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Ba Le Sandwich

1044 S. Federal Blvd.
Denver, CO 80219

303-922-2129

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Category: Restaurants | Vietnamese

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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.

  • Cuisine(s): Vietnamese

    Hours: Daily 8am-8pm

    Price: $

  • Payment Types: MasterCard, Visa

    Features: Takeout

    Serving: Dinner, Lunch

  • Alcohol: None

    Reservations: Not Accepted

    Parking: Lot Available

  • 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... 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... 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... 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 pâté with pork and more pork to spicy pork and b... More >

Westword Reviews and News

  • 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 storef... More >

  • 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 S... More >

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    westwordbestof

    | Wed, May 06, 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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