La Vietnamita
Adorably hipster ambience, with sparrows painted on the ceilings and square stools for seats, this place was tight and packed... with Europeans; the chefs were Filipino and Spanish.
Unfortunately, they ran out of pho, which we had been craving a while. My group ended up settling for Bun Bo and other noodle dishes, while I decided on a chicken noodle salad. The salad was refreshing especially with our meat-heavy diets all throughout Spain. The multitude of textures, crunchy of the peanuts, chewy of the chicken, crisp of lettuce, soft of noodles, was delightful. But ten minutes into our meal, we all realized the sauce was drowning our food in flavor and was only increasing in salty, sour, and strong the deeper we got. I really wanted to finish, but I couldn't handle the sauce any longer and decided to just depends on my drink to get full.
The different drinks we got were detox ginger apple, coconut mango smoothie and refreshing mint lemon drink. The mint lemon was pretty much a virgin mojito, detox ginger apple was my least favorite, ginger being the only taste I could identify, and coconut mango was a favorite among the girls, being a little too thick for the guys until we mashed a mint leaf in, thinking out the drink significantly.
The drinks were the redeeming factor to this restaurant, food and authenticity lacking. Therefore, this restaurant felt like a 6/10.
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