Ba Na Hill Vietnamese Cuisine — Restaurant in Brenham

Ba Na Hill seems to be the only Vietnamese restaurant in Brenham. We decided to pay them a visit while in route to Austin based on the reviews left. Unfortunately, our experience today wasn't an excellent one and we hated it. The restaurant itself sits in a shopping plaza and seems to share their space with a closed Boba tea shop which is a bit confusing when you first walk in if you happen to walk into the wrong door. When we first walked in, we noted there to be a strong odor that smelled like old oil...say oil that has not been changed which indicated we should not order any fried items. We decided to go with the combo pho which should be safe for any vietnamese restaurant. The pho was okay but it had one issue which the restaurant owner refused to acknowledge, the meat was borderline (on the verge of being) spoiled. When tasted, the "tai" (eye round) meat gave off a slight sour note and the majority of the entire soup was this meat. There were two pieces of brisket meat which was okay but also some undercooked tendon and one piece of meatball. We decided not to eat the meat after trying some small bites and only went for the noodle. Upon checking, I assumed they would be honest their meat but they stayed firm and charged us for the meat. Additionally, they added questionable taxes (@ 10% sales tax it should be 8.25%) and a "supplemental" $1.50 fee to the order. When asked, they mentioned the tax should be right and the supplemental was a credit card fee...so just decided not to bother arguing with and left. I hope this business will consider operating with more integrity that was shown today. Maybe they're struggling....who knows...just won't ever come...

Holy moly is this food delicious. My first time here on the recommendation of my friend who actually is the inspector for the area. (So you know the kitchen and other areas we can't see are CLEAN). But that's not what i can speak on. The food is wonderful. They have a moderate menu. And my husband and I got about 5 different things so we could test out the different flavors. Sean says the kimchi was amazing. Our mains were delicious. The spring rolls were ACTUALLY SPRING ROLLS and not egg rolls. So good. Can't sing praise enough. The only thing I will say is that it took a long time to be able to try it. Every time we went they were closed. Maybe we went on a weird day because when we looked at the his they were normal but the dais we tried they were closed. 🤷‍♀️. Still best restaurant in...

Stopped here on a road trip and was very disappointed by the quality of the food. The meat was extremely dry, bland, and fatty. We ordered milk tea with boba and for some reason it came with a mixture of tapioca pearls and popping boba. The dish was supposed to come with pickled vegetables, but there was only a few shredded carrots and a slice of cucumber (not pickled). There also seemed to be a bit of a fly problem at the place. Overall, we were very disappointed with our experience, and we would definitely not visit again. Hopefully, it was just an isolated incident since there seem to be a lot of people who...