We need Vietnamese Cuisine in Prescott

[Hschlick84]

Mayor Palguta announced the official location for food trucks of PV, Frontage Rd. south of Hwy 69 between Lumber Liquidators and Ocean Blue Car Wash. Hours are Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, probably 11pm to early afternoon. This will open the door for new start ups and entrepreneurs who want to get their foot in the door for restaurant businesses. Maybe this will spur a new Vietnamese food truck and other foreign cuisines.

[AZ Desert Guy]

Originally Posted by agorski

I'm hoping that some entrepreneurial restuaranteur sees this and considers opening a restaurant in our area. I'm not talking about a Pho shop, or just adding a Banhmi sandwich to a menu, but real Indo-French cuisine.

We've got about 8 Thai places in the area, and they all seem to be surviving just fine, so there should be plenty of room for a new category of restaurant.

I'm jonesing for vermicelli noodles and egg rolls.

It might happen.

I was having a conversation with an old govt work buddy yesterday, who plans to retire in Arizona. He did an Army stint at Fort Huachuca and was looking at buying a home in Sierra Vista, but has now turned his attention to Prescott as a retirement destination.

His retirement plan? Open a small Vietnamese restaurant with his Vietnamese wife. He is retiring from an assignment in Hanoi. He was asking me about my thoughts on feasibility for a place like that, and I remembered this thread.

[agorski]

That's cool. I remember Sierra Vista being loaded with Korean restaurants.

[My2cents55]

If you like Vietnamese food Pho Thanh in Phoenix is the best in town have not been able to find a better pho/Vietnamise restaurant.

[ketchikanite]

Originally Posted by agorski

I'm hoping that some entrepreneurial restuaranteur sees this and considers opening a restaurant in our area. I'm not talking about a Pho shop, or just adding a Banhmi sandwich to a menu, but real Indo-French cuisine.

We've got about 8 Thai places in the area, and they all seem to be surviving just fine, so there should be plenty of room for a new category of restaurant.

I'm jonesing for vermicelli noodles and egg rolls.

Open one. Get some recipes off of the internet and hire some illegal aliens to cook it up and serve it. You’ll make millions!

[MKTwet]

Here's a problem with adding any ethnic restaurant to random cities across America. Unless they overcharge for ethnic dishes. Who are the regular patrons? The reason ethnic restaurants exist in diverse neighborhoods because they have regular patrons. Can't open an ethnic eats where they only get a lot of customers only on holidays and not regularly.

[Hschlick84]

Originally Posted by MKTwet

Here's a problem with adding any ethnic restaurant to random cities across America. Unless they overcharge for ethnic dishes. Who are the regular patrons? The reason ethnic restaurants exist in diverse neighborhoods because they have regular patrons. Can't open an ethnic eats where they only get a lot of customers only on holidays and not regularly.

That's kind of a weak argument.

The same can be said, the 8 Thai restaurants here get their regular patrons and seem to do fine. Vietnamese cuisine albeit a bit different from Thai, won't alienate the people here as they could get some overlapping customers. We're not a 'random' city in AZ, we're pretty much a satellite to Phx metro. Now if it were a smallish town in Iowa or Nebraska, that's a bit harder to establish itself.

[Ex New Yorker]

Originally Posted by Hschlick84

Another reason why Arizona isn't one of the top 10 states for most fittest.

I don't understand how that could be with all the hiking trails, bike friendly environments, beautiful weather practically year round and some of the most spectacular landscape in the entire country? You're just compelled to want to be outdoors. At least we are as are a lot of people in our neighborhood.

[Hschlick84]

Originally Posted by Ex New Yorker

I don't understand how that could be with all the hiking trails, bike friendly environments, beautiful weather practically year round and some of the most spectacular landscape in the entire country? You're just compelled to want to be outdoors. At least we are as are a lot of people in our neighborhood.

My guess is the population factory of Maricopa county is not as much an outdoor mecca compared to northern Arizona. Hot weather 7-8 months out of the year, most people want to be indoors. It skews the results from top 5 fittest states to near average of the 50 states. We are ranked #21. Our neighbor Colorado to the northeast is #1, Utah is #4. Another factor is the abundance of fast food, Mexican and chain restaurants. Some Arizonans don't have a healthy diet.

https://www.garagegymreviews.com/fittest-states

[AZ Desert Guy]

Originally Posted by Hschlick84

My guess is the population factory of Maricopa county is not as much an outdoor mecca compared to northern Arizona. Hot weather 7-8 months out of the year, most people want to be indoors. It skews the results from top 5 fittest states to near average of the 50 states. We are ranked #21. Our neighbor Colorado to the northeast is #1, Utah is #4. Another factor is the abundance of fast food, Mexican and chain restaurants. Some Arizonans don't have a healthy diet.

https://www.garagegymreviews.com/fittest-states

Way too many Americans have garbage diets for sure.