Zander's House

The cooking of central Vietnam is the focus of the Bui family’s large, airy, friendly restaurant (where blues bands play on the atrium stage once or twice a week). Standout dishes include steamed rice crêpes, “Nin Hoa” home-style grilled pork skewers, Vietnamese-style beef carpaccio and crispy anchovy green papaya salad. Closed Tuesday. Full bar.

Happy hour runs Monday and Wednesday through Friday, 5pm to 7pm.

The Babou is a potent cocktail enlivened by a splash of Alize, the refreshing passionfruit liqueur.

Dallas or Atlanta? The Bui family had closed their Vietnamese restaurant in New York, not 15 minutes from the Twin Towers, and were contemplating where next to set up shop. Right about then, August Moon, a fixture on Central Expressway for 30 long years, decamped. And that’s how the Buis got to Plano.Kirk is manager. Brother So is chef. Sister Tran runs the front of the house. (That’s her in...

In Short
Set off I-75, the place feels capacious and rather spare, but it's a small family-run Vietnamese at heart. The Bui family came from New York, bringing unusual recipes such as...

After spending nearly 13 years in New York City's trendiest neighborhood, Tribeca, creating and specializing in Vietnamese cuisine, we lost our lease and were forced to set up a new restaurant elsewhere. With our parents getting older and their desire to live in a warmer climate, our choices were limited to a few cities. We embarked on a month long quest for a suitable location for our new...