The deal:
- Great pho and other menu items. I had vegetarian pho with tofu that was top-notch.
- CHEAP. I think our entire meal (2 entrees, 1 app, tax+tip) was $13.
- Not very clean, and the staff could use some lessons in this area -- a couple of qualms we had were: The guy bussing tables doesn't think twice about dousing a table with Windex while customers are eating their meals a few feet away. Not cool. I imagine this is a bad habit that needs to be remedied, rather than an isolated occurrence. I personally hate smelling chemicals while I'm eating.
Also, the same guy wheeled around a filthy cart full of customers' dirty dishes, and parked the thing just inches from me while I was eating. He never seems to empty the cart, just continues wheeling it around until it is overflowing with nasty remnants of meals. It was covered in crusty sauce (as if it's never been washed) and contains mounds of discarded food. It just looked gross. I tried ignoring it as it sat an arm's-length from me, but it quashed my appetite to some extent.
Bottom line: I'll likely go back for a cheap, quick Viet meal, and will hope that the minor infractions I pointed out here get resolved.