Vando Pho is a family owned business next to the owner's muffler shop and across the street from Harding High School, which should bring in some clientele. Their menu choices probably need to be expanded to attract high school students (and others) who might otherwise go out of their way for bánh mì sandwiches or creative Thai cooking rather than their meager main course choice of soup, a pork chop or a chicken leg.
I had the beef pho and ordered the chicken wings and egg rolls to go - which were a replacement for the spring rolls which I'd gone there to try, but were not available.
The blonde wood tables and freshly painted walls created a clean environment, supplemented with a shining new stainless steel kitchen. There's a traffic light to help your exit onto busy Boston Ave., and it has its own parking lot. Service was prompt and polite.
The waiter and chef weren't wearing masks. I should have left at that point.
The pho was sub par; the beef was very chewy, the broth lacking that sweet/hot ginger beef bone punch. The mandatory accompaniment of cilantro, bean sprouts and mint or Thai basil was MIA. Hubs declared the chicken wings to be very tough, and the egg rolls looked and tasted like the generic-probably-purchased-frozen-in-bulk type.
Wish I could be more pro-pho about this place, but here's to hoping things will improve. read more