{"id":703,"date":"2009-04-15T10:07:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T10:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=703"},"modified":"2009-04-15T10:07:33","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T10:07:33","slug":"new-vietnamese-restaurant-grill-in-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2009\/04\/new-vietnamese-restaurant-grill-in-town\/","title":{"rendered":"New Vietnamese Restaurant  &#038; Grill in town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"saigon.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/saigon.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"142\" align=right><b>Saigon 2<\/b>, a Vietnamese restaurant, has opened in San Leandro.  I haven&#8217;t been there yet, so I can&#8217;t report on it, but it&#8217;s getting mostly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/saigon-2-san-leandro#hrid:HHH1kBzoG9MwBgCIh7ucjQ\">postive reviews<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/\">Yelp<\/a>.<br \/>\nThat said, do we really need a new Vietnamese restaurant in San Leandro.  As far as I know, we already have 5: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/rest\/vos.html\">Vo&#8217;s<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/rest\/soleil.html\">Le Soleil<\/a> (my favorite), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/2008\/08\/pho_anhha_restaurant_san_leand.html\">Pho Anh Ha<\/a>, Tu Tai (where I haven&#8217;t been) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halan.us\">Halan<\/a> (is that the one near K-Mart?).  There might be others (if so, let me know).  Now, in a town with just one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/rest\/thaisatay.html\">Thai Restaurant<\/a>, with no Indian, no Ethiopian, no French, no South American and no Middle Eastern restaurants &#8211; do we need <b>six<\/b> Vietnamese restaurants?  How about some variety!!!!<br \/>\nAnyway, I may or may not give it a try.  If you do &#8211; please let me know what you think of it.  It&#8217;s located at 2113 Marina Blvd (between Menlo St &#038; Doolittle Dr) and there is a 10% off coupon in last week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanleandrotimes.com\/\">San Leandro Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>I also saw in the San Leandro Times an add asking for waiters\/staff for a new restaurant in Manor Square.  The restaurant is called <b>Double B Bar &#038; Grill<\/b> and I know absolutely nothing about it.  They don&#8217;t have a phone number in the ad, so I can&#8217;t even call and ask.  Again, if you know something about it, comment here or <a href=\"mailto:marga@lacabe.com\">e-mail me<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saigon 2, a Vietnamese restaurant, has opened in San Leandro. I haven&#8217;t been there yet, so I can&#8217;t report on it, but it&#8217;s getting mostly postive reviews at Yelp. That said, do we really need a new Vietnamese restaurant in San Leandro. As far as I know, we already have 5: Vo&#8217;s, Le Soleil (my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}