MIDTOWN’S VAN LOC WILL LOCK UP FOR GOOD THIS FRIDAY 
Those of you lamenting the closure of 28-year-old Midtown institution Van Loc may want to note this latest update on the Vietnamese restaurant: There’s now an actual deadline for you to get your orders in for duck & bamboo soup, garlic tofu, or No. 46. The restaurant will serve its last meals this Friday, October 17th. What will become of the place then? Separate rumors floated to a Reddit thread include new apartments and a 16-story office building with — wait for it — ground-floor retail. The restaurant at 3010 Milam St. sits on the southern half of a 50,000-sq.-ft. block, one block north of Elgin. Feel free to contribute your speculation, intel, or final orders below. [Reddit; Eater Houston; previously on Swamplot] Photo: Allyn West/OffCite
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I never liked the food at Van Loc. I quit getting emotionally involved with Vietnamese restaurants when Lido closed.
We ate there last night, even our 2 year old son told told the entire staff “Thank you!”. The garlic tofu was simply the best, as was the bo lu lac; one more Houston landmark bites the dust.
just glad it didn’t burn down. Former home of Small Pit BBQ and the piano bar known as Sinbad.
Already closed.