Chuck’s Takeaway - San Francisc

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.

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.

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.

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

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.