Saigon City Restaurant

Saigon City Restaurant is a Vietnamese restaurant in San Mateo, California.

Saigon City offers a wide view of Vietnamese comfort food in San Mateo. Beef noodle soups, grilled-meat vermicelli bowls, rice plates, and French-roll sandwiches make it easy to find a familiar starting point. We like that the menu also encourages exploring dishes such as sugarcane shrimp with fine rice vermicelli or a Vietnamese rice-flour crêpe filled with chicken and shrimp. Fresh prawn rolls and imperial rolls give a meal contrasting textures, while tamarind hot-and-sour soups bring another flavor profile. Grilled pork chops, lemongrass chicken, and a house clay pot broaden the main courses. A dedicated vegetarian selection includes tofu dishes, curry eggplant, crêpes, and noodle soups. Saigon City's appeal is that breadth: an East Third Avenue restaurant where a simple noodle bowl and a more varied Vietnamese meal are equally easy to put together.