Pho (Great Titchfield St)

Hands down my number one at the moment. I LOVE Pho.

I think it's an addiction, but what a great addiction to have - utterly good for you!

Be there, or be....
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RC
9 Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 10
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Went last night and loved it. Packed, lively, friendly place.

Excellent value. Basic but good food.

Avoid the spring rolls from the starter menu - have the pork meatballs.

Laos Beer is the pick of the bunch.
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Kwev
8 Overall rating
Food 6 | Service 7 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 9
Thursday, January 28, 2010

This place really does do fantastic 'fast food'. Loads of fresh ingredients at hand to satisfy that hunger pain in minutes. Just like on the streets of Vietnam, you get your steaming bowl of pho super quick, and then you're in heaven for those 20 minutes of consuming it. Pho really do an excellent job at getting it right. As good and tasty as anything I had while traveling in Vietnam.
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Miss Stein - View all reviews by this user
9 Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 10
Thursday, October 15, 2009

Went for the first time @ Westfield Centre 2 week ends in view of lunching @ Pho. with my sister. Very disappointing with the Pho. They use cloves in the soup as opposed to star of anise hence the strange taste. (by the way we are Vietnamese). The meat balls in the noodle dish with the spring rolls too was awful (very soggy and pasty). Will go to the Great Titchfield outlet to try other dishes.
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MA T
6 Overall rating
Food 5 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 8
Tuesday, October 13, 2009

I went to Pho for lunch for the first time on a Friday. I love Thai food and i've enjoyed the food there so much!! There's a wide selection of food. I've ordered one of the salads and it was really amazing and the homemade lemonade the best i ever had!! It is quite small tho, and it fills up very easily during lunchtime but we were lucky enough to get a table. I would definately go back but just for lunch, its not a place for a dinner, always in my opinion.
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Georgia
7 Overall rating
Food 8 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 6 | Value for money 9
Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Pho is honest, fresh, delicious, and healthy food. I've become hooked.. This is my favourite Vietnamese restaurant in town - by far!
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Vix
10 Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Sunday, September 06, 2009

I have to agree with the majority of the reviewers in saying that Pho really is a great restaurant. I'm from New York City, and there are lots of Vietnamese street food cafes there, and Pho holds its own with the best I've been to.

I grab a pho here a couple of times a week, and it's always delicious. I've been to some of the Vietnamese restaurants further east, and there are some good ones and some bad ones, but I prefer the lighter, leaner, healthier phos from here.

Each to his own, but it's Pho for me.
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Mills
10 Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 10
Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Went here last night and it was a great disappointment in terms of the pho, after which the restaurant is named. To be specific, the pho served is not a Vietnamese pho, it's a very very English pho. Probably, the most important ingredient in a pho is the stock: at this restaurant the stock tasted very weak (not delicate either - just bland, incomplete, disappointing). Also, there's too much emphasis on things being raw: the temperature of the stock when served was too low. If the idea is to have some sort of fusion with sashimi or carpacchio, then the beef is the wrong cut and badly cut. The portion size was small and the amount of mint, basil, sprouts etc quite diminutive; of course you can ask for more condiments, but you shouldn't have to. It reminds me of a joke in Goodness Gracious Me: 'how bland can you take it?' - 'I want the blandest thing on the menu!'. Very English!

We also had the bun. A similar story except a thick layer of tasteless red oil on top. It was not spicy as served, even after the tiny speckling of red chillis on the side were added.

The one redeeming dish was the fresh rolls, which were passable. Thus a 2 rather than a 1 rating for food.

The value for money is actually not too good either. It would still constitute a cheap date; and hopefully the company of your date would be enough distraction from the below par pho.

If you're the kind of person that orders sweet and sour pork at Chinese restaurants, or chicken tikka massala at Indian restaurants, then you are probably the target market for the pho chain of restaurants.

Service is reasonable. Atmosphere is OK too. No great shakes though.
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B&M
4 Overall rating
Food 2 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 6 | Value for money 3
Friday, August 28, 2009

First and foremost, this review was drawn from only trying three dishes: Pho Tai, Bun Bo Hue, Nem Nuong. All mentioned were incredibly disappointing. Both soups were thin and lacked the care and time required to produce authentic stocks. I was almost under the impression that they were flavoured with simple ingredients - think instant noodle sachets. Soups were served luke-warm, which meant beans prouts remained raw and uncooked. Noodles, although no fresh were overly undercooked.

Meatball skewers served with sweet-chilli sauce is hardly Nem Nuong - a wishful interpretation. This restaurant will undoubtedly leave true Vietnamese Food Fan wanting. My advice would be to stick to the East should you ever have a craving for this cuisine.
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Derek
3 Overall rating
Food 1 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 1
Friday, August 21, 2009

omg, omg, omg! We were en route to another Vietnamese restaurant in Soho and just happened to pass Pho (not realising it was there) it must be quite new. Looking back at the reviews it has opened for a year. Well, we went in (no reservation) and had the green mango and prawn salad and and chicken salad. Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum and a super glass of wine. The Pho looked super, which we did not order. I wish we had stayed here instead of going to the other restaurant. REALLY, it took me back to Vietnam. The freshness, flavour, spiciness and zinginess cannot be surpassed. And the service and staff were quick and friendly.

CANNOT wait to go again!
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10 Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 10
Saturday, July 25, 2009