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| - I see a lot of confusion in the other reviews; people seem to either love or hate Tram's. I think I can help explain this issue.
Tram's has a fairly full menu, but there are two things on the menu that you should be ordering: the soups (particularly, the beef pho) and the fresh spring rolls. That's it.
If you've had Pho in other cities, you might not understand Tram's. There's no Vietnamese community in Pittsburgh, so you can't get all the trimmings you might have come to expect: no tripe, no tendon, no other strange meat parts. Just beef or chicken. But what sets Tram's apart, in my view, is the quality of his broth. I have eaten Pho all around the US, and Tram's broth is, in my view, the very best I've had.
So get the pho (or, if you're in the mood for something different, the Saigon Soup), get the spring rolls, and skip everything else on the menu. Then you'll understand Tram's.
Incidentally, the owner's name is not "Tram". His name is Le Thao. Tram is his daughter, who was left behind in Vietnam for many years, when his son needed a kidney transplant in the US.
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