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    Pho 45

    3.6 (56 reviews)
    InexpensiveVietnamese, Soup
    Closed • 9:00 am - 7:30 pm
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    PORK VERMICELLI Lunch 10$

    1st time customer. Visited on a Sunday around 3p. Not busy at all just a couple family with kids. I ordered pork vermicelli and ask that the pork be cooked crispy. They did not disappoint! After asking for extra cilantro, carrots and peanuts I had a great tasting vermicelli bowl. Only one wait person but service was fast, accommodating and friendly. I recommend and will be a repeat customer!

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    Patty C.

    Pho 45 really stands out for their wonderful noodle soups. The interior is your typical hole in the wall Vietnamese noodle house. Despite the menu, there's a lot of paper sheet post ups of their offerings all over the restaurants, a little tacky and distracting but very common in these places. Pass on the banh mi here. They chunky carrots were not to my liking. Pass on the spring rolls. They are also subpar. The spring rolls are lacking in mint, filled with iceberg lettuce, and loosely rolled. They didn't have that nice sticky freshness to the wrapper either. Pho 45 does noodle soup right. The broths have a deep complexity that is hard to find at some noodle houses. On my last visit here, the spicy bun bo hue lit my mouth fire. They don't kid around with the spices. That's a good thing though. My favorite dish here, the bun rieu is magical. It's a crabby noodle soup with tofu and blood jello. They added snails into it, which I did not request, but they tasted just fine. Don't forget to add the shrimp paste. One strange thing about Pho 45 is the consistency of the soups. Sometimes they leave stuff out like the blood jello in the bun bo hue, other times they add extras like above with the snails. It's still delicious, but still, consistency would be nice.

    Eddie S.

    Oh my god the second person in this place that has smiled at me. All the days I have had the restaurant to myself with my son today is much different almost all the tables are taken up. A rare form the waittress even rememberd that I come here last week and this is the first time I have seen this new server . And a big noticeable difference the people here have a sense of urgency I mean they are really moving! Ask if trained by american servers. I'm loving this place the more times I cone here .

    Sweet artichoke tea.  Tastes like an artichoke was boiled, removed from pot, water chilled & sweetened, add some... chia? Yum.
    Raleigh P.

    Humble digs, food cheap and good. Everything was fresh and prepared with care. I was particularly happy with banh mi hot ga opla (fried egg baguette). It was simple: two fried eggs on one plate and a baguette on the other. You put them together yourself! This is extremely necessary because the egg is fried crispy golden but the yolk runs freely all over the baguette, and if the chef had put them together for you you would have missed all the fun and freshness. And I t is delicious! The baguette had that lovely hot bread smell and like the eggs, had the crispy/softy texture balance. I added some sriracha, and it was a wonderful combo. I also had the ban bo hue (hot beef vermicelli). Wasn't sure what I was getting into. Not used to this kind of meat and I wished I'd ordered the bun tai instead because the texture was a bit wild. But the broth, noodles, and fresh greens to top off were delicious and fresh. Could drink just the hot, flavorful broth every single day and be a happy camper. Nuoc mat atiso (sweet artichoke tea) to drink. That was tasty. Just a sweetened tea made of artichoke, with some kind of floating seed that forms a jelly pearl when added to liquid, probably chia. I probably won't order it again because I have my favorites, but it was refreshing and tasty, and a nice change-up. Overall, great meal, great price.

    Anna V.

    I usually don't write reviews however I tried the pho here because my friend said it's her favorite. It was amazing! Other places you can tell the broth is just not that great but here it's almost similar to my moms pho! The broth is very flavored and yummy. The waiter is very accommodating and nice!

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    Jack H.

    Shabby strip center establishments carry a lot of cachet when it comes to Vietnamese restaurants, usually because the mom and pop proprietors are running the places themselves, which in turn is the hallmark of authenticity. Pho 45 however is housed in a newish center on 249, and the interior is clean and brightly lit, but you can still see the family ties as the proprietors bustle about the busy dining room. And busy it is during the lunch hour, because regardless of how new it is, Pho 45 has quite a following. My first time there, patrons came streaming steadily in, 95% of whom were Vietnamese, which was an immediate vote of confidence. As the name suggests, there are more than a dozen Pho options, from the straightforward, most of which employ eye round steak (Pho Tai), to the complex combinations (Dac Biet) of flank, brisket, tripe, and tendon. I should know my Pho portions by now, but nevertheless since the small was only $5.49, I thought I could afford a Banh Mi sandwich to go along with it for only $2.75. My wallet had room, but my stomach did not. Almost. I chose a fairly simple soup of eye round steak and fatty brisket (Pho Tai, Gau), but simple it was not. I could smell the seasonings as the un-small bowl was brought to my table full of dark, rich, complex broth. The vermicelli was soft and the fresh cilantro and basil were aromatic, but the steak and brisket were out of this world. I venture to use an adjective much loved, though overused, by Anthony Bourdain - the flavors were ephemeral. If I thought too hard about what I was tasting, the fleeting harmony of seasonings were gone. It was like trying to eff the ineffable. About halfway through my soup, I was brought a perfectly golden brown baguette, soft on the inside, stuffed with fresh cucumber, carrot, cilantro, and jalapeño, along with some exquisite BBQ pork (Banh Mi Thit Nuong). I was no less impressed with the chargrilled pork with a tangy glaze, and battled an internal desire to return to the soup. With all of the above for around $9, I waddled out smiling contentedly. But Pho is not the only thing on offer at Pho 45: they also have a number of rice (Com) and vermicelli (Bun) options, special dishes, and quite an array of drinks, including Vietnamese iced coffee, tea, lemonade, and milk. I often go for the chargrilled pork rice dish, but I was sold on one that also had shredded roast pork and pork skin with a fried egg on top (Com Bi Thit Nuong Trung). I'm sure you could get a fried egg on any of the dishes, or the sandwiches, if you asked them, but I just stuck to the menu. The BBQ pork was just as delicious as it had been on the sandwich, the roast pork was savory and tender, though I didn't go for too much of the fatty pork skin. I thought it would perhaps have been fried and crisp, but it was soft and I used a few pieces to add a rich, fatty flavor to the other pork. As the egg yolk broke and oozed into the rice and pork, this was an exceptional lunch for only $7 and change. I know there are a lot of places I still need to try, but this is my first 5-star Vietnamese review. The elegant interior and attentive staff added that elusive element. From now on when I start to get hungry around mid day, I'll just look at my watch and see that it's about Pho 45.

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    This food gave me the stomach flu! Was up all night throwing up because of how nasty the food from here was. Do not recommend!

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    Pretty good pho spot. Better than most pho places. food is more authentic, definitely a must try!

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    Cozy spot with good Pho. Tried the eye of round and meatball beef soup, very good and filling portion. They do not accept Amex.

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    14 years ago

    I give this place a 4 because the food is delicious. Portion size is just right and the drinks are great.

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