Pho Garden

Not bad to have phở in a shopping center
Price is great under $ 8
Space is wide for families, big group.
Quick service
Menu is simple
Be quick and everything will be fine

I’ve been here many times and love this place.
— fast service, very fast
— great portion size on phở and other dishes, OK on the sandwiches
— simple menu
— great value
For those with bad experiences all I can say is you reap what you sow. If you are rude to the server, they will dish it back to you, so you get what you deserve.

Firstly, they gave me my food packaged to go, when I was clearly set on eating in the restaurant. I corrected them and let them know I’d like to eat at the table. She said «yea sure». I had to ask if I could have a bowl. Secondly, she hands me a tiny bowl, which could not fit the overflowing noodles. I get up to show her the bowl is too small and she hands me a larger but USED one. I look into it and looked like they just dumped out soup! Yes, she switched it, but yeah, that was too much. The phở was ok but a little overpriced, maybe because its at the mall.

Awesome dinner and great service! Every dish we ordered was delicious, freshly prepared and delivered by an awesome waitress Miriam. Will definitely go back!

Got the grilled pork viet sandwich it was nasty af. Pork tasted very old and dry, Never going back here again.

They noodles for bun bo hue is the regular phở noodles. The noodles in dried vermicelli bowls are the thick bun bo hue noodles. This place is not legit and makes the food tastes weird… not recommended. Go next door for Panda Express.

Last time I went here, I was sitting and talking with my friend. There was a man that knew the people working there. I was talking with my friend and he started recording us from the table across from us! Talk about invasion of privacy!
When the light on the phone does not go off while he’s holding the phone up and the restaurant is not too brightly lit, it’s not difficult to tell that he was recording us.
Aside from the invasion of privacy, the food was okay. Never coming back here again.

This place is me & my family’s to go to when ever we feel like having Phở. My kids love this place. The people/​owner are so welcoming. We always order the same thing, but today I decided on the Green papaya salad, very good! You won’t get disappointed

My sandwich was SOAKED in fish sauce yesterday to the point where bread was soggy and soaked through the paper bag! Last week the sandwich had no meat. Week before it was all carrots. I’m done.

This restaurant is located in Serramonte Mall next to the food court. Which is convenient when craving phở after shopping.
The food was ok, nothing amazing. I have tried other Phở restaurants in the area that were definitely much better. The seafood combo had minimal seafood and seemed loaded with broccoli (other places I’ve been had decent portions of seafood). I don’t know why my brother ended up having 2 more shrimp then me (I had only 2). My boyfriend complained his meatball and steak soup had little noodles. The soups also didn’t have much flavor. We literally had to add so much siracha, soy sauce and hoisin sauce to get some sort of flavoring.
What was the best out of our entire meal was the coconut shake. It was fresh and refreshing.
Not sure if I’ll be back. But I’ll probably stick to other Phở restaurants that I know are better.

O Freaken MG, are you serious. I ordered a Vietnamese sandwich and the size of jalapeño was at least an inch and the thickness is quarter an inch. What the knife is that dull or half ass done. And where’s the grilled pork. Grilled? Taste fried pork with sugar.
I heard thru friends this place is good. Dont mine the Unilocal.LOL the Unilocalers are right.
Customer service is great, attentive and very friendly.

Avoid at all costs!!!
Service, although friendly, was neither attentive, responsive, or fast. Food preparation was terribly slow. Took over 25 minutes to get the food out. I can’t recall ever waiting more than 10 minutes for a bowl of phở… anywhere!!! Food quality was beyond horrendous! The noodles were clumpy, the broth was disgusting, the meat was dry, the chicken was flavorless. SMH…
Last three words: THIS PLACE SUCKS!!!

Combination pork sandwich = Okay. Just okay. Way too much mayo. Bread ratio is too high. $ 6.50
My friend’s phở = okay. It’s good, if you’re hungry. If you’re looking for top notch, this place is not it. Not a lot of meat for the price. $ 8.00
Service = okay.
Prices = moderate. Mall prices.
Cute UP artwork, clean, and friendly.

I don’t know what the hell just happen. Every changed again!
Is like they change the floor planning every few months or so.
I liked how you just ordered your food and grab a number and take a seat system (if your dinning in). Now, it just back to the usual.
Empty tables are dirty that they wipe down the messed while your sitting. Who does that?
The food quality is getting much worst. I usually order the combination phở but the broth was too salty. The other time I ordered the 5 spice chicken phở, the chicken isn’t fully cooked.
The main problem is that the prices up and they inforced the rule that you have to pay a minimum of $ 10.00 to used any type of debt/​credit card. Wtf!
After going there couple of times as a regular, sadly I won’t be coming back. Bye.

I dont know what in the hell happened to my judgement call this weekend. Picking Green Bay and St. Louis to win but both got pounded instead. Next thing i know the fam and I decide on going to phở garden… and what happens… a bloody sh*t-fest…
It is alread troubling when the waiter/​server in charge is not very well versed in neither English nor Vietnamese…
Cases in point…
A)Papa bear is asking him if broken rice is avaliable to be served with the BBQ pork rice plate.
Waiters response: ‘ohh you want salad dish?” (–1)
B) Me: Can i get a number 11(phở tai) and thai tea .
…waiter then directs a Seafood Combination to our table… yikes… (–1)
I swear just based on todays interaction, the server is just going through the motion but doesn’t the words coming from his own mouth. English or vietnamese, i think even google translate couldn’t help him.
–1 For a beyond left field response as well as poor service quality. (ie:chopsticks provided after the bowl comes.
–1 For rushing through tables and not knowing which order goes to which table.
–1 For rushing patron orders even though other tables are sitting around without even being given a menu to see yet.
PHO–
_.I DONT KNOW HOW YOU SCREW UP PHO TAI _​
Nvm…PG just did…(-2)
By the time the bowl arrived at the table. The meat was well done… like hot pot garden type of well done.
But as much as i sas hungry. .the broth was just saturated in MSG… that whole thirsty dry mouth feel we all dread is very prominent here… oh man. i couldn’t even get past ¹⁄₅ of the bowl. (See pic)
IF you choose to order Bun Bo Hue here. it carries more oil and fatty gunk than Beef Stew from Tong Kee Noodles… just a warning.
Seriously. …what.in…the.hell…

First off let me just say they are VERY Disorganized here. There were literally 5 – 7 tables that were dirty. They had only 1 Server clean up everything and I had to tell her we need a clean table. She tried to pick up as fast as possible but that is So unprofessional. GET IT TOGETHER.
I only ordered one item and that was their chicken noodle soup. It was dee-​lish and filling.
Paying I stood in line for 5 whole minutes because they were understaffed. The manager apologized. I think they could really hire Bussers and a few hostesses. Everyone is just running around everywhere not paying attention.

The structure of servicing and hosting is quite unorganized here! There were different waiters taking our orders and we had to repeat it a couple of times to secure that our orders were right to different waiters!
I ordered up their cold dish with five spice chicken and imperial rolls. Their chicken could be much more flavorful as well as their imperial rolls. It satisfied, nonetheless. Their phở broth was spot on.
Servicing got it together when the orders were taken. They asked if we wanted a refill on our waters and so forth.
It is located in a food court mall, so the expectations are of the standards. This is more of a restaurant in a food court, so good servicing should be expected.

This place has fallen from a tolerable 3 stars maybe a few years back to frankly a 1 star.
The kitchen — dirty
Tables — greasy, dirty, filthy
Waitstaff — slow, unfriendly, incompetent
The food — small portions, non-​fresh ingredients, salty and watered down with canned chicken broth beef phở
Somebody should call the health inspector. I give this place like 6 months before they fold up and close.
I regret not spending my money at the Quick Grill or Panda Express frankly. This place is disgusting.
The signs show an indifferent management that just doesn’t care. Guess you also don’t care about making money, because I hope you go out of business.
They should include a bottle of Imodium with each meal for the diarrhea their food will cause you. Avoid avoid avoid avoid avoid avoid.

I mean it’s not terrible… but not worth going when you have a craving for Vietnamese food. There are better phở places nearby.
It’s fairly clean. A lot of their services are self-​serve (water, silverware, etc).
Garlic noodles were ok. Wouldn’t order it again. The pork chops were good though.
I wouldn’t come back soon…

Phở. As in Phở Challenge, as in are you phở real?
On a rainy February evening, a group of the dumbest smart college kids ventured here from Berkeley, facing rush hour traffic and enduring growling stomachs for one purpose: to face the Phở Challenge.
This Phở Garden is actually a restaurant attached to the Serramonte Mall (so yes, you won’t be sitting in the middle of the food court scarfing down phở). We, all 25 or so of us, were graciously greeted by the manager on duty, Johnny. He was pleasantly surprised to see so many hungry stomachs, but unfortunately only had 11 challenge bowls and no «I got phở’d» failure T-​shirts. So call ahead if you’re going with a group to ensure you reap the rewards!
The Challenge:
— 2 lbs of noodles, 2 lbs of beef (tripe, tendon, etc.), varying amounts of other vegetables in 1 hour
— $ 22 if unfinished, plus a T-​shirt
— Free if completed, plus the titanic bowl, plus your picture on the wall of fame, and oh, ETERNAL GLORY?
The phở itself is about average, or at least the first 10 minutes of it was. After that, you’re off the cruise ship and on the struggle bus for the rest of the time. What boosted this place’s rating was the great service we got, considering there were so many of us. The cooks and random people were taking pictures of us (Ocean’s) Foolish Eleven and Johnny and the waiters complied as quickly as possible with all of our requests (more lemons! more ice! more bowls!) and were very good-​natured about the whole spectacle, even though I’m sure it was not a pleasant scene to clean-​up after.
I can’t tell you anything about the other menu items since I wasn’t exactly in the mood to eating anything related to noodles or meat after the challenge, but suffice it to say that they’re still in business. There’s plenty of seating and all the furnishings are kept at your typical mall eatery cleanliness.
Tips for challengers:
— Accept the ice bucket. And as soon as you get your bowl, lift all your noodles to the surface to start cooling, unless you fancy eating with a burnt tongue.
— If you really need to, take small sips of water to counteract the savory-​ness.
— Eat the noodles before they start spawning and use your non-​dominant hand to scoop and hold the noodles out of the broth.
— The beef will not appear to be beef after you’re through with one pound of it. Use some sauce (hoisin, soy, etc) to mask it’s unappetizing texture.
— Have a friend get some other food court snack (fro-​yo, French fries, Jamba) to cleanse your palate.
— BATHROOM Y U SO FAR. You’d think that for the sake of the janitor’s they would locate the bathrooms next to Phở Garden, or at least within the food court. No, it takes a good minute to walk there, so flush it all out in advance and plan your trips accordingly.