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1044 S. Federal Blvd. Denver, CO 80219

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1044 S. Federal Blvd. Denver CO 80219

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  • Vietnamese
    Daily 8am-8pm
    $ $
  • MasterCard, Visa
    Takeout
    Dinner, Lunch
  • None
    Not Accepted
    Lot Available
Description

This small, brightly lit sandwich shop is a destination both for Vietnamese immigrants looking for an honest taste of home and adventurous gastronauts looking for a taste of foreign climes. Both appreciate the banh mi, the classical collision of French and Vietnamese culinary tradition that resulted in a wonderful spread of sandwiches - most of them some variety of pork - on short baguettes. No matter what you choose, you'll get out the door for under five bucks, with a lunch that beats any fast-food offering.








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  • Reader: Federal Boulevard or Boulder? Can I split my vote?

    Reader: Federal Boulevard or Boulder? Can I split my vote?

    By Patricia Calhoun | Tue, March 27, 2012

    Our Street 16 menu matchup is down to the final four, with the first face-off between South Federal Boulevard and Boulder. These are both great restaurant neighborhoods -- even if their restaurants ha... More »

  • Denver\'s five best Vietnamese restaurants

    Denver's five best Vietnamese restaurants

    By Laura Shunk | Thu, March 08, 2012

    Denver has an abundance of Vietnamese restaurants, all devoted to a culinary canon that marries French and Chinese cooking into dishes that are delicious whether you're eating noodles on the street or... More »

  • Ba Le serves authentic banh mi and more

    Ba Le serves authentic banh mi and more

    By Laura Shunk | Thu, February 03, 2011

    Of all the food sold on the streets and at the markets in Vietnam, banh mi may be the most universal, peddled by wandering vendors hauling baskets of baguettes on their backs and at tiny slivers of shops wedged into the never-ending rows of... More »

  • Only in Denver: Making a case for Federal Boulevard

    Only in Denver: Making a case for Federal Boulevard

    By Jason Sheehan | Thu, August 27, 2009

    I have lived in quite a few places: Rochester and Buffalo, Tampa, Albuquerque and Denver. I've spent time in even more, on my own American Iliad that stretched from coast to coast and back again and saw me sleeping on the streets in Berkeley and... More »

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  • 2011 | Best Banh Mi

    Part market, part sandwich shop, this bare-bones spot in a dilapidated strip mall boasts nothing more than a counter, a couple of refrigerators and a wall of self-serve frozen-yogurt machines. But that's enough, because those refrigerators hold everything needed to make authentic banh mi. Ba Le offers almost twenty varieties of the Vietnamese sandwich, illustrated in backlit pictures on the wall above the counter and all prepared to order. A crunchy, house-baked baguette is warmed up and... More »

  • 2009 | Best Cheap Lunch

    Ba Le is a hole-in-the-wall in a neighborhood full of a million other holes in a million other walls. But Ba Le is also a real hole in one: a spot frequented not just by members of Denver's Vietnamese community, but by hordes of Denver diners on the lookout for something new, something delicious and something definitely cheap. Ba Le is basically a sandwich shop, but it makes only the Vietnamese banh mi sandwich -- a beautiful mix of unusual meats (various pâtés and pork and... More »

  • 2008 | Best Asian Sandwich

    Ba Le Sandwich, a small, brightly lit sandwich shop smack in the middle of Denver's best Vietnamese-restaurant neighborhood, is a destination both for Vietnamese immigrants looking for an honest taste of home and adventurous gastronauts looking for a taste of foreign climes on the cheap. Both appreciate the banh mi, the classical collision of French and Vietnamese culinary tradition that resulted in a wonderful spread of sandwiches -- most of them some variety of pork -- on short... More »

  • 2007 | Best Cheap Lunch

    Banh mi -- Vietnamese sandwiches with a distinctively French twist -- are the plats du jour here, every jour of the week. There are a dozen or so varieties available at the counter, from classic pork pâte with pork and more pork to spicy pork and barbecued pork and even all-vegetable offerings, all mounted on dwarf baguettes that have the distinctive delicacy of masterful baking. No matter what's on your sandwich, it costs just $2.50, which should leave plenty of change for an iced Vietnamese c... More »

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    | Denver, CO | 102 Reviews

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    | Wed, May 6, 2009

    Ba Le is a hole-in-the-wall in a neighborhood full of a million other holes in a million other walls. But Ba Le is also a real hole in one: a spot frequented not just by members of Denver's Vietnamese community, but by hordes of Denver diners on the lookout for something new, something delicious and something definitely cheap. Ba Le is basically a sandwich shop, but it makes only the Vietnamese banh mi sandwich — a beautiful mix of unusual meats (various pâtés and pork and chicken and pork) and mounds of vegetables (cilantro, shredded carrot, cucumber and more) all smushed together between two halves of a French/Vietnamese baguette. The bread itself is worth the trip, the smeared-on pâtés like a bonus French kick. And the clincher? Each sandwich comes in at less than three bucks.

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