b&b | Banh Mi & Boba — Restaurant in San Francisco

If you're looking for delicious banh mi sandwiches with refreshing tea in the Inner Sunset of San Francisco then check out this spot. They have a wide selection of drinks plus sandwiches which gives customers plenty of options. Inside you'll find some bar seating on the sides and a giant menu.

I decided on the Thai Milk Tea with boba and Liz went with the Jasmine Milk Tea with boba. The drinks can either come in the sizes of regular for $4 or large for $5. The employee told me they make the Thai Milk Tea in small batches to keep the quality fresh and offered me a sample to see if I would like the sweetness level. From the sample I had the Thai Milk Tea wasn't too sweet, it was at the right level for me as I usually go for 50% sweetness in most drinks at other boba tea shops. Liz was also fine with her drink and we all know how picky she can be with her Jasmine Milk Tea. For their milk teas, b&b uses Strauss Organic Milk and organic cane sugar for the other drinks on the menu. The boba is also made fresh every three hours to make sure the boba is at their "perfect chewiness" for their drinks.

Now onto the sandwiches, I had Five Spiced Chicken Banh Mi ($8.25) that had house made five spice chicken and a b&b special soy. Liz went for the b&b Special Combo Banh Mi ($8.50) that had house roasted pork, fancy pork loaf, headcheese, pate, and b&b special soy. Both banh mi sandwiches were filled with juicy meat, cucumbers, pickled vegetables, and the baguette had a nice crunch to the outside layer with fluffy bread inside. We were told that the baguettes are delivered fresh daily, the sauce is made in house, and all their meats are slow roasted.

Overall I enjoyed both drinks and banh mi sandwiches. For those that don't consume meat they have a Fried Tofu (Vegetarian) banh mi with fried tofu in house and green...

I ordered a veggie banh mi today and the bread was good and crispy but the tofu wasn’t crispy at all, it was SUPER rubbery and bland. They don’t fry tofu by the order, the tofu is already fried and they just reheat it in an oven which causes it to lose crispiness and becomes chewy like rubber, also it was difficult to eat since the tofu comes in big cubes. I would recommend to cut the tofu the same way you cut the cucumber( long way) so that way the tofu will go along with the shape of the bread better. Another thing I really did not like and thought was lacking of good hygiene and very unprofessional was that the girl who works at the front was talking the whole time with her coworker or owner while she was making my food. I myself work in a restaurant and that is something we take very seriously. Unless you have something necessary to communicate with a coworker you should minimize personal conversation while customers are present, firstly out of respect for your customers and more importantly because when you talk you could spit on their food accidentally, especially if you don’t wear a mask (which is fine to me) it’s not very hygienic behavior when you work in the food industry. I’ve order from this place before and the food was pretty good. I am not just trying to only be critical but just wanted to offer some constructive criticism. I would’ve given more than 2 stars but the hygiene issue is a big one for me, that being said, I would give them...

The workers were so communicative. They let us know that our order was going to take a while because of how many orders they were trying to complete and asked if that was okay before taking our order.

Well… why wouldn’t we be ok with that! It’s a hole in the wall that we always drive past and see crowds of people waiting for outside.

Surely, we settled for a b&b combo and a bulgogi beef sandwich, as the owner seemed enthusiastic about his craft for those sammies when recommending us some options. We also got tempted and ordered the lychee love and the jazzy mango with some free boba topping, courtesy of Yelp check-in. Though sandwiches were a little on the more expensive side, our tummies were stuffed and taste buds were satisfied. Would recommend both b&b combo and the bulgogi beef sandwich because both were packed with meats/veggies and tastes fresh/flavorful. However, for the drinks, I would skip the fruit teas and maybe try a milk tea instead? The fruit teas were nothing special and seem to just use syrup with no actual fruit bits either.

Now, you’ve read me rambling enough, go try this hole in the wall...