Nola Bistro - Lansing

Fast and delicious. I had nothing I didn't like here. my favorites are the Bourbon-Dip, the nola bahn mi, the eier roles and the early roles. her chicken and sausage gum is also unbelievable. Do not forget to get the Vietnamese coffee to do everything!

Daughter enjoyed the Pho/ Vietnamese egg rolls tasty.The shrimp poo boy and gumbo was good for the area!Definitely not New Orleans but good!

I want to first give the highlights. When we called the person who answered and took our order was very friendly and professional. We ordered pork dumplings, pho, banh mi, and beignets. It came to $40 and we thought that was a great value for everything we were going to get. The order was ready for us within 25 min of ordering for pick up and was ready when we arrived. The pork dumplings and beignets are a must have if you eat at Nola Bistro. Very delicious and we will be back for more of them.Now for the constructive criticism. We went back and forth on whether to give this review of 3 or 4 and really, I'd honestly say it's more of a 3.5. The Nola banh mi sandwich we ordered was supposed to contain 3 meats however we only identified 2 meats on the sandwich and the portion of meat was very very slim. It was mostly bread and vegetables. Compared to other Banh Mi we have had, this was about the 3rd of the amount of meat we are used to. We would not order a sandwich from this establishment again based off of this experience. It was not a good value alone. The pho was very large in portion but again, the meat portion wasn't what we expected. The pho is easily enough to feed 4 people however, the meat portion was barely enough for this party of 2 to enjoy. We would not order the pho again based on this experience. Making this $40 order as we mentioned about not as much of a value as we initially thought. We would recommend that the meat portions be increased significantly to make these dishes great.Would we return? Yes. Again, for the delicious pork dumplings and beignets but I would hesitate to order anything else.

Wow awesome food! Second time eating here and never been disappointed. Excellent service. Clean place. Bathroom was clean (usually if a eatery has clean bathrooms then they have clean kitchens) good selections.Defintely worth checking out. You wont be disappointed.

I have mixed feelings about my visit. It was my very first time having pho. I expected it to have deep, rich flavor and it didn't. It was almost like having Swanson beef stock with other stuff in it. I got the meatball pho and the meat had a very strange texture. The server was polite but it was also a little before closing (about an hour or so) and she had a lot to clean up in the dining room. The phone was ringing off the hook constantly and I felt bad for her. We wanted to try the beignets but didn't want to give her more to do so we didn't. I ended up taking the leftovers home and putting beef base in it to deepen the flavor. I'm not sure if my expectations were just different than what we got or if that's how it's suppose to be made. This is the reason for mixed feelings. My daughters chicken pho was better flavored though. Our appetizers (dumplings, egg rolls and spring rolls) were all delicious. I was really disappointed they didn't have any gumbo but maybe that will be the thing that makes me go back.