Bek Cafe Restaurant and Dessert Hawthorn

Hawthorn cafe layering Vietnamese classics like bun cha with Korean and Japanese dishes.

Bright, plant-filled corner cafe under a new apartment block. casual for brunch and coffee by day, warmer and dinner-party ready by night for birthdays and group catch-ups.

An open kitchen for the udon station, a huge photo-menu spanning Vietnamese, Korean, Thai, Chinese and Japanese dishes, and oversized speciality drinks like the Giant Viet Coffee.

Vietnamese dishes read as genuinely authentic to reviewers with Hanoi ties (bun cha and eel glass noodle draw particular praise), layered with a broader Asian-fusion menu leaning into Korean and Thai flavours.

Generous portions at moderate prices ($16-21 mains, $10 speciality drinks). most reviewers call it great value, though a couple felt smaller dishes were thin for the price.

Summary drafted with AI from public reviews.