Came here based on yelp review. Bun Bo hue is the worst I ever had. The broth does not have the right spices and herbs, which is very bland. Vietnamese ice milk coffee - 4 stars. read more

The inside is busy busy. Service though very friendly and food came out so fast it was perfect given the late night dining hours in Paris. There is little English spoken here so be prepared however the menu is dual translated so it's easy to know everything you're getting. Start off with a coconut milkshake - you will devour it trust me. The Bánh cun was like a vietnamese ravili stuff with spices and meat and super good, hoever if you want a starter the Ch giò was the best. The dipping sauce with the sweet chilis was so good a few of us ended up mixing the leftover into our bowls. It was SOOO good. The Ph đc bit bò viên was fantastic. The broth so flavorful that you'll drink it from the bowl when you're done. There's no need to add anything extra to it either, it's perfect as you get it. The Bún bò nng ch giò (Bò Bún) was really fresh and good though which was my favorite of main entrees. The beef was cooked perfectly so you aren't gnawing away for 5 minutes on the same piece of meat but instead enjoying it. Beats most places I've had even back home. The one downside of this place is that they will cram you in there. Like a 6 inch gap to get to the back side of the booth which made it tricky to get in and out as needed while we enjoyed dinner and drinks. But you can make it work because it's worth it! read more

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Apparently good pho place in Paris. Comparing taste to US (San Fran), taste is milder...dare say more bland? Pho, banh cuon tom (steamed ravioli shrimp), and rice plate with lemongrass chicken. It was a hike from the Marais...a nice little shop. , but personally prefer taste of Vietnamese in Cali :-) read more

Pho Bida Vietnam - Vietnamese Near Me - Paris, 75

Came here with a few friends for lunch on a Sunday and was expecting to order pho but decided to try something new instead. We all ordered their bowls that had rice noodles, veggies, and a selection of meat or fish. It was absolutely DELICIOUS. Super yummy and super duper flavorful. I had shrimp and crab egg rolls and I could not get enough of it. Place was overall not too big and the service was pleasant and decent for the most part. read more

Pho Bida Vietnam - Vietnamese Near Me - Paris, 75

We came here because a friend recommended it. He knows we like pho. I already know it's not going to be good. Pho in Paris is nonexistent. It's a joke. My husband is from Paris, moved to California and I showed him what the authentic pho taste like. After he tried all the pho restaurants in Westminster, we came back to visit his family and he took me to his pho spot he used to eat at and said it's the best. He thinks differently now of that place. Missing spices in the broth, too much MSG, missing vegetable toppings, etc. LOL, I live in Orange County for about 9-10 years. Westminister, California is the place to find real Authentic Pho. Our experience here, very busy spot, packed I would say. Service is much better than the other pho spots. The pho is bland and expensive. Vegetables weren't so fresh. Table seatings are extra small. We did order a beef dish, it was not bad. I will definitely reject any other pho spot recommended in Paris. I'd tried about 4 now. None of the places, taste anything like the real thing. To have the flavors to be right, they'll need to use a lot of beef bones and other real meat to make the broth than to add MSG, cubes beefs flavors. Most places only use a few of the pho spices too. Worth a try. read more

Opt for the pho and the nems (fried spring rolls wrapped in lettuce; 4 pieces per serving). I tried the Saigonese Pho which consisted of a whole slew of things such as pork, chicken, shrimp, and quail eggs in a flavorful, clear broth. There's no need to add any hoisin sauce, fish sauce, or any other sauces to this broth; there's no need to tamper around with it. This broth is tasty. Just a squeeze of lime, some mint, and beansprouts and you're ready to eat! read more

Pho Bida Vietnam - Pho Saigonese - Vietnamese Near Me - Paris, 75

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We started off with the beef carpacio for appetizer. My husband ordered the pork chop rice plate and I ordered the chicken and pork rice plate. All three dishes that we ordered were delicious! From day one I was looking forward to eating great Vietnamese food and now I think I found it. This is my first time eating beef carpacio. What exactly is beef carpacio? It is an Italian dish consisting of raw or partially cooked beef, cut into thin slices and served with arugula and a dressing of olive oil, lemon juice and Parmesan shavings. However, this beef carpacio was served raw with really big leafed cilantro, red peppers, green onions cut into little pieces, white onions into thin slices and top off with crushed peanuts. The best part of this dish is the sauce! I think they mixed in fish sauce, sugar, lemon and pour it onto the dish. It was so appetizing! I usually can't stand raw meat, but this dish got me woofing it down quickly. Our rice plates were excellent. My meat was done very well. The grilled pork and chicken were very good. The service was excellent, they were very busy by the time we arrived, around 8:30pm. We got seated within 10 minutes, pretty fast service. The food came out hot and they smelled great! Overall excellent experience. Great food and great ambience. Our dishes were around 8 Euroes each, which isn't bad. We will definitely come back again and recommend it to our friends and family! :) Ambience: A Price:A- Service:A Food:A++++ read more

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My boo's love for the red soup known as bun bo hue took us to this restaurant. We had to have one final meal before departing paris. I enjoyed my vermicelli with pork and cha gio. This place gets packed too. We were lucky to go early and not have to wait. read more

Food was delicious and our plates were quite full! I had a bobun and some Bahn Cuon. After that I didn't have any space for desert! It's a family restaurant. I do recommend it read more

tasty Vietnamese food in this China town area...very popular restaurant and busy all the time. I tried the Vietnamese spring roll and chicken pho and chicken lemongrass with rice.soft flat noodles with tiny shrimps also not bad. overall the service is quite good. read more

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For me, this place beats Pho 14 any day (Apologies to the crazed customers in line at Pho 14: you should just skip the wait and head to the edge of Chinatown where old Vietnamese ladies eat at Pho Bida Vietnam). This place features North Vietnamese pho, which is a more simple broth than its southern brother (Pho 14 is has more southern, "dirty" broth, which means it is heavier and has a bunch of garnishes ). The beef pho and chicken pho at Pho Bida Vietnam are delicious, not oily, and perfect for a wintry day. Definitely save some room for the vietnamese coffee and the colorful desserts! read more

Pho Bida is a haul from Central Paris but it is worth it. My husband and I arrived around 8pm on a Sunday just as the dinner rush had arrived. All of the tables in the main restaurant were full and there were about 12 of us waiting for a table. To accommodate, the staff ushered all of us over to a space located two doors down from the main restaurant. In this space were tables and chairs and nothing else - I'll call it the overflow space. Despite the rush of customers, we were served quickly and the food was great. The pork spring rolls to start were yummy and the pho to follow was also yummy. Don't expect much, if any, English to be spoken here. We used broken French to get what we wanted (a table for two, a fork, and our bill). Although the staff didn't speak any English, the menu does have sections which are in English (not all though). If you have access to the internet, Google Translate will be your friend. read more

I already knew what I was getting before I stepped foot inside their doors. I've tried three other Viet restaurants in Paris and none of them had my favorite noodle dish: bun rieu. So I quickly bookmarked Pho Bida when I saw another Yelper's pic of this dish. Nice looking interior but pretty tight in some places. But never mind that- let me talk food. From the first taste, I knew I was eating an authentic bowl of bun rieu. It was make-you-sweat hot. I almost burned my tongue because I was too impatient. The soup was great and had lots of flavor. The lime, garnishes, and peppers complemented the soup well. My garnishes looked like they had been sitting out all day, though, and I think the dish could have used a bit more crab/pork but I was pretty full at the end. I would say this definitely rivals the homemade bun rieu I've had (don't tell my sister in law). And just because I love chè, I ordered a red bean/green jelly/coconut milk chè. It was just aaaalright; I've had better. So this place is my favorite Viet restaurant so far. I want to try some of their other dishes to see if they're also as good, so I'll be back. --- Dec. 2013 update: Okay so bun rieu isn't offered on their menu anymore! Sad news. Where to go now? read more

The food here is so good that I have decided to try to learn some of the proper Vietnamese names for them. =GLOSSARY= - Cha giò or Nem rán: Vietnamese fried spring rolls - Nuoc cham or nuoc mam pha: the fish sauce dip - Bún thit nuong: A bowl of dry rice noodles with grilled meat and other garnishes on top (there are other varieties and names) - Pho: Vietnamese noodle soup This is the type of stuff that I eat in Toronto - proper, flavourful, awesome pho. But what they make better in general in Paris than Toronto, and amazingly at this place, is the friend spring rolls! I have no idea why that despite this place has been around for so long (the sign indicated the 80s but the decor is newly renovated within the last few years and menu as well) it has never been on my radar...oh I know why...there were no Yelp reviews! Now that they have been appearing staggeringly...this tiny little place will soon be exploding....well unless you define their current state to already be if the exploding state. Reading the review by Omid T, it would seem that they used to have various locations, one of which is near Disney, but despite my research, i have not figured out the status of them. When we went, it was already pretty late on a Friday night, around 9pm and the place is brimming with people with nowhere to stand. The place is modern and squishy. We got a seat relatively quickly and were placed in a corner. We ordered crab spring roll(Nem Cua Be) to start, a grilled pork rice noodle bowl, and a house pho (for beer they only had heineken and saigon in bottles). The crab spring roll came with giant lettuce you had to rip yourself and the fish sauce. It was perfectly fried. The grilled pork on the vermicelli bowl was really good, and it came with pork spring rolls and your typical garnishings. The pho -if you are looking for proper southern pho, this is where you would find it. It comes with rare beef, cooked beef, beef tendon, tripe, and beef balls. Bear in mind that the tripe is not your chinese tasting tripe, but french tasting and i wasn't used to it. The beef balls are tiny versions. You can customize your meat selections if you need to - the price is all the same 8 EUR for a small, and 8.50 for large. If you dont tell them, they will give you the large. For 50 centimes more, why not? Next timei come, I'm going to do it around noon try their Saigonese pho special and get a nice cup of their vietnamese coffee!! read more

Pho Bida Vietnam - Pho, bobun, nem - Vietnamese Near Me - Paris, 75

Ok, compared to the very best pho I've had, this place should really get 4 stars. A solid 4 stars. However, I have to compare it to the competition in Paris and on that basis, it's as good as it gets. I've been to so many places for pho in Paris that I've lost count. Every place on Avenue Ivry and Avenue Choisy. Even a hip fusion place in the 8eme. But for authentic pho, nothing beats Pho Bida Vietnam in Paris. At least not that I've found. You get the usual condiments (lime, sawtooth herb, basil, bean sprouts, onions, red hot peppers, sriracha, hoisin) and a steaming hot bowl of the Pho Dac Biet Bo Vien (Special Pho with Beef Meatballs). The broth is clear yet a deep brown. The aroma is very nice and the taste is spot on. It has depth and it has character. Like I said at the beginning, not the best I've had but right up there and for Paris, it's something that's hard to find. You get plenty of meat although it's cuts I would not have preferred mysef but it's very good nonetheless. Opt for the large bowl which is just right for my appetite. So would I recommend this place for pho? You bet. If you're ever in Paris and are getting sick of French food or have a wicked hangover or just need something to warm you up on a cold winter's day, head over to Pho Bida Vietnam. Skip the crowd at Pho Banh Cuon 14 which has the long lines but mediocre pho. This place just kicks ass. read more

YUM! This was my first foray into the 13th arr. for Vietnamese food so I can't compare it to the other places nearby. I got takeout, knowing that I wanted to try several different dishes, and that it would be too much for one person to eat in one sitting. My order was packed with care so that it would travel well and stay fresh until I was ready to eat it. I got a green papaya salad with shrimp, the Bo bun with grilled pork, and a dessert which was variously colored and shaped vegetable gelatin cubes covered in coconut milk. All were good and fresh. I think that the dessert is probably an acquired taste, but I really liked it. The serving of salad was what I would call normal-sized, but the portions of bo bun and dessert were quite large, in my opinion. The people working there were friendly. I will definitely be back to try the Pho and other dishes. There is also a dessert of red bean with coconut milk on top which looked good. It ALL looked good. The ambiance is cozy with tables and banquettes lining the walls. I would have thought that it would be busier, given how good the food was. The only thing that would keep me from coming back regularly is that it is an inconvenient metro ride across town for me. read more

2.5 Stars The food is decent but not very authentic, it looked and tasted westernized to me. I was disappointed. The pho dac biet soup resembled pho soup but was much too light. It didn't have the deep nuances of broth which as been boiled for hours with spices. The rice noodles seemed a tad too thick. The bun with grilled pork, egg rolls, and vegetables was okay. The grilled pork had some sort of glaze over it (which it's not supposed to have), there should have been more carrot and daikon strips (and it didn't taste very pickled to me.) There were cucumber strips, cilantro, bean sprouts, and peanuts like they were supposed to be but the sauce didn't taste right. There should have been a stronger fish sauce taste and it a stronger sweetness to it. Overall, disappointing if you want authentic Vietnamese flavor. read more

I really don't get where that place got its reputation from. This is another bland quick and overpriced pho soup that contains so much msg it tastes worst than instant noodle. Besides a good cube of tendon, the meat is extremely disappointing. So were the stale bean sprouts and lime wedges by the way. read more

The best Vietnamese food in Paris - hands down! Authentic, full of flavor, extensive menu, reasonable prices - just yum yum and yum! I originally discovered this place through Vietnamese friends, and it's always packed. There are actually 2 different sections to the restaurant, and even if there is a wait, no worries - you are usually seated fast. The food is here so good that my visiting Vietnamese friends from the States insisted we come back and eat here more than once - despite the fact that they were only in Paris for 3 days or so and wanted to try French food. Haha now if that's not saying something ;) It is a bit off the beaten path, so to say, as it's not in the center of Paris, nor in the heart of the "Chinatown" section of the 13th where the other Vietnamese restaurants are located. It stands alone on an otherwise calm street, but it's worth the trip! I just wanted to comment as well that quality could sometimes ever so slightly vary. For example, I ordered the bun bo hue one day and it was AMAZING, whereas I came back a few days later and it wasn't as flavorful. Still tasty, just not mind-blowing. Don't forget to try the Vietnamese ice coffee with milk (ca phe sua da) - yummy! Funny tidbit, the name pho bida is not pronounced like pho biDa (with a hard d sound) but rather like (billiards - French pronunciation). read more

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Ever since I went to Vietnam, I've fallen in love with bun bo hue-and not enough restaurants serve it!! But there's tons of spots in Paris thank goodness :D Anyways, I had my delicious soup here and it was spicy 'n tasty!! YUMM. read more

If you are used to good pho in the USA, then this place will be a let down. Not sure which is more like true Vietnamese pho, but this place pales in comparison to quality pho that I am familiar with. The vegetables were not fresh and the chicken was greasy with skin on. There was barely any chicken meat, mostly just spare parts. I won't be back and won't recommend to anyone. read more

Can't believe we went all the way to Paris to eat Vietnamese food when we have delicious Vietnamese back at home. Considering the Vietnamese population is quite large in Paris, the food is quite disappointing. Being Easter, a lot of places we wanted to try were close so we went into this place given the decent reviews. However, it was a let down. For those use to the quality you get in Orange County then be prepared to be disappointed. But since it is a foreign country I am generous with my rating. In Orange County, this place would get 2 stars. read more

We are vietnamese Americans visiting Paris and wanted to try something different than Pho14 and wanted to try their Bún Bò Hue. Boy was it the biggest disappointment on our Paris visit. One waitress brought out a plate of stale bean sprouts which was already had gooey buildup for my wife's bun bo hue; i had the banh cuon. We had to ask them to exchange for a fresher one. I have no idea why this place had so much high ratings but i'm vietnamese and their foods was disappointing. read more

It is a cute cosy place in the 13th arrondissement. Since I have never tried a proper Vietnamese food before, it was a satisfying experience for me. Staff had smiling faces, the seafood salad and rice with grilled beef was savoury, fresh and generously sized. I would definitely recommend. read more

Awesome Vietnamese restaurant. Went there with a real Vietnamese, said it was like home food ! I got the beef rolls in wineleaves, which are one of my favourite Vietnamese meal, was not disappointed ! :) read more

Really nice place. The food is good. The place is super crowded. Don't forget to book first !

Came to Paris for about a week and this by far has to be the best place we've eaten. Yes, it was a little far from central Paris where we were staying (about 30 mins by uber) but it was well worth the trip. Ordered the pho dac biet, the MUST TRY egg rolls, and pork rice plate and everything was delicious. My boyfriend and I both agreed that it was probably even better than some of the Viet restaurants back at home (Fresno, California) . Last thing is that I also definitely appreciated that they had English on their menu unlike a majority of places I've been to so far. read more

I was satisfied .... After having too much french food in paris, if u r craving for asian food, this is the place. The place is tiny and crowded, also english is probably not a good way to communicate with them. Except for that, i love the pho. read more

After 2 weeks in Italy with no Asian food, my husband and I were in need of some Vietnamese food so we searched and took the long haul to pho Bida from central Paris. It was great to smell pho in a restaurant. This is a small restaurant full of people and people waiting. It seems like they are working on expanding the restaurant next door as well and some people are overflowing to that area for tables. Pho was more of the south Vietnamese taste where they use more fish sauce and less herb. I do prefer this taste with the flat noodles. My husband did not like it as much since he prefers the more herb smell from northern Vietnam. We also ordered beef carpaccio or bo tai Chanh with some wine and it was very yummy. I observed that others seem to order the bun thit nuong or grilled meat noodles a lot and it smelled great. The menu offered a wide variety of Vietnamese dishes. Overall, that meal felt like a 4 or 5 stars just because we have not had anything but Italian food and French food but in hindsight, it is a three stars. We are spoiled Californian with great pho and asian food so I think we are a bit more picky. read more

Pretty decent Northern style vietnamese food. Place looks nice and prices are quite decent. Was a good break from all the French food.

Super pho. I am a European Traveller. This pho is one of the best on Paris Chinatown area.

Beef Carpaccio was delish. Pho was also pretty good. I'm a fan