Tuuthreee NYC Viet Pho Joints Ranking

Seriously, just eat this. 80% of restaurants can’t even do this.

This carefully thought out and fully examined list has been created to prevent any confusion regarding my original Eateries Ranking list. Especially since many of you just come for the pho and judge the restaurants based on their “phoformance”, it would throw my original list out of whack.

And it is simply not fair to lots of these joints. Some of them have awesome food to offer besides their sub-par bowl of pho. Heck, some of them don’t even have pho.

So here is the list. Take your time.

1. di an di (68 Greenpoint, Bklyn). DISCLAIMER: diandi’s offering is not a traditional pho (if you know “phở thìn”, you know what you get yourself into). But in my personal opinion, this type of pho dish is much tastier than traditional pho. There’s a reason why this dish is monstrously popular in Hanoi.

2. nom nam (210 E34th St). This is a traditional pho offering. It is incredibly hard to get the broth right. This place nails it.

3. ten ten (119 Baxter St). If Vietnamese food really boils down to 2 things for you: pho and banh mi. This is the most authentic presentation of a joint that serves either of them. It loses out to nom nam simply because of the broth. In my selfish view, in regards to pho, the broth always comes first. Disclaimer: this is a northern pho joint.

4. la dong (11 E 17th St). a very solid bowl. If a Vietnamese family tries their hardest to make one at home instead of giving up and eat outside, this is it.

5. mam (70 Forsyth St) DISCLAIMER: ONLY IF YOU CAN CATCH THEM FROM TIME TO TIME. THIS IS NOT A REGULAR MENU ITEM.

6. em kitchen (not bistro) (1702 86th St, Bklyn). Very nice sweet broth. Usually not to my liking but it is very rewarding.

7. high lua (182 S 2nd St, Bklyn). Very close to the sure thing. Gotta tone down with the amount of noodles.

8. pasteur (85 Baxter St).

9. hanoi house (119 Saint Marks Pl).