Restaurant: Brodard Chateau
Location: 9100 Trask Ave, Garden Grove, CA 92844. (714) 899-8273
Date: July 20, 2021
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Rating: Great
During my parent’s first post Covid (not that it’s over yet writing late in 2021) visit we returned again for the Nth time to Garden Grove for more awesome Vietnamese food.
First stop was Brodard Chateau, which is the “fancy” cousin of Brodard.
They still have the Vietnamese/French pastries.
And an 80s stair.
“Interesting” decor.
Beef salad.
Duck rolls.
Phuket Seafood Noodle Soup. Wait, Phuket is Thai. haha. But it was good.
The “Chateau” didn’t seem very different than regular Brodard, but given that the original is excellent, so was this.
Restaurant: Oc & Lau Restaurant [1, 2, 3]
Location: 9892 Westminster Blvd Unit R, Garden Grove, CA 92844. (714) 583-8100
Date: July 20, 2021
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Rating: Great
This crawl returned to Oc & Lau 2, which is tucked behind the Garlic & Chives. Oc & Lau has great food, despite their annoying refusal to take any kind of reservation.
Interior of location 2 — much bigger than 1.
And the denser “covid” menu..
Sauces on the table.
Second Raw Beef Salad of the day!
Scallops with Roe.
Roast Quail with Garlic Glaze. We always get this as it’s to die for.
Singapore Chili Crab. Not 100% Singapore in style, but this was still one of the best Chili crabs I’ve had in LA. This is an incredible but very hard to find dish. There was a ton of crabmeat in the sauce — none left in the crab.
French bread to dip in the crab sauce.
The strange free coconut milk, bean etc dessert that O&L always offers.
Food was great as always. Had to hit up the Taiwanese coffee shop next door for some Sea Salt Coffee.
