Review: Vietvana brings standout Vietnamese to Avondale Estates

By Wendell Brock

It was beginning to look like another after-work dinner in a forlorn shopping-center restaurant — until the food started to come out. A platter of smoky grilled meats and crispy fried tofu threaded on skewers and showered with crushed peanuts, scallions and fried onions. A cooling green-papaya salad with slivers of tender shrimp and crunchy shrimp crackers. A set of delectably crispy chicken wings in sweet-hot chile sauce.

We sipped our milk teas and got so lost in the pleasure of devouring our appetizers that we almost forgot to order our entrees. Yes, our bodies were still in Atlanta. But our palates had been transported to a Vietnamese nirvana.