Jasmine and pandan soft serve At the newest Baoguette location on St. Mark's Place, the banh mi and Vietnamese soup speckled menu features a rather exciting dessert selection of, get ready for it, soft serve. Current flavors include jasmine...
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Bamn, now the home of banh mi shop Baoguette, may be gone (I reviewed their burger before the swap), but the spirit lives on—at least in the cash register. Look at the receipt from a fine meal I had...
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Photographs by Robyn Lee Last night, 56 restaurants downsized into table form, dispensing bites of signature goodies inside the Lexington Avenue Armory for Village Voice's 2nd annual Choice Eats. Boy, were there a lot of bodies in there. So...
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First it was Murray Hill, then an East Village branch coming soon, and now a third Baoguette in the West Village (at 120 Christopher Street) by mid-April. In addition to the familiar banh mi sandwiches, the back will sell pho...
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The "classic" at Baoguette: house-made pork pate, house-made terrine, and thin slices of house-roasted pork belly The staff of Blackbook really likes the banh mi sandwicherie Baoguette; they really do. As broke magazine staffers, they love the $5 sustenance....
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The sandwich gods were not with me last night. I was curious to try out some more offerings from the newly opened Defonte's, but my arrival, half an hour before their posted closing time of 8 p.m., was greeted...
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banh mi (the word itself means
baguette in Vietnamese) is essentially an Asian hero sandwich. The classic is filled with pâté, slices of what can only be described as pork loaf, pickled vegetables, fresh coriander, jalapeño slices. It's dressed with fish sauce, mayo, and hot sauce (usually Sriracha) and served on a warmed baguette. Could the chef-driven banh mi shop be a rising trend?
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