Zaab Street Food - Canberra

Serving up Lao-Thai street food, this Lonsdale Street restaurant has plenty of personality. There’s banging beats, displays of Asian Red Bull, lots of delicious-smelling share plates and even a guy playing the trumpet. eatplaylovetravel.com.au

This initially promissed so much. The ability to reminisce over trips to south east asia and the wonderful street food which draws Australians so readily. Zaab promissed at lot.. it however did not deliver. The decor, although highlighted with such familiar brand names as Singha,Tiger, Beer Lao and Chang to give authenticity are sparse in application. Service was slow. Portion sizing small. The dished themselves were underwhelming relying heavely on chilli to mask poor performance in balancing flavors. Even the cheapest of Balanise street stalls had more flavourful dishes. Then the price.. where $5 gets you meal in south east asia, Zaab will ask much more and give nowhere near the same in return. That Bintang you drank in Bali at effectivly $1AUS a bottle is $8.50 at Zaab! Zaab needs to rethink their menu, emulate more closely the street food its modeling off and embrace more deeply the decor of the regions its borrowing so much from...Pick up your game Zaab or make way for someone who can do what your trying to.

This initially promissed so much. The ability to reminisce over trips to south east asia and the wonderful street food which draws Australians so readily. Zaab promissed at lot.. it however did not deliver. The decor, although highlighted with such familiar brand names as Singha,Tiger, Beer Lao and Chang to give authenticity are sparse in application. Service was slow. Portion sizing small. The dished themselves were underwhelming relying heavely on chilli to mask poor performance in balancing flavors. Even the cheapest of Balanise street stalls had more flavourful dishes. Then the price.. where $5 gets you meal in south east asia, Zaab will ask much more and give nowhere near the same in return. That Bintang you drank in Bali at effectivly $1AUS a bottle is $8.50 at Zaab! Zaab needs to rethink their menu, emulate more closely the street food its modeling off and embrace more deeply the decor of the regions its borrowing so much from...Pick up your game Zaab... read more

Very impressed by this outlet. I don't normally give 5s but this restaurant deserves it. You can book the table via Qantas to earn 100 points per diner booked. We booked a table for 4, but they went out of their way to upgrade out table to something larger. Very good selection of drinks, decor done beautifully. Food is amazing. Excellent blend of flavours and using fresh ingredients. Highly recommend

We stumbled upon this restaurant whilst on holiday from the Gold Coast. We ordered the $49 feed me option and could not have been happier. It was busy so we were sat at the bar, the service was exceptional and the main bar tender kept us very entertained; the cocktails were also delicious. It is up there with the best south-east Asian style food we have ever had! One of the comments below mentioned the $49 banquet was not good value for money, the only explanation I could possibly see is that they either left before the remainder of their meal came out (we did have a bit of a wait between servings as they were really busy) OR that the restaurant was still finding its feet as it has been opened for less than a year. I can assure you they have definitely worked it out now - we could barely finish all of the food. I will honestly return to Canberra just for a night out to Zaab.