Ph?holic

This place lives up to the hype! A TRUE PHO joint. It should be a template for all wanna be PHO restaurants in the future. Broth is super flavorful. Meats are plentiful, vegetables are abundant, servers are pleasant, AND most especially, your PHO comes out fast and hot. Not a fancy schmancy place, but perfect for soup lovers. Will definitely be coming back all the time..

I, along with my family, arrived at the restaurant around 9 PM time. Most other Vietnamese places were closed, but fortunately, this a) was opened until 10 PM and b) was of great recommendation. Getting there, there was quite a bit of a long list of people waiting! I find it somewhat amusing that we were a group of 11 compared to the others of around 1-4. Wait time was around 30 minutes, but the whole Black Friday might have to do with some of the time (aka, it probably is shorter on a regular day) - We were split in two tables, 6 and 5, respectively, but the waiters allowed us to sit together in the same area after a table opened up next to ours (+) - The menu was simple and easy to read, all ph?! (+) - Food was served extremely quickly*! It was around five minutes after ordering, which is insanely fast relative to other places. (+) - The food was quite delicious, the meat brisket and soup being my favorite parts. (+) - Mild negative detail, this applies to almost all ph? places, but there was a considerable amount of soup left after I ate up all of the delicious content (meat, noodles, etc). (Slightly edited for clarity, tiny minus) Now the elephant in the room. One of my family members was ordering in Vietnamese for our subgroup table of 6, and along with the others, ordered 2 of the same dish (#12, I believe), and the waiter was off. This is where the * comes in. They got the wrong dishes for both, but because it was so fast, everyone thought that they would pour the soup in later. Turns out they didn't, and the same person who ordered went to ask the waiters about the quite limited amount of soup. They were, expectingly, confused. Then, the conversation between them went through several rounds, and we didn't understand any clearer why. Turns out, it was only after seeing the receipt after almost everyone had finished their bowl that, turns out, the waiter put the wrong food onto our order. My family was frustrated. Despite the waiters' apologies and attempts to correct course via quickly getting the correct soup in, it left a considerable bad taste in our mouths (no pun intended). We left with the review that the food was great, but only for those that received the correct order. In fact, one of the two that received the wrong food was the one that *recommended* going here in the first place. Will we go here again? Most likely yes. Has it left a lingering feeling afterwards? Also yes, but negative. TL:DR - Food is great, but service ultimately lets the experience down Edit: added clarity

My brother was like yo man do you want to drive to Westminster from the 626 just to get pho and banh mi? I was like okay, sure. Boy howdy, I'm glad we did because phoholic delivered in spades. The wait looked intimidating, but we got seated right away. Protip: don't park in the restaurant parking lot on crowded days, park elsewhere that is willing. Food was served lighting fast and pipping hot. The broth is divine, very meaty, full of flavor with a slight bit of sweetness for an overall well-rounded soup. The flat noodles are also a nice surprise. Even the rare beef steak was tender! The ox-tail piece is large, but a little on the tougher side. The beef rib is tender and oh man filled with so much flavor. Even the soup the beef rib or the tendon rib comes in tastes different from the one in your soup bowl. Additionally using scissors to cut off lumps of tendon or beef meat is a fun activity between guzzling down soup and noodles. I never finish the whole bowl's broth, but I finished my own soup bowl and the broth the beef ribs came in. Un-pho-gettable.

*** Each person has a different taste/experience *** While visiting CA, my uncle took me here to try it out. In my opinion, the only difference between them and others is their ability to have more choices of Ph?. A cup of meat scraps and scalded white onion with vinegar was also given to you for free. The taste is not too special or delicious for me. I think the price was acceptable considering the size of the bowl and the taste.

Very Delicious ???? Authentic Vietnamese food. Most items are 12.99. I go to eat at least once a week.???? Try the ox tails and Beef Tendon. Very delicious ????