PHO BASIL Vietnamese cuisine — Restaurant in Wilmington

Don't be put off by its location or the fact that it's currently next to a dry cleaners. When you open the door you feel like you have been taken to another place , it truly has a western yet asian feel that's it's all neatly merged and tidy..not overwhelmingat all. We we first walked in this amazing place , we were immediately greeted by the staff and asked if we wanted to be seated or to seat ourselves. Since we came at the best time when we were the only ones there..don't get fooled, we weren't there long before it got busy quickly👍. Oh, yes ..were was I..oh, as we sat and looked at the menus we were totally surprised with the amount of options that were available. I won't go into what we ate as we were greedy, but the service was amazing and the place was comfortable and very clean..unlike a few places we have tried recently. The staff knew the food and the serving sizes and they displayed the Pho Bowels on the counter and we were surprised to see they were bigger than others in the area.and tasted so much better with full flavor. The staff is young ,but very friendly and very quick to be of service to you. The only drawback was not the restaurant, but when you try it out , please make sure you try to sit away from people who enjoy the food so much they slurp..to be fair that is a custom to slurp as a way to show how great the food is in many foreign countries. This was more annoying than anything, but I guess they were just another satisfied customer as we were and they showed it by slurping....I'm sure leaving a tip is another way to show appreciation as well🤷‍♂️. But seriously...try the place out and come with an appetite ..Great place for a date or special get together spot. ..I will say this , we had the seafood pho bowl it was just a marriage of...

I order food couple times at this restaurant. Mostly I order pho. The taste is ok, not better then pho cafe.

The bubble tea only taste powder and condens milk very blend. I order couple times milk tea and matcha but same thing. Very blend. Over price for the food (compare with pho cafe and indochine). They charge 25cent extra per styrofoam container if you order Togo. Even indochine give microwave save container with no extra charge. Last time I order pork chop special it’s $12.99. It’s said come with pork chop, egg roll, shredded pork, egg cake, meatloaf, tomato, cucumber and rice. (Base on the Togo menu). But when I check at home I just get pork chop, fried egg, shredded pork, rice, tomato, cucumber. For $13 that’s wow.. I call back to confirm if I get the right one. And they said that’s right, but he said the menu change, either get egg roll or fried egg. The menu said I get both plus meatloaf. But they said no more meatloaf, and the egg I have to chose egg roll or fried egg. Which is they didn’t ask me when I put order. They assume I want fried egg because they give me fried egg. They not even say sorry for all this. And just feel meeeehh... This is the last time I order from them.

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Was looking for some Vietnamese food while visiting Wilmington, and this place did not disappoint. Started off with the fried sampler, which was a great deal with a bit of each of the deep fried appetizers. Everything was fried well, not super oily and the sweet fish sauce dip was really good. My main meal was the spicy beef noodles (bun bo hue), and it was delicious. The portion was good, albeit the noodles to meat ratio was skewed toward noodles. The broth was great, ery authentic, and the lemongrass chili they give you on the side, set it off for me. They even had Vietnamese coriander, which I rarely see provided at other Viet place. My kid had the pho dac biet (special) and loved it. I tasted the bone broth and it was very flavorful. My other kid had shrimp fried rice and was happy they didn’t cheap on the shrimp and gave a large portion. His fried rice was great. My wife had the vegan pho, which she said was just okay because it was on the sweet side. Overall, really enjoyed the food and the staff was super friendly. Definitely...