Pho Bowl — Restaurant in Bethlehem

I literally just had lunch here today and had a terrible experience with the staff. I actually have eaten here before without any issues but today I ordered grilled beef with rice which is #49 on the menu and everything was fine until I went to pay the bill. I noticed that they had charged me $5 extra for asking to cook the beef well done?!? What type of establishment does that. if I go to the Chinese restaurant and ask them to make my chicken well done they don’t charge me extra!!!! This was ridiculous. Not to mention the beef was not even cooked well done it was cooked normal. They had my food ready in less than 5 minutes how well done could they have made the beef. This absolutely was unacceptable in my opinion and I will definitely tell my friends and family never to eat at this establishment ever. There are other Vietnamese restaurants that don’t provide this type of service. If you want to pay extra when you request your food to be well done then absolutely go here l. If you want a terrible experience then I would go to this restaurant. This was a terrible experience and the food was not even that good. I took some home and providing a photo so you can judge for yourself. I Along with my family or friends personally will never eat here again and I will bypass their food all together. Good luck eating here as they rip you off and take your money for asking for your food to be well done. Terrible experience, terrible restaurant staff, terrible prices, terrible environment, and terrible food!!! Never ever eating here in...

Update 10/2021 Since the expansion/renovation

It is now a medium size restaurant. Clean and spacious seatings. Its food lineups have improved greatly. We got some appetizers: crispy spring rolls, fried tofu chips. They were hot and flavorful. Roast chicken rice dish was spot on. Just enough spices that to make it good. Pho was good; perhaps the best in the valley. Broth had all flavors, anise, cinnamon and touch of ginger. The accessories came with pho were plentiful and fresh. We could have all the basil that we wanted.

This is now our "go to" Vietnamese restaurant .

We were excited to try this new restaurant...

The place is too small to be a full-featured restaurant, more fitting to be a take-out joint. Pho, its main offering, is average at best. The "house special" pho had all the ingredients: brisket, tendon, meat balls and the works, but the broth was lukewarm and lacks flavor. Not a hint of star anis or cinamon. A bit bland, to be honest. The chicken wonton soup was so pedestrian, did not show its roots, not Chinese, nor Thai, and definitely not Vietnamese. Some slices of chicken mixed in with some wontons. The Beef and Broccoli was downright disappointing, very salty with lot of brown sauce (hoi-sin?). The beef was so well done and chewy.

Service was quite good, may be it could not be bad for a place with only 4 tables. We definitely would...

I was wondering as we were sat, why it was audibly quite for dinner in a full restaurant on a Friday night. When the food came I totally understood- the food was so impressive all you want to do is eat, savor and enjoy in blissful silence!

I typically write reviews after a few times of going but I already know this place is legit. So far, my husband and I sampled mostly from their Vietnamese fare: fresh spring rolls to start, pho, pork chops and Thai iced tea (obviously not Vietnamese).

Growing up in Seattle, a good bowl of Pho has been hard to come by, let me tell you, this was so tasty I almost considered not adding anything to it- it was so good! Everything was excellent, we had to take more for home!

This place also was clean, beautiful and had such nice people there. I feel like it’s family owned- unsure, like I said I typically find out more before I review but all of the people were super personable and they cared for the place in a manner of pride/ownership.

I can’t wait to try it again, the intention is to order from the Thai section but it will be hard to pass up the meal we...