Exquisite pho sets a high standard at Eatz Vietnamese LEO's Eats with Robin Garr A fine rendition of traditional beef pho at Eatz Vietnamese.I was re-reading Anthony Bordain’s nook
Medium Raw the other day, or I should say I was reading it, until I got to his loving, sensual passage on pho. Then I had to put down the book and go check out the state of the pho at the new Eatz Vietnamese.
Bourdain’s celebration of pho was almost sensual, bordering on word porn as he observes, “Using sexual metaphors to describe food … seems particularly appropriate when describing pho in Hanoi.” The broth, for example, is “usually (but not absolutely always) the savory-sweet extraction of many beef bones, heavy on the marrow. Not too dark – definitely not too light,” he wrote. “If the broth isn’t right, the best ingredients in the world aren’t going to save it.”
Mm,
hmm.
And then he got on to the beef: “the perfect balance of lean and fat … sliced ever so thinly onto the surface of their broth, where it wilts and relaxes and nearly dissolves into sublime tenderness, cooking lightly in the hot broth.”
That did it! Couldn’t wait any longer! Off we went to Eatz, where I found to my delight that the pho is outstanding, and the rest of the fare is right up there with it.
Eatz is a tiny place, squeezing a dozen two-top tables into what once was the living room of a renovated shotgun house. It opened early in November and, by all accounts, has been running close to capacity ever since.
Decor is simple and attractive, silver-and-white mottled wallpaper with a calming scene of the Buddha seated near a rippling brook and shade trees adorning one long wall; a white fireplace mantel is topped with knick-knacks and surmounted by a flat-screen television. Undraped black tables are furnished with mixed dinette chairs and set with forks and black plastic chopsticks rolled in soft saffron-color cloth napkins.
Owner-chef Nam Huynh’s two-page menu offers a concise but still enlightening peek into the Vietnamese culinary world. ...
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http://www.leoweekly.com/category/food-drink/Eatz Vietnamese974 Barret Ave.
785-4450
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http://bit.ly/EatzVietRobin Garr's rating: 88 points
Noise level: Although the room was small and crowded, we had no difficulty with conversation. (Average sound level 75dB, with peaks to 87dB.)
Accessibility: Not accessible to wheelchair users. Two steps up to the main entrance block access, and the unisex restroom lacks accessibility modifications.