Mr. Baguette

endearing touch. 2479 E. Florence Ave., Huntington Park, (323) 553-1710, thelosangelesbanhmico.com Banh mi (and springtime bloom) outside Mr. Baguette in Rosemead. (Bill Addison / Los Angeles Times) Mr. Baguette As the name of this small local chain implies

) 288-9166, and other locations, mrbaguettes.com The #1, or Special, from Mr. Baguette in Rosemead. (Bill Addison / Los Angeles Times) Saigon’s Bakery / Banh Mi Saigon On a recent banh mi blitz through Orange County’s Little Saigon, this double-named

Banh Mi My Tho    Banh Oui    Banh Mi Saigon 168    Gjusta    The Los Angeles Banh Mi Company    Mr. Baguette    Saigon's Bakery / Banh Mi Saigon    Saigon's Bakery & Sandwiches   

If Lee's Sandwiches is the McDonald's of banh mi, Mr. Baguette would be its Burger King. That is, if Burger King only did business in San Gabriel Valley and didn't expand to more than three branches. But let's rewind 11 years when Pulitzer Prize

-winning food critic Jonathan Gold wrote a review comparing Mr. Baguette to Lee's and concluded that despite replicating “the Lee's formula down to the menu boards and the video screens” it makes “its own high-quality charcuterie — ham and headcheese and

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