Serves meat, vegan options available. Vietnamese food menu with vegetarian dishes highlighted, and there are several vegan suitable dishes like tofu vegetable rice noodle soup, rolls, and vege chicken sandwich. Fruit salad dessert and smoothies.
Category: Beer/Wine, Take-out, Vietnamese, Non-veg
Reviews (7)
First Review by jamalex
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desappointed - Edit
The vegan egg rolls are really good. But we ordered a vegan chicken sandwich and here come the issues:
1) It comes with a soup in a vegan menu but it's actually a very salted chicken broth
2) there was some buttery spread on the bread so we ask if it was butter and we were told that the chicken comes already prepared but they did not know if it was prepared with butter... interesting... and we never had the answer about the spread on the bread
Conclusion: serious doubts about the vegan accuracy of the items we ordered
Pros: egg rolls are a favorite
Cons: indetermined buttery spread in vegan sandwich, vegan menu comes with chicken broth
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Vegan Tofu Pho and Egg Rolls - Edit
We ordered take-out. The egg rolls were delicious-greasy, fried as you would expect. The pho was disappointing. It was very bland. The tofu tasted like the grease it was fried in, no flavor at all. I would not recommend, even if you have a hankering for pho and there is no where else around. The vegan dishes are definitely not their specialty.
Pros: Quick
Cons: Bland , Expensive
Contributions +96
open 11:00AM - 11:00PM, seven days. - Edit
just reporting hours, as requested.
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Vegan Eggroll Enough Said - Edit
I actually love their vegan Pho and the egg rolls are my favorite. Still one of my fav restaurants.
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Yes, in a pinch - Edit
I love pho, but I must say that a healthy vegan would not go to this place all of the time. It would need to be more nourishing, more grounded food. It's nice to try it once or if there is nothing else or you have a hankering for pho.
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In a Pinch or the mixed diet crowd..... - Edit
Not bad. I'm harsh and non committal on any non veg restaurants - but alas - am sometimes in mixed company (omni/carni) and must eat somewhere that isn't veg. I'll only do this now when someone else is paying. Anyhoo - on to the review :)
I've passed by this place a thousand times - finally went when my dates carni brother was in town and refused to eat at a veg spot. They had 10 vegan items on a 75 item menu. I went for the Ga Chay and Rice (Vegan chicken), while my sweets had the Pho Tofu. There was nothing to spectacular about either of our dishes, except they were the only ones in the restaurant that didn't smell disgusting. Price was worth it for the portion size, and truthfully, I did like the chicken (vegan) though it wasn't the best veg chick I've had. My sweets Tofu was typical meat restaurant tofu - a little too puffy, too soft and too lacking in flavor. Her veggies that came with it were mediocre but typical for a non organic restaurant. All in all a good experience for a mixed eating crowd. The 2 carnivores in the group raved about their dishes - so in a pinch - I would recommend for those with meat eaters if you can't talk them into one of the many area veg restaurants.
We fed 4 and all had enough to eat and drink for $57 plus tip - not bad. If I ever go back I will most likely try the Chay (vegetarian) Sandwich.
Also have soymilk, teas, coconut milk and fresh juices.
Pros: a few good vegan items, nice fresh drink selection, good pricing
Cons: Lots of meat items around, Smelly meat everywhere, only 10 out of 80 items veg
Contributions +118
Bad experience - Edit
I came here a couple times, and the food was decent, and it's nice that they have veggie items marked on the menu, but unfortunately I no longer trust them to know (or care) about what this means. Both times I ordered the vegetarian Banh Mi (sandwich), which automatically comes with soup, but the second time, I asked about the soup, and was told that it was chicken soup (even though they have a vegetarian soup on the menu as well). I asked if I could have it with the vegetarian soup instead (trying to forget the fact that I had eaten the soup the previous time), and the waiter went and talked to the manager, and then came back and apologized and said that they can't really do that (...?) but that they could make an exception just this time. Automatically serving chicken soup with an explicitly vegetarian sandwich was bad enough (since most people wouldn't bother to ask), but not even being willing to change this to vegetarian broth when asked (or understanding why this might make sense) meant that I've never wanted to go back.
Cons: Not as veggie-friendly as they appear, Unreasonable
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