Mirage Bar and Grill

It was pretty good. Decent prices and portions. I would steer clear of the ice coffee. Super Super strong, a ton of ice and nothing to drink. Not sure if i was supposed to add water to it? There was so much ice i couldn’t stick my straw in the cup. Had the noodle salad with shrimp and grill pork and pork banmi sandwich. It was DELICIOUS (the salad). It has a slightly different taste than other places I’ve been to. The bun on the sandwich was better than other places. I can at least chew it. Was disappointed that there wasnt much filling in the sandwich.

Best phở spot, hands down! Broth is consistent, flavorful. Recommend pork banh mi, phở, rice platter. Generous portions. Im a weekly regular customer.

Food is good. Phở is consistent. Service could be better at times. All the 10+ times I’ve been here there has only been one waiter/​waitress working so it can get a little backed up when there are a lot of customers.

I usually don’t write any reviews on a restaurant whether it’s good or bad but my experience here was horrible! I was going to leave it alone but the excuse that the restaurant had was unacceptable.
This was our first time here and decided to try it after reading a bunch of good reviews. I couldn’t decide between having the Bun with marinated pork or the phở. Whenever I’m in a new town and we are at a Vietnamese restaurant, I always like try the phở just to taste the broth. I decided on the Bun instead since my sister ended ordering the phở. We also ordered the chicken wings as appetizers and those tastes good. Nice flavor and came out crispy.
When our main entrees came out, everything looked great. Nice size portions for the price. Everything tasted pretty good until I saw my sister looking in her bowl of phở, she stared for a long time and then used her spoon to get something out of the broth. I knew she saw something gross just by looking at her facial expression. I asked her what was wrong and she said found a bug in her broth. I didn’t believe her at first until she showed it to me. And it was a small bug with legs! Eww. At this time my other sister looked in her bowl of phở and saw something floating in the broth as well! She scooped it up with her spoon and it was a floating insect leg of some sort! We felt so disgusted that we didn’t eat the rest of our food. We called the waitress over and showed her, she asked to see if we wanted them to make a new bowl. We told her no but would appreciate it we don’t get charged.
She apologized and said that they wouldn’t charge us so we were going to let it go but then she came back and said she went to ask the kitchen staff to look at what we found, they said it was the rotten part of the cilantro. Heck no it wasn’t! It was not cilantro! It was a leg! We showed her the bug my sister found and she picked it up with her finger, smushed it, and claimed it was cilantro too! Good thing we took pictures of it before showing them! Will have to post the pictures in a bit but their excuse was unacceptable! Trust me, we know how cilantro look like.
Do not eat here! If you do, make sure you look at your food! You might just find some bugs floating around! Should’ve known better with the musty smelling in the restaurant and the nasty tasting, unfiltered water.
Beware all!

The phở and banh mi sandwiches here are the bomb. It tops many of the restaurants here in the twin cities if not the best and it just opened up about two years ago! The price of their best phở which is the combination is very cheap compared to other phở restaurants such as iPho, and Viet Noodles. I come here at least once a month. I used to come here every week until I realized I spent too much money on phở because It’s just that good! The lady owner is also very nice and sweet. This place used to look more run down but she had it remodeled very well especially the back area of the building where the dance floor and stage used to be. Plus It’s still continuing to be remodeled! The lady is a successful business owner with the restaurant. She knows what she is doing while serving great food! Something that can be worked on is that sometimes she forgets customers if they come to a table of people late. The phở is also just all one sizes unless you ask for extras which isn’t bad unless you prefer smaller portions. Other than that this place is the best in the twin cities!

You’ll have the whole restaurant to yourself. Customer service is nice. I always get phở with rare flank on the side! The phở is always good and the price are good too! This is me and family new go to place!

Felt like a converted salsa dancing bar into a Vietnamese restaurant. Phở was good, but atmosphere was off.

Judging on the outside look it really does look like a no-​go restaurant. But once you’ve tried it you will come back for more. Food is great and so is the service but only one server so it does take awhile to get your plates. 4.5÷5

This our go to neighborhood phở restaurant and for it being in the middle of New Brighton, it’s fantastic! It’s Surprisingly authentic and very consistent. Yes, it’s a hole in the wall, but the food more then makes up for it. So be patient because they literally only have 2 – 3 employees, and you’ll be rewarded with Viet food that is just as good as the phở served on eat street in Minneapolis. Don’t forget to try the Vietnamese grilled pork Sandwiches, they make the bread themselves! In fact, I am going to split a sandwich with my wife and have some bun Bo hue. BTW– I am Vietnamese and come from a family of restaurateurs. my mom use to own Phở Shop on university avenue.

There is a dichotomy to Mirage Bar and Grill.
On one hand, I really liked the food. We started with spring rolls. These were great. They remind me of the ones I used to get at Lien Son.
I had a beef Phở. I am a Phở noob. I enjoyed it. There were a lot of different flavors and it was spicy to my linking.
My wife had an Egg Noodle soup. More of a bowl of food with broth on the side. She really enjoyed these.
On the other hand, the place is a bit worn. The hostess was in the back when we arrived and appeared to be running the place herself. Lack of attention to detail wasn’t due to sloth or indifference. Yet there it was.
I hope they can get over whatever challenges they are having as otherwise we enjoyed ourselves.

I remember coming here when they first opened up and thought it was unusual for them to be connected to a now-​closed American dive bar. Having dined in and done take-​out several times, I can say that they do have pretty good Vietnamese food, with the phở and mi kho definitely sticking out in my mind. However, they do not give as much meat as Quang’s.
In terms of service, they only have one person who seats people, does take out orders, take food orders, serves the food, and cleans up. This proved to be problematic during my last visit where 80% of the tables had customers and the rest were left with piles and piles of dirty dishes. Because there was only one person working the front, it took us an unbearably long time for our orders to be taken and to have our food served. It would be highly valuable for them to hire an extra person during the rush hours on the weekend as I am sure that this type of experience has left people (including myself) to not return.

Don’t let this place fool you on appearance, go and try the food it was amazing. The chicken lo Mein was some of the best I had and a very generous portion, the fried rice was comparable to Que Viet which I love, and the egg rolls were pretty good too. And while I was there 3 tables came in for the Phở so I’m assuming that is good as well.

Love there chicken wings… yumm!!! better than BWW… Their noodle soup is great too. Oh and I’m a picky eater when it come to Viet food. :)

This place it’s a hole in the wall, so if you come here, most likely you will have the whole restaurant to yourself. There are two sides to Mirage, one side is the Vietnamese restaurant and the other is the bar. I was skeptical at first about the restaurant side, but I got over that real quick when the food arrived. The portions are generous, the tastes are even yummier that the look! Eat phở or any other soups here and you’ll won’t be dissappointed. Also, my favorite appetizer there are egg rolls and the Mirage chicken wings. Yum! My friends and I left here full as a blown balloon and wanting to come back the next day.