You know those restaurants where you can clearly tell they're trying to cut costs and nickel and dime you?
That's our experience with Pho 79.
Some friends of ours told us this was the best pho in Omaha so we were super excited to try it. I'll have to say, we almost certainly will skip them in the future.
The good: Vietnamese coffee. It's probably the best we've had in this city. Just one sip will widen your eyes and give you the kick in the pants you want.
The mixed reaction: The pho. We ordered both the combination and the medium rare beef. Flavor wise, the broth was decent but nothing special. The meat was overall good. However the portion sizes were obviously way too small, I'm not the biggest eater but I probably could have had two bowls to be filling. It's clear that they've portioned already expensive pho so that you order extra noodles. They barely gave any of the herbs/veggies that come with pho as well.
The ugly: chicken wings and vegetable spring rolls. The chicken wings stunk - I mean that literally. It was rank and my wife pushed it as far away from her as she could. Let's be clear - we aren't strangers to food with strong odors (half our fridge is kimchi), but this was on another level. Seems like they put way too much fish sauce on the wings without really much anything else to flavor. The vegetable spring rolls should not be called that. We literally got a single leaf of lettuce, a tiny piece of fried tofu (that tasted off), and a huge pile of noodles. Really poor.
Service
Delivery
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
$20–30
Food: 2
