Ba Bar Green
Vegan restaurant · South Lake Union ·
Pho, vermicelli bowls, rotisserie meats, pastries, cocktails
Pho, vermicelli bowls, rotisserie meats, pastries, cocktails
"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
"If you wanted somewhere to hang out with brisket phở and a gin and rhubarb syrup-spiked cava while listening to jazzy music in moody darkness, that’s a very specific request, but it can be a reality at Ba Bar. This spot is both relaxed yet energetic enough that on a Saturday night, one round quickly turns to two. Order crunchy pork-stuffed imperial rolls and chicken wings for the table, but keep the phở tái nạm with comforting cinnamon-forward broth all for yourself." - aimee rizzo, lidiya belete, kayla sager riley
"Your Order: Sài Gòn Chicken Salad This Central District spot is a Vietnamese classic, and we’re huge fans of their newest salad. The Sài Gòn chicken salad is an open-house party of crunch, between crisp cabbage, roasted peanuts, and fried shallots. To freshen it up, there’s mint and rau răm, which flavors the steamed chicken brilliantly along with nước chấm vinaigrette. It’s an ideally engineered bite of cold stuff before the phở hits the table." - 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