Quan He Pho

This was one of my worst dining experiences ever, it felt like I was in an episode of the Twilight Zone. My wife and I love to experiment with food and restaurants alike and 99% of the time we stumble on great places, but this restaurant was terrible in every way. First bad sign was the puny parking lot that only 5 – 6 parking spots, so obviously I had to park across the street to eat at this restaurant. Once we walked up to the restaurant we noticed that only 2 tables out of 20+ had people seated, so I would hate to see the parking after the restaurant fills up, yikes! We were greated and seated by a scantily dressed woman in really short shorts and a low cut top and the reason I point this out is because after looking around the restaurant we noticed all the girls wearing similar style clothing, kind of like an asian version of the Hooters girls. Here’s were everything gets worse, we we’re asked what we would like to drink and the girl taking our order couldn’t understand us and even after pointing at the drink at the bar the girl still didn’t get it. Then another girl came over to our table and we asked for the same drink which was KU «Sujo» and the girl just smiled and didn’t understand us, so we asked for water. The girl understood water, but where she went wrong was by bringing us Evian bottled water, we didn’t order bottled water but at this point we were frustrated and dealt with the error. We proceeded to order our food and the girl didn’t understand what we were saying and she just siad what # (number) you want? So whatever we gave her our order by number and when the food arrived my wifes food was as described, but my dish wasn’t the Phở I had ordered and I got something entirely different, but I decided to eat my food rather than go through a tiring process of returning or making a different selection. While my wife and I were eating we noticed the strong smell of cigarette smoke and both looked towards the patio area and didn’t see the smoke coming from out there, the smoke was coming from the inside. 2 other tables right next to us filled up and both started to smoke and what makes this so troubling is that ashtrays were provided for these tables so that they could smoke inside. As far as I know there’s a smoking ban in Restaurants and Bars in the state of California, but I guess they think the law doesn’t apply to them, because the manager or owner I presume was also lighing up by the stage area where they have bands play and this was only 10 feet from our table. We wanted to complain about the smoking, but once we saw everyone smoking we knew that policy wasn’t going to change woth our complaint. We asked for our check ago ee the illegal smoking I was taling about and turn them into the Health Department.