Entries tagged with 'banh mi'
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Momofuku's Tien Ho may be the best chef in New York that you've never heard of. That's going to change with Má Pêche, the company's first foray into Midtown. Chomping at the bit, waiting for the dining room renovations to be completed, Ho serving lunch in a sort of makeshift restaurant in the mezzanine lounge of the hotel last Thursday. And we liked what we tasted.
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[Photos: Joe DiStefano] Queens offers every kind of Asian food: Indian, Indonesian, Korean, Thai, and a plethora of regional Chinese. The void in this wonderland of ethnic eats has always been the bánh mì, or Vietnamese sandwich. This is...
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"Perhaps there's a reason banh mi was spelled wrong." [Photos: Tia Kim] It seems the Banh Mi craze has finally reached Terroir, the tiny wine bar in the East Village that Ed reviewed early last year. This weekend, I was...
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Featuring assorted banh mi tastings. Photograph by LUNCH Coming up Saturday: HAY QUA's festival of creatives. Hobnob with Vietnamese American artists, designers, performers, and filmmakers while plowing through a tasting of some of the city's best banh mi. Discuss...
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"I've only eaten goat brain once before and it was nothing like this." Last week I stopped by Fatty Crab's new Upper West Side digs to see what Zak Pelaccio and his crew have been cooking up. In addition to...
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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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Here's Tam's take and my take on the sandwiches from Ba Xuyen in Borough Park, Brooklyn. It's a "He Said, She Said" kind of a thing in which the "he" is a food-pleasure-seeking white guy and the "she" is a smart, passionate, Vietnamese-American lawyer who moonlights as a food obsessive.
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Yesterday, a sign was posted on the windows of less-than-a-month-old Hanco's in Park Slope: "Effective today, all sandwiches are $6.50." Originally, they were $7 but said too many people were complaining. "We want to say here, so we needed...
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"In a city of bad Vietnamese food, the ambitious Bep has carved itself a niche." Cha gio. All photographs by Tam Ngo The failings of New York's Viet restaurants usually occur in a combination of three ways: poor quality of...
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