Noodles @ BTH, Fort Worth

If Noodles @ BTH strikes visitors as welcoming and familiar, the reason may be that the Vietnamese restaurant’s owners share more than a dedication to fine boba teas—all three of them are sisters. They have merged steamy Vietnamese dishes with milky teas in a casual, laid-back setting. Noodles @ BTH opened in 2013 as a spinoff of the original Fort Worth location, which opened in 2007, serving mostly the same menu with a focus on convenience and walk-up ordering.

Bowls of the restaurant’s signature pho—a Vietnamese noodle soup—line tables alongside spring rolls filled with charbroiled chicken. Piles of rice share plates with marinated grilled pork, beef, and spicy lemongrass chicken, straws fish for treasure in boba teas, whose watermelon, papaya, and green-jasmine-flavored waters brim with chewy pearls of tapioca.