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On a recent business trip through San Jose, a friend recommended this vietnamese restaurant in downtown san jose. What a nice surprise, the decor was warm and very inviting, which is not the same as a typical vietnamsese restaurant. While waiting to be seated we were at the bar, and it seemed like everyone knew each other. Once seated, the service was friendly, efficient and helpful since some of the dishes were not familiar to us. Our group of four ordered dishes to share. We found the BBQ short ribs, crab puffs,spring rolls, shrimp bruschetta and the baby clams to be delicious appertizers. The green papaya/mango salads and flank steak with green apples are a must try. For main courses, we loved the sea bass, ""Bo luc lac"", HaLong Bay fried rice, tiger prawns, very tasty and delicious, especially the sauce, so good that you can just eat the mixture of the sauce and rice and that would wonderful aready. For dessert try, the mango sticky rice and chocolate lava.\r
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The wine list included a pretty good variety and from different regions of the world, the price was reasonable and a few good bargains. The cocktail menu included traditional drinks as well as a variety of drinks made up by the chef/owner Hanna and her bartenders ( apparently most of whom have a day job and doing this just for extra income and for fun), and actually some of the drinks are quite good.\r
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By the way, besides what we mentioned above, this restaurant is a very good place to conduct business as well as relax or unwind at the end of the day. \r
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Highly recommeded.
Pros: atmosphere, food, bar, service, free/validated parking
Cons: closed a little too early for downtown.
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