Madame Hanoi: Why visit this Adelaide Vietnamese restaurant?

The Madame Hanoi restaurant at Skycity in Adelaide offers French-Vietnamese fusion food, plus a Vietnam-inspired cocktail menu.

Madame Hanoi in Adelaide is a restaurant offering a cuisine not seen that often seen in Australia. It takes its influences from Vietnam. Or, more specifically, French-ruled Vietnam. The French-Vietnamese fusion of the Madame Hanoi menu makes this Adelaide restaurant pretty distinctive.

Madame Hanoi is inside the Skycity casino complex inside Adelaide’s Railway Station building on North Terrace.

Madame Hanoi menu

The Madame Hanoi menu features several Vietnamese favourites, such as various-flavoured bao and beef pho. There are also plenty of smaller dishes designed for sharing.

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Of the larger dishes, options include confit duck with watermelon, Vietnamese mint salad in hoisin sauce for $28. There’s also a fab sticky black vinegar lamb ribs with pomegranate and herbs for $32, or a Vietnamese coconut chicken curry with chilli salt and baguette for $29.

Elsewhere on the Madame Hanoi menu are Vietnamese sugar sirloin with pickled chillies and lime juice, plus a beef cheek curry.

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Madame Hanoi in Adelaide, South Australia. Photo courtesy of the South Australian Tourism Commission.

Beers and cocktails at Madame Hanoi, Adelaide

The emphasis at Madame Hanoi in Adelaide isn’t entirely on the food, however. There’s a cracking range of tap beers, including the Pirate Life IPA from Adelaide, Mismatch Session Ale from the Adelaide Hills and the Stone and Wood Pacific Ale from Byron Bay.

The cocktail menu has the odd nod to Vietnam, too. Options include the Vietnamese G&T with Settlers coriander gin, Fever Tree Mediterranean burnt orange tonic and kaffir lime.

The Plum Margarita comes with El Jimador tequila, Choya Umeshu, Vietnamese mint and lime. And the Mekong Flow is made with West Winds Gin, passionfruit, orange juice, Thai basil and lime.

For the full Madame Hanoi menu and restaurant bookings, visit the Skycity website.

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