In The Stranger‘s 2017 Guide to the Best International Restaurants in Seattle, we’re taking readers around the world in a rather hefty breakdown of international (non-US) restaurants and bars, which encompasses places worthy of your undivided attention as compiled by a combination of critics and Stranger staff foodies. Here’s some Vietnamese places that should be on your radar…
Ba Bar
You can get yourself fed—with one of the city’s best bowls of pho, no less—from the morning till the wee hours at this stylish Vietnamese mini-chain, with locations in Capitol Hill and South Lake Union, and a third coming to University Village this year. That pho is lovingly, expensively crafted (the oxtail broth takes a full 24 hours to prepare), as are the rest of the noodle soups, protein laden vermicelli bowls, and street-food-inspired small plates, like fried frog legs and grilled lemongrass beef skewers. (And that’s if you can get past the croissants, macarons, and other sweets in the stunning pastry case.) The cocktail list is alive with fresh juices and unusual bitters, which you can taste for yourself at their early evening and late-night happy hours.—Jenn Campbell