Top-rated Vietnamese restaurant Anchovy is back. Here’s the lowdown on where to sit and what to order to give you the very best dining experience. July 5, 2024 You have reached your maximum number of saved items.
Remove items from your saved list to add more. Save this article for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Two years after Anchovy closed , and nine years since it first launched , the much-loved Vietnamese restaurant owned by Jia-Yen Lee and Thi Le has reopened in its old home at 338 Bridge Road, Richmond.
Jeow , the Cambodian restaurant that had occupied the Anchovy site since the winter of 2022 is now sharing the premises next door, at 336 Bridge Road, with Ca Com , the banh mi bar that started life in 2020 as a lockdown project. How do you fit three South-East Asian eateries across two shopfronts? Here’s what you need to know. Yes.
Jia-Yen Lee speaks of Anchovy version 2.0 as the kid that’s taken a gap year and changed along the way. “You see the DNA, you still recognise them, but the person has altered and matured,” she says.
Whereas the old Anchovy explored Vietnamese food, flavours and ideas, this version calls itself “Viet Kieu”, the term for a Vietnamese person who lives outside Vietnam. In this case, it describes a culinary identity that is both Vietnamese and Australian. “Anchovy is the product of where we are and who we are, neither native nor adopted, but acculturated,” says Lee.
“It’s a reflection of .
