Viet Noodle (pico Blvd) - Santa Monica

Our three party was exhausted by a long car ride, and since this was almost over the road from our hotel, we decided to make a very early night of it and eat there. 4:45 pm, restaurant was quite abandoned super clean, waiter masked, lighting environment but enough for the oldest among us to read the menu easily. our waiter was great. helpful, knowledgeable, funny in a charming wise (not exaggerate it to be too annoying) he was there when we needed him and otherwise stayed away. a thing that I liked especially was that he waited until one of us had finished talking before he asked if we needed something else. the vegan pho was excellent; tons sweet, good broth. the joker fresh roll appetizer, also excellent and I don't know what they do with their erdnuss sauce, but it was head and schooling over what most Vietnamese restaurants serve. I had pho ga (hence), which is often difficult to find. the broth would have used a little more anise and was a little stronger everywhere, but otherwise it was very good. Huhn was clean without getting them in suppen sometimes at the moment of the really cheap meat. I asked for extra sweetness and got a shallow plate of pear and basilikum on the side no fee. was slightly sweet, tasty, like the jasmin tee. If I had a critique, it would be that the nudes that were flat were overcooked. a few more minutes and they would fall apart. but all in all, I would recommend that. No, you will not get omigod, that is the best pho ever they will get a good, filling food that will leave them very satisfied.

Had the turmeric fish sandwich. Very tasty!!! A lot ofbanh mi sandwiches are mostly bread but this was mostly the ingredients. My fiancee had the veggie pho with chicken broth. Hit the spot!

Clean, even stylish. Ordered beef pho. Food was cooked appropriately, although flavors were weak. Not really authentic pho, I guess it's modern approach but so much so that it hardly resembled pho at all. We should have known when we approached the storefront Friday night that the sparse crowd would be a good indicator of the quality of vietnamese pho this place would deliver. Beside the food being a bit bland, there was also egregiously long periods of time we were waiting for the server despite there only being maybe three tables being waited on in the entire restaurant. Bit of a disappointment in general. Hope they make some changes that make me want to give them another try.

We started with the chicken cabbage salad and it was very fresh and tasty. I had a wonderful chicken pho and was happily served the basil and sprouts I requested. My husband had the two types of beef in his pho and said it was very good. We'll be back!

Very friendly staff, super fresh and organic ingredients, pho/noodles and salad rolls.