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    Caravelle Restaurant

    3.6 (38 reviews)
    ModerateChinese, Vietnamese
    Open 11:00 am - 8:00 pm

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    Moderate noise
    Good for kids
    Good for groups

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    Curry tofu ($14), vegan by default. Pretty good. Nice array of textures. A bit oily.
    Kedar D.

    Caravelle is a slightly grimy hole-in-the-wall run by a bunch of friendly women. The menu is Vietnamese and Chinese and the prices are high, but the portions are huge. The vegetarian egg rolls ($5 for two) are pretty good---oily, crispy and savory on the inside. The five spice tofu ($15) is a bunch of fried tofu cubes with shards of onion in a semi-spicy dry seasoning. It's not bad, but will be boring if it's the only thing you order. The kung pao tofu ($14) is a greasy mess of oozing fried tofu, diced water chestnuts, bamboo shoot and peanuts. It's way too oily and left oil slime on my plate. That said, it doesn't taste terrible. The curry tofu ($14) is flavorful but also oily. Every time I've ordered, they tend to be 10-15 minutes behind the predicted pickup time. If you want better Vietnamese food, check out Jasmine 26, My Huong or Quang on Nicollet; if you want better Chinese, Rainbow on Nicollet is decent and so is Szechuan Spice on Lyndale. Caravelle will never be at the top of my list, but it's good for un-fussy comfort food purposes.

    Outside the restaurant.
    Tim D.

    Fantastic authentic Vietnamese, Thai and Chinese food. We were quite impressed with everything we ate, including egg rolls, egg foo yung, sesame chicken, fried rice and chicken with Broccoli. There were plenty of leftovers for the next day. Seems family owned and operated. I would highly recommend the food and service. The restaurant could use some updating.

    71. Muc or Tom Xao Ngu Vi Huong (+tofu)
    Lynh V.

    Every time I'm craving Canh chua cá and the 5 spice squid (with added tofu), I would go to caravelle. I think Caravelle, is one of the few restaurants that serve traditional Vietnamese family dishes like canh chua cá, and cá kho tộ. Food is consistently good. The pho had plenty of meat and not overkilled with noodles. Service is typical of any Asian women run shops. They cut to the chase and are quick and efficient. Some ppl may think it's not friendly but that's Vietnamese women lol. They know what they want and expect you to as well so if you're quick with your order then they'll speed away and be back with your plating and food in no time.

    Wiped down our table to find our napkins gray with grime. When was the last time this surface was actually cleaned since the place opened?
    Alex J.

    My guy and I wanted to dine out with my mom this weekend. Mom was craving sweet and sour soup and claypot catfish, two childhood favorites I grew up with mom making at least once every two weeks, so we came here. We found both as part of the four-person set dinner meal ($43.99 as of Oct 2017), so we ordered that to share. Meal options: APPETIZER: 6 egg rolls or 4 spring rolls SOUP: Sweet and sour soup with choice of catfish or shrimp PROTEIN: Claypot catfish, no choice SAUTÉ: Mustard greens with choice of tofu, beef, or squid We grabbed spring rolls, soup with catfish, and the squid sauté options to go with the standard claypot catfish. And proceeded to wipe down our table as we always do - to find our napkins gray with grime. Has this surface been cleaned since the place opened? Peering over at the drink and dessert refrigerator, I found racks of prefilled glasses with no lids on them. Even if they were to go through all of those in a single day, I would question the sanitation level of that setup - and I highly doubt they handle that number of those specific drinks in a day. I'll pass, thanks. The spring rolls came out first. My guy and I, both goi cuon fanatics, gave the plate an odd look. The choice of char siu slices of pork, while not traditional, was fine, though I imagine the choice was more a matter of what was convenient to the restaurant than the quality of the dish, particularly given everything else about the rather awkward rolls. The ends were left completely open, leaving the components to dry out and fall out upon being handled, especially given that the lettuce was shredded - that was a first. Clearly repurposed from an already-shredded pile meant for general use. Herbs, the most pricey element, were barely present or perceptible. This was the most pathetic roll I'd picked up throughout my childhood in southern California's Little Saigon, roaming streets in Saigon proper as a fresh college grad, and in my overall travels. Given I found a pretty legit goi cuon an hour out of Chicago with barely a Vietnamese community just weeks ago, this is just sad. By time the main dishes arrived, I'd had one bite and set the roll down immediately, and my Irishman had half of a roll where he'd normally devour a plate's worth. My mom didn't bother touching a single one. Smart cookie. I can't say it got better from there. The claypot catfish was way salty. In Vietnamese cuisine, there are several home-style protein dishes made on the salty-sweet side as a matter of course to force diners to balance the stronger flavors out with much larger chopstick shovelfuls of cheap, filling rice for every morsel of meat savored, every bite of seafood taken. Given the strong savory-sweet taste, these dishes tend to be very popular with children of Vietnamese descent. I was no exception and remain a fan of these still. For both my mom and I to put the dish aside to reseason in the kitchen ourselves is pretty bad. My guy didn't even bother with it after his first nibble. The squid sauté felt out of place at a family-style meal. The cornstarch slurry was too thick, the flavors too processed. Not surprisingly, my Irishman took lead on that dish - he likes squid enough not to mind the Panda Express element and had noticed that neither mom nor I touched it once after our first taste of it. The soup was the one salvation, decently balanced. We were amused to note that the bowl was brimming with the cheaper ingredients, such as bean sprouts, and skimping on ingredients critical to the soup that happen to be pricier in the TC area. This became particularly evident when I was fishing for even one slice of the porous, spongy vegetable stem known as ba.c hà early on in the meal to have my guy try something different - to find that even with my mom and I both searching, we came up with exactly one last slice. And we were swimming in tangles of bean sprouts and tomatoes while we searched, so we definitely hadn't reached even the midway point of the meal yet. The bowl was also full of okra nubs alongside okra slices - another first. Cutting corners that much? To make the ending just as hilarious as the rest of the meal, they gave us a paper to-go box to stuff the spring rolls in. Anyone who has handled rice paper knows what happens when you shove moistened rice paper against more moistened rice paper - it tears. Add to that the shredded lettuce and you may as well rename the resulting mess "deconstructed goi cuon salad." You guys *are* running a Vietnamese restaurant with goi cuon on your menu here, right? You shouldn't need Rice Paper 101. Not that it matters. By the next morning, the shredded lettuce with its many oxidating edges had browned, and the look of the ingredients overall warned my human trash compactor of a stomach gamble. My 6-year Marine veteran with the ironclad stomach gave the three and a half remaining spring rolls a pass - right over to a underfed squirrel neighbor we'd met a few days before.

    Fried sole in nuoc mam gung
    Lan L.

    Place is good Vietnamese family style meals and pho. Common dishes we order are fried fish in nuoc mam, braised catfish, canh chua shrimp or fish, salt and pepper squid, shrimp egg rolls, and of course pho. I only gave 3 stars today because the service wasn't too great... and it wasn't even busy. Ate here with my kids. The server wasn't very attentive. Never refilled water and took forever to bring out the check. Gave me an old used plastic bag to pack leftovers. :( But the food was still tasty. If great service is not a big deal and just want delicious authentic Vietnamese food, this is the place to be.

    Extensive menu
    Lisa T.

    5 star for what it is. A great place for large parties looking for good vietnamese food. Normally eaten family style, the portions are big and decently priced. The food -hot and sour catfish soup (Canh chua ca), one of the dishes they are known for and a main reason I come here. It's very flavorful with a nice balance of sweet and sour. -5 spice squid, delicious! Packed with flavor, cooked well and light crispy batter complimented by the stirfry onion makes it a must haves! -Everything else was good too! Has its own parking which is nice. I'll be back!

    Liang H.

    I mean this restaurant is good. Their serve a lot of food with normal price. And is delicious . The vegetable goes with the noodle are little bit wired(too row bitter). The sesame chicken is good 5.99$for 8pieces. But is way too sweet I could't finish them by myself.after that I feel pain in my throat(too much sugar)...but it's worth to try

    Flaming hot pot: canh chua (almost like Tom yum where it is a spicy soup with fish or shrimp)
    Uyen T.

    My parents have been doing their taxes at the accountant upstairs of this restaurant for years. Every year after doing our taxes we come here for dinner and every time we always order the same thing. My family comes here for canh chua ca kho to, a specialty of this restaurant. This is 2 vietnamese dishes often eaten together. The canh chua (sour soup) is like a the thai dish tom yum with either shrimp or fish. Ask for it in the hot pot aka "lau" and it will come out in a flaming pot, keeping the soup warm. The soup comes out with a plate of fish sauce and how we eat it is we pick the fish out of the soup and place it on the fish sauce plate so that the fish sits in the fish sauce absorbing the flavor. The second dish in this combo is the ca kho. This is fish (most likely catfish) braised in a sweet flavoring. Eating both of these dishes with rice, and finishing it off with dousing the rice in leftover soup to sip on. Other things we usually order here is the 5 spice fried squid. AMAZING. One of my favorite calamari dishes hand down in MN. Today we also got these mini shrimp egg rolls appetizers and sometimes we get the fried sweet potato balls, both of which are good as well. Caravelle is connected to Pho 79, same owner and place, but depending on what you came for, they will sit you on different sides for less confusion. They are famous for their pho as well, but I didn't love it when I last tried it. For a unique vietnamese specialty dish, definitely come to Caravelle for the canh chua ca kho to.

    Such good food, great prices, and huge proportions! We'll be coming back next time we're in the area!

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