Pho Phuong has just opened a new location on Queen Street. It has the same slick appearance as the one on Dundas, in a slightly smaller location. It feels clean and bright and has lots of natural light. When I visited, there were 6 or 8 irises lining a small piece of wall, as well as a banner out front and balloons at the bar. Opening celebration!
I went in for late afternoon pho two days ago and had a small bowl of rare beef pho (I rarely deviate from this). It was good. Not amazing. But good.
Which is a shame because, though the small is large enough to be a meal, it was $6.75 and pho would have to be pretty amazing for me to feel that was justified. Certainly you're paying here for the decor that far outclasses other pho joints in the area, but it turns out that I don't really need class with my pho.
We also ate deep fried shrimp wrapped around sugar cane ($5), just to try something different. It was good. Not particularly flavourful, and could have benefited from an accompanying sauce, but it was fun to eat the soft shrimp and then gnaw and suck the juice out of the sugar cane.
I was also tempted by the hot and sour soup listed on the House Special menu but at $12 for a bowl (10$ for the veggie version) just couldn't wrap my head around a $12 bowl of soup.