Pho Saigon

BBQ Beef on broken rice… seasoned pretty well with great rice, but the meat was cheap, fatty and a bit overcooked. Sauce had a weird aftertaste. Boyfriend’s meat looked weird. Ended up tossing a nearly full take-​out container out with only a few bites of beef edible from the many bones. Still might have tried again for a different dish if I didn’t end up throwing up a few hours later. Not sure what happened, but I’ll stick to some better spots with portions that don’t make feel cheated, then nauseated.

Come early. To grab a parking spot. Especially on the weekends. Afternoon, you’re just SOL.
This spot has good Phở and Viet cuisine.

Ordered the Phở Ga (chicken noodle soup with white meat chicken). Very good! You can’t go wrong here with portions. I got the regular size and ate enough to be full and take home a quart of leftovers. Probably a pound of rice noodles in the bowl! And also very generous with the Accoutrements — heaping pile of bean sprouts, culantro, Thai basil, jalapeño, and limes. All for $ 9!

*The* best place for phở! Broth on point! A must try for anyone hunting down vietnamese food

Friendly fresh and flavorful. Im here 3 – 4 times a week. Phở is on point. Fresh basil and sprouts. Spicy jalapinos. Portions large enough to share but who wants to? Tender chicken flavorful broth. Large and small portions. Always friendly service. Unique drinks. Tasty lemonade

you really can’t go wrong with this place! I used to be a regular but started going to Nam Phuong more simply because my mom love their wraps.
However, this place is definitely the place to come for authentic Phở.

Their Phở Bo Vien (Phở with meatballs) is so incredibly flavorful, savory and delicious. Unlike other phở joints, they give you huge portions of meat. This place is certainly a win-​win in my book. Portions are huge, prices are great and the food is spectacular. My brother had the Bún bò Hu and my sister had the Hu Tieu Do Bien (Rice noodle soup with seafood). Everything was incredibly yummy and filling. I’m definitely going to head back to Phở Saigon the next time I’m in town!

Seriously the best spring and summer rolls I’ve had in the city. Tasty and delicious phô and the broth of course is what makes it!

Nice big bowls of phở with lots of meat. Even the small bowls will fill you up! The eye round steak is nice and tender. The flank is good. The fat brisket is good. (I love combo 63 with all three of these). Do order a bowl with three kinds of meat instead of two because you’ll get more meat overall with this strategy. It can get really busy on weekends so come early (before 11:30am) to beat the lunch crowds. There are two large screen TVs playing mostly soccer or the news. Lots of free parking in the lot in front of it. This is my go-​to phở soup place.

This is my go to Phở joint. On this 0 degree wind chill day with 50 mph wind gusts, I knew just where to go for lunch.
Walk in and get noticed right away by competent and attentive waiters, and if there’s an open table you’ll be seated promptly. In seconds you’ll have glasses of ice water. Take this opportunity to order a pot of tea. Check out the menu, but order the Phở with rare ribeye. In a few short minutes you will have a steaming bowl of delicious Phở placed in front of you with a heaping plate of the standard accompaniments — thai basil, bean sprouts, jalepeno slices and lime wedges. On every table is a self serve area of chopsticks (real, not the snap apart wood ones) broth spoons, sauces like sriracha, hoisin, chili paste, etc.
Enjoy and warm up from the inside out!
Beware: Parking in this little plaza /​strip mall is quite crappy, so do yourself a favor and park behind the Dunkin Donuts or like we did the angled parking across from the Summary of Mummery mural.

My favorite place for phở! They have some other foods but there are other Vietnamese restaurants in the city that I prefer to eat in. Love there beef broth and the service is quick. It’s popular so it can get a little loud inside sometimes. Ample parking as it is a part of the shopping center that is along Colombus Ave.

i have mixed feelings about this place…
i got the phở ga and it cost me $ 11. then tax n tip which makes it the most expensive chicken phở i’ve ever had.
the bowl of noodles tasted ok. not sure how it differentiates from any other decent bowl of phở. they did give a generous portion of chicken.
also, i had a horrible experience with parking in the center that it’s located in… for some reason, all the parking spots were taken that day and people resorted to double parking! i had no choice really but to leave my car by the fence which made me very paranoid the whole time i was dining with my friends.
i dun really get the appeal of phở saigon for me to return. i’d probably opt for somewhere else whether it’s phở or not.

It’s really nothing to write home about. Decided to try this place since parking at Nam Phoung is ridiculously hard to find. This place serves average phở 3 star but the prices is what brings it down to 2 stars. It’s no fine dinning yet they are charing 10 dollars for a bowl of phở. The service here was slower than the average. I will not be returning here. I’ll drive around the parking lot at Nam Phoung for my lunch.

Great Vietnamese spot on Columbus BLVD, located in a shopping plaza right next to Ruby Buffet and Masquerade. Here, you can experience great Vietnamese cuisine even if you don’t speak Vietnamese fluently. I noticed that a lot of diners were American and that the waiters spoke English too. So everyone is welcomed here!
The Phở broth is really good, I ordered the original special phở. My only complaint is that the broth wasn’t steaming hot. But this is a personal preference because I like my soups to be extremely hot and my cold foods freezing.
In addition, the restaurant does have to-​go foods available at the counter. So if you don’t have time to sit and dine, you can take out or grab something fast.

I usually go to Nam Phung but parking in that plaza requires a miracle on Sundays, and so I came to Phở Saigon. The portions are bigger. I believe their smaller bowl is almost equivalent to other phở places’ large bowl. The broth had too much cilantro that covered its true taste, so it makes me think they put MSG.
I have to say the service was super fast and we were attended to right away and received our food within 10 minutes. The price and potions are great! I would come back here again if I were in a hurry and hungry!

Yummy bun bo hue ~~
I cannot believe I have never step foot into Phở saigon. As someone who frequents this plaza (pepboys, DD) I only noticed this place last week. My friend suggested going there when I caught a cold and all I wanted was some noodle soup.
I got the bun bo hue, my friend got their phở and we split the spring rolls.
The spring rolls were mushy on the inside, so we weren’t overly impressed by them.
However, their bun bo hue was delicious and spicy. The broth is what impressed me: it tasted clean yet well flavored. It was different than Phở Ha, which is my ultimate favorite, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
I tried my friend’s phở broth, which was surprisingly sweet. We think they may put MSG (but most phở places do sadly) because we kept reaching for our water… maybe it’s our imagination so correct me if I’m wrong.
There are plenty of seats and many workers, so feel free to bring the whole crew here~

Phở Saigon is my favorite phở restaurant in Philadelphia located in a strip mall off Columbus next to a Beer and Halloween store. As far as phở goes I like the brisket and rare steak phở, the brisket definitely gives the broth a richer color and flavor while not overly fatty. Other highlights of the restaurant are the broken rice and vermicelli with pork chops, char broiled pork, spring rolls and or all of the above. The fried spring rolls are pretty good as well, nothing exceptional but I like them. Service is standard/​average Viet restaurant, if you have been to a Vietnamese restaurant before you know what I mean. Overall definitely worth the trip and money to stop in for a delicious bowl of phở!
Tip: Sundays are busy!

Very impressed with the quality of food. Plenty of Vietnamese places in the city and their phở tai is fantastic. Anyone who knows anything about Phở knows it’s all in the broth. We also had the pork chop over broken rice which was very good but the phở is why you go!

Great place to have Phở! The beef broth is delicious, perfectly balanced with the ginger, lemon gras, veggies, herbs and beef flavor. I had the rib eye and brisket with rice noodles. I can’t wait to try this place again in the winter! I’m sure what ever I thought it need it improvement will disappear with the cruel Philly winter!

Sitting in the strip commercial center at the corner of Columbus Boulevard and Washington Avenue, Phở Saigon is a typical looking large roomed phở house that gives the feeling of a cafeteria. Service is friendly and efficient. Apologies were sincere when advised that they were out of Bun Bo Hue before 8 pm. I settled on another option (Phở Tai), and was very satisfied with that large bowl. Superior broth, strong noodle mound properly cooked, and plenty of beef and accoutrements. Definitely on the high end of the satisfaction scale.
Yet, the Summer Rolls were a bit disappointing. The Shrimp appeared to be sliced so thin that they could not be tasted along with the other ingredients. That, and the cool skin of the wrap was too close to room temp, thus deprived of the coolness of the app. The Peanut Sauce was adequate, but thinner than most.
The house was three quarters full this Saturday evening, and the HDTVs were showing college football games.
The Phở hit the spot, but everything else seemed a step below top quality, and exhausting the Bun Bo Hue so early was certainly a strategic blunder.
With all the other excellent options for Vietnamese cuisine in the area, there is no compulsion to return to Phở Saigon anytime soon.