bún-ker - Ridgewood

Visited with groupon on weekday afternoon. Very casual, trendy place. It 's definitly good for a group. Beers and some cocktails are very good. They have some unique vietnamese beers. I liked the interior. Very bushwick style restaurant. Relaxed and chill. Enjoyed my dinning! We ordered spring roll, claypot with seafood, king oyster mushroom, pho with short ribs. Spring roll tasty. Very traditional. Inculdes shrimp, pork, vermicelli, mint. I thought this was pretty mediocre. King oyster mushroom very unique. Well seasoned. It 's first time i tried grilled king oyster mushroom. Very chewy. I liked the sauce it came with. Very unique. Recommended. Claypot well seasoned, very hot. It 's very similar to hong kong style claypot. Very very rich in flavor. If you dont like strong flavor, i wouldnt recommend it. Pho with short rib loved the soup! Very deep, rich flavor. It 's not one of those powdered pho. Very flavorful. Recommend it!!

Before COVID-19: Bunker is that cool spot in Brooklyn that you want to take your friends to for some modern Viet food. The restaurant is a hidden gem but locals know what's up as its been in the neighborhood for years. The restaurant itself is beautiful, large, and rustic with a modern hipster vibe. It was a bit out of the way in BK but a fun place to go out on a date or with friends, especially at night for a drink. The bánh xèo was my favorite here and the tapioca pudding as well. Accepts cash and card. Bathrooms available. Bon appetit!

The surf and turf remains awesome. My opinion of that does not change. However, having eaten the pho for the first time... this has got to be the absolutely WORST pho I've ever had. Having eaten many pho's in NY, Vietnam and around the globe Bunker's version has got to be the worst. The flavor is off, it tastes weird and for $22, you got to be kidding me. Luckily, everything else is decent. I also don't understand $14 summer rolls. Wtf. The banh mi is okay. I tried the crispy fish and it wasn't bad. The roll was soft yet crispy. Unfortunately everything else fell short of spectacular. If you're there, just get the surf and turf. It's what they do best.

Id give it a 4.5 but Yelp doesn't allow that. Still a solid place a year later. I'm happy they held up through the pandemic. This time I made reservations for a group of 4 of my girlfriends. We got here around 7:15p and were seated relatively quickly. The staff here is really nice. Our waiter, Alex, was very accommodating with my drink requests (I was very particular haha). The only con was that service was a bit slow. Aside from that food tasted fresh. Everyone enjoyed their meal. Super chill vibe.

I went to Bunker a few years ago when they were located in an industrial park on Metropolitan. Now they 've moved to a new industrial park! But in any case I appreciate the expert vegan renditions of dishes from a cuisine that can often prove frustratingly unwelcoming if meat and seafood aren 't options. The vegetarian pancake to start was delicious a mix of what tasted like chives and other mixed vegetables in a melange of chewy and crisp textures. The vegetarian bun (a vermicelli noodle salad) was good, with well seasoned garlicky eggplant and zucchini, but with fewer vegetables than I had hoped. Given the volume of noodles, the dish required a healthy dose of hot sauce to really sing.