| |  | Saigon Grill | | | “There's no decor to speak of, except for the fake banana and coconut trees, but the restaurant offers a quick meal of intricately seasoned Vietnamese dishes.” —nymag | | Cuisine: Vietnamese |
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| | | | | | SAIGON GRILL 620 Amsterdam AvenueNew York, NY 10024(212) 875-9072 I'm always on the lookout for a new restaurant. And the more famous the restaurant, the more likely it is that someone will actually bother to read this digital rag. So along comes Mr. Dogz with Saigon Grill. While some places, lik... Read More | | | | | | Expanding Across NYC, Saigon Continues To Get It Right With football season almost here, I broke down and made a pot of chicken and okra gumbo over the weekend. I know, it’s still 80 degrees outside my door on Central Park, but I can’t help myself. Somehow I think that eating a bowl of gumbo will... Read More | | | | | | It may not offer the specialties you can find at some downtown Vietnamese restaurants, but what Saigon Grill does it generally does quite well. Three standards: goi du du (shredded green papay... Read More | | | | | | In a planned demonstration reminiscent of sixties campus radicalism, at least 100 students citywide are expected to stage a protest shortly after 5 p.m. today in front of the trendy Saigon Grill on University Place. The demonstration is a statement against the lockout of some 33 delivery workers who... Read More | | | | | | The owners of Saigon Grill were arrested this morning and charged with hundreds of counts of falsifying records and tampering with evidence, City Room reports. A federal judge awarded former Saigon Grill employees $4.6 million last month; after employees filed a labor suit against owners Simon and ... Read More | | | | | | The National Labor Relations Board ruling last week that the owner of Saigon Grill, Simon Nget, must rehire the workers he fired seemed to signify a resolution to a chapter of protests targeting a variety of Manhattan eateries over the past year. Disputes over wages and working conditions for delive... Read More | | | | | | Photo: Alec AppelbaumThirty-six current and former employees who sued Saigon Grill for violating wage laws won a $4.6 million judgment today, according to a release sent to us by their legal firm, Davis Polk & Wardwell. Not only that, but the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ne... Read More | | | | | | The universe of restaurant delivery workers is murky at best. Mostly we leave it there for fear that a new set of regulations and labor laws could, like this insane Department of Health crack-down, cut us off from our go-to delivery joints. Let be honest: New York without food delivery is a frig... Read More | | | | | | It’s not just Daniel Boulud with labor troubles these days: The humble Saigon Grill on the Upper West Side faced 75 demonstrators earlier today after the owner locked out 22 deliverymen Friday night. (The workers had refused to sign away their right to sue for wages they claim they’re owed.) Get the... Read More | | | | | | This is what I call Anglo-Saigon dish. Not my favorite but will do when in a hurry or on a budget. Read More | | | |
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