After a fire derailed plans, D's Banh Mi ready to open in former popcorn stand originally appeared on Bring Me The News.

The picnic tables are freshly stained and the flower beds overflowing at D’s Banh Mi in south Minneapolis, where the highly anticipated Vietnamese restaurant finally opened this week after surmounting ...

Surely banh mi bread is more than just a knockoff baguette, I thought, and to find out what makes it unique, I went to the source. Known colloquially as Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City is banh mi country.

Duck Paté Banh Mi at 112 Eatery (112 North 3rd St., Minneapolis; 612-343-7696; 112eatery.com): Maybe it’s the rich and decadent paté. Or maybe it’s the pillowy, light and crunchy bread.

Banh mi (pronounced bunn mee) is a hugely popular sandwich in Vu's homeland of Vietnam, where vendors sell it from street carts in both cities and rural areas.

Bánh, on the Upper West Side, is one of the city’s most reliably excellent Vietnamese restaurants, a beacon in an otherwise ...

At Banh Mi Station, the aim seems less to dazzle with fusion-y mélanges and more to provide vegan alternatives. Sweet ‘n’ chile tofu was bland, deep-fried into a rectangular puck.

When judging banh mi, bread is always a matter of contention. Rice flour is used in Vietnam to counter the humidity, but can turn the dough leaden here, according to the cookbook author Andrea Nguyen.

Banh mi, which makes use of both pâté (in the classic version) and the baguette, is thought to have been invented in or around 1954, shortly after the French evacuated the country and many ...