Pho Nhat

Phở: good with chicken that was perfectly cooked. Skip the fried rice. Spring rolls were ok. Service was slow and not welcoming. Outdoor access restroom needs a thorough cleaning. Decent Vietnamese food if you’re willing to overlook the not so clean atmosphere.

I was introduced to this restaurant in 2008 when I first move to AZ. I ate here a few time as well with my friends. Although the service is slow since only one guy waits the table (I don’t see anyone else so I don’t know and off one star for it), the food is not bad at all. However I order anything else beside the phở (yes, it is their main dish). The phở doesn’t as flavorful as I expect. Off one star for that since it is your main dish. So thump down for that. Otherwise it is the closest place to MCC. One star for convenience. I don’t know if they have a bathroom? Never see one so no comment. The table is clean on season. Sometimes it is clean, other time really lost my appetite. Off one star for that.
Overall: 3 star.
Food: good
Cleanliness: bad
Service: bad

This place has the best phở in town, and possibly (probably) the state. I’ve been coming here for ten years now, and I still cannot get enough of this man’s phở. The spring roles, eggs roles, fried rice plates, vermicelli, thai tea, Vietnamese coffee, and boba are all so good you won’t help but come back for more. This restaurant is a very lowkey diamond in the rough, but the food is so worth it. Every friend and family member I have brought here falls in love and returns frequently. If you haven’t been here, you are missing out on some REALLY good phở.

My roommate and I love this place! Seriously the broth is what we can’t get anywhere else. Would love to have more variety to put into my phở (like egg or sea weed) but that’s the only downside. Your missing out if you haven’t checked them out yet!

One caveat for this place: don’t expect anything other than what this place is — a small, family-​run, hole-​in-​the-​wall located in a former fast-​food restaurant. As long as you go in with that awareness, you will likely be happy with your experience here.
Walking in, the place appears a little, well, gnarly, especially if you go after-​dark for dinner as we did. It has huge, blaring neon lights overhead and the feel of a fast-​food place. For that reason, lunch-​time may be the better time to eat here, when the neon would be softened by the light of day. We did see college students in there and I thought to myself: this is a place you’d frequent when you’re in college. I remember the diners I frequented in college, when I cared naught about neon and atmosphere, and much more about cheap food.
However, at Phở Nhat, what immediately mitigates the lack of a nice atmosphere is the wonderful smell when you walk in the door. It just smells amazing in here. And you know you’re in for something good with that smell. (One more «con» before we get to the main «pro» which is the food. There is a TV located inside the restaurant. We had to wonder why it was there as the atmosphere was already not so great. The TV didn’t help.)
Ok, now onto the «pros»: the food. We had phở. And the phở was really, really good. I had the seafood phở, which was aromatic and very flavorful. The fish cake in the seafood phở was delicious and the shrimp was good, too. There was bok choy in it, too, that gave it a nice texture, and some baby bok choy in it as well that was delicious and perfectly cooked. It was a tasty and satisfying dish and I enjoyed it greatly. The only down-​side to the seafood phở was the abundance of imitation crab meat. I’ve never really understood «imitation crab». If you don’t have real crab, just use something else, or do more of the other stuff — fish and shrimp.
For my vegetarian dining companion, there wasn’t much to order! Out of about 70 or so meat dishes (about 60 beef?) there was only one vegetarian phở dish! No matter, he greatly enjoyed the vegetable phở, so all was well.
The shrimp spring roll was a lot of vermicelli noodle in a slightly rubbery piece of rice paper. Very little shrimp and very little cabbage to give it any variety of taste or texture. Also, oddly overpriced at $ 4.25 for two rolls, especially compared to the very reasonably priced phos. I recommend skipping the shrimp roll.
Overall, a very delicious meal and enjoyable experience food-​wise. I would give it 3.75 stars. Stick to the phở, have no expectations for this humble establishment, and you will enjoy.

This place has the best phở in my opinion in the entire valley. During the school year, I eat here at least twice a week. The soup is always consistent and has tons of flavor without adding too much msg. If you are looking for good authentic phở, this is the place for you. The building is not the most eye catching in the world, but I can look past that as long as the food makes up for it which it absolutely does. Been coming here consistently for a year and don’t plan on stopping anytime soon. Oh, and also plan on using the bathroom before coming here as they don’t have a restroom inside their building for costumer use.

Just discovered the wonton soup and I was blown away. Pretty sure they are the tastiest wontons I’ve ever had! My husband always gets the #1 («the super bowl») which is huuuuge. This place is legit. It’s not fancy or even cozy, but the food makes up for it!

We always eat here :) The food was really very excellent :) this is one of my favorite vietnamese restaurant :)

By far the best Phở in Mesa! It’s a family operated and owned business, the prices are also very reasonable. You definitely won’t be disappointed.

This place is a little sketchy looking at first. The inside still looks pretty out of date and ghetto. However, the phở is amazingly close to homemade. I’ve been to about every phở joint in Arizona and the soup here is the closest to home. The spring rolls are also big portions but they are not the best because it is served cold. I like my spring rolls to be warm to the touch since I don’t like cold food. The peanut sauce was okay, I could make better at home but it wasn’t bad to the point where I wouldn’t eat it. Overall, the place have decent prices, great phở and okay customer service which is good enough for me to say I would totally come back here.

I love this place so much, I wish I could transplant it to our new digs in Seattle. We just returned for a visit in Feb 2015, and I was delighted to find the lemongrass chicken is just as delish. Sadly, it looked like all the display fish had died, though!
We found this place because our local friend recommended it. He grew up in Hong Kong and has some pretty non-​white boy American eating habits — tripe? Yum! Entrails? Hand them over! Weird sweetmeats that can’t quite be translated on the menu? Pile them on! I’m not quite that adventurous, but I’ll eat the lemongrass chicken with a side of phở greens (basil, sprouts, etc) any day. I still haven’t found anything like it up here, though we have a TON more Vietnamese restaurants, food trucks, and phở joints than there are in the entire state of AZ combined.
Next door, there’s even a See’s Candies. Best of both worlds?!?
PS: We were extremely disappointed when they installed the TV, but just turn it off when we sit to eat.

I’m with Megan’s review below — must have entered the Bizarro version of Phở Nhat, because I will never come back here. Between the very dirty conditions and the flavorless phở, I was not able to finish my phở (an extremely rare feat, mind you!). Add on to that the fact there is one cook and one other person responsible for waiting, busing and being cashier. This results in extremely slow service with a single person handling food, trash and money without ever stopping to wash their hands.

We’ve been eating here for years. Its a go-​to for MCC students, and I would often go out of my way to eat here even after leaving college.
The owner is a serious man but very nice and always says hello to us. The restaurant itself is a pretty old building; it more of a hole-​in-​the-​wall kind of joint. Its very simple. incredibly clean and well-​kept. Small, but cozy and at-​home. We would often still be wearing pajamas on the weekends in winter when we came in for a nice hot bowl of soup.
The portions are more than generous, service is quick, prices are fair, the food amazing. I always get the combination brisket Phở with meatballs and flank steak. My brother always gets the roast beef. His Girlfriend the Chicken Phở. Everything is oh so good.
Stop by for lunch some time, you won’t regret it.

Phở is a tricky dish. It’s hard to get it really ‘wrong’, and very easy to skate by with a mediocre product. By the time you’re face-​down in a bowl, you’re usually too hungry to really care if it isn’t top-​notch. We stopped by today for a couple of bowls, and were really pleasantly surprised. When we walked in, the first thing that we noticed was the smell. This place smells *RIGHT*. It smells like vats of broth that have been cooking for ages. Phở seeps through the walls here, and it’s obvious that they’ve got some good stuff cooking away.
They have everything that I want here– salty plum soda, great phở, and good grilled pork rolls. Our lunch was excellent. The first sip of broth put a huge smile on my face– it tasted *RIGHT*. That’s the best way that I can explain it– it just tastes right. Proper. There’s nothing adventurous, nothing audacious, and nothing crazy. It’s just good food, at a good price. The salty plum soda was spot-​on. The rolls were outstanding. It made me realize how mediocre some of my recent meals at other Vietnamese restaurants have been, and makes me want to come running back very soon.

Dee-​lish! This is hands down one of the best places for Phó. It’s a hole-​in-​the-​wall place (I think an old Taco Bell) the guy who runs the place works his tail off as hostess, server and cashier. The Phó here has such fresh ingredients and is to your table in no time! Pretty fast service especially considering how busy they get.
If you’re looking for a fancy place with friendly service then go elsewhere. If you want some fresh, delicious, fast Phó then this is your place Phó sho!

Was craving Vietnamese food and still on the hunt for the best Viet food in the Tempe ish area… The place we used to go to closed down… and I’ve been getting my Viet food fix in Tucson… So decided to try this place.
The parking lot was empty when we got there… Not a very good sign… But after we came in a couple more people went in after us.
The place wasn’t dirty but you can tell that it wasn’t super clean either. I was honestly a little nervous trying this place but I wanted to find a good spot to go to when I crave phở…
I got the number 20… It was delicious!
Phở with well done beef slices and tripe and tendon!
The soup was a little greasy but the taste of it was so good.
My man got a rice plate… And I gotta say not very impressed but thats okay… I’ll come back for phở :)

Let’s get the negative out of the way– it’s not the cleanest place in the world. When the only two employees are the husband & wife team, they’re often too busy to clear out the tables.
With that said, their phở is consistent and they don’t skimp on the servings. On a cold wintery day, there’s nothing better than a nice large bowl of phở. It’s still my favorite hangover cure.
The price point is great for the amount of bean sprouts and meat with your meal.
You’ll see an eclectic lunch crowd here– from the Banner Health workers to Mesa Community College students, this is a local gem hidden in plain sight.

I feel like I experienced an entirely different place than the majority of these reviews.
The noodles in the bun were overcooked to the point of being completely mushy and the dipping sauce was highly questionable. The rice paper wrappers on the gi cun were super rubbery and yet squishy at the same time. The Phở was okay… Nothing to write home about. I absolutely love Vietnamese food, but I will not come back here.

Some of the best Phở I’ve had at restaurant. Plus the price. This place is a gold mine of awesomeness.
I was sick and in town for business. I found this place on Unilocal.Got me some green tea and Phở. Felt better.

Like another reviewer said «Don’t freak out» when you walk in. You may get the feeling that you should walk right back out. You shouldn’t.
We have been eating here for many years. The small restaurant is the owner and his wife. They may not speak the best English, but they know who we are and what our usual is when we walk in, or even call for takeout!
The Phở is tasty, with a quality base. Our fave though is the bun. The #41 with extra egg rolls! This place is one of only a few that serve shrimp paste. As opposed to the foul condiment you may get from restaurants of other regions, this is a ground, seasoned shrimp, steamed around sugar cane. It is to die for. I always get a Thai iced tea as well, done to precision. The shrimp spring rolls with peanut sauce are fantastic.
Phở Nhat is worth a try. Don’t be dissuaded by the look of the place or them raising the kids in the kitchen. The only turn off is a nasty exterior access bathroom. Just eat and then go over at subway next door!