distinct flavors, leaving an unforgettable impression.
Trần Thái Tông's 'Chát' Inn has been around for over 30 years, a restaurant closely tied to generations from the 70s, 80s to the 90s. With 30 years of experience, despite Hanoi embracing dishes from Japan, Korea, China, Europe, and Asia, this down-to-earth 'Chát' inn continues to exude a strong allure.
Especially, as each autumn-winter arrives with chilly weather, Trần Thái Tông's 'Chát' Inn welcomes a large number of customers. Many come to the inn, simply ordering a few dishes of fresh innards dipped in fish sauce, a bowl of hot porridge accompanied by fragrant herbs, and a cup of wine, completing a perfect evening with friends and family.
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One thing that stands out at “Chát” Inn is the emphasis on selecting fresh, clean ingredients to ensure high-quality delicious dishes. Moreover, the menu offers a variety of tasty options such as: minced innards, assorted innards, stomach, innard porridge, stir-fried innards with pickles, sizzling platter, crispy tail skewers, stir-fried strips of meat with basil... and many flexible meal sets for you to choose from.
Many customers crave innard dishes but are often concerned about food safety. However, those who visit Trần Thái Tông's “Chát” Inn always come back for more. What makes the inn so popular and beloved? Let's find out.
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Interior of Lòng Chát Quán Trần Thái Tông Restaurant
One advantage over some innards stalls in markets or sidewalks is that Trần Thái Tông's Chát Inn is located in a beautiful spot, with extremely elegant and classy decor, featuring a 2-story space accommodating up to 120 guests. Overall, with its facilities and years of experience, you can feel more confident about the quality and food safety hygiene when dining here.
The equipment at the inn is also quite comprehensive, with a system of lights, lamps, fans, air conditioning, and quality tables and chairs ensuring you have the most memorable dining experience.
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Menu Review of Trần Thái Tông's Chát Inn
Finding an innards restaurant isn't difficult, but choosing a delicious one with a diverse menu isn't simple. Some specialize only in innard porridge, while others on sidewalks sell innards, chicken, duck, and noodles for diners to choose from. Not sticking to the old format, Chát Inn specializes only in innard dishes, fully prepared in boiled, stir-fried, and fried versions... extremely delicious.
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The plate of cooked innards is beautifully presented, plentiful, sometimes just finishing a bowl of porridge leaves you full and regretful for not being able to enjoy more dishes. The innard dishes here are extremely delicious and appealing, especially during dusk hours or weekends when the inn is always crowded. And the special thing is that the innards are always hot, perfect for eating on chilly autumn days like this. If it's your first time at the inn, to avoid being overwhelmed and to have a look at the most popular dishes, check them out below:
- Crunchy crisp innard rolls
- Clear and sweet innard hotpot
- Crispy tail skewers with juicy cartilage filling
- Stir-fried innards with pickles
- Sizzling grilled innards
- Soft and smooth jelly dessert
- Boiled liver
- Fried stomach coated in flour
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Such a variety of dishes for you to choose from, each with its own unforgettable flavor. If you order grilled innards, you'll have peach pit filling, crispy tail, stomach, all with a rich, fresh sauce. Boiled innards are impressively fresh and visually appealing, each piece delicious and irresistibly crunchy. Especially, the crispy tail skewers are irresistible to anyone, just one bite and you'll experience the crispy shell dipped in various spices, making people of all ages unable to resist.
Occasionally going to Trần Thái Tông's Chát Inn and ordering a pot of innard porridge, surrounded by swirling smoke, warms the heart on weary days. A bowl of smooth, fragrant porridge, combined with innards, tripe, and some blanched vegetables, a few pieces of fried dough, a sprinkle of pepper, truly makes it heavenly delicious.
- Mytour suggestion: Chát Inn, Tôn Thất Tùng branch
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If too many dishes leave you unsure of what to choose, you can opt for the assorted set menus, offering both delicious meals and cost savings.
- 2-person Set: 265k (Assorted, Innard Porridge, Noodle with dipping sauce, Free 1 bamboo shoot soup or 1 plate of noodles).
- 3 – 4 person Set: 450k (Assorted, Stir-fried assorted, 2 bowls of tripe porridge, Noodle, Free 1 bamboo shoot soup or 1 plate of noodles).
- 4 – 5 person Set: 600k (Large assorted, Sausage, Stir-fried assorted, 2 bowls of tripe porridge, 2 plates of noodles, Free 1 bamboo shoot soup or 1 plate of noodles).
Among which, the assorted boiled innards include 8 items: Young innards, stomach, tripe, crispy tail, throat, peach pit meat, liver, fatty sausage, all delicious, clean, and high quality.
The prices at the restaurant are slightly higher compared to some sidewalk eateries, ranging from 150,000 VND to 300,000 VND per person, but overall, the clean dining space ensures food safety and hygiene, so the restaurant is always crowded.
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Assessment of service and food quality
Understanding customer psychology, one of the criteria set by Trần Thái Tông's Chát Inn is always being hospitable and welcoming. Service from the heart, enthusiastic, quick, and attentive.
Most weekends, the number of customers will be higher, and the staff must always be busy, but with good training and guidance, all activities in the restaurant still proceed quickly, and customers don't have to wait long. Looking through reviews on foody, we received quite a few positive reviews.
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Regarding the source of ingredients, it's the top priority that Chát Inn highly values because the restaurant always puts the safety criterion for consumer health first. All processed foods are carefully selected, fresh, avoiding situations where innards are left for too long, stale, or frozen. The processing process is also meticulous, going through many stages, albeit somewhat time-consuming, but quite clean and safe. Thanks to that, when eating innards, there's no unpleasant smell, quite fresh, and sweet.
So now you have a clearer view of Chát Inn, Trần Thái Tôn branch shared by Mytour, right? With the price and service quality as mentioned above, it's very worth it to come and enjoy a meal here. Wishing you a delicious meal here.
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