Sf Banh Mi appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Saigon-style banh mi · San Francisco
A crackly Vietnamese baguette stuffed with grilled meats, pate, pickled daikon and carrot, cucumber, jalapeno and cilantro. The Tenderloin sandwich SF perfected.
Vietnamese refugees arrived in San Francisco's Tenderloin from 1975 onward and built Little Saigon along Larkin Street. Saigon Sandwich, the family-run shop at 560 Larkin running since the 1980s, is widely cited as the Tenderloin banh mi reference, with a queue out the door at lunchtime. The SF Tenderloin banh mi corridor is the most-decorated cluster of the format on the West Coast.
Where to eat in San Francisco:
- Saigon Sandwich