Rose VL Deli | |
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Restaurant information | |
Food type | Vietnamese |
Street address | 6424 Southeast Powell Boulevard |
City | Portland |
County | Multnomah |
State | Oregon |
Postal/ZIP Code | 97206 |
Country | United States |
Coordinates | 45°29′50″N 122°35′48″W / 45.4972°N 122.5967°W |
Rose VL Deli is a Vietnamese restaurant in Portland, Oregon.
Rose VL Deli is a Vietnamese restaurant in southeast Portland's Foster-Powell neighborhood. The restaurant is located in a strip mall and the interior has been described as "cheerfully purple-and-white".[1]
The menu includes noodles (including cao lầu),[2] soups,[3] bánh mì, and coffee (including Vietnamese iced coffee).[4][5] Soup options vary depending on the day; varieties include chicken curry, crabflake,[6] fishcake,[7] and turmeric noodle.[1]
Christina Ha Luu and William Vuoung opened Rose VL Deli in 2015.[8][4] The restaurant began serving lunch in 2016.[9] In 2019, Rose VL Deli began operating on Sundays and not on Thursdays.[10] The restaurant operated via take-out at times, during the COVID-19 pandemic.[11]
Rose VL Deli is related to Ha VL, opened by the same owners in 2004. In 2019, the couple confirmed plans to open a third restaurant in Beaverton.[12]
Rose VL Deli was named the city's best soup shop in Portland Monthly's "Best New Restaurants of 2015" list.[13] The magazine included the cao lȃ̀u in a 2022 list of "The 12 Best Breakfasts in Portland".[14]
In 2018, Eater Portland's Brooke Jackson-Glidden called Rose VL Deli the city's best Vietnamese restaurant.[1] In 2019, the website's Nick Woo called the cao lầu "iconic"[15] and wrote: "The heady stew of wonderfully contrasting textures and flavors has earned this place many regulars."[16] He also included the chicken curry soup in Eater Portland's 2019 list of "13 Stellar Curries in Portland".[15] Jackson-Glidden included the restaurant in a 2021 list of Portland's "38 essential restaurants and food carts".[5] She and Mattie John Bamman included the cao lầu in Eater Portland's 2021 list of "15 Iconic Portland Dishes and Drinks".[17]