Review: East Borough offers artful mash-up of Vietnamese dishes

Counter Intelligence: Jonathan Gold reviews East Borough in Culver City, a Vietnamese bistro with tasty mash-ups of familiar dishes.
Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2014
If we graded like art school professors around here, and sometimes it seems as if we do, the pho baguette at East Borough could well be the dish of the year — a mash-up between bánh mì, pho and French dip, like a demented cronut of the sandwich...
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