Phở Gà Nhà — Restaurant in San Jose

1/3/2020 My mom cooks great chicken pho, I wanted to take her here to try. It was a Friday noon and we did have to wait already. The prices have changed, our special bowls are now $12, at least they still give the same portions although not very consistently, some bowls have more or less gizzards than other, some missing parts LOL. My mom would prefer the steam chicken over rice and my sister would like to try the rotisserie chicken with tomato rice, they both look good at the next table. Although the chicken are organic and caged free but unlike other restaurants, quite meaty and well fed LOL. Chicken pho is not easy to cook great, but this restaurant does. So my friend keep recommending this restaurant, I don’t care for chicken pho and I hate VN restaurants walking chicken, mostly bones and skins, they mistaken cage free and underfed chicken. Costco chicken is overfed with lots of meat and VN restaurant sell underfed chicken for the so call ‘savvy’ VN customers. Enough of ranting about the people, I came into the restaurant with an open mind. The restaurant is clean and crowded, well it was lunch time on a SATURDAY. The servers are pleasant, we didn’t have to wait long. The place is doing so well, it took 2 shops to make into one, plenty of seats and still full. I ordered the pho chicken special with everything in it, gizzards, wing, leg, hearts, liver, breast... Little of everything. This restaurant really surprised me, the soup tastes great, the meat cooked just right, plenty of chicken and intestines, I have a thing about counting how many pieces of meat every restaurant served with the $10.5 bowl. 7 pieces of chicken meat and many hearts and gizzards, the noodles is on the light side. Anyhow, it was a great bowl of pho ga, I would order extra noodles if I was hungry. The parking lot only has compact spaces, it’s hard to find parking space for bigger SUV. One more good thing, they do accept credit cards. Really, 5 stars and always full of people is simple, good food, don’t skim on food,...

Although our receipt shows a party of 8, we are a party of 6, two of which at children and one child did not eat. We have a total of 4 bowls, we are charge a 15% service fee. I told the lady that one child didn’t eat and she told me it doesn’t matter. So does that mean that even if you come in, you still can be charge even though you don’t eat? What bad business practice. Why charge a service fee, it’s not like we have option to go get our own food, when it’s ready. Bad business practice. Just be aware folks, be prepared to pay 15% service fee and the tax is on top of everything including the service fee.

The food itself is blah, it ok, not great. We asked for two bowls so we could share which came out dirty and stuck with the food, when I informed the lady, she was not really happy. I think she brought into the kitchen and wiped it off because there was the same stain of food still stuck on the bowl. Ewh…

They say that if you want to know the status of cleanliness in a restaurant check their bathroom, well I have to say their bathroom is really dirty and smelly. There is a water puddles in there, a risk for people who is not careful.

Underneath where we sat to eat was a bunch of paper that was never picked up. I would say if the food and safety inspector came to inspect this restaurant, they were definitely fail.

Needless to say, I won’t be coming back here again. Bad service, dirty restaurant and food...

This is an authentic Vietnamese specialty chicken and duck noodles and rice restaurant 😋. It is located across from Vietnam Town on Story Road, in San Jose. You know it's good and authentic since there is a wait if you come on weekends and 95% of the customers are mostly American Vietnamese. I really like this restaurant for their consistency foods and great service every time I come here. My favorite soups here are duck rice noodles or rice with a side cabbage salad. If duck is not your favorite, then you can order your soup with chicken. Not in the mood for soup? They do have quite a variety of rice dishes with chicken. The servers here are young, polite, and very attentive to your request. They're super fast here as well. Best of all, the service is very consistent every time I come. I always leave absolutely satisfied and would not mind leaving at least 20% tips. Come and try this restaurant out and support San Jose local business. Forget about those Vietnamese chains restaurants that are now imposing an automatic 18% service charge on your bill regardless of the service being...