In a pinch it will do, but don't expect too much. Incredibly over-priced for the quality. The spring rolls are atrocious...who puts lettuce in spring rolls? I would not make this mistake again. read more

This has become my go to place when going to the Shark Tank. I may not be Vietnamese, but i eat a ton of soup during the colder seasons and really enjoy the pho here. The service is very friendly, the place is clean and the soup and broth are excellent. I generally get the #2 although when in the mood I go for the tripe. I also prefer egg noodles to the rice noodles but you can get either. Really conforting on a cool evening. The hot sauce is that.. hot so use wisely. The flaming plantain dessert is very good as are the spring rolls. Bring cash, you won't get a bill and will need to walk to the counter to pay. Unless your some kinda prima donna that shouldn't be a issue since you are leaving away. read more

I only have Pho here when I get to San Jose ..believe me the pho here is the best ..just the taste of the broth is different from the cookie cutter pho place that is around SJ. Their crispy noodle is so beefy it's like heaven. They have a home made hot sauce that will blow your mouth and mind read more

Today at 1:30pm, I walked into Dac Phuc Restaurant, asking for food to go. A short women with short black hair, pointing to a stack of burgundy menus, located next to the service table. She told me to choose what I would like to order. I decided on the #4, yellow noodles, barbecue pork and shrimp. I gave the women my order and she asked me to sit and stated it will take 5 mins. About 7 minuets later, a taller gentlemen called me over, stating my food was ready. He left my food on the counter and a short, somewhat balding older man behind the counter stated I owed $11.95 for my meal. I told him this was not the case due to the burgundy menus stating the price was $8 before tax. He then told me I was wrong and pulled out a paper menu from behind the counter. He said there are two menus. One for those who eat at the restaurant and those who order take out. He said due to it being take out, it was more expensive. I then told the man, I wanted what was stated on the menu. I pointed to the lady with the short hair, stating she gave me the burgundy menu and told me to order from it. I said, she never stated there was a separate menu. He said she was new and didn't know what she was doing. I told him, that is incorrect because I was here 3 months ago and she was my server. He then starting pointing to the taller gentlemen, saying "Him, Him!" I said no and kept pointing to the women with the short hair. He then started to get upset, raising his voice at me stating, you have to pay these prices because to go orders are larger. I know this is not true because looking at both menus, they do not specify size. I also looked at my food and there was no size difference. It was the same from when I ordered three months ago. He then asked me if I wanted my food or not. I told him yes but for the price i was originally quoted. He then said, " Well, you seem unhappy!!" " Do you want your food or not!!" I'm not one to waste food and also I was hungry so I handing the man my card. He wouldn't even take it, looking me up and down. I told the man, just take the card, I'll pay it. He still wouldn't take my card, still arguing. He finally took my card, then said he would give me a discount. I paid $9.83 for my food. I left no tip and I walked away. Now, I'm in the service industry and I understand the importance of rate integrity. This place dose not have rate integrity and will charge you how they see fit. The man was trying to cheat me and then became upset when found out. I personally feel it's my obligation to out this business. Please do not eat here. read more

This restaurant is old & dirty , but what do you expect for a 30-year old place ? I don't eat for appearance,I mean I would rather eat somewhere with good food then somewhere that looked good and had bad food. Overall i thought the food was good, especially the pho, I LOVE the #1 , it has those yummy mouth watering noodles,the tender meat, & the delicious broth! I would recommend going to this restaurant again. The person serving me was very kind & nice, warning me about the hot sauce. The cashier was also very cool, he gave me free candies after [: read more

Food: good. Try the flaming banana dessert! Gluten free folks will like this: I'm not gluten intolerant but don't like noodles. Staff was happy to put a ton of healthy veg in the place of noodles in my broth. Service: good. Attentive and pleasant. Atmosphere: dreary. Harsh overhead florescent lighting. Interior and furniture are purely functional. The focus is the food not the surroundings. read more

Awesome and authentic Vietnamese food at affordable prices. Make sure to try the rice rolls, pho and deep fried banana dessert!

Super affordable! I love coming here for the Pho! Always with urgency to get us served!

Good food and quick service. Would repeat. Four stars for the broth. Ordered #2 pork and shrimp pho.

Very good traditional Vietnamese Noodle Soup. The restaurant is crowded most of the times so I usually have to wait for a few minutes before seating. Their best dish is definitely Pho Bo. But they also have some great dishes as well. Try Bo Bun Xao, Bun Thang and definitely the Fried Banana Desert, it's really yummy. Another surprise item is their freshly made soy milk, very tasty. read more

Great food. Was told by my cohort at work to come here and order the deep fried noodle Pho? It's not on the menu. He's been coming here for many years. I've been back several times. Not too long a wait during late lunch time. Large food portions at a good price. Looks like they updated the outside of the building, but inside it looks like nothing changed in 50 years? Hey that's the ambience, a bit grimey, but OK. Apparently if you need to park in back, you can come in and ask to open the gate. read more

I've been coming here every so often since I was about 10. It's a hole in the wall Vietnamese restaurant that takes cash only with no ATMs available inside. Parking can be a pain. I do have to say that they desperately need remodeling done. It's tremendously dirty and grungy looking and you have to go up this ancient old narrow stair case to get to their claustrophobic bathroom, BUT.. I do have a loyalty to this restaurant for one main reason: their #14 on the menu. (I'm not Vietnamese so I don't know the correct name) but it's basically deep fried pho noodles topped with beef and vegetables. I've tried finding this dish at other Vietnamese restaurants, but none can compare to how good they make it here. For as long as this restaurant remains open, I will always come back solely for that #14 that I crave every now and then! read more

The Pho Dac Biet (#2 on menu) was so good that I finished off a large including all the broth. The broth was wholesome and went down easy unlike the broth in most Pho's that are MSG laden. This place uses no MSG. They get flavor the old-fashioned way...from the bones which takes more cooking time and preparation. The results show it. read more

Average pho joint. Great location downtown near the clubs (to sober up), which helps, but everything seems a bit dirty and the quality of the food isn't top notch. I ordered the seafood pho and though I can't complain, the shrimp was chewy (frozen). I'd come back for a quick meal, but skipping otherwise. There are better SJ and Milpitas pho places. read more

I don't remember how many time I've been here. All of my family members love this place, especially my Dad so whenever he comes to the States, we go here at least twice a week for lunch. The only they got going is their Pho, too bad I'm not a Pho enthusiast (even though I'm Vietnamese). Too be far though, their Pho is probably one of the best in San Jose, if not California. It's just that I ate too much Pho in my lifetime and I just got tired of the dish. So I pretty much tried everything on their menu since everytime I was there, I tried to avoid Pho as much as possible :) The place is packed during lunch time, especially on weekday since this is downtown afterall. The place is very old and they don't even bother stiching up the clearly torn out sofa seat or better yet get new seats all together. The servers are friendly though during rush hour, you know you're gonna wait a long time for your orders. I like their hot soy milk, especially on cold & rainy days :) One last thing, they are also famous for their fried banana but too bad I'm not into sweet. But that's just me, you guys should tried it, not bad! All and all, I think this place is great if you want Pho but I just personally not too fond of it. I'll take Bun Bo Hue An Nam anydays! read more

The food is ok but the service is terrible. I ordered to go and I didn't hear the woman when she said that my food was ready. She yelled at me and berated me for not hearing her. "I called you many times and you didn't answer. Your food is ready!" Also, when I walked in they were really rude speaking only in Vietnamese and no one came to take my order, so it was very ironic that she was yelling at me for not picking up my food promptly. I had to walk up to them specifically to say I was ordering to go, no one came up to me to ask how they could help me. I've never had a server yell at me. Even though this restaurant is right next to my office I will make every effort never to come back. read more

If i ever eat at this place it would only because of convenience. Lets talk about the place first. It's a small restaurant in the corner that kinda hard to spot if you're driving by. The interior is old with wooden furnitures (not the good kind) i only come here to pick up my food for lunch. Customer service of this place is just one of the worst. Every time i come here to pick up my food i feel like they're GIVING me food for free, no "what can i help you with nor even a thank you" i told them what i ordered on the phone and they push the food out to me then take my card and thats it!! I called in to order some eggrolls and beef vercm and the guy on the phone told me with a very firm and rude tone "no more for today, tomorrow" i had to ask him if he has another dish, why??? You're having a business dont you want customer to stay? At least ask if you can recommended something. Because i was hungry so i ordered a deep fried beef noodle. When i come to pick it up no one greeted me they all stared at me as if I'm not in the right place. Then a woman looked at me so i told her i ordered that and that then she handed it to me, like rxpected no thank you whatsoever. My food was in a togo box and a togo soup cup. But the messed up thing is that the put my togo box that has food in there vertically, really? Before this horrible experience i only came here when i didnt bring lunch and don't want to drive and craving for vietnamese food, but now I RATHER STARVED read more

This is the worst restaurant ever. Not only did they over charge me but they also gave me the wrong order. On top of all of that the food was cold and the service was terrible. The place has a terrible ambiance. read more

I'm sorry, THIS PLACE SUCKS! im usually not to harsh on my ratings but come on the PHO here is disgusting. Lacks any kind of flavor at all! and all my vietnamese heads know the Pho broth is not supposed to be light colored like how its served here. And the highly touted hot sauce here aint all that. read more

Mmm! I came here on a rainy afternoon with my boyfriend and was so glad I did. This place is pretty awesome and their broth is so good and flavorful. I like their special hot sauce. They told us to only use a few drops (I don't think we looked like the type that could handle spicy or something). I used a few more and it was so good. The sauce added spice but didn't change the flavor somehow. Ahh, I can't wait to go back. read more

The lemon chili chicken is my go to dish at any viet shop and this place disappointed. It was dirty(er) than most. Wish I brought my own sticks to eat with but I sanitized everything with hot tea!!! read more

somewhat close to home-cooking, I have been going here for years. It used to be better, and the bowl size is pretty small. I just wish it opens earlier than 10am though read more

I've never been to a viet restaurant that had good friendly/fast service, clean in the inside, and a clean bathroom. This place is typical but I was a little grossed out by the dirty glasses and that disgusting carpet under the booth seats. I hope the kitchen isn't reflective! The food is good, though... But I'm easy to please... and I did have a food coma when I was done eating. read more

My friends took me here, the thing to get is the Ap Chao. Fried noodles with beef stir fry on top. This is one of the few places that I know that serve it. Good food, but there are so many other great places. read more

This place feels like i'm going into some old Vietnamese lady's house. And then she transformed her kitchen into a restaurant. The pho is good here though. I think it's a pretty awesome place. Walking distance. Feels like a Diner from the 40's. That turned Vietnamese. And there is a cranky old lady with a kind heart. Serving food that she made for her children. read more

Saying "I've had better" is too generous. It makes it sound like the food is not too bad but the Pho is bad. The broth was bland and "scummy" (the gray mess that comes from boiling beef before you strain/filter). The beef was not sliced with a slicer but roughly chopped. There is nothing good I can say about the pho. We also happened to order the 5 spiced chicken and I think I figured out the 5 spices they used, iodized salt, sea salt, kosher salt, MSG and NaCl. The piece of chicken was the saltiest thing I've ever tasted and I could barely get it down. The imperial roll we got looked like it was one they had from the day before and just refried to serve us. It was different shades of brown with parts of it black because of all the fried bits from other fried items stuck on it. It was truly horrible. And last but not least, I come to the iced coffee. I ordered the coffee when I ordered our lunch. It didn't come until I was about half way done with lunch but I just assumed they forgot and I'd just cancel the order when I got the bill. Unfortunately, it did come. The coffee had already gone through the coffee grounds. I felt the coffee grounds with my fingers and it was bone dry. Every place I've ever been too always serves the "drip" coffee at the table. So do they just have some instant crap that they're serving? I don't know. Bottom line I would never go back to this place ever and yes I have had better in San Jose, Oakland, SF, LA, etc. read more

This place is A-OK. The food was good but the service was a little confusing. I think it was a little bit of language barrier.

Worst place ever. If I can put no stars, I would. Had to seat ourselves, and the pho tasted like it was 2 days old, wayyyy over priced and the waiter ignored us the whole time. I would have rather had top Ramon instead of the crap they served. read more

Maybe 15 years ago, this was a decent pho place, but the food has gone downhill. Supposedly, the owner is an intellectual and entertains his intellectual friends here. This explains why the service is so cold and they act like they are doing one a favor by allowing one to eat there. Back to the food; my visit this week found the pho to be less than mediocre. The broth is bland, and the meat and tendon tough. They will continue to have a lunch crowd, so this review won't matter, but you've been warned! read more

Me and my wife didn't even try the food, the service was just horrible, we got in there and the waiter just pointed at our table and then he practically threw the menus at us, he took our order and I asked a question about something about the menu and he ignored me and we finally order and I ask for more lemons and he ignores me again and he walked away from us so we just simply left with our food on our table, it's not hard to have decent customer service I never would go back or recommend this place read more

The pho was extremely salty. I think they were trying to brine the meat in the broth!

Great pho. Nice prices. Family owned. Like the other reviews said, not a lot of ambiance but great, non MSG cooking. A lot of Vietnamese eating there which usually tells me something. read more

Their foods has improved with the new owner. I usually come here for lunch. I thought their "pho" is prettty good, and so is "pho ap chao". The only thing is the parking sucks. Pho: 4 stars Pho ap chao: 3 1/2 stars Cha gio: 3 1/2 stars Customer service: 2 3/4 stars Cleanliness: 2 3/4 stars Parking: 1 star read more

Pho was very salty and had an off taste. Other than the price, there is little to recommend.

I had no idea this place was here! I have passed by so many times, but last night it finally caught my eye and I decided to go on in. I love the layout, there's something charming about its "hole-in-the-wall" simplicity. The wait staff was very quick, and while this is usually nice, I felt rushed though my order. My partner ordered her food first and immediately after she finished speaking, the waiter snapped up our menus, remembering to take my order as an afterthought. We both ordered the Pho Tai with brisket (#1) and spring rolls as an appetizer. The spring rolls were satisfactory, nothing too out of the ordinary for a Vietnamese restaurant. I ordered a thai iced tea, but they were out which wasn't too big of a deal. My partner ordered a soda-lemonade, excited that they even had it on the menu. In her rush, our waiter forgot about it and my partner never received it, though we did not make a big deal of it or remind our waiter. Then there was pho! The pho came in a pretty small bowl, filled to the brim with noodles, broth, steak, and brisket a plenty. The broth was good, but unlike any other pho I have ever had and not really in a "good" way. It was interesting and the normal size (for less than $7) filled both of us up. Overall: it was okay. It was cheaper than Pho Viet up on N 1st and they accepted credit cards, which was nice. If you like pho a certain way, you may have some doubts about the flavors in their pho. But if you're willing to roll with it, I think there is plenty to like about Dac Phuc. I will go back again and see if one of the non-pho dishes is any good. read more

Competent Pho, if very slightly expensive. Somewhat crowded at lunch time. My first time at Dac Phuc, the waitress brings the hot sauce and tells me "careful, it's hot." I thought yeah, sure, Sriracha is hot, thank you for telling the white boy that hot sauce is hot. Long story short... their hot sauce comes in at about 4x the hotness of Sriracha. read more

Overall not a bad place, the pho was pretty good. Lunch time service was fast & efficient. For the money, this is a decent place to grab a low cost bite. read more

I'm not big on pho, so I haven't tried that here. I notice that reviews tend to be "I love it" or "I hate it;" a good sign, a sign that this place has a distinctive style. The lemongrass beef with rice is really good and simple. No unwanted grease and salt, just flavor and a little bit of heat. The beef with bamboo (mang tre) rice plate is also tasty. I'm a victim for good hot sauce and their homemade hot sauce in the "ketchup bottles" is excellent. (Why doesn't everyone make a house hot sauce?). Even if their rice plates were crappy, I'd probably still come here for their hot sauce. The rice portions could be a bit larger for me, but are probably fine for most people (I have a big appetite). read more

I have been here off and on in the last 25 years. It is one of the best Vietnamese pho restaurants that you can eat ... ! Yes, I am serious and I know what I am talking about. For critical eater like myself, eating the right pho is very important. I ONLY like Northern style pho. If the pho is cooked by Southerners, Chinese Vietnamese then it is not Pho anymore. Da Phuc, however, has to adapt and change a ;little bit in their cooking style to suit many Southerners livign in the Bay area. That is sad! So, what is Northern style? You may ask. It is just the way how they prepare the broth. Normally they cook the broth at least 24 hours to extract all the juice from cow/ox bones. When they serve, the bowl is not too big or small (too big it is Southerner style, and too small it is Hue style (Middel Vietnam)). There should be no vegetables except fresh chilli. This is to keep the flavor of the broth without diluting it with other smells from vegetables or lemon. That is it! You eat slowly when it is hot and enjoy the aroma as much as you could. For some of you who are complaining about services. Do not expect good service from a good Vietnamese restaurant. To keep it cheap they must use their relatives, cousins, friends and these people are too proud to serve thus their attitude normally sucks toward customers. I get used to it and all I care is hot bolw of Pho. read more

Eat pho here. That's it. Don't eat anything else. (I heard the Ap Chao is good, and their banana flambe is tasty, but really...the pho is the best.) Order the beef rare, take it out before it overcooks, and enjoy with not too much hot sauce. Unless you're into self-induced torture, because it is HOT. My dad loves it and uses it excessively though, so use it at your own discretion I suppose. Sometimes the service is not the best, and they are a bit stingy with their napkins, but I just come for the pho. read more