Irvine Gets Three New Pho Shops

If Little Saigon is to Vietnamese restaurants as LA's seminal Chinatown is to Chinese food, then Lake Forest might be OC's San Gabriel Valley. For a bedroom community with a relatively low Asian population, Lake Forest now has more pho restaurants...

Throw a stick anywhere in Westminster and it'll hit a pho joint. Not so in Irvine, where Vietnamese restaurants are as rare as the slices of steak in the soup they serve. At my last count, there are exactly five eateries that serve this...

The Poke Proliferation continues. This week, something new: a poke shop that also serves pho in case, you know, you're still not on the poke bandwagon. Poki Naya serves exactly just these two menu items and only these two menu items. The poke...

I’ve lost track of how many bowls of Vietnamese pho I’ve consumed over the years in Orange County. It’s a big number. Eighty? Ninety? Something in that ballpark, many of which have been very, very good. As I was thinking about this, I began to...

Welcome to OC Weekly's Final Pho. Sixteen pho shops chosen from the more than 100 in the county; four critics who know what the pho makes a good bowl of Vietnamese noodle soup. The chosen 16 will face off in each of our brackets, two by two. The...