You can never go wrong with a bowl of pho. This place is no different. I find this location to be better than Leesburg. Their pho is outstanding with a rich broth, flowing noodles, and generous portions of succulent meat. Pho coming 11 is my favorite: well done brisket, flank steak, fatty brisket, & tendon. Had a cold French espresso to wash things down with. By far the highlight of my day. Service was very efficient and quick. It was just one server but he moved with the speed and grace of a ninja. Bussing tables, handing out menus, bringing out drinks, taking orders, he did it all. Wanna learn how to be an efficient server, come here and see that guy! read more

Pho Royal - Pho combo 11 - Vietnamese Near Me - Sterling, Virginia

visited this place with my boyfriend the food is really good tastes amazing & the staff are very friendly very welcoming, we've been there plenty of times never had a unpleasant experience, very satisfied. they are always checking up on you to make sure you're doing okay. definitely our favorite spot read more

Always delish and wonderful hospitality. We frequent there a lot because they are clean, food comes to us efficiently. We go there so much, the staff already knows what we want. read more

If you ran out of broth for pho, you need to say so and not accept orders and make your customers wait an hour. Also if you finally remake the broth somehow and bring out the pho but not the way it was ordered, the least you can do is say sorry. And not stand there like you're doing me a favor by serving the food we are paying for. I would wish you good luck but you will need more than that. read more

Great food with plentiful portions! When I order for pickup it is always ready in a timely manner! read more

This place is great the soup we order wow the taste is good and hot indeed coming back soon, the service was great and quick. read more

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The quality of the food in the last few months have gone south. The pho is watered down. I ordered grilled pork rice dish was horrible. Com tam: the pork was seasoned with one of those prepackaged Chinese spice nothing like Vietnamese. I couldn't eat all of it and had to tossed it out and wasted a $17.00 meal. It's a shame to wastes food in times where we have food insecurity in this country and world. The owner(s) should be ashamed for selling terrible overpriced food... I highly recommend not a place to go for Vietnamese food in sterling. I have been to Pho places in Ocean City that were far better. read more

Friendly staff and spacious dining room. We ordered veggie Pho and grilled chicken entree. The soup was tasty but they overload your bowl with rice to the point that it's hard to stir and not much room for anything else in the soup. Grilled chicken dish looked very good but the chicken was very dry, either chewy or brittle with different pieces. Really wanted to love this place as it's close to home. read more

Pho Royal - Grilled chicken. My daughter enjoyed the rice. The chicken was either chewy or brittle with different pieces. - Vietnamese Near Me - Sterling, Virginia

I got 1 order of fresh spring roll (AKA summer Roll) and a #11. The summer rolls were just OK- not the worst, not the best I've tried, overall average. The number 11 comes with a variety of beef cuts which was nice as well as normal rice noodles. I was pretty underwhelmed with the flavor. The broth was bland and lacked in depth flavors. I added sriracha and all of the toppings to help the flavor, but it didn't seem to do much. The cuts of beef however were much better than the broth. Not sure I'll be back due to the blandness, price point is also standard for small bowl of pho. read more

Pho Royal - #11 - Vietnamese Near Me - Sterling, Virginia

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Came here for thr first time about 2 years ago...now its my go to restaurant for pho! Quick, efficient, clean, and the food is good!

This is my favourite place for pho! I always get the chicken pho and it's so good every time. I also get the roll-your-own pork spring rolls. Sometimes I come just for those spring rolls they're that good. read more

Been coming here for 20 years. Best pho spot in NOVA, or at least it's my favorite one.

Tucked into a small strip of businesses within eyesight of Rt 7. Great meeting Jesse C, a lurking local, and the colorful Paul M who promises a smashing good time. Jimena looked gorgeous as always, and Lester was sporting his new vintage threads; poor fella bore the brunt of my garlic perfume, but if he likes durian then I figure he can take it. Three stars. I thought it was a bit tacky to refill water pitchers at a sink by the registers... I prefer the illusion of not knowing where it came from and being able to pretend it was filtered, I guess. Limes in the waters were sliced ultra thin, maybe a hair thicker than the pork in the spring rolls. Their peanut sauce was kinda heavy on ginger, and there was more sauce than roll in my to-go bag. The at-table rolls were definitely more generously stuffed. Such disappointment upon opening the stapled brown bag: sad, limp versions of what I had witnessed less than an hour before, one even bursting at a scrawny seam... As if in a course of an hour they had withered from forty years of malnutrition and drug abuse. Good broth in my #17, a tad clear but still flavorful. Clumpy noodles though. I think I got a total of half a beef ball in my soup, which seems like strange rationing. Lester and I were extra spoiled by Jimena's fatty discards. Service was really bizarre... a twitchy quiet server, and I was practically neglected at the end waiting for my summer rolls to go; convenient excuse to break the $10 credit card minimum. The metro, fluent English-speaker at the counter was a good sport about splitting the bills (he looked like Kevin's doppelganger!). Not sure if I'll be back since I'm getting used to boba and pho going hand in hand. Moral of story: don't get the summer rolls to go, they're fatter if you order it to eat there. ================ 11/5 update: Good meeting Evan, and refreshing to see Jimena breeze in and embrace me with such warmth after a morning in my cold, cold office. Oh yes, and reuniting with James and John was excellent since they're both beef soup for the soul (see what I did there?). After talking to the counter guy twice since I had to see what the hold up was, they still managed to forget, then mess up my hot coffee. Who wants iced coffee on a cold day? Broth was much sweeter than last time, but at least I got a whole beef ball. Still consider it 3 stars at best; John's dish looked a whole lot more tempting, and bless Jimena for sharing her summer rolls since mine were emaciated again. read more

Nothing beats a bowl of warm Pho on a chilly day, and Pho Royal was exactly what I needed during this Polar Vortex! Pho broth is a very personal taste preference, and for me, I love the broth here (not too fishy). I ordered for take-out, so I cannot speak to the dine-in experience, except to say that there was almost not one empty table in the dining room. Seems like a good sign. I won't remove a star for this, but I do feel that the price of the Pho here was more expensive compared to others I've tried in the area. Since this place is right around the corner from my house, I'll definitely be back! read more

I've been going to Pho Royal for years, so it's about time I wrote a review. Keeping it simple, the pho broth here is exceptional. No hoisin sauce, nor sriracha needed. I am a huge broth purist, so I usually don't add all that extra sauce anyway. The pho here is perfect in my opinion without it. If you're not feeling beef, the chicken pho here is excellent as well. The clear broth is sure to clear up your sinuses if you're sick, or to just satisfy your stomach if you're there for a pho fix. The com tam here is more pricey than I'd like to pay for a plate of broken rice, meat, and pickled veggies, but it's done right. The ingredients are always fresh and the nuoc mam is great as well. Always a favorite when I'm not craving soup. Whatever you get at Pho Royal is sure to please! Enjoy, fellow Pho lovers. PS: Did I mention the service is FAST? My bf was in a hurry because he had work at 9:30pm, and we were in and out of the place in 20-25 minutes! read more

The only consistent pho place in the area. We've been going here for years now and our experiences have been pretty good for the most part. The pho is flavorful and they give you a good amount of noodles and meat for your money's worth. The side vegetables are a hit/miss, but usually good. (All who knows me well knows I take my veggies very seriously haha) The vermicelli and broken rice dishes are quite tasty as well. Though for the choice of protein, I would recommend getting either the 1) pork 2) chicken 3) beef in that particular order. The beef just doesn't seem to quite hit the spot and fresh like the other protein choices, but that's just me. The prices for the dishes are pretty reasonable, but I've seen cheaper pho places. Oh, if you have ever received/bought a gift card with them, make sure to use it within 12 months of purchased reason being the gift cards expires... A lesson learned for me. Overall, I would recommend pho royal for a quick pho fix, so give a shot! read more

Pho Royal - Pho - Tai with added meatballs - Vietnamese Near Me - Sterling, Virginia

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Pho Royal is Pho-king good! Driving around on a chilly Saturday Afternoon, looking for a bite to eat, but not really knowing what I wanted to eat. Didn't feel like having fried chicken or anything else in the area for that matter. Then we spotted Pho Royal. It seemed like that would be the appropriate comfort food for that moment. The good: The Pho was excellent! The broth was so delicious and the star Anise with all the other spices was very apparent. I had the combo with the tripe, beef tendon, beef and other goodies. It came with a plate of bean sprouts, mint leaves and lime. I licked it down to the last drop. Prices were not too bad for the portion sizes. There's actually quite a lot of space and the tables are not too crowded together. The bad: The place can get crowded and really noisy. There was maybe two servers and a bus boy that seemed to be disorganzed. It looked like a less than typical Pho joint. Dirty looking, drab, straight out of the back streets of Vietnam. I read the prior reviews and everybody says this place is clean, but on the day of my visit. Nope. Not so much. The ugly: The service really sucked. We sat down and no one brought us menus for a while. I had to flag someone down and ask for them. No one checked our fluid levels. I ran out of water and never got a refill. The bus boy didn't properly bus our table and I had to get up and get a napkin dispenser from another table myself. Then I had to get the bill myself after there was no one to flag down anymore. Despite the bad service, I loved the Pho. And let's face it. Pho restaurants never seem to have good service anyway. When in the area, I'd still come back. read more

Terrible service, waited for 20 minutes to even take my order then when I asked if I could order at the counter, I was scolded. Quote, "if you can't wait then leave". The restaurant was empty there was one other table and me so I'm assuming the staff doesn't like working or something. Overall terrible experience wish I had the chance to even try the food. read more

Finally got around to visiting Pho Royal again for delicious, nutritious Pho Ga. A work colleague and I visited on a cold, rainy day earlier this week. We both ordered the small Pho Ga with white meat, and split an order of their fried rolls. Rolls were tasty, the accouterments for the Pho were in a fresh, crisp condition - although we needed more - I asked for a second plate of aromatics/veggies - which they promptly provided. Pho broth was absolutely tasty and delicious. As with all good Pho places - they serve their Pho Ga with a chicken broth - NOT a beef broth. We asked our server about the rumored new location for another Pho Royal in Leesburg. He confirmed that it was opening soon - and that it would be near The Home Depot. While we were there, but who should appear? None other than that bottomless pit of a carnivore, the ravenous Sergeant-At-Arms of the Pho Force - Lester! He had just finished his Pho and was headed out. read more

This places was packed full of Asians on Sunday at lunch (always a good sign)! They have an extensive menu so you aren't stuck ordering pho. Crispy spring rolls were lackluster. Small, skinny and not much filling - I would skip this next time. Pho broth was rich and delicious. I barely had to use any Hoison sauce to flavor it up. It took a lot of Sriracha to get my broth spicy enough though so it makes me feel like they may have watered their bottles down. I ordered #11 and was pleasantly surprised with the amount of meat that it came with in my small bowl. I do feel like they slumped on noodles though. This was the first time I have ever finished my entire bowl of pho so the portions must be small. My husband ordered he lemongrass beef and fried egg and enjoyed it! It came with a small bowl of pho broth too. His portion was also a little small. We finished our meals with Vietnamese iced coffees which were delicious despite coming premade in a styrofoam cup. Pay at the front counter and they accept credit cards. Bonus for being able to tip on your cc receipt too. Will definitely be back for their pho but might get a large next time! read more

Pho Royal - Pho #11 - Vietnamese Near Me - Sterling, Virginia

I used to have to run over to Centreville or Annandale for good pho, but this place is just as good! Very flavorful broth (VERY IMPORTANT!), not too much oil in the soup, and pretty good portions. Yum. I come here all the time now unless I'm running out of town for something anyways. Prices are the same/slightly less than some places! (considering portions) I always think I should try something else on the menu, but the pho is so irresistible! read more

This is still my go to for pho. Their broth is still kick ass. Not sure what they put in, bit it keeps me coming back. The people working here are always friendly. They are quick and are always filling water. My large 15 always hits the spot. You can't go wrong with their spring rolls or summer rolls either. They always hit the spot. Today's lunch has me wanting to get some more. Lucky for me Pho Royal has a second location in Leesburg. read more

I always get their Com Dia Royal, which includes suon, dau hu ky, op la, and bi (grilled/charred pork, shrimp/pork wrapped in fried bean curd skin, sunny side up egg, and shredded pork). It really is a conglomeration of various savory meats. The pork is seasoned really well and charred so that it has that tinge of burntness (may be a good or bad thing for some lol). There's just so many things going on this plate that I wish they had a bigger plate for this. The small side of pickled vegetables and salad complements the meats by giving a lighter, refreshing side to the dish. Of course, the soup is the same one they use for pho, which is great on a cold day or any day actually. The pho is also pretty good and was originally based on the pho place that used to be under the plaza with the clock tower in Herndon (Pho 99?). read more

Awesome Vietnamese food! I've ordered the eye round beef pho and the grilled beef c7. rice dish thingy and both were very tasty. Be aware, it's VERY COLD INSIDE but the food is WORTH IT so just bring a jacket !! Pricing is decent: be prepared to spend $8-14 per person with $4-10 appetizers. Atmosphere is causal, location is kinda tucked away but easy to get to from route 7. Worth a try for anyone looking for good pho as winter approaches! read more

Pho Royal - Pho tai (eye round steak) and c7. rice dish - Vietnamese Near Me - Sterling, Virginia

No matter where I am in town but if I feel like having PHO then it has to be at Royal PHO. Owner Cindy has done great job of having same pho every time and consistency is always same. I love it and it makes me feel at home. I visit this place at least once or twice a week. Excellent food great service. Always the best. read more

Pho Royal - Vietnamese Near Me - Sterling, Virginia

We happened to stumble on this place heading to our POI on a cold, windy, wet, gloomy weekend and had to make a pit-stop. Pho wasn't bad. The noodle were pre-made and came out all sticking together (even being dunked in hot soup). The broth tasted more pre-made powder stuff than actual meat bones & meat (for the broth. The meat was standard- not overdone but not overly fresh either. The side veggies were fresh and clean. The place itself was decently sized and kept pretty clean, with mild-mannered staff. Price was a tad on the high side ($9 for a small) I didn't like seeing all my fav Viet dessert pre made, in cups, in the fridge, ready to go; it made me wonder how long they'd been sitting there. Decent portions at a steep-ish price. This place was a decent pho stop, not the best, but did the job. read more

Best Pho outside of Eden area! They also have other delicious rice dishes and vermicelli with egg rolls bowl.. My family go to place for take out! read more

The service here is great, and the food is wonderful! Really, it's a great place for all Pho lovers. I really enjoyed the Pho and the soup too! The soup is always tasty, and the noodles--yum....I just wish I could still have some right now. You should come here--it's an outstanding place to eat. read more

Great food! Short wait as well. I got pho and spring rolls and they didn't disappoint. Would definitely come back!

I visit Pho Royal based on all the recommendations from fellow yelp's reviewers and I was not disappointed!! My husband was really skeptical about having vietnamese pho in the middle of no where.. When we got there, the whole place was empty and this restaurant is in a dark small plaza.. Maybe I came with a low expectation and I was not able to eat Asian for almost 10 days.. I found the pho here amazing good!! The portion is a little small but it is so tasty! The broth has a lot of flavour and the noddles and everything is perfect! I would definitely come back and visit again when I am in the area! read more

During covid, they increased the price 10% which I really don't mind at all. But somehow the portion is a little bit too small.

Pho Royal is an excellent pho joint, I definitely recommend it. It gets pretty crowded for lunch, and with good reason. Their pho tai chin checks off basically all of the attributes I look for: good portions, comes out really hot and steamy, very lean and thin cuts of meat, lots of broth, good quality fixings. The beef broth is pretty beefy... I guess I'm looking for just a little more punch of the asian spices to elevate it's "pho-iness"? And maybe just a tad on the salty side. The chicken pho (pho ga) is lighter, thus the spice balance is much better suited - it's absolutely delicious. The crispy rolls are tasty, but unexceptional. Service is nice enough, decor is nice enough. It's a step up from the cafeteria-style joints, but not fancy. I can see why people give it 5 stars, but it doesn't quite get there for me. read more

Pho Royal - Large pho tai chin. - Vietnamese Near Me - Sterling, Virginia

This is my best Pho soup intown I have try couples place around but this place give me the best beef soup Very clean restaurant and the service is super fast and friendly Highly recomended you won't ne disappoited read more

Amazing Pho with Shrimp. We were looking for Pho in the area and this popped up. Amazing food and service!

My go-to place for great tasting pho! Easy ordering on the phone and quickly ready for pick up.

Once the best pho in town, but cash-only now, likely as a means to underreport income (#IRS). Also, their prices have risen over the years and are about as high as you'll find for pho. Never coming back unless they go back to being what they were and contact me directly to let me know. Driving 15 minutes hungry to find that your favorite place is cutting corners isn't fun. Doing it a second time is beyond irritating. Heading to try Teabreak and assemble other options/go-tos. Don't mess with my pho. *edited: they take cards again now. Back to 5 stars read more

Under new ownership...the pork over rice is now a different cut and much fattier. The cuts of meat in the pho are slightly lower quality too. Looks like they are cutting costs. Gotta find a new go-to Pho joint now... read more

I was craving pho for dinner and I'm lucky enough to have several locations by to get pho. This location is my favorite because their quick and friendly. I went in after work to place an order and walked out within 5 minutes with my order. That's faster than driving thru most fast food line. read more

Good Vietnamese food, good value! My friends and I were in town for a wedding and wanted to find a place for lunch before heading to the airport, and a quick Yelp search turned up Pho Royal. Given the positive reviews, we agreed to give it a try- and we are glad we did! The staff was attentive and friendly with our mixed requests of hang over food- fresh coconut drinks, as well as wine was available to us. The table ordered pho and rice dishes. The Pho was decent, although I had to add some Sriracha and Hoisin sauce to the soup for flavor. I have had better on the West coast, but it was good for what it was and for the area. Spring rolls were tasty and the rice dishes smelled divine. We all agreed- we would be back, given we were back in the same area again! read more

This is the best pho place. Our first time here and the broth is clear and very fragrant and tasty! This will be our new pho place for now on! The restaurant is very clean and warm too. read more