Phở Bà Tâm
Northern-style phở, fourteen-hour beef broth, same corner since 1998.
4.8(1,204)·1.2 mi·25–35 min·Since 1998
$38.73 all in for two
San Jose, California
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Charcoal grill out the back, running from eleven until the chops run out.
4.6(913)·1.8 mi·25–40 min·Since 2009
$41.05 all in for two
Bún Bò Hương Giang
Central Vietnamese. Lemongrass, chili oil and shrimp paste in the broth, as it should be.
4.7(528)·1.5 mi·25–40 min·Since 2011
$43.36 all in for two
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One pan, one cook, one dish done properly. Opens at four in the afternoon.
4.9(187)·3.4 mi·35–50 min·Since 2019
$22.36 all in for two
Bánh Mì Ba Lành
Bakes its own baguettes twice a day. Cash-only for twenty years, card since March.
4.9(786)·0.6 mi·15–25 min·Since 2004
$26.15 all in for two
Opens tomorrow 6:30am · order ahead
Hủ Tiếu Sáu Điền
Clear pork broth from six in the morning. Order it dry if you are more than ten minutes away.
4.4(1,042)·2.4 mi·25–40 min·Since 2002
$30.13 all in for two
Opens tomorrow 6am · order ahead
Little Saigon · since 1998
Mrs. Tâm has made this broth on the same corner since 1998.
She starts the pot at four in the afternoon for the next morning — beef bones blanched twice, charred ginger and onion, star anise and cassia tied in cloth so nothing clouds the broth. The restaurant is nine feet wide. There is one table inside and four plastic stools on the pavement, and by eleven in the morning the pot is half gone. She has never advertised. Everyone within a mile already knows.
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Four dishes that tell you most of what the cuisine does: a clear broth, a sandwich, a grilled rice plate and a cold noodle bowl. Written by us, not generated.
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