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. Please remember I only judge the food here, nothing else (yes, including the prices —> yes this will upset a lot of ppl)
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 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, regarding pho, the broth always comes first. Disclaimer: This is a northern pho joint.
4. mam (70 Forsyth St) DISCLAIMER: ONLY IF YOU CAN CATCH THEM FROM TIME TO TIME. THIS IS NOT A REGULAR MENU ITEM.
5. 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.
6. nha minh (915 Wyckoff Ave, Bklyn): chicken pho and vegan pho only. I think this has the best bowl of chicken pho in town.
7. ly ly vietnam cookhouse (306 E 81st St). decent bowl. nice, chewy noodle. beef is nice and tender.
8. em kitchen (not bistro) (1702 86th St, Bklyn). Very nice sweet broth. Usually not to my liking but it is very rewarding.
9. pho ga vang (30 Market St). Backed by popular demands from you guys, I revisited this place. Solid bowl of pho. With a different noodle package, this can rank higher.
10. high lua (182 S 2nd St, Bklyn). Very close to the sure thing. Gotta tone down with the amount of noodles.
_________________________________________________
11. pasteur (85 Baxter St).
12. hanoi house (119 Saint Marks Pl). Barely made this list with that silly bone marrow. What are you doing?