"The menu of this handsome, modernistic spot — something like a deep cave with an open kitchen — on Astoria’s rollicking Broadway plays fast and loose with conventional dishes as it reinvents them. District Saigon offers a version of pho with barbecue-style smoked brisket, to which one may add things like beef balls and tendon. The broth is pleasantly simple and transparent, the noodles delicate and firm. Chicken pho is great, too." - Robert Sietsema