{"id":27809,"date":"2025-10-29T00:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/27809\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T00:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:43:06","slug":"nep-cafe-review-a-vietnamese-brunch-destination-rises-in-orange-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/27809\/","title":{"rendered":"Nep Cafe Review: A Vietnamese Brunch Destination Rises in Orange County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">It only makes sense that a brunch restaurant seemingly lifted out of a hip Ho Chi Minh City neighborhood landed in Fountain Valley, a majority Vietnamese American city near Orange County\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/maps\/best-vietnamese-restaurants-little-saigon-orange-county-southern-california\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Little Saigon<\/a>, its tables tetrised with mandarin tequila cocktails and Vietnamese coffee topped with egg foam. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nepcafe.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nep Cafe<\/a>, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/2022\/4\/6\/23013540\/orange-county-restaurant-group-kei-concepts-vox-kitchen-kin-ramen-sup-noodle-feature\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">prolific Kei Concepts group<\/a>, grew from a pop-up to a bustling brunch destination with as many colorful beverages as it has fried egg dishes. Instead of pancakes and hash browns, Nep serves pan-fried noodles, tender beef belly in cast-iron skillets, and mango sticky rice for dessert. Expect to wait during prime weekend hours, though tables turn quickly as the morning progresses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Typically, restaurants this popular don\u2019t take reservations, but Nep Cafe does on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opentable.com\/r\/nep-cafe-fountain-valley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenTable<\/a> for both its original Fountain Valley and newer Irvine location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">The tables near the glass wall are bathed in soft light that not only gives an almost cinematic level of brightness but also makes for the best food photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It only makes sense that a brunch restaurant seemingly lifted out of a hip Ho Chi Minh City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,5105],"class_list":["post-27809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-dining-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}