This place is always nice and quiet, and delicious. I'm probably a weirdo for going to a pho…read morerestaurant and ordering pad Thai, but they do theirs so well! It's a good portion size and always delicious. The service is always quick as well, and they put sprigs of basil on everything (if you're not a fan, you can pull it off easily). Their to go orders are great too, packed very carefully.

Excellent customer service! Always love this place! Very nice and always asks about our day!read more

Got the order wrong (4 stars reason) but everything else was great! Top notch customer service…read morehere!

Same great food, excellent customer service this time around! A different young gal was at the…read moreregister this time and she was wonderful. Quiet, but polite, engaging, helpful when asked questions about menu items, all done with a smile. Our food was fabulous, too!

I was meeting my family for lunch and we tried two other spots that were closed. Third time is a…read morecharm and it truly is. So grateful for this spot. Overall it was a great first experience. We had pho, lemon grass skillet, mushroom app. -Pho was great! 4/5 (beef and tendon was wonderful) -Lemon grass beef skillet 4/5 -Mushroom app -mixed review. Half liked it even though it was lacking flavor, other folk didn't care for it. They'd benefit from seasoning the batter used. Served with a mayo based yumyum type sauce. Not spicy at all. We will definitely go back. I love the idea of getting this to go as well. Family confirmed it's not available on food delivery apps.

One of my favorite Vietnamese dishes is Shaking Beef ( Bò Lúc Lắc ) . I make it at home…read moreoccasionally, but it is always nice to find it at a restaurant. So I drove over to Hazel Dell and ate at Lotus. Very nice decor, and excellent service. The shaking beef was good, fried rice was tasty and there was a nice portion of pickled veggies too. It was a good meal.

Excellent Pho, very fresh all around combined with a subtle yet amazing broth…read moreThe taro milk tea with boba and the strawberry smoothie were also made with super fresh ingredients and were very flavorful. It was my son's 4th bday and they had toys for him to play with and provided him with a complimentary Haagen Dazs chocolate ice cream bar The service was amazing, matching the food in excellence !!!

This is a small little place along the highway with delicious ramen and pho. Both were umami bombs…read morewith well prepared broths. The katsu was tender and crispy. The potstickers were so moist and flavorful. Service was quick and efficient. I would def return and try many more of their dishes. If they're anything like what we had, I know we wouldn't be disappointed.

I went to Vivi's for the first time about 10 years ago and haven't stopped thinking about it since…read more Unfortunately, it's pretty far and out of the way from where I live, but every time I pass through the area and am hungry for Vietnamese food, I'm hungry for Vivi's. Over the years, I've brought friends and family here, talking it up enough that they're willing to make the journey with me. I always recommend the tofu vermicelli bowl. The fact that my tofu-skeptical father sang its praises after I made him try it is a testament to its flavor. I still think of it as the gold standard of tofu. I was recently in the area for the first time in 5 or 6 years and decided to go back to Vivi's with my mom. It was the first thing that popped into both of our minds-a real jinks moment. I was nervous that it wouldn't live up to our memory. Vivi's had moved around the corner from their old location-a cute, cozy little cafe-but their new restaurant is more spacious, hopefully to accommodate the flocks of diners that their food merits. I got the tofu vermicelli, which was exactly as I remembered, equally flavorful and generous in portion size for $15. My mom got the papaya salad for $5.50. I previously thought I didn't like papaya-I was mistaken. It was a unique and refreshing dish that I would 100% go back for. Vivi's food tastes fresh and nourishing and at the same time satisfying and rich. We were short on time and were prepared to have to take it to go, but our food was out in 10 minutes. I don't usually write reviews, but after so many great experiences over the years it felt long overdue. A small business that has maintained their quality at reasonable prices over the years deserves to be recognized with a recommendation. Give Vivi's a try!

We are regulars here. We've been devouring their pho and other dishes for probably 10 years…read more I do think that over the years the recipe has changed and doesn't hit the spot the same. It's still good but not our #1 place anymore. The staff is always friendly and the restaurant is always clean.

Service was 10/10 very nice & quick. If you want a food…read morecourt style plate of stir fried noodles, it's pretty good. The pork skewers were an 8/10 really delicious but $7 each is too high. However if you're on the hunt for a strong and creamy Vietnamese coffee, theirs is 0/10 not good at all. Barely any ice, tastes like it comes from a can and watered down heavily. We got 2x stir fried noodles, 2x skewers, 2x ice coffees and it was $60+ dollars. I understand that it's touristy and near the beach but very mid quality and a high price.

Let me start by stating 2 facts…read more 1. I grew up right next to Little Saigon in Orange County, California which is home to some of the best pho outside of Vietnam. I know good pho. 2. This is the WORST attempt at pho I have ever seen and the WORST food I have paid for in my life. It smelled like the Astoria dump. Opened the lid, I smelled that familiar scent of summer time rotting municipal garbage dump. I wretched. I still had to take one bite to make sure. It was unusually slimy and I spat it out. Immediately dumped it in the trash. My cousin didn't even bother taking a bite. He threw it in the trash as well. Also the egg rolls were not Vietnamese egg rolls. They were the kind you get at a cheap Chinese take out. You'd think a place that sells Vietnamese food would know the difference.

pho in centralia? and it's actually delicious?!…read more the historic building is so cute, it was super clean and modern while the outside has the iconic sign. it was busy at 3PM which shows how good they are - and there was a ton of take out orders too. The owners work there and are so cute and sweet! I had the pho tai and to my delight they serve nuoc beo!!! (pronounced nook-bail, which is the skimmed pho fat with green onions soaked in it - SO GOOD AND ADDICTIVE. if a pho place does it i know the pho will be good.) the pho is more southern style - sweeter, darker broth. but so so good!! they give a GENEROUS amount of meat and noodles. the pho was so good i got it twice in one day, lol. my husband got the grilled chicken, level 3 spicy. and gosh was it spicy! they make their own chili oil and paste and you can definitely taste the unique twist on the chicken. it's so deliciously spicy, it hits your tongue then lingers. def recommend if you're a true spicy fan - otherwise stick to level 1/2. they warned him when we ordered the chicken lol. will be a regular spot for us now, and will tell all our friends.

Server was friendly and patient. We did a big to-go order while traveling through town. The fried…read morerice and lo mein noodles were our favorite items. The pad thai was unique, it had a much thicker tomato based sauce than what you typically see. While I appreciate a place putting their own twist on things, I'm not sure I liked it more than other pad thai's I've had. We did ask for a few dishes with no spice, and 2 of them ended up very spicy anyway. The server taking our order confirmed it back to us, so I assume just a mix up in the kitchen. Not a huge deal, but it was disappointing for the few in our group that don't like spicy food. Not a bad experience on the whole, but I'm not sure I'd call Shanghai Cafe unmissable either.

Got the spicy chicken teriyaki, decent little spot for take out. I went there as I was passing for…read moreand decided for something pretty quick and it turned out pretty good and spicy as I requested. Would recommend

I love the boba tea oh and the mozzarella sticks are soooo good and the dumpling type thingy and…read morethe noodles!!!!

This isn't just a review... it's a cry for help. Nekst became my favorite restaurant the second I…read moreate their tofu bahn mi and broth. The Baguette is freshly baked , veggies all fresh, theres a delicious garlicky mystery sauce inside and sprinkled with sea salt. I'm honestly getting fired up just typing about it! Best part??? The broth!! The broth is somehow packed with flavor and mixing those two together is a mind blowing experience that's obviously changed me.. Devastatingly, Nekst isn't open anymore. The owners are humans that packed up and left to go do something else for awhile. When they are around, they obviously love what they do and it shows in their food. My therapist suggested I write this review.. things have been hard for me without Nekst. Please some back so I can eat more bahn mis

Vietnamese food is not common in Astoria. That said this is very good! I had the beef pho, and it…read morewas different than I'm used to, but simply put, outstanding! I especially liked the homemade chili sauce that was served with it instead of the ubiquitous Sriracha that you get everywhere else. The atmosphere is great also, understated, but on the water and I had first class service. I'll be going back to try the bhan mi next!