"Sesame Dinette, a tiny cafe just off PCH with a big menu of Vietnamese dishes, is where we head for pho in Long Beach. The white-walled space looks like a chic coffee shop that doubles as an art gallery, and there are several wooden picnic tables inside where you can eat bowls of chicken, beef, or oxtail pho with a gingerade tonic or housemade shrub. There's even a vegetarian "duck" noodle soup if you're keeping it meatless. And though it might not technically be pho without rice noodles, the best pho-adjacent item here might be the pho brisket dip, a beef sandwich on barbari flatbread that comes with a sidecar of concentrated broth on the side for dunking. " - nikko duren, brant cox, garrett snyder, sylvio martins
Sesame Dinette