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• Delicious food but you have to eat fast!

I went to Mémoires d'Indochine a couple times this year. It's a pretty hip Vietnamese/Laotian restaurant with a lot of success - the place is not very big, but always full. Apparently they used to have a vegetarian menu, which they reworked recently to make it completely vegan. Right now it consists of two appetizers and four main dishes. I didn't ask about the desserts, they look like they might be vegan (or made so) but it's not stated on the dessert menu. If you are vegan, you have a choice between a rice noodle and tofu soup, a red curry tofu and rice dish, vegetable and tofu skewers and sliced spring rolls on rice noodles. The good news is that I tasted all of these and they are all delicious! Even my omnivore inlaws loved their vegan dishes. The menu doesn't have a lot of different items (vegan or not, the menu isn't huge), which means that the service is pretty fast. The downside to this is that you can sometimes feel like you are pushed out the door. In my experience it's fine during the week, but if you go there on a Saturday night without a reservation, the staff will make you feel like you have to hurry up and free the table. If you take a bit longer than average to eat, you might be the only one on the table who still has a plate. The stools you sit on (instead of chairs) reinforce this impression. You're here to eat and leave, not spend the whole evening in the restaurant. Overall the food is really delicious, but I recommend avoiding going there during the week instead of the weekend, especially if you don't have a reservation!