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| - We've been here a total of three times now. The first time was amazing. Great food, great service, and unless something drastic happened I'm pretty sure we'll be customers for life.
Our second visit wasn't as great as the first. This was partially my fault and partially our servers. This is tricky to explain, but here goes.... The food I ordered was bad, TO me. I'm sure it was well made and most people would think it was delicious, but I didn't like it. The ingredients it had listed on the menu were plentiful, but it also had A LOT of cilantro too. I'm a noob to Vietnam cuisine, so maybe this is common and I don't know this, but the menu didn't state it had cilantro. Aside from that it was spicy as promised. According to my wife, her meal was on point, but she said the particular batch of chili paste we seemed to be lacking. Now for the restaurants fault. The service wasn't great. The waitress didn't check on us at all and after we paid she gave our change to a different table. This was troubling because we were one of only three tables in there. The way I see was this was it was my fault for trying something new, and their fault for poor service. But still I was willing to give this place another chance.
You can see that I realized the reason I didn't like my food on the second visit was because I just didn't like it. It was made fine and I have nothing poor to say about their food quality. With that in mind we went back a third time (in two weeks). Our last visit was mixed. The food was awesome, probably better than the first time, but I may have went overboard on the VERY effective chili paste. The service again was lacking. It was about half-capacity, but it still took a very long time to order our drinks/food. It took so long to just order our drinks we ordered our dinner at the same time for fear of being forgotten again. Once the food arrived service wasn't much better at first, but towards the end of our visit it picked up.
All-in-all I can't wait to go back and get some more pho. I've been telling anyone that will listen to try this place out. This place is awesome and even though the foods always amazing, it's a hit-or-miss on the service. I'm sure it's nothing, but this is the type of place, due to the service, that I feel more comfortable only using cash at. Overall I'm pleased.
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