Before Viet Family was a restaurant, it was just dinner recipes the Ho family carried with them from South Vietnam, cooked from memory, never written down.

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They opened on Commercial Drive in 2022 to share those same dishes, made fully plant-based. Not a version of the original. The original.

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Getting there took time. Vietnamese cooking leans on fish sauce and pork and broth simmered low for hours - the kind of richness that's easy to lose and hard to earn back. So every dish was tested and re-tested at home, long before it ever reached a table, until it tasted like what we grew up on.

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That's what you'll find here. Small, family-run, and cooking the way we always have, just without the meat.