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Type of Business: Restaurant
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Price: $
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Rating Criteria
1. From Scratch: Serves mostly (i.e., more than half of the menu) fresh food, prepared from scratch. Does NOT rely primarily on kits or prepared/partially prepared foods from commercial food services.
Yes
2. Local/Organic: Offers at least some locally sourced and/or organically produced food and/or wild-caught seafood.
No
Comments: Hard to say
3. Pastured: Offers at least some pastured animal foods.
No
4. Organs: Offers some dishes made with organ meats (liver/paté, sweetbreads, heart, kidney, brains, etc.).
Yes
Comments: Could be
5. Cooking Fats: Cooks (sautés) in natural fats such as butter, lard, tallow, duck fat, coconut oil, or olive oil; uses lard, duck fat, or tallow for frying.
No
Comments: Will have to ask
6. Bone Broth: Makes own bone broths/stocks for use in soups, stews, gravies, and sauces (does NOT use canned broth or powdered soup bases).
Yes
Comments: Probably
7. Seasonings: Makes most of its own seasoning mixes (does NOT use flavoring packets or MSG).
No
Comments: I suspect they use MSG
8. Salad oils: Makes most of its own salad dressings using olive oil or cold-pressed sesame oil.
No
9. Breads: Offers genuine sourdough bread.
No
10. Beverages: Offers lacto-fermented beverages (such as kombucha or kvass).
No
11. Condiments: Offers lacto-fermented condiments.
Yes
Comments: They may offer some.
12. Desserts: Offers desserts made with natural sweeteners (such as raw honey, maple syrup, maple sugar, molasses, date sugar, palm sugar, coconut sugar, sorghum syrup, or malt syrup).
No
Rating Created by:
Kris Johnson
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Location & Contact
West Toledo - just west of Talmadge Rd
5228 Monroe St
Toledo, OH 43623
5228 Monroe St
Toledo, OH 43623
Blade review: Amango is an unpretentious restaurant that reminds of us the joys of Vietnamese food. Open again after being closed several months for remodeling, the eatery specializes in delicious pan Asian cuisine ranging from such standard dishes as beef broth pho and bahn mi sandwiches, to sumptuous noodle bowls dressed with a delectable fish sauce. Vietnamense cuisine lacks the denseness of Korean food and eschews the glazes of Chinese. It's lighter than its brethren, but no less satisfying.