It took us several months to stop in at Les Ba’get Vietnamese Café, the new-ish food truck-turned-brick-and-mortar that opened in Montrose in late 2015. Like many Houstonians, we have a favorite banh mi shop and are rarely tempted to deviate from our usual routine. Well, one recent Tuesday afternoon, the My Table ladies were feeling restless, and we decided to deviate.

We can’t give ourselves too much credit. The Les Ba’get food truck had already earned a notable reputation since hitting the streets of Houston in early 2013, and the new brick and mortar is only a stone’s throw away from our office. It was really an obvious choice for lunch, and we’ve already been back two times since our first visit.

For the late-wakers, Les Ba’get serves its small breakfast menu all day. We tried the steak and eggs ($12.95, photo above), served with filet mignon, Vietnamese sausage, two eggs and hunks of bone marrow-buttered pâté baguette. It’s a smaller portion of steak than we expected, but it was grilled nicely and the marinade was plenty flavorful. Love a runny yolk? You can also order a sandwich or noodle/rice bowl and add a sunny-side-up egg.

We also tried the lemongrass grilled pork sandwich ($6.50, photo below) served on a baguette (you can get any sandwich made on a croissant, if you prefer), which comes filled with duck pâté, truffle aioli, cucumber, thin slices of pickled daikon and carrot, scallion, cilantro and jalapeño. This sandwich packs far more fresh veggies than your average $3 banh mi. Besides adding crunch, the vegetables provide a nice foil to the rich pork and its juices. As for the baguette, Goldilocks would approve – not so thin so it can’t hold up to the ingredients and not so thick so that it’s too much of a mouthful.  The bread – and this sandwich – is just right.

You can order that same moist, fatty pork in the Les Ba’get spring rolls ($5.50). The roll call of typical spring roll fillers – vermicelli, bean sprouts, cucumber, pickled carrot and daikon – are present and accounted for. No peanut sauce is necessary for these, though. A light swish through the garlic fish sauce is all that’s needed, as it would be a shame to mask the flavor of the lemongrass pork.

Again, you can choose the lemongrass grilled pork for your protein in a vermicelli or rice bowl, too, as we did ($9.95, photo below). Other options include garlic butter chicken, lemongrass tofu or, as the cashier suggested during a subsequent visit, coconut basil shrimp.

There’s pho, too. The protein choices vary slightly for the noodle soup. Fragrant ingredients like lemongrass and basil aren’t marinating these meat picks – it’s all about the broth, as it should be.

There’s lots to try at Les Ba’get, and we continue to hear good things. A craving for the lemongrass pork brought us back a third time, and curiosity about the 24-hour sous vide pork belly will bring us back again soon. A lesson learned here: Pick the pork.

Les Ba’get, 1717 Montrose, 832-548-1080, lesbaget.com