Bryan V.
Yelp
We came here at the new location, never had a chance to visit the old location by Talin market. It is still pretty close from the old location.
It really isn't in a safe part of town as you'll see lot of homeless people in the area walking around.
Location aside, everything is great. Nice modern and clean looking interior and the menus on the walls are pretty self explanatory.
We ordered 2 sandwiches, 1 iced coffee, and a pork pate chaud and it ran a little over $30.
Girlfriend ordered beef lemon grass, which i didn't taste, but she said it was good. I had the grilled chicken which was good.
The Vietnamese ice coffee was too strong for my girlfriend, she wanted it less sweet, but it's batch made so the put less ice to counter it. For reference, we like Lee's ice coffee from the bay area, which is on the sweeter side. Even if it wasn't less ice, I think it would be too strong, even for me. But this is strong bitterish coffee as Vietnamese coffee should be.
The bread is what makes the sandwiches though, very good texture and the right amount of soft crunch which is ideal for me and you know the bread is fresh.
The pate chaud was really good, the pastry had the perfect amount of flakiness and the filling was on point from what I'm use to. I would say it's the best I've had in a long while and the best compared to all I've had in the Phoenix AZ metro area which I moved from last year. I would come back for these 100%.
Overall it's the best banh mi I've had in the ABQ area. We will be back when ever we are close by. Would recommend it to anyone, but just be aware it isn't in the best area since there is a lot of transient people loitering around.
Which there was one on the west side!