Thien An Sandwiches
Vietnamese restaurant · Midtown
2611 San Jacinto St, Houston, TX 77004
Highlights
Thien An serves up giant, crispy bánh xèo, classic phở, and spot-on bánh mì in a bustling, family-run Midtown spot with speedy service.
Thien An serves up giant, crispy bánh xèo, classic phở, and spot-on bánh mì in a bustling, family-run Midtown spot with speedy service.
"For hardworking Capricorns, nothing is more annoying than having their time wasted. Thíên Ân is a reliable spot worth the money and their precious workday lunch hour. Order the massive goi vit salad with roasted duck and ginger fish sauce, one of the few dishes that can draw a Capricorn away from their desk. Thíên Ân makes for a great power lunch to impress colleagues casually or as takeout when the goats need to run through their business proposal for the 30th time." - gianni greene, chelsea thomas
"Thíên Ân Sandwiches in Midtown is a dependable spot for a quick lunch, basically Houston’s version of a Vietnamese diner. It’s the kind of no-nonsense, family-run place you immediately understand and feel comfortable in. All the food, from the banh mi to the phở, is solid, and everything arrives fresh and fast. One dish you’ll likely see on every table is the massive, golden bánh xèo, a wok-sized crepe stuffed with pork, shrimp, and bean sprouts that comes with fish sauce for dunking. While it’s big enough to share, you can also tackle one alone if you have some feelings to work out. You should also order the gỏi vịt—a giant salad of tender roast duck, shredded cabbage, and electric ginger fish sauce. What to order: bánh xèo, gỏi vịt" - chelsea thomas
"There’s no better place in Midtown to get a filling, casual lunch than Thien An Sandwiches. It’s a no-nonsense Vietnamese diner that serves a little bit of everything. The best dishes to order here are bánh xeo and gỏi vịt—for $12.99 and $17.50 respectively, you will eat like a newly minted oil tycoon. The wok-sized, golden bánh xeo crepe is full of pork, shrimp, and bean sprouts and comes with tangy fish sauce that inspires avid dunking. As for the gỏi vịt, it comes packed with fresh herbs over a flotilla of cabbage, and crowned with chopped roasted duck. These two dishes will easily feed you for two days, if not more, and stay crispy and fresh the entire time. We think of them as an homage to the notion that everything is bigger in Texas, except, hopefully, the price." - chelsea thomas, gianni greene
"Houston’s de facto Vietnamese diner, Thíên Ân Sandwiches in Midtown, should be on everyone’s go-to list for a dependable, quick lunch. All the food, from the bánh mì to the phở, is solid, and everything arrives fast. One dish you’ll likely see on every table is the massive, golden bánh xèo, a wok-sized crepe stuffed with pork, shrimp, and bean sprouts that comes with fish sauce for dunking. While it’s big enough to share, you can also tackle one alone if you have some feelings to work out." - chelsea thomas, gianni greene
"Thiên Ân Sandwiches is a no-nonsense, simple, family-run place with great Vietnamese food. Constantly busy, Thíên Ân whips out bowls of phở large and small, with miniature broth-only bowls adorably named “phở baby.” While other dishes at Thíên Ân, like the bánh xeo stuffed crepe, are more popular, the phở is not too heavy or light." - chelsea thomas
