Will the City of Camarillo be Seeing Its First Vietnamese Restaurant?
Thursday, November 8, 2012 at 07:57PM Update 11/8/12: Grand opening of Basil & Mint Vietnamese Pho Restaurant is Saturday, November 10th. Free soft drinks that day! Call 805.482.9993 for more information. Hours are 10:30 am to 9pm. READ MORE ABOUT BASIL & MINT HERE!
Update 10/9/12: Looks like we will soon be seeing the Basil & Mint Vietnamese Cafe at 350 North Lantana Street in Camarillo. This sign was seen there today.
Originally posted 7/18/12:
Quick Update: Reader Jason has pointed out that this would not be the "first" Vietnamese restaurant in Camarillo as there was previously one in the Smart and Final shopping center. Thanks for pointing that out, Jason! Appreciate keeping me honest! :>
Hmm, we shall see. But from the looks of this Public Notice of Application to Sell Alcoholic Beverages at 350 North Lantana Street in Camarillo (same plaza as Cronies, Peking Inn, Bobbies, Jersey Mikes) there appears to be a distinct possibility. I am not aware of any other Vietnamese restaurants in Camarillo proper.
The name on the notice is Basil & Mint Vietnamese Cafe. Already sounds pretty good to me. Their license to sell on-site beer and wine is pending. Let's hope they are successful and open a new restaurant in this space previously occupied for many, many years by The Crab House, which closed its doors in 2009, followed for a short stint by Chevere.
Other than the sign on door, I have no further information. So stay tuned...if you have any leads, contact us to fill us all in!
Reader Comments (7)
This is not going to be the 1st Vietnamese Restaurant in Camarillo. There was one that closed down a few years ago in the Smart n Final shopping center. I'm with you. I hope they do well.
Jason, thank you for calling me out on that! :> Duly noted.
There is another Vietnamese restaurant call Love Pho N Mor will be open in Camarillo soon too. This one is a second location of Pho Oxnard Vietnaese restaurant in Oxnard city. It is located at 341 Arneills rd, camarillo ca 93010. It uesd to be a chinese restaurant called Grand China, same shopping center with Smart n Final. Hope they all doing well.
Conejo Joe and Bumble Bee.....the more choices in Camarillo - the better! I wish them all well....hope they serve Banh Mi too! :-)
Thank you for all the kind wishes! Our Grand Opening is this Saturday, 10th November. Please come out and support us, we would love to see everyone. We are offering free soft drinks during our Grand Opening.
Basil & Mint :)
Waited for forty minutes to get water! The table behind us got their food before we did (they were seated about 30 minutes after us). We had to ask three times to get two glasses of water (there were three of us). We finally just left. Waiting 50 minutes for the third glass of water was just not acceptable. We will never go back. I don't think this restaurant will be around for long.
Ugg, sorry to hear that, Argelia. Hopefully they will work out these kinks.