Pho review
This is a review which should have been written a year ago but it has only just come to my attention that I haven’t posted a review of my favorite Pho restaurant. Read, if you have the time and want the details, but here’s the tl;dr:
Fantastic perfect neat but flavorful bowl of pho, always comes hot with chewy noodles and thinly sliced beef. Just a perfect way to start or end a day. All the check marks are there for the perfect bowl of pho for me. Very convenient parking, Friendly and outstanding service by staff always and a great selection of fried items as well as drinks! My absolute favorite go to for pho.
Yes, it is my absolute favorite restaurant for pho. I frequent this restaurant at least 2-3 times weekly even wen it is out of the way. I’m very particular and my tastes may vary from yours but listed below are the reasons why this place ranks on TOP for the perfect bowl of PHO for me:
1 soup. Always piping hot, not to the degree of burning you but I believe a good soup is best when the temperature is “if you drink it too fast, you’ll blister the roof of your mouth.” It’s clean and unaltered with too much fragrance. This is where the majority of pho lovers split in terms of their preference, dirty or clean. Much like describing NYC “dirty water” hot dogs, it is everything but. Dirty just means darker and richer in flavors and aromatics. Pho Top has a neat, clean but very flavorful soup which at first look, might look too watery but once you taste that first spoonful, you’ll begin to understand a “less is more” mouthful of flavor.
2 noodles. Noodles. CHEWY noodles. THIS is, for me above anything else, the most important and critical part of a great noodle soup. Yes soup steals the show, but the noodles is like the woman in, “every great man has the support of an even greater woman.” This place consistently has soft chewy noodles in a hot soup. It’s one of the simplest things that are the hardest to perfect. I always order an extra side of noodles because it’s never enough of course but mainly, because that second batch of noodles with a bit of extra soup (no charge for the soup) is perfectly chewy and makes the second round even better.
I’d hate to say it’s nothing fancy because it sounds like it’s not justifying the work and dedication that most likely went in to creating this perfect bowl of neat pho, but it is in its entirety, exactly that; nothing fancy, no one flavor over powering another, just a simple bowl of soup, perfected, IMO Ofcourse.
To end, the staff is always welcoming and tentative, large spread out tables and well lit dining hall and spotlessly clean. The restaurant is conveniently located in a small shopping outlet with plenty of FREE parking which makes up about 30% of decision making when thinking about going out to eat at any restaurant.
Pho Top, thank you for existing and providing so many wonderful meals, enjoy many successful years and additional locations and never forget that quality you have!