Chau Bakery

The banh mi’s here at A Chau Bakery are freshly baked at the shop daily and the sandwiches are always fresh and delicious.

Every morning, the smell of the fresh bread would slowly take me there for a single plan bread for 50cents and sometimes when I want to be fancy, I get the bbq beef with extra butter. I been going here for 8 years now, and its the only place I enjoy my sandwiches from.

Hot Boston summer day. Imagine biting into fresh, cool and crisp vegetables, spicy pork («thit nuang») on fresh bread with cold drink for $ 4.50. Chau’s Bakery is definitely the place!

We have family and friends that come from Quincy and Worcester just to come to this place for their fresh in-​house baked bread.
I grew up eating banh mi (vietnamese sub/​sandwich) from this place. Before my mom would drive me and my two brothers to school, she would stop by Chau’s Bakery to buy us a banh mi each (and this is like at 6:30 in the morning). The bread is so good that my mom would just buy plain bread and eat it as is.
A few years ago, banh mi used to be $ 2 each for grilled beef or cold cut. But now it’s $ 3 and I see that all of the other ba le places in Boston are charging that price too. There are definitely a lot of newer banh mi places that don’t seem too authentic and charge $ 5+ for a viet sub… I think I’ll stick with this small shop for my bread.

This place has pretty good banh mi in a pinch but I wouldn’t go out of my way to come here.
The bread can sometimes be more on the stale side and the bbq beef is just way. too. sweet. and it has a sort of gloppy sauce on it. I do love that they use fresh jalepenos in the sandwiches though.
It isn’t horrible by any means, it’s just that there’s so many other options in the area. I’ll stick to Le’s and Ba Le for the time being.

This establishment is only well-​suited for Vietnamese-​speaking folks, it seems, as the worker-​owners’ English skills are quite limited — food-​wise, the sandwich was great, but there’s something about Banh Mi Ba Le’s (across the street) that grabs me just a bit more… Hrm.

The drive through Dorchester always scares me… I’m a country girl, but always on a quest for food, so I forge on. Here’s my confession… I have never had or heard of Bahn Mi?! Why?! These are AMAZING sandwiches… blending my two favorite food regions, Asian and French! The bread was crunchy yet subtle on the inside (not rip your gums off, but crunchy), the pâté was creamy and the mayo was just enough decadence. I had the pork and turkey Bahn Mi with picked carrots, daikon and cucumbers… topped with chilis and cilatro… OMG! This is my new favorite thing. Thank you Chau Bakery for being my first! I’ll be back… oh and BTW…$ 3.00, yes $ 3.00! Super inexpensive… worth the drive folks! Enjoy:)

Tried something new, inspired by my wife who watched the food network «food truck challenge» she wanted to try Bahn Mi. a Vietnamese style sandwich. From a friend she was recommended to Chau Bakery, mostly because of the bread.
Great Choice. tried two different versions, pork and beef. My favorite is the beef, fresh roll filled with fresh veggies and a sweet sliced beef. Excellent with a little spice from hot peppers
Can’t beat the prices anywhere for both freshness and flavor.

This place is amazing — they have Vietnamese sandwiches here that I’d compare to the ones I had from food carts in the streets of Vietnam.
My parents and I were in the area last year and we were craving banh mi, so my mom asked a Vietnamese guy in Vietnamese where she could find the best Vietnamese sandwiches. He pointed us toward Chau Bakery and said it’s the best in the area. He also made sure to tell us that the place across the street couldn’t compare.
Good thing my mom asked that guy — he knew what he was talking about!
The bread was dead on – airy, light, crisp, with no need for them to toast the loaves before they fill it up with sandwich goodies. I’m pretty sure that they make all their own bread on the premises considering that I took a peek in the back and saw the guys taking the fresh loaves out of the oven. It’s a good sign!
The fillings are fresh and tasty, with a good balance of sweet/​sour/​salty/​spicy/​savory goodness. The sandwiches are really cheap, too, at around $ 2.75!
One issue with this place is that they speak about zero English, but if you tell them you want a sandwich, just point at the items over the counter that you want included and they will get it.
Too bad that they aren’t actually in Boston, because it’s a real trek to get all the way to Dorchester, even for a sandwich this good…

I used to go here all the time on the way to work and grab a banh mi. There is something about paying just $ 3 for a nice freshly made sandwich that makes my toes curl. Unfortunately they started adding entirely too much fish sauce to my sandwiches rendering them salty as hell and inedible. It seems no matter how much I pleaded they just did it anyway until I just started going across the street and getting them from Ba Le instead.

One of the best places for vietnamese bread. To me it’s vietnamese bread, it could have originated from france or whatever but it’s not french bread. It’s crunchy, crispy and flaky on the outside and soft on the inside. French bread tends to be the hard crunchy and not as soft on the inside, plus it gets all hard after a day.
The bread lasts awhile, you just have to pop it in the oven and it’s pretty similar to when you just bought it. I got the viet coffee here once and it was pretty good. Hmm love viet coffee.
My mom said something about this place being some kind of famous viet bread chain or something? I don’t really recall any price list or anything, so it’s a bit confusing. And sometimes they sell out of bread, boo. I’m pretty sure they sell it in the standard viet sub size and a longer version. Also, I think they might have one dinky table with two chairs? Definitely not a place to dine, most of the space is reserved for the back and the front counter.
So yeah come for the bread, I’ve never had one of their subs though.

I bought three 8-​inch loaves of freshly baked bread and a Vietnamese sandwich (bahn mi) here and spent a total of $ 3! the people working here are very nice but hardly speak a word of English. There’s no menu, so you just have to point at what you want on your sandwich or just say «everything!» which they seem to understand. I’m pretty sure they close before 5pm on weekdays, so best to head there on the weekend or during the day.