Good pho assortment, tasty bahn mi sandwiches...friendly and prompt service

Love how they care about how clean the place looks and feels. The decor is suited perfectly. The pho ga that I had was regular pho price but the bowl would be considered an XS in comparison to the normal bowls you get. They make up for it by the flavor and the amount of chicken and noodle I got. The first spoonful was very flavorful and I was full by the end of it. I'm glad I found a place nearby to satisfy my noodle cravings instead of having to drive so far south of Philadelphia to get authentic Vietnamese cuisine. read more

I used to really enjoy this place. The food was always great and the prices were really good. Lately in the past few months I have noticed a serious drop-off in quality not to mention the ridiculous $15 credit card minimum. My favorite meal there is a Banh Mi and Tofu roll. This is perfect because it was a perfect size lunch and it was under $10 but now I always have to carry cash so now it's not so appealing. I got $10 cash today so I ordered my favorite combo and it was beyond disappointing. The Banh Mi roll was really stale, the tofu was over cooked, the hoagie had almost no juicy element to it like usual and the tofu rolls were a total disaster as they have been the last 4 times I've ordered them. Open the to-go box and the rolls are totally split open and spilling everywhere! How is anyone supposed to eat that? Obviously they stopped caring about quality and their obsession with cash is a put-off (I may not be correct in this, but I don't even think they have an atm!). Sadly, what was once a multi-day-a-week lunch go-to for me will be struck off of the list. I won't be coming back. :( read more

Authentic Vietnamese food in a great atmosphere. All of their dishes are good portions for their low prices. Wonderful service and over all consistent read more

pretty good here for a pho fix! a couple years ago, the restaurant didn't look good at all, but after they renovated it, the restaurant looks really nice. and the pho is really good. i think its pretty solid if you want it in the area. the broth is really clean and smooth, doesn't feel super heavy after you have pho. usually other pho places, their broth could be cloudy and have way more msg than you should intake, but here you can't REALLY taste the msg (even though you get mad sleepy afterwards). anyways, great place to get pho real quick! their pad thai is pretty good too. read more

UPDATE: The Pho has gotten a little better. However, their "Seafood" Pho with shrimp, squid and IMITATION crab should be taken off the menu altogether. Another thing that puzzles me is their choice of music. Why do the owners think that Gipsy Kings and other flamenco guitar music works in a Pho joint? Weird... read more

They've remodeled the interior so there's almost an arbor of sorts over half the seating. It's a nice atmosphere. The service isn't great, but it's passable. I've only had the pho and summer rolls here. While they're good, there's nothing really outstanding. read more

I love Pho! This place is cozy and the customer service is definitely there. The only reason why I don't give this restaurant five stars, its because the summer rolls weren't made very well. 1.They didn't have meat in them and 2. The noodles were overcooked. Also, the variety of Pho is a little off. They should have a shrimp, chicken and beef phone. More mixed items is mainly what I am trying to get at. I didn't see that on the menu together. Other than that... the prices are reasonable and they have a large variety of rice and meat dishes. They also have very good tiramisu!! I'll definitely visit again. It's next to the cleaners and the sushi/hibachi place. read more

CLEAN restaurant, pretty ambiance, warm helpful staff! Allen recommends great recipes and she is also always welcoming helping me order too!

Pho was good but not great. The broth was lacking the depth of flavor that you crave for in the masterpiece. We all tried different varieties but no one at the table claimed theirs to be a prime example of excellence. Decent food. I'll try it again sometime. read more

Pho = 5 STARS - amazing broth flavor Spring Rolls = 4 STARS - great flavor, a little small is my only complaint Atmosphere = 2 STARS - nothing fancy Service = 4 STARS - really great, fast, & friendly read more

The food here was pretty good,the appetizer was excellent and the pho broth did have a lot of flavor. The only thing that was lacking was the service,I don't know if it was an off night but the service was horrible, not too sure I'd ever go back! read more

This place was super yummy!!!! I got some type of beef soup and it was great. The beef was done to perfection and it was the right choice to fight the cold I had that day. Also got summer rolls which were also excellent & filled with 4 big shrimp. The place is clean and elegant but casual. The service was also excellent! Very polite staff and manager. We will be going back again. Can't wait to try the sandwiches next time because they look great! Glad that we found this little storefront gem. read more

Pho palace with grilled pork and shrimp was very tasty.summer rolls with grilled pork was great too.

Always come here. Very friendly staff, food is great and ready quick. Charbroiled pork and summer rolls are phenomenal.

The vietnamese food is great and the sushi from their sister restaurant next door is also good, but I am confused by their dessert choices - they seem to have Italian items on the dessert menu for some crazy reason? One of the things I love about going to eat Vietnamese are the Vietnamese desserts, with chopped peanuts and beans and little jelly things and sweetened condensed milk... None of that here. So the weird dessert options are the only reason for the one missing star. Otherwise, this place is really good, maybe the best pork vermicelli I've had in the entire country (and I've had a lot). The fish sauce is made by the chef (we've asked and even taken some home) and is the best I've had anywhere. The pork tastes like it came right off a charcoal grill, smoky and delicious (not sure how they're doing that in a kitchen, but it comes out beautifully). We've taken to ordering the pork well done, which makes it even better. As for the pho, I only eat it occasionally and then only the chicken. It was ok, but pho has never been that interesting to me as compared to the vermicelli dishes. We've also had their vietnamese hoagies, which are very low priced but delicious. The summer rolls are great. The wait staff is friendly, the service fast (personally soup alongside salad and entree doesn't bother me with this type of food like it would with a heavier American meal - I just skip back and forth), knows us and our orders by heart by now, and we're there several times a week. It's clean, it's attached to the sushi restaurant they also run (which unlike the spartan decor of pho is very atmospheric looking and has excellent miso soup and good sushi, and they're happy to serve that whole menu with your pho if you like). Perfect except for the mysteriously missing Vietnamese desserts... read more

Love this Place! The staff is always friendly and the wait is never too long. Love the Pho here but if you want something different, I'd suggest the Crab Meat Fried Rice. read more

My go to spot in PA for pho. I even drive a bit further past House of Pho just to eat here. Been here countless of times and the food is consistently good no matter what I order. The servers are all good people and are very kind. read more

This is a small place but it's still good for groups of 8 or so. My group of 3 stopped by in hope to get a quick bite before calling it a day on a Saturday night. We were quite excited to find that the restaurant wasn't packed. After 15 minutes passed no one even gave us water nor attempt to take our orders when there's clearly servers standing around not busy. Instead they took the order of the table next to ours that arrived 10 minutes or so after us. When we notified a server, another server returned 5 minutes later to take our orders in stead :\.. Reason why it is one star because the food wasn't great with the beef being over cooked and the service being too slow when there's at least 4 servers dealing with no more than 8 tables with 4 tops. Boost the service a notch. read more

As a former loyal patron of Pho Palace, I would have rated this establishment at 5 stars. However, after my experience yesterday, I will not be frequenting this restaurant, nor recommending it to others, any more from this point forward. As always, the food was delicious. It tasted fresh, and the only pitfall to the food quality was finding large chunks of fat on the meatballs of the pho; this was expected, as it had happened in the past on numerous occasions. Aside from this, I still ate here, as the food was great otherwise, and the service was polite, quick, and accurate. Upon finishing our meal and being presented with the check, my party of two stayed seated at the table as we finished our beverages. On four occasions, three different servers, looked over the shoulder of the other person of my party, to see if money or a card had been laid out for payment. As we were still sitting and talking, we did not have any method of payment on the table as of yet. Then, an older woman who I assume to be the manager, came over, put her hands on the table, and said, "You need to pay now because we have people waiting, and they need to be seated." Never have I been asked to leave a restaurant because I was "taking too long". Pho Palace will NEVER get business from me, or anyone close to me that heeds my suggestions, in the future. I can get the same quality food, with excellent customer service, at numerous locations within a mere ten miles of Pho Palace. This place is no diamond in the rough, and deserved no more than the $0.01 tip that was left from me during my final dining experience. read more

I absolutely love pho and used to travel however far I had to to get to the closest vietnamese joint to indulge in it. When this place opened last year I was thrilled because not only is it 5 minutes from my house, but this place has the BEST PHO ON THE PLANET!!! The Pho Palace special comes with shrimp and pork and is ready almost immediately. To this day I still haven't felt the need to order anything else because its so darn good. Excellent for nursing that sunday morning hangover! read more

Best Pho restaurant in the city. I visit at least once a week. Love the Pho, dumplings and spring rolls

Most of these reviews are garbage since they're white people that A) haven't been to Vietnam, and/or B) haven't had home cooked Pho/Vietnamese food. Since I have been to Vietnam, and been eating it home cooked for years, and dating a very traditional Vietnamese girl, this should hold more clout. You go here for food. Not decor or 'best service'. Servers are very nice and welcoming, and if you frequent more than 2x they'll probably remember you if you are cordial back. You get the Pho, Rice, or Bun here - if you must go 'adventurous' get the egg noodle stir fry with seafood (soft noodle). That's it. And to drink Ca Phe Su Da (Ice Coffee). Add bean sprouts, black pepper, lime juice, thai basil, and hoisin sauce to your Pho. Or sriracha for spice. Grab your chop sticks & spoon and go to town. Side Bar For the newbies to Vietnamese food that read this - Summer Roll is cold with Vermicelli Noodle, Pork & Shrimp, Thai Basil, wrapped in rice paper and you dip it in peanut sauce. Spring Roll is deep fried, served hot, and filled with veggie and/or meat. read more

Really excellent food, okay service. Recommend the chicken hoagie. You won't regret it!

Our family's favorite place to go for dinner! The best Pho I've tasted by far and the Banh mi sandwiches are amazing; you have to try! Not only is the food is delicious but the staff are very welcoming and personable. Never had a bad experience there and you can't say that about many places these days. read more

I got take out for the first time from here and it was just as good as dine in. The marinated pork and shrimp Pho was amazing. I could eat this everyday. I called the order in so I was in and out when I arrived to pickup the order. Absolutely delicious and fast service. read more

Best Pho in the Area!!! The staff is friendly and the soup is delish! We eat here a few times per month. Even my kids love it can't beat $30 dinner out for a family of four! read more

this is probably one of the best pho's i've had. broth was great, lots of flavor. meat was tender. also had the chicken banh mi, beautiful. chicken had a lot of sauce on it. i will definitely be back. read more

Good food, clean place (remodeled inside), and Very reasonable prices. The only thing, cash only for less than $20. I don't usually carry cash read more

This place has a $15 minimum to use a credit card and this is illegal. see source: (3) LIMITATION ON RESTRICTIONS ON SETTING TRANSACTION MINIMUMS OR MAXIMUMS. (A) IN GENERAL.--A payment card network shall not, directly or through any agent, processor, or licensed member of the network, by contract, requirement, condition, penalty, or otherwise, inhibit the ability (i) of any person to set a minimum dollar value for the acceptance by that person of credit cards, to the extent that (I) such minimum dollar value does not differentiate between issuers or between payment card networks; and (II) such minimum dollar value does not exceed $10.00 read more

Best chicken pho! Clean resurant. People are nice! Great place to just chill. The pho is really good. Def should try it out.

The staff is really amazing here. They feel like friends so that is why I keep coming back. As someone who grew up eating Pho it isn't the best in Philadelphia,it's still very satisfying, but it beats going down to north or south philly where you'll get better food but terrible service. read more

This place is great! Chicken pho is awesome!me and my wife eat here 2 to 3 times a week! Great service by the same people all the time!

I have been coming here since they opened. I've been a customer so long that I remember when they had two bowl sizes. Recently after their interior and menu face-lift, I ordered a bowl of pho. When it got to the table i had to call the waiter back. I could literally pick up every piece of meat (six in total) with one grab of my chop sticks. The rest of the bowl was just noodles. My girlfriend had even less. I asked the waiter if there had been a mistake. I told him I eat pho weekly in the city and I had never seen a bowl so empty. He said there was nothing he could do, and said I could eat somewhere else. If you have eaten pho before, you WILL be disappointed. The places in Philly literally add five times more meat. Would not recommend to anyone. read more

The food was not authentic very western. Service lacking forgot items on order and no follow up. Save your visit for a more authentic experience. read more

Really delicious and fast service. I ordered the PHO NY grilled pork chop entree and the salt baked seafood entree. It was so good . My husband and I had a good time. read more

I found this place on a fluke. So glad I did. It's my absolute favorite place to eat out now. Always great service and no matter what I order it's phenomenal. The grilled pork roll appetizer is amazing. The pho is the best I ever had and the rest of the menu is great as well. Chocolate mouse dessert is a treat when I can afford the extra calories. On a diet or not the food is fresh, healthy, and tasty. Bravo read more

Food is good. I am not reviewing the food. I am reviewing their customer service. Last week, I tried to redeem a gift certificate that my mom bought me last August for my birthday. The cashier told me that they don't have gift certificates. That the gift certificates were from at least 3 years ago from the old owner. I told her that my mom didn't know the restaurant existed 3 years ago. She kept telling me that the sandwich only costs $5 so it's not a big deal. I told her it's $20 in gift certs that I would lose in total and she just went back to saying that the gift certificates are at least 3 years old. I don't really care about $20 or $5, I care about whether the staff at a restaurant I really like take the time to listen to me and honor the promises they make. Not going back here again. The food is fine, but don't buy the gift certs! read more

I really like this place. Me and my husband come here frequently and have never been dissappointed. The pho is simple and delicious. If you want to go somewhere to enjoy your tasty and simple meal and not in the mood for anything too complicated that would be the place to go. read more

Meh. There's nothing crazy special about this place. I've had bahn mi sandwiches before in other places and wanted to try the ones here. I got the chicken bahn mi. They were a decent size for the price, so no complaints there. The buns were well toasted and the chicken was plentiful, but a little dry. My complaint is with the lack of filling; I would have wanted more vegetables (carrots, daikon, and cilantro,) and maybe some sliced jalapeños would be nice, too. I'd still come back for the sandwich if I'm in the area. My biggest complaint is with the yellow mush they called their creme brulee. It honestly tasted like vanilla pudding with some brown sadness sprinkled on top. It lacks the signature sugary shell that I was craving. Overall, I'd come back for the sandwich. read more