Mr. Baguette, Challenger To Lee's Sandwiches, Opens in Little Saigon

March saw a lot of openings. More poke, more ramen, and a challenger to the Lee's Sandwiches empire. What follows is our monthly roll call of open-and-shut cases we wrote about in the past thirty days on this thing we call a food blog. ]...

Banh mi are essential to Los Angeles, as embedded in the culinary landscape as tortas, shawarma, French dips, subs, hot chicken and Langer’s No. 19. The snap and sting of pickled carrots, daikon and chiles mingle with splintering bread, unctuous...

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   

There’s a certain cynicism that a restaurant invites when it grows up and starts franchising. It’s almost as if having street cred and being a successful chain are mutually exclusive—you can’t be both. Not even our own OC-bred surfer den, Wahoo’s...

Nowhere else will you find xiu mai bánh mì. Photo by Edwin Goei Decades ago, I discovered the foodstuff that has made me return to Little Saigon week after week: the bánh mì sandwich. It is nothing short of a miracle. And I’m not being hyperbolic...

Nowhere else will you find xiu mai bánh mì. Photo by Edwin Goei Decades ago, I discovered the foodstuff that has made me return to Little Saigon week after week: the bánh mì sandwich. It is nothing short of a miracle. And I’m not being hyperbolic...