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Bánh Mì Saigon Bakery

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“Chinatown storefront home to some of the city's best Vietnamese sandwiches” nymag

Cuisine:  Vietnamese
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The "Saigon pork" banh mi, spicy ($3.25), with roast pork, pork pate, carrot, daikon, cucumber. The baguette might have been just a wee bit more pliable; the fillings made their own po... Read More
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Long one of the city’s best-known bánh mì shops, Bánh Mì Saigon Bakery (fondly referred to by many simply as ‘Saigon’ or ‘BSMB’) is an object lesson in hedging bets, retail-style. The rear of the Mott Street shop is taken up by its deli sandwich business, with all the coolers and... Read More
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138 mott b/t grand & hester if i had thought ahead of time to make more nuanced variants of “recommended,” banh mi saigon bakery would have been in the “highly recommended”, “most delicious food”, and “best bargain” categories. my sister was totally right when she said, “it’s 25 cents more, but ... Read More
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Banh Mi Saigon Bakery is a delightful, spare deli-looking Vietnamese restaurant, really more a takeout counter with a few benches nearby, near the corner of Mott and Hester Streets in Chinatown. In a notable bit of space-saving bricolage, the bakery is simply square at the end of a small corridor ... Read More
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Pardon the tear stains on this photo.Photo: Daniel Maurer As if losing the bánh mì counter in the Tú Quynm Pharmacy wasn’t bad enough, there’s still more reason to worry about the state of the Vietnamese sandwich, an institution that Jonathan Lethem told us is “as vital to keeping wo... Read More
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We've got some damn tasty sandwiches in this city, no doubt about it. So today the Times gives New Yorkers a collective pat on the back, surveying seven high points in our spectacular sandwich landscape, including Taim's green falafel, the Knish Press (a sandwich composed in a split knish) from Pres... Read More
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Calvin Trillin in blue, on his "Come Hungry" eating tour for the New Yorker Festival. The fine folks at the New Yorker were kind enough to let us stroll lower Manhattan with the one and only Calvin Trillin last Sunday, as part of their annual New Yorker Festival. Trillin's walking tour... Read More
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I may be too excited to type out this post.  Sushi.  On conveyor belts.  In Midtown.  Oh my lord,  my prayers have been answered.  No, not the one where David Chang starts serving Korean burritos out of a cart on 49th St. & 6th Ave,  or the one where Saigon Banh Mi opens a Midtown branch, ... Read More
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New York Magazine released its Cheap Eats issue this week, complete with a specific five-star system unique to the Cheap Eats list. The stars are explained as follows: To the usual system of measures, we’re adding another, one we call the FWII Factor (For What It Is). Hereby, a frank is judged on i... Read More
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