This Vietnamese eatery offers traditional fare & many types of pho in a no-frills space.
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You have to walk through the supermarket parking lot to get to Pho Bac. They are so busy! We waited about 10-15 minutes to get seated on a Monday afternoon at 2pm. We watched as the server had to navigate through 3 doors to bring meals out to the customers sitting in the outdoor dining area. Anyway, we got seated and I watched as something that made me feel super uncomfortable happen. As one of the servers was clearing up the table next to us, he took the teapot and poured the leftover tea within.. back into the machine holding all the tea to warm up. Tea isn’t expensive and it’s watered down anyway.. I don’t see what the point of pouring back 1-2 small cups of tea into the machine is. My bf justified it by noting that tea usually pours out one way, so he wasn’t too bothered by it. But I certainly was, as I also didn’t see the teapots or any reusable items being wiped after use between customers.
We’ve always been satisfied with the food every time we come to Pho Bac. But watching the tea incident will definitely make me think twice about dining at Pho Bac in the future. Thai Son all the way!
Two bad consecutive experiences.
First the plastic from the straw on out take out food.
Second was they sent us 2 containers of soup no noodles, no meat.
They didn’t apologize nor they gave us a refund.
Besides the Pho, I also share a delicious Vietnamese Crispy Spring Roll: Deep fried rolls wrapped in rice paper with a mixture of ground pork, chicken, black mushroom, and rice noodles. Served with lettuce, mint leaves, cilantro, and the dipping sauce. The crispy roll was super crushing a bit grassy but full of meat the small brings 4 pieces with makes it perfect to share.
I order the #26 on the menu, PHO Chin Nam come with rice noodle in beef broth with roped cilantro, scallion also served with jalapeno lime, fresh basil sprouts I add chicken for
$2.50 and had the XL size. The broth had a good taste the noodle was fine, and the amount of noodle and the amount of meat was very generous, the chicken also give that extra touch.
The staff was not that great, but this is common for any Vietnamese restaurant.
The place doesn’t accept America Express credit cards.
Pho is usually not something I enjoy since the noodles become soft without texture in the hot soup as the time goes. However, they have noodles that are slightly more chewy and do not break easily!
I had the small (which is still big for me..) beef pho. The soup was really rich and you may taste all kinds of beef part. As I mentioned above. The noodles were still kinda chewy even if I ate slow.
I also got a flan to end my meal.. it was not like super best but still delicious! U can know it was homemade with simple ingredients. No artificial taste in it. Recommend it if u want to have a “home-taste” Asia sweet.
Couple of days ago, I went there, so glad that nothing change or any reduce of quality & quantity in the portion. At this time when all groceries price goes up, this place still serves best pho in a right price.
For the service, long ago 1 server gave attitude in serving, I complained directly to the owner. The owner was nice, apologized & fixed the issue right away. After that whenever I come here, never have any issue.
This location has a big parking lot, though it’s shared with other venues. At the end, all I can say, this is the best pho in Elmhurst!