Pho Café — Restaurant in Los Angeles

The food is okay, the service nearly acceptable, and the ambiance is a table blocking the door so orders can be picked up after your pockets are picked. Pho Cafe is no longer a real restaurant. They resemble a ghost kitchen more than anything else. Their business model is behind a digital firewall and the service is a single individual that keeps track of the orders getting packed by a small kitchen staff. The parking lot is filled with unlicensed delivery drivers on most given evenings blocking each other ready to pounce. The deciding factor here is the huge lack in value Pho Cafe delivers on. For $19 they will pack up a moderately size order that you can assemble yourself into a bowl of Pho, less the bowl part. Two ounces at best would be some thinly sliced beef with hint of freezer burn. A few pieces of tendon and some straggling remnant of tripe topped by two processed meatballs. A small bag with a small amount of bean sprouts, with a slice of jalapeno, and spotted basil will come with your overpriced bowl of soup noodles. On the positive side, their broth is not bad. Your only save here, are other alternatives locally and your drive time spent going to SGV for far...

Overall: 3.3/5 (Ubereats delivery)

The food delivered pretty quickly but this isn't authentic Vietnamese food.

Cha Ca LA Vong ($15.50) + egg roll ($3): This was okay. Thought the eggroll was better than the fish I grew up in the Bay Area so I have high expectations. It just sucks that we can't find any really good/authentic Vietnamese food in LA.

Banh Xeo ($12.75): This was a different take on banh xeo where they put lemongrass steak and mushroom. I'm sorry to say, but this didn't fly with my husband and I. The steak just didn't go with the banh xeo. The shrimp wasn't cooked correctly either. We didn't use the rice paper which is also not typical for this dish; you usually use the lettuce leaf to wrap the banh xeo in. I don't think they gave nuoc mam either and provided a different sauce. Hard...

I ordered from this place as my regular pho place is was closed today. I ordered from Uber eats. Upon setting my food up by boiling the broth so that I can pour it into the noodles and veggies. Even after that the noodles were still in that weird in between soft where the noodles are flexible but was still hard in the middle. I had to just drink the broth because I came back home from a long day of work and Im super hungry. Its safe to say that I won't be ordered again from this spot. I got the vegetarian pho. Ive had much better than this. The portion they give u for the noodles is barely anything as well! Overall I've disappointed i spend $20 on a meal. The broth is on the bland side. On thr bright side it isnt salt but it...