Eight baguette platters is a lot of bread, and that tells you something about the scale of what was needed in Sydney for this one. The baguettes went out alongside a regular Chicken Vietnamese Salad Platter, which gave the whole order a clear logic. The salad brought something lighter and fresh to sit alongside the more substantial rolls, so people had a genuine choice rather than just bulk carbohydrates filling a table.
For a city 2000 postcode delivery, timing tends to matter more than almost anything else. Offices in that part of Sydney move fast at midday, and food that arrives five minutes late can easily miss the window entirely. This one landed when it needed to.
The Vietnamese salad in particular tends to disappear quickly at group lunches. It always does.
