I Love Pho 264

I Love Pho 264 Review

Tucking into a steaming bowl of pho (traditional noodle soup) at this Victoria Street restaurant is like channeling the backstreets of Hanoi and Saigon. While they also serve crunchy, deep-fried spring rolls and flavour-packed ricepaper rolls, the mainstay of the menu (a blackboard on the wall) is various combinations of bò (beef) and gà (chicken) with noodles in aromatic stock. Each order comes with a piled plate of Vietnamese mint, bean shoots and lemon wedges, and there are bottles of chilli paste and fish sauce on every mock-marble plastic table. This restaurant is crowded with Vietnamese and other pho lovers on weekends so you often have to queue on the footpath, but turnover is fast so its never long before you are seated and eating some of Melbourne's best—and cheapest—food.