Having seen this place on TV, I always wanted to try this place. We walked in at lunchtime on a Friday afternoon and saw only 3-tables occupied which should have been the first sign. My son wanted a sandwich so we asked what I believe was the owner if she had any on the menu. She replied "we only sell pho, best in the world." OK, so my wife and I order the combination pho, meat outside. One size bowl for $9, which in my eyes is highway robbery. She wanted to charge $2 per person extra for the meat outside! My son ended up eating chicken fried rice.
Food comes and no meat outside and none of the standard meatballs inside. The fried rice was tasteless. As for the pho? Hardly the best in the world! The rice noodles were the wide thai variety noodles and not the standard thin noodles. The noodles were not cooked through. The broth was just "OK." Very little vegetables to add to the pho. Even the water tasted funny.
The bill comes and we get charged for the meat outside even though they didn't bring it out to us. Very pricey for sub-standard food. To claim she has the best pho in the world is very gutsy when it is not. She should take a vacation to Hawaii and eat at Hong Cafe in Chinatown to taste what real pho is all about.
There are even signs posted in the restaurant asking it's customers to let the LVRJ that it should be included in the "best of" rankings when obviously they didn't make the list. I wonder why? Save your money and eat elsewhere!