{"id":35417,"date":"2025-04-20T11:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T11:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/35417\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T11:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T11:03:14","slug":"top-birmingham-restaurant-forced-into-major-change-due-to-ongoing-price-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/35417\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Birmingham restaurant forced into major change due to &#8216;ongoing price hikes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eat Vietnam announced it would be cutting its hours on the same day it was shortlisted for an award<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20241003_182824.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Eat Vietnam is on Pershore Road in Stirchley<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A Stirchley restaurant renowned as being one of the best in the city has announced it will be cutting its opening hours &#8216;to help ease the pressure&#8217; caused by &#8216;ongoing price hikes&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Eat Vietnam announced that it would be closing on Mondays for the next four weeks while it works to fight the growing impact of price hikes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The news comes after April rises in National Living Wage and National Insurance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Read more: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/whats-on\/food-drink-news\/cast-your-vote-search-best-31379891\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Cast your vote as we search for the &#039;Best Cafe in Birmingham 2025&#039;Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Cast your vote as we search for the &#8216;Best Cafe in Birmingham 2025&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Sign up to the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/data.reachplc.com\/230101373912847\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Brum Food Club for weekly updatesLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Brum Food Club for weekly updates<\/a> on our hospitality scene.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A fellow independent restaurant in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/kings-heath-and-stirchley\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Stirchley<\/a>, Greidy Street, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/whats-on\/food-drink-news\/epic-birmingham-restaurant-hikes-prices-31349473\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"outlined last week how they were &#039;dodging the final nail in the coffin&#039;Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">outlined last week how they were &#8216;dodging the final nail in the coffin&#8217;<\/a> by pushing prices up, adding that it had seen price hikes across meat, beer and packaging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Eat Vietnam opened in Stirchley in 2019 and has built up a reputation as being one of the finest restaurants in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The Vietnamese eatery was shortlisted for Best Pan Asian Restaurant in the Deliveroo Restaurant Awards 2025 on the same day it announced cuts to its hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">In a post online, the restaurant wrote: &#8220;Mondays off due to the ongoing price hikes impacting our business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We&#8217;ve decided to consolidate our workforce and hours to help ease the pressure. 14th, 21st, 28th and 5th off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Working Tuesday to Saturday usual hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Apologies in advance. We will look at this again in a month&#8217;s time and make adjustments as needed for the summer season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Hospitality businesses across the region have been speaking on how price hikes are impacting their business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">When Michelin Guide <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/whats-on\/food-drink-news\/birmingham-restaurant-only-one-uk-31405041\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Indian restaurant Asha&#039;s announced it had been given an awardLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Indian restaurant Asha&#8217;s announced it had been given an award<\/a> from the Indian government last week, general manager Nouman Farooqui told BirminghamLive that Asha&#8217;s was also &#8216;struggling&#8217; under the pressure of rising costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He said that despite the visits from top celebrities and the global acknowledgement for their work representing Indian flavours in Britain, things were &#8216;tough&#8217;. <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/whats-on\/food-drink-news\/birmingham-restaurant-only-one-uk-31405041\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Click here to readLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read<\/a> the full interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eat Vietnam announced it would be cutting its hours on the same day it was shortlisted for an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,10314,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-35417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-restaurants","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114369960715129573","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}