Quan Cat Ba Family

Crowd

• Guests are mostly people travelling to Cát Bà, many of them foreigners. The venue has an owner-managed TripAdvisor profile named 'Quan Cat Ba Family', with the latest review dated 21 Sep 2025. According to Google's popular-times chart, the venue is busiest at dinner, 18–20h, with a small peak at lunch.

Planning

• The venue is open 08:00–21:00 all seven days according to the Google Maps hours table, TripAdvisor and two guides. Google's visit chart has data for all seven days. No official source gives a day-by-day schedule, and one 2024 source gives the closing time as 21:30, so call ahead if you want to arrive after 20:30. Seafood sold by weight has no price printed on the menu, so ask the price before it is weighed: one guest recorded 1 lobster and 1 kg of shrimp costing 1.8 million VND, while the amount guests commonly report is 100,000–200,000 VND per person. A few old blog posts still give the number 195 đường 1/4. That is the venue's old location; it is now at number 180, and the signboard shows this house number in photos taken 2023–2026.

Atmosphere

• A seafood restaurant run by a family, at 180 đường Một Tháng Tư, the central street of Cát Bà town facing the bay, near the moored-boat area. Guests sit indoors or at a row of tables covered with black-and-white check cloths on the pavement. The sea view from the seats is now blocked by a building on the shore.

Popular for

• Mantis shrimp (bề bề) and grilled oysters with scallion oil are the two dishes guests mention most. The list of standout dishes that Google compiles from reviews includes mantis shrimp (tôm tít), oysters, steamed clams, hotpot and fried rice, and the photos guests posted on Google in 2025–2026 are mostly mantis shrimp, oysters, clams, crab and hotpot. The way to eat here is to pick live seafood from the tank and let the venue weigh and cook it.

Dining options

• In front is a row of glass tanks of live seafood, with a scale. Tu hài, bàn mai, blood cockles, hairy cockles, spiral babylon snails, egg squid and tube squid are priced per kg. Cooked dishes are priced per plate: shrimp and mantis shrimp 200,000–250,000 VND (salt-roasted mantis shrimp and tamarind-sauce mantis shrimp 250,000 VND), squid 250,000 VND, hotpot 300,000–500,000 VND (mantis shrimp hotpot 400,000 VND, seafood hotpot 500,000 VND), fried rice 50,000–100,000 VND, vegetables 40,000–60,000 VND, beer 20,000–30,000 VND (same menu).

Service options

• Table booking via Zalo 0986 590 318 (official fanpage). The venue offers dine-in, takeaway and outdoor seating. The payment methods are not yet confirmed by any official source.