Flavorful vegan Vietnamese cuisine including pho, noodles, and pastries
"The Deal: $4 Montucky Lager Cans, $8.50 Wines, $7-$11 Cocktails, Discounted Snacks One of the best Vietnamese spots in town has a separate drink and food menu for happy hour, which involves their fish sauce caramel wings, sausage sliders with hoisin mayo, and crispy imperial rolls. Just note that you need to spend $6 per person on drinks to get the marked-down food." - aimee rizzo, gabe guarente
"When you find yourself at Ba Bar, go ahead and fork over a few extra dollars for one of the finest bowls of pho in town. The menu goes way beyond soup, though. Bun bowls with vermicelli noodles are popular, as are slow-roasted rotisserie meats such as chicken, duck, and pork belly. Ba Bar’s pastries include macarons and pandan cake — perfect with a cup of strong, sweet Vietnamese coffee. For Seattle’s original upscale Vietnamese experience, diners can also head to Monsoon — Ba Bar’s big sibling restaurant, opened by co-owners (and siblings themselves) Eric and Sophie Banh in 1999 — where drunken chicken, catfish clay pot, and banana cake are among the hits." - Jay Friedman
"Three Ba Bar locations offer a wide variety of noodles, including some of the best pho in town. In fact, it’s one of the only places in town that offers both southern and northern-style pho—the northern (Ha Noi) style coming complete with a savory donut known as dau chao quay. Ba Bar prides itself on using high quality ingredients, such as Draper Valley Farms chicken in its popular pho ga, with a pho ga tron version available where the broth comes on the side." - Jay Friedman
"Three Ba Bar locations offer a wide variety of noodles, including wheat noodles, soup noodles, and bun (rice vermicelli) bowls. The bun bo hue and mì vịt tiem are excellent choices, but this is the place to come for some of the highest quality pho in town." - Jay Friedman
"Eric and Sophie Banh’s Ba Bar, with locations in South Lake Union, University Village, and Capitol Hill, serves some of the most satisfying Vietnamese food and cocktails in the city, including Vietnamese-style wings. The gluten-free batter crunches loudly, the sauce is sticky with caramelized sugar, and a dip in the accompanying nuoc cham adds a funky, tangy finish." - Eater Staff