- Mike Sula
- Pho dac biet, L.D. Pho
In terms of its commercial offerings, Lawrence Avenue west of Western in Lincoln Square looks kinda Balkan, its smoky bars and dingy coffee shops crowded with an older population of domino-slapping Greeks, supplanted by more recent arrivals from the former Yugoslavia. You wouldn’t think of it as a Vietnamese neighborhood just because you can buy the city’s best banh mi at Nhu Lan Bakery. But if you subscribe to the rule of threes to determine whether something is an actual “thing,” you have to take into account the two recent arrivals just down the block, the Vietnamese billiard hall/coffee shop Cafe Huong, which rivals some of the Greek places for its intimidation quotient, and L.D. Pho, a modest but impressively busy restaurant that opened just a few months ago.
L.D. Pho, 2739 W. Lawrence, 872-208-7606
- Mike Sula
- L.D. Pho
