Ba Le French Coffee Shop

Good soup on a rainy day. Broth was flavorful, noodles bouncy, pork tender. Pho was also very good, good portion sizes. The banh mis are great! Good deal on buying four. Fish cake one was excellent and so was the pork. A bit too much mayo for my taste but made a great sandwich to take for a long car ride.

The first time I bought 1 grilled pork banh mi sandwich. The second time I bought 2 of those. The third time I may buy 4 to get $2 off. Each grilled pork sandwich is currently $6 out the door (cash only) and is heavenly tasty.

There is a reason they sell out early everyday! Really delicious grilled pork, chicken or combo bahn mi. The fresh baguette is my favorite part. There is something about it that makes the sandwich taste even better than other places. Great value. $6 per bahn mi. If you buy 4 sandwiches, you get a $2 discount. My favorite bahn mis!

Food here is not too bad and reasonably priced. A tasty bahn-mi sandwich will set you back $5-$6 in 2024. They also carry rice plates and noodles. The seating is not glamorous but does the job. The iced Vietnamese coffee is good.

This place is a home away from home. I grew up in a Vietnamese home where the food was made with honest live whole my mom talked on the phone with my "aunties" gossiping and chatting away. It's an Asian mom thing. Here, while you eat, the ladies in a single sentence will weave between Hokkien, Vietnamese, Cantonese, Mandarin, and English. Listening to the banter and laughing put me back home in my mom or my grandma's presence. It helped me emotionally during the pandemic while traveling home was a bit more sensitive or harder. Now the food. One test I like to do with pho is I'd take home the soup and refrigerate it. If the soup turns to jello it's truly made from painstaking beef broth simmered for hours. If the soup is liquid, it's powder based beef stock. Needless to say this place does it the right way with real beef broth. Come taste it, you'll see what I mean. Cash only