Vietnamese bahn mi sandwiches aren't supposed to be "fancy", but this ("The OG") is hands down the best bahn mi in SF. Read up in how they developed the perfect baguette bread. It's like a crispy cloud.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
s Y
Remember the grade school taunt, "If you love something, why don't you marry it?" I totally want to marry this sandwich. In fact, I want to commit polygamy. These sandwiches are THAT amazing. The pork belly sandwich has these crispy nubs of deep fried pork skin, thoughtfully diced so that your teeth don't struggle, scattered on top of the filling of the most tender slices of pork belly imaginable. And the Le Dip? Don't get me started. The sirloin is perfectly cooked and shaved so thin that you get the mille feuille effect (Have you ever had mille feuille tonkatsu? Yeah, it's like that). The horseradish sauce is bracing, not overwhelming. And the sandwich fillings are nestled in this special Vietnamese baguette which is unlike a French baguette. It has a glassine crust that shatters the moment your teeth make contact and gives way to a pillowy interior. Eating this sandwich is the type of experience that makes you melancholy the closer you are to the end because you don't want the experience to come to an end.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Le Dip Roast Beef, Crispy Pork Belly
Freya
My favorite place for French dip. It's the BOMB. Also, this place makes its own bread and it's the most amazing, lightly crispy baguette ever. I would come here for just the bread. Pretty expensive sandwich but worth the price tag if you are a bread snob and care about a quality sandwich. Take out only.
Food: 5
Recommended dishes: Le Dip Roast Beef
Sahil Yt
It’s good
Wilson Tsang
TLDR: service is good and quick, sandwich is lacking something and I don’t like having a forced 15% service charge for just takeaway.Was helped quickly and ordered the crispy pork belly sandwich and a Vietnamese coffee. Only when i saw the total at almost $29 for $23 of sandwich and coffee did i see the 15% auto service charge which rubbed me the wrong way, especially for only having takeout. The food came quickly and digging in, the pork belly is definitely on point with crispy skin and tender meat. However the rest of the sandwich is lacking. A ton of cilantro with regular cucumber and jalapeño doesn’t add the acidity that pickled veggies would in a regular banh-mi. The bread had a nice crunchy exterior but it tasted one note. All in all, nothing was horrible about the sandwich but it all tasted one note to me
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 4
Ly Nguyen
The place charges 15% service fee on takeout order and the charge is mandatory and hence taxable. I have not had such an experience for takeout and puzzled why such charge is not part of the food price on the menu. You order and only at checkout you realize an additional 15% is non negotiable and this is not dine in or delivery. It's not transparent and the food isn't good enough for me to return to the shop given the misleading price.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 3
Aristeo Hernandez
An amazing sandwich from the makers of The Slanted Door.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
L Ma-Fukuda
The bread was so crispy. The fillings were perfect. Glad to have Charles Phan back in the neighborhood. Hope he adds some seating to make it more convenient to chow down immediately.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Danster L.
You know, there are days I want a Vietnamese sandwich and I can easily buy five of them for $20 easily in San Jose. I can buy about the same in San Francisco at the fabulous and iconic Saigon Sandwich. But there are days when I want a super gourmet or high quality Vietnamese sandwich and Chuck's Takeaway offers that. I used to order the Vietnamese sandwich aka banh mi, a lot at Charles Phan's Out the Door restaurants back in the past. I have gone to Chuck's Takeaway twice now and it is not cheap but the ingredients are definitely high-quality. I've had the CP's #3 and also mom's meatballs and both are amazing. CP #3 has a really good flavor to it and I would prefer this one over the meatballs just because the meatball sandwich is quite soggy after just even 5 minutes. I had both sandwiches in the car immediately so that I can eat them fresh and experience the flavors immediately. Yes, the sandwiches are pricey and they do include a 15% service charge, so please take note of that if you do visit this shop. It makes it one of the most expensive Vietnamese sandwiches in the Bay Area, but it's worth it if you want to splurge. I do want to try the other sandwiches and cannot wait. Parking is not easy in the area and you could be circling around for quite a while lol. But anyways, the shop also offers different drinks but they are always sold out every time I want to try some of the drinks there, especially the Thai iced tea. They also sell different sauces, cookbooks and other snacks inside the shop to add with your sandwiches. Now I got to work hard so that I can buy their other sandwiches LOL.
Jane Li
I walked past this place and decided to try a new sandwich place - got the vegan tofu skin and eggplant banh mi. I’ve never had a thick, patty like shape of tofu skin before but it was delicious. I couldn’t describe the flavor of the eggplant because I don’t know what it is, but it was incredible, and that’s all you need to know
Great service and good food, I would love to see more vegetarian options.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Jennifer S.
I ordered a sandwich to go before heading to Dolores Park with my takeaway. The flavor was good but the sandwich was tiny. I enjoyed my iced chrysanthemum tea. Probably wouldn't go out of my way to grab sandwiches from this place since it's kind of expensive for takeaway - no sides or anything included.
Simon Davey
Amazing sandwiches! Can’t go wrong with anything here ?????
Pretty decent! Super fast service and food, and service was friendly
Misha T.
I guess it's no surprise that the banh mi shop from the slanted door folks would be great. I've had the special (I forget what they call it, most shops it's the dac biet with the various cold cuts and pate), the mackerel, and the tuna sandwiches. They're all pretty great and the tuna sandwich especially is really gussied up with the confit tuna. It reminds me a lot of bacalao in Portuguese food where the texture kind of shreds finely. I'd like to try... I guess everything on the menu.
Vietnamese bahn mi sandwiches aren't supposed to be "fancy", but this ("The OG") is hands down the best bahn mi in SF. Read up in how they developed the perfect baguette bread. It's like a crispy cloud.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Remember the grade school taunt, "If you love something, why don't you marry it?" I totally want to marry this sandwich. In fact, I want to commit polygamy. These sandwiches are THAT amazing. The pork belly sandwich has these crispy nubs of deep fried pork skin, thoughtfully diced so that your teeth don't struggle, scattered on top of the filling of the most tender slices of pork belly imaginable. And the Le Dip? Don't get me started. The sirloin is perfectly cooked and shaved so thin that you get the mille feuille effect (Have you ever had mille feuille tonkatsu? Yeah, it's like that). The horseradish sauce is bracing, not overwhelming. And the sandwich fillings are nestled in this special Vietnamese baguette which is unlike a French baguette. It has a glassine crust that shatters the moment your teeth make contact and gives way to a pillowy interior. Eating this sandwich is the type of experience that makes you melancholy the closer you are to the end because you don't want the experience to come to an end.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Le Dip Roast Beef, Crispy Pork Belly
My favorite place for French dip. It's the BOMB. Also, this place makes its own bread and it's the most amazing, lightly crispy baguette ever. I would come here for just the bread. Pretty expensive sandwich but worth the price tag if you are a bread snob and care about a quality sandwich. Take out only.
Food: 5
Recommended dishes: Le Dip Roast Beef
It’s good
TLDR: service is good and quick, sandwich is lacking something and I don’t like having a forced 15% service charge for just takeaway.Was helped quickly and ordered the crispy pork belly sandwich and a Vietnamese coffee. Only when i saw the total at almost $29 for $23 of sandwich and coffee did i see the 15% auto service charge which rubbed me the wrong way, especially for only having takeout. The food came quickly and digging in, the pork belly is definitely on point with crispy skin and tender meat. However the rest of the sandwich is lacking. A ton of cilantro with regular cucumber and jalapeño doesn’t add the acidity that pickled veggies would in a regular banh-mi. The bread had a nice crunchy exterior but it tasted one note. All in all, nothing was horrible about the sandwich but it all tasted one note to me
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 4
The place charges 15% service fee on takeout order and the charge is mandatory and hence taxable. I have not had such an experience for takeout and puzzled why such charge is not part of the food price on the menu. You order and only at checkout you realize an additional 15% is non negotiable and this is not dine in or delivery. It's not transparent and the food isn't good enough for me to return to the shop given the misleading price.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 3
An amazing sandwich from the makers of The Slanted Door.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The bread was so crispy. The fillings were perfect. Glad to have Charles Phan back in the neighborhood. Hope he adds some seating to make it more convenient to chow down immediately.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
You know, there are days I want a Vietnamese sandwich and I can easily buy five of them for $20 easily in San Jose. I can buy about the same in San Francisco at the fabulous and iconic Saigon Sandwich. But there are days when I want a super gourmet or high quality Vietnamese sandwich and Chuck's Takeaway offers that. I used to order the Vietnamese sandwich aka banh mi, a lot at Charles Phan's Out the Door restaurants back in the past. I have gone to Chuck's Takeaway twice now and it is not cheap but the ingredients are definitely high-quality. I've had the CP's #3 and also mom's meatballs and both are amazing. CP #3 has a really good flavor to it and I would prefer this one over the meatballs just because the meatball sandwich is quite soggy after just even 5 minutes. I had both sandwiches in the car immediately so that I can eat them fresh and experience the flavors immediately. Yes, the sandwiches are pricey and they do include a 15% service charge, so please take note of that if you do visit this shop. It makes it one of the most expensive Vietnamese sandwiches in the Bay Area, but it's worth it if you want to splurge. I do want to try the other sandwiches and cannot wait. Parking is not easy in the area and you could be circling around for quite a while lol. But anyways, the shop also offers different drinks but they are always sold out every time I want to try some of the drinks there, especially the Thai iced tea. They also sell different sauces, cookbooks and other snacks inside the shop to add with your sandwiches. Now I got to work hard so that I can buy their other sandwiches LOL.
I walked past this place and decided to try a new sandwich place - got the vegan tofu skin and eggplant banh mi. I’ve never had a thick, patty like shape of tofu skin before but it was delicious. I couldn’t describe the flavor of the eggplant because I don’t know what it is, but it was incredible, and that’s all you need to know
Restaurantji Recommends
Great service and good food, I would love to see more vegetarian options.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
I ordered a sandwich to go before heading to Dolores Park with my takeaway. The flavor was good but the sandwich was tiny. I enjoyed my iced chrysanthemum tea. Probably wouldn't go out of my way to grab sandwiches from this place since it's kind of expensive for takeaway - no sides or anything included.
Amazing sandwiches! Can’t go wrong with anything here ?????
Food: 5
Recommended dishes: Double Jambon Beurre, Egg Salad Sandwich
Pretty decent! Super fast service and food, and service was friendly
I guess it's no surprise that the banh mi shop from the slanted door folks would be great. I've had the special (I forget what they call it, most shops it's the dac biet with the various cold cuts and pate), the mackerel, and the tuna sandwiches. They're all pretty great and the tuna sandwich especially is really gussied up with the confit tuna. It reminds me a lot of bacalao in Portuguese food where the texture kind of shreds finely. I'd like to try... I guess everything on the menu.