This was a great Vietnamese local restaurant. My Bo Luc Lac was as good as what I had in a famous San Francisco Vietnamese Restaurant. Definitely worth a try. Prices so reasonable also. read more

Pho 71 - Lunch group - Vietnamese Near Me - Pearland, Texas

Pho 518 has the best Pho Tai I've ever had. It has a generous amount of meat and they bring extra cilantro to add. This Vietnamese noodle restaurant is very simple and the atmosphere isn't that great. Often there are several tables piled with dirty dishes. BUT, for how good their Pho Tai is and inexpensive prices, I will keep going there. read more

I have been coming here for about 4 years now, things have been great at 518. Ever since the new management took over this establishment, they have updated the menu tremendously, and added a whole bunch of stuffs to the menu. Being a Vietnamese im very glad they now serve Fish Clay Pot (a very traditional Vietnamese dish), and it is DELISH!!!! I don't have to drive to Bellaire for it any more. read more

Pho 71 - Vietnamese Near Me - Pearland, Texas

I eat here, on average, once a month. Admittedly, I'm pretty big into some of the in-town joints but to be honest, I've had some food at Pho 518 that really could compete in flavor, but perhaps not in presentation. As the others have mentioned, the interior is super drab and minimalistic. The service is polite but sort of inattentive and not at ALL chatty. Frankly, when I'm in the mood to mow down some vermicelli, I don't really want to chat them up anyway so it typically doesn't bother me. I'd highly recommend the tofu spring rolls, chargrilled pork vermicelli salad, chili lemongrass tofu vermicelli salad, and definitely add a fried egg to anything/everything you order. If you're into coffee, they do Cafe Sua Da really well and really strong. read more

Pho 71 - Lemongrass and Chili Tofu over Vermicelli + fried egg - Vietnamese Near Me - Pearland, Texas

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With the lack of Vietnamese cuisine on my side of Pearland, Pho 518 will hit the spot both in your stomach and in your wallet. It's not overpriced overly fancy nor expensive. The price for what you get is just about what you would get it for if you went over to Bellaire. Quality may not be as good as on Bellaire (depending on where you go) but it's definitely good and satisfying, and definitely better than some of the other choices in the area. I'm giving it three stars because sometimes the food is not as hot as I'd like it to be and the banh mi sandwich is just ok. The biggest thing that bothers me is that they close at 8:30 on weekdays, which I think is a little too early. Other than that, the staff is friendly, and the place is clean. It really doesn't look like much when you first go in, but don't let that fool you, the food is pretty good. read more

Pho 71 - Exterior - Vietnamese Near Me - Pearland, Texas

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Roach found in my order! First time ordering from here. Never again! Lost my appetite!! read more

Pho 71 - Order some sandwiches wit Uber eats and then what I found once I open my sandwich!!!! Disgusted! - Vietnamese Near Me - Pearland, Texas

This place is a little ways from my workplace but I don't mind the drive. The food is always fresh and hot. I would suggest calling your order ahead because they get pretty busy during lunch time. My favorite thing is their grilled pork spring rolls. They are SO GOOD. A lot of places I've been don't offer the grilled pork option and these are so yummy. They're made in house-I've seen them making them! Their Pho is a good portion and very flavorful. They also have cafe sua da (Vietnamese iced coffee) and it's good as well. I don't believe they have it on the menu so you just have to ask for it. The building is a little older, so it could use some love. There is plenty of seating. A few downsides are that a couple of times the soy sauce/condiments have been a little greasy and in need of a wipe down. Other than that, I would recommend if you're looking for a lunch spot! read more

Great pho spot! Clean, good, prompt service and great quality! Had the spring rolls with shrimp and pork, large pho ga and a soda chan! Everything was on point. Broth was great and the veggies were fresh! Soda chan had just a little too much sugar in the bottom, but at this point I'm looking for something to knock them on. Only reason they don't get 5 stars is I lived in LA for 11 years and have some pretty good experience with super authentic pho spots. Give them a try! Best pho around Pearland for sure! read more

Pho 71 - Pho Ga (#27) and spring rolls with shrimp/pork - Vietnamese Near Me - Pearland, Texas

Best real Vietnamese without having to travel to Vietnam. I just discovered the kimchi fries which blew my mind. Add that to the tamarind chicken wings, special rolls, and killer pho and this is worth the drive to Pearland every time! read more

TLDR: Size too small, misleading pictures on menu. Affordable at $8 per most dishes Area: (5/5). Medium sized venue. Only 1 other group eating during a lunch time. Relatively clean. Not much to say. Service: (4/5). When ordering pho, my partner likes to order the meat raw and separate on another dish so she can add the meat herself. Waitress did confirm order but server brought the dish with the meat cooked. But he was willing to redo the order. Other than that, service was good. Food: (3/5). They only had two sizes of pho: large and small. I ordered the pho and was satisfied with the content. I always order pho dac biet and it had all the meats (maybe in a smaller portion). Broth was pretty good. My sister ordered a rice plate with sautéed beef called Bo lu Lac, which is a special Vietnamese dish that tends to be expensive but was only $8! They even had a picture of it on the menu and it looked delicious. Coming out of the kitchen, the portion of meat was disappointing. It had half the meat as portrayed in the menu. I expected that at fast foods but a restaurant is a big no no. It was deliciously marinated though. I did not review and revise to edit. read more

Pho 71 - Pho dac biet (towards me) and bo lu lac (farthest away) - Vietnamese Near Me - Pearland, Texas

I thought I give it another try today and order food delivered from this place. Once again disappointed on their food. Not only from portion but presentation as well. read more

We just moved from Washington DC, and have been looking for good Pho. 518 is not fancy, but that's not their goal. Good Phonation good prices. Loved it! Traditional soups, good roles, fast service. read more

Pho 71 - Front window. - Vietnamese Near Me - Pearland, Texas

Have not tried the Pho yet. Love their Shaking beef Steak: Com BO Luc Lac. Can not complain over this dish. I i s the only one dish I would come back to this restaurant for over 4 years in the area. You can order it with fried rice or steam rice, tasty for both. It is not authentic Vietnamese food, Gourmet for the American. The restaurant is very clean. Service is fast and my food always served hot. Will be back for some more in the future. Would recommend for all my friends who have not tried it yet. read more

From reading the reviews I was little skeptical about going but once inside I was extremely pleased with my surroundings. The restaurant is a very clean & the atmosphere is very welcoming. The staff was extreme nice and professional not to mention the food was GREAT. I visit many Pho restaurants and some are Hit or Miss, but PHO 518 is. Legit Hit. Maybe a few months ago during their renovation the scenery was not up to par, but as of it's a great place to enjoy a great inexpensive meal. 5 Stars from me. read more

If you're craving Pho, and don't want to drive to Bellaire, then this place is good enough. From the broth to how the white chicken was made, it was enough to satisfy my Pho cravings. The only issue is how it's just okay, nothing really stands out, and there is better Pho places nearby that you can go to for those that truly love how the broth is cooked. I do like how they have good hours to accommodate the lunch and dinner crowds. read more

Delicious pho. My husband and I love to order the combo #2, it's so good. The combo comes with ice tea , eggs rolls and the pho soup. This place is my favorite for a delicious pho. read more

Pho 71 - a bowl of noodles with meat and vegetables - Vietnamese Near Me - Pearland, Texas

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Got sick from the pho here today had beef meatball and rare steak not sure what was in there but I immediately got sick not happy about that

VERY hit and miss pho place. The broth one day will be sure salty and other days outstanding. The ambience is more diner than restaurant. Tread carefully, but in our wet Houston weather, a bowl of Pho can go a long way! read more

Becoming quite a fan of Pho soup, happened upon Pho 518 and decided to stop for dinner. The Pho options are impressive. My limited experience with the dish has always been one of 2 options: chicken or beef. Pho 518 has many, many options of both beef and chicken, almost to the point there's too much choice. Wife and I order a large order of beef pho and a pork banh mi(sp.) to share. The pho was good and the banh me was awesome. We ordered 2 more banh mi to eat later. The whole meal came to 20 bucks, including the carryout sandwiches. Quite a good deal. That was the good aspects. Now for the bad, and what ultimately prevents a 5 star review. The staff is a little bit lackadaisical. They play inapproriate music for the guest, but I imagine the staff there enjoy listening what I guess passes for top-40 nowadays. They are clearly having a good time, as one of the employees, clearly on break, enjoys his free pho soup in the dining room alongside the paying customers. There are several tables left dirty, which isn't a problem, but you can see the staff forming the chat-circle you often see bored employees do. Oi, go clean your shop before slacking. Likewise, you can see that dining room tables are used as work tables from the staff to do their chores. All-in-all, they need to display a better sense of urgency, otherwise customers will worry that the same lackadaisical attitude permeates into the kitchen as well as the floor. 4 stars. Would be 5 if they would show more professionalism out on the dining room floor. Food is great, value-for-money is awesome. read more

As with most Vietnamese foods here in Pearland, it's average to below average depending on what you order. 1. Spring rolls with the grilled meats (chicken, beef, and pork) are decent and surprisingly tasty. 2. Egg rolls are average 3. Rice noodle bowl - don't bother 4. Pho - edible 5. Rice dish with tofu - don't bother We've been ordering to go from this place for the last week - twice to be sure. read more

This is still bt far my favorite Pho place! I have tried many Phos and this place still holds the most authentic taste of Pho and Non-greasy. It makes me say ummmm everytime I have it. Service is sub par, but the pho is always delicious! read more

If you're looking for a no-frills pho joint in Pearland, look no further. It's usually our go-to if we want some Vietnamese, but lately I've noticed the service has been lacking lately. The restaurant itself is nothing to sneeze at. It's just a bunch of tables arranged in rows and has been unchanged since it first opened. The pho is fairly basic, and they have generous bowls (order the large). It comes out piping hot and is really good if you have a cold and take it to go. The spring rolls are good too, and they have the normal shrimp ones, but also have tofu and chargrilled beef. The Vietnamese egg rolls are fairly small but taste as you would expect them to. All are served with the usual condiments. I've had their bun (vermicelli noodles) and usually get them with chargrilled pork and egg rolls. Their rice plates are the standard fare as well, nothing special. The banh mi is pretty good, but it's such a simple sandwich that it's pretty hard to mess up. Their soda chanh (lemonade made with seltzer and sugar) is refreshing. If you're looking for decent, cheap eats that's not a burger and fries, stop in. But if you want more ambience and better service, go across the street a little ways to Pho Vy. read more

I really wish I could give a good rating since I was hoping to have a good Pho joint around the corner, but I was very disappointed. The egg rolls that I ordered looked very sad. Stale wonton wrapped eggrolls with only one piece of lettuce and a scant amount of shredded carrots. No cilantro or cucumbers. I waited for my house special pho to come out so that I could steal some of the cilantro from the vegetable plate. I've never had a bad fish sauce to dip my eggrolls in at a restaurant until now. It was missing the fish sauce, chili, and lemon. It really just tasted like slightly sweetened water. I was sad. I tried to recover it by adding siracha and some more lemons, but didn't have the guts to ask them to give me some fish sauce. I was hoping the pho would be better. They only gave me a sprig of basil on top of the vegetable plate, I love basil. I was sad that I had to share it with my bf. I checked out my pho bowl after I added all the veggies... the meat was lacking, but I guess it was enough. The broth left a lot to be desired. It lacked the depth of the slow simmered meat bones and the spices tasted out of proportion. I tasted too much cloves and not much else. I knew I should have gone into china town and gotten some blue crabs instead... this really wasn't a good way to start off the Chinese New Years. Womp. read more

Pros: Good food. Good price. Large selection. Fast service. Cons: Actual facility is rather shabby. Not a place you would want to bring a date. However, I still give it 5 stars for the GREAT food. I've eaten at about a dozen pho places around Houston and this one tops them all. read more

Eek. To the reviewers who think you can't mess up pho - no, you can. You can mess it up very badly, and to a pho-natic like myself, it's one of the most depressing things in the world. In a nutshell - this restaurant stinks, and I'm scratching my head at the five-star reviews which only enable places like this to keep pumping out their awful service and food. The service is poor (one of those places where you feel like you're imposing on the waitstaff, due to the attitude/looks/coldness,). Dining area is consistently unkempt. The pho broth is like old dishwater, and the meat is overcooked by the time it reaches your table. Noodles are consistently clumped and gummy, an unfortunate victim of overcooking. I have been here a few times to maybe see if they were having an off day. ..Nope. More like an off restaurant, sadly. If you want good pho, you're better off making the trek to SE Houston to the trailer at Pho Binh, or hell -- just take the plunge and go to Chinatown. read more

Honestly, you cannot really mess up Pho (maybe you can, but I have never really had terrible Pho, anywhere!). This little joint in Pearland, Texas is a good option on a cold winter evening. We found ourselves here on a weekend, during dinnertime, and the restaurant was not terribly busy. The wait staff seems to all be related somehow, which is not a terrible thing. We ordered our food and it came it very quickly, which was good since we were all starving. I ordered the large bowl...and it was as advertised. My wife ordered the small bowl of pho with tendon and was disappointed at the miniscule amount in the bowl. I am not sure if every place is like that with their tendon...since I always order some combination pho, but my wife was sad!!! For 4 bowls of pho, the price was under $30.00, which is typical for a Pho place. Like I said, it is a good option on a cold night (and it is the only Pho place in Pearland that I know of!). read more

Great service and food! It's affordable and reasonably priced. They have a good selection of great Vietnamese foods from vermicelli, rice bowls, and spring rolls. The only complaint I have is their portions for the to-go orders are small. read more

I had #22.. Pho with the beef well done. I know many people can't stand well done beef, but I rather it. I didn't like it as much when compared to other places, but being on the opposite side of Houston from where I live Pho 518 is a good place to go grab a bite. My friend had ordered the pork fried rice. From what I could see, the pork looked nice and the "fried rice" looked bland. I would stay away from it, but my friend said it wasn't bad given that it wasn't as oily as others. The price and taste was about average. The place was clean. The waiter was a bit slow. I ordered a large pho which I thought was a bit small. Order a side of egg rolls or something and you should be full. read more

Hmm I'm guessing this is under new management. The inside changed, new workers. Not the usual guys. Smells the same but doesn't taste the same. The soup is bland no flavor what so ever. I had to add some salt A lot of salt to make it taste better or close to the OG. I don't know if I'll come again. It's close but it's not good. The peanut butter sauce is watered down and the spring rolls are small n thin. Not a fan. read more

Been in Houston since January .... plenty of pho restaurants from katy, Bellaire and beyond .... I'm from California so pho is on every corner .... I enjoyed my large bowl of pho and spring rolls .... reminded me of a place in California .... Pho So Mo' Service was good when I went so I can't complain ..... When I get back to this area and crave some pho I will definitely come here .... read more

I never thought I'd ever actually have bad Pho before. Some places I prefer more than others or some standout above others in several categories (broth, meats, rolls) but this one stood out as probably the worst Pho ive eaten. The broth was not good at all, the summer rolls didnt taste right and the vegetables were not fresh. I ordered meatballs for my soup and they were hard to chew. The meat in the Pho was off-textured and hard to chew. Overall my whole family was dissatisfied. read more

Randomly chose this place because we were in a rush, and that was a poor idea. Ordered the pho tai bo vien and was very sad. The broth was flavorless and the meat was over cooked and dry. The noodles were cooked well and the veggies were fresh, so there's that. We also got egg rolls which were okay. The nuoc cham was decent. Service was okay and prices are comparable to other pho establishments. Meh. read more

Excellent Pho that can challenge the best in Houston.

Great Pho in the suburbs. Nothing special, but it does the trick. The facility could use some sprucing up but if you live/work in the area its a good place to grab a bite! read more

Our family of five ate there last night. The restaurant is not very clean and is somewhat dingy looking. The phrase hole in the wall came to mind when we arrived. There were only two waitresses, no busboys, and no apparent manager on duty. One of our party ordered the seafood pho. 8 hours later and she is vomiting and experiencing the symptoms of food poisoning. We will not be returning. read more

I loved the peanut sauce here, like LOVED, the service was a little slow, but my chicken vermicelli bowl was tasty, lots of chunks of good quality chicken. Could do with a makeover and the boxes being moved so you can get to the restrooms. Also - it would be nice to have been told that you don't pay at the table, you have to go up to the counter to pay! Not my fave Vietnamese place, but not the worst either! read more

I came here as my first time here. When I walked in, it was nice and clean which I liked a lot. The services were good too. However, when I order a rice plate (com bo luc lac), there was not enough meat. I was extra hungry and I had to order pho. I prefer pho more bc the portion was reasonable for the right price. Also the broth was really good! I'd come again for pho. read more

Pho 71 - Com bo luc lac - had little meat - Vietnamese Near Me - Pearland, Texas

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Tasty broth, somewhat passable service. I got the round-eye + well-done flank, but there was also some additional type of meat in the pho... not sure or that big of a deal but just fyi! They don't have any mini bowls at the tables to put your dipping sauces in so I had to ask for one... made me feel bad haha and it was like an actual bowl, not a sauce bowl, so I felt even worse. Oh well, food is good so go if you want some standard pho. read more

Decent pho. Rice dishes are not good. Excellent service. I would not recommend dining there unless you are having a pho rush. read more

Pho 71 - Vietnamese Near Me - Pearland, Texas

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Short and sweet. The Pho is not the best in Pearland but it's legit and will do. The. Bahn. Mi. Is. Gross. Don't do it. Don't even try. Hard ass bread on the outside, slimy inner layer with some strips of boot inside. Urgh. read more