Cuisine
Open
Lunch & Dinner dailyFeatures
- Heart-healthy dishes
- Kid-friendly
- Parking lot
- Casual
- Take-out available
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Saigon 1 Restaurant Review: Even if you don’t know how to properly pronounce “pho,” you’ll like slurping down the filling, restorative soup at this family-friendly, ultra-casual Vietnamese restaurant. Bowls come in a wide variety, from redolent beef broth with sliced eye-of-round and flank, to soothing chicken broth with white meat. But all contain skeins of snow-white vermicelli noodles and are accompanied by a plate piled with basil, bean sprouts, chili and lime for you to doctor the soup to your taste. Another must-eat dish, the Saigon pancake, is a crisp crêpe (looking like a leviathan clam shell) crammed with shrimp, pork, sprouts, artfully carved cucumbers and grated carrots that you wrap in lettuce and devour at once, so heady is the flavor. Bánh mi (sandwiches) and vegetarian dishes, including tofu delight salad, score high marks, too, and while everything is a tasty bargain, perhaps the three-course specials, such as grilled lemon grass shrimp or stir-fried chicken with ginger that come with soup as well as a crispy roll or fresher-than-springtime spring roll and rice, are the best value of all. |
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