Best Restaurants in Concord and Pleasant Hill | Eater SF

"With detailed instructions on their website for how to find them inside the Rockin’ Crawfish location in Concord, Spicy Joi’s leads you straight to the Lao street food of your dreams. Plump, juicy, handmade Lao sausages—filled with pork, aromatics, and herbs—are grilled and served with purple sticky rice. The sausages come with a choice of dipping sauces—jeo som (sweet and sour) or the signature spicy jeo makphet (roasted pepper). Do yourself a favor and get both. The nam khao (crispy rice salad with handmade cured pork) is fresh and herbaceous, with tons of texture from the rice, peanuts, shallots, lettuce, and morsels of handmade cured pork and pork skin. Though the menu is meat-centric (with dishes like Ultimate Bomb Platter for Meat Lovers), vegetarians will find plenty here. The grill lemongrass tofu banh mi is a must-order of crispy, savory, bronzed rectangles of tofu, tucked inside toasted-to-order bread, garnished with a generous portion of pickled carrots, daikon, cilantro, and jalapeno. Spicy Joi’s shares a small outdoor dining area with Rockin’ Crawfish, with a few tables available." - Rebecca Shea