This year we’re marking the hundred-day countdown to Best of Phoenix 2015 by sharing some of our favorite dishes at restaurants all over the Valley. Have a suggestion for a dish you’d like us to try?

On a quest for the best "special combination" banh mi thit nguoi, a Vietnamese cold-cut sandwich on French bread, I visited eight shops in the Eden Center and two shops elsewhere in Falls Church, the ...

Most of us, in this lifetime, will probably not experience firsthand the sights, sounds, and smells of Saigon and the outlying areas. We won't ever pay a few dong to a street vendor assembling cold ...

The moment is positively Proustian. At Nhu Lan, a one-table Vietnamese sandwich shop in Falls Church, I take a bite of a "special combination" banh mi thit nguoi, which translates as "bread with meat ...

You may think you know the origin story of the sandwich. Food legend has it that what was once simply known as meat and bread takes its name from one Lord Sandwich, an English earl who binge played ...

Robert Sietsema is the former Eater NY senior critic with more than 35 years of experience covering dining in New York City. Chinatowns in Manhattan, Sunset Park, and Elmhurst have long been a steady ...

Bánh mì is the Vietnamese word for bread, but when it comes to Vietnamese cuisine, the term refers to a baguette sandwich. The best place to get one in town is Saigon Noodle House on Highway 280.