Pho Vietnam House

Beautiful Food, Beautiful atmosphere, beautiful owner/waitress; this is an absolute gem of a place.

A short menu means perfection of the individual simple dishes. I would never normally order spring rolls but the fried variety (one option alongside the 'fresh' uncooked version) are absolutely delicious. Packed with a variety of meat and herbs. You can tell that generations worth of experience and care have gone into their filling, rather than just wrapping some meat in pastry. The Pho broth has such depth of flavour, the curry is fresh and spicy. I just need to go back to try the fish dish and pork with caramel sauce.

This is quite a cool little place, and I mean little, it's tiny. Impeccably clean though and has a bit of a trendy vibe with it's thrown together decor. Felt like a Thai beach hut to me. As a newcomer to Vietnamese food it was also reminiscant of my Thai memories, but a little more herbal. truly tasty and for less than a tenner.

Just the right lightness and freshness of all I remembered from days in S.E. Asia. Fantastic service and attention. When booked was initially told was full, but efforts made to find space earlier and two of us came along. My friend, a Londoner, with discerning palate also praised the cooking. The BYOB is easy with waitress even suggesting where to buy your booze if you did not bring your own.
We ate fried tofu with loads of veggies and not much fried (in the Glaswegian context) about it. The famous Pho with beef (noodles) and spring rolls. We shared everything. Most dishes fresh mint, perfectly crisp been sprouts - not soggy or old. Big portions, we struggled to finish all three dishes with out even rice. Really well priced.
Strongly suggest you book as TINY, but intimate. Clean, art for sale on walls, nice little touches to décor like woven place mats, so don't fret it's a kind of formica table place - no. Several keen folk turned away at door when we were leaving. For certain coming back, but worry that so small will struggle to get bookings. Highly recommend, but it is basic decor. This is the kind of place my family would call a 'hole in the wall' you go for amazing cooking, attention from staff and camaraderie of fellow diners very near. Go try it.

The food and the service are both fantastic. The only thing that lets this place down is that you have to go through the kitchen to get to the bathroom. I don't mind that because I got to chat to the chef and see all the fresh produce and ask him questions.
I had the best dish I have ever eaten here. It was a braised pork belly dish that I have tried to recreate a number of times. My companion loved the beef pho broth that we had. The prawn rolls to begin were also magic.
It's a small family run operation. The charming girl who runs the front of house told us that all the recipes were her mother's and her partner works in the kitchen. Neither my friend or I had ever had Vietnamese food before and she suggested a number of delicious things to share with the option of ordering more.
Every single dish was prepared fresh to order and fabulous. The waitress gave better service than I've had in Michelin starred restaurants.
They don't really do puddings but the Vietnamese coffee which is made with condensed milk sounds awful but is actually delicious. I had two. The waitress, seeing how enthusiastic we were gave us both authentic Vietnamese coffee percolators (which sit on top of your cup and let the coffee slowly drip into the condensed milk) to take away with us.
We brought a couple of bottles of wine but one of them was corked and beyond drinking so she knocked off the corkage charge for that bottle.
I've only recently moved to Edinburgh and I'm so glad I've found this place. Its very well priced, with great food and deserves to be packed every day.