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Chef Gracie Nguyen and her husband Chad Newton are buzzing around a small kitchen space on Gallatin Avenue on a recent weekday. The owners of East Side Banh Mi have just gotten the green light to open their newest concept — East Side Pho — and they're starting in just a few hours.East Side Pho occupies Bay 5 of The Wash, a new food hall retrofitted from an old car wash. It’s pretty unusual. There’s next to no parking.

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