Rose VL Deli is a

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restaurant in

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, United States. It is related to sibling establishments

Ha VL Ha VL is a Vietnamese restaurant in Portland, Oregon, United States. Description The restaurant serves soups, including pho. History Ha (Christina) Luu and William Vuong opened Ha VL in 2004. Rose VL Deli is a "sister" restaurant. Annam V ...

and

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(2023).

Description

Rose VL Deli is a

restaurant in southeast Portland's Foster-Powell neighborhood. The restaurant is located in a

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and the interior has been described as "cheerfully purple-and-white". The menu includes noodles (including

cao lầu ''Cao lầu'' is a regional Vietnamese noodle dish, from the city of Hội An, in central Vietnam's Quảng Nam Province. It typically consists of pork and greens on a bed of rice noodles made from rice which has been soaked in lye water, giv ...

), soups,

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, and coffee (including

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). Soup options vary depending on the day; varieties include chicken

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, crabflake,

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, and

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noodle.

History

Christina Ha Luu and William Vuoung opened Rose VL Deli in 2015. The restaurant began serving lunch in 2016. In 2019, Rose VL Deli began operating on Sundays and not on Thursdays. The restaurant operated via

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at times, during the

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. Rose VL Deli is related to

, opened by the same owners in 2004. In 2019, the couple confirmed plans to open a third restaurant in Beaverton.

opened in 2023.

Reception

Rose VL Deli was named the city's best soup shop in ''

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'' 2015 list of the best new restaurants. The magazine also included the cao lȃ̀u in a 2022 list of the twelve best breakfasts in the city. In 2018, '' Eater Portland''

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called Rose VL Deli the city's best Vietnamese restaurant. In 2019, the website's Nick Woo called the cao lầu "iconic" and wrote: "The heady stew of wonderfully contrasting textures and flavors has earned this place many regulars." He also included the chicken curry soup in ''Eater Portland'' 2019 list of thirteen "stellar" curries in the city Jackson-Glidden included the restaurant in a 2021 list of Portland's 38 "essential" eateries and the cao lầu in a 2024 overview of "iconic" Portland dishes. She and Mattie John Bamman also included the cao lầu in ''Eater Portland'' 2021 list of the city's fifteen "iconic" dishes and drinks. Rose VL was also included in the website's 2025 list of Portland's best restaurants for mid-week lunches.

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