Brodard Chateau

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"#89 As its name suggests, Brodard Chateau is a cavernous place, a marble-accented, two-story restaurant housed in a stately Victorian mansion in Garden Grove. The restaurant is owned by the Dang family, Orange County food royalty who oversee a small empire of distinguished Vietnamese restaurants. The dish that built the family’s reputation is the nem nuong cuon, grilled pork spring rolls, each bite vivid with crunchy bits of meat, chives and bracing hints of mint. The rolls are served with a sweet dipping sauce that has developed a cult following all its own. Beyond the requisite nem nuong, order the bun cha ha noi, beautifully smoky pork patties served with a slightly sweet fish sauce. The crisp rice flour saucers called banh khot are exquisite, each one cradling a springy, well-cooked shrimp. It’s difficult to exhaust the sweeping menu, and you could piece together a whole meal centered around the restaurant’s skewered filet mignon or grilled rack of lamb. But it would be unthinkable to leave without one or two rounds of those unforgettable pork spring rolls. Full bar. Lot parking. Credit cards accepted."

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