I have been craving for a bowl of Pho recently and decided to check out the newly opened Pho Cafe at One New Change, St Paul’s. I decided to call up on old friend I’ve not seen/met in two years and what perfect way to lure them out over food! I’m not going to lie, I was ridiculously hungry and could not wait to dive into the menu and make a hard decision to pick out what Pho I want to try. The Pho menu is extensive offering a range of tasty, finger licking starters to soup broth noodle Pho to traditional Vietnamese treats for desserts. For starters I ordered the summer rolls and large crispy spring rolls known as Nem hải sản; fillings were tiger prawn, crab & pork with nước chấm dipping sauce; wrapped in lettuce leaves. My favourite was the fried spring roll; it was so flavoursome and the lettuce leaf definitely helped balanced out the flavours from the spring roll and the sweet chilli sauce; more like a neutraliser. I could eat the starters all day but what I was most looking forward to was a large bowl of Pho! Christ the bowl of Pho was huge so there was no way I was going to go home hungry at all! I went for the house special Phở bò nấm trúng: Brisket, enoki & button mushrooms, creamy egg yolk, in beef broth. I have to admit; I am quite a small girl with usually a big appetite but I couldn’t for the life of me finish this bowl which was absolutely yummy by the way; it’s all about that broth! Thankfully; my hungry friend managed to finish after me…he clearly loved it. There are plenty of Vietnamese restaurants in London serving Pho’s but what’s great is that there will always be your nearest Pho cafe to pop in without having to travel so far for. Finally, I ended my meal with a delectable portion of Banh lá dứa (aka Pandan pancake with roasted coconut, served with ice cream (honey & ginger or coconut) and Bánh sô-cô-la truffle (aka Chocolate truffle slab served with green tea ice cream). Being Oriental Asian (Chinese) myself; I love a good Asian dessert and it’s always a treat for me to dive into some pandan pancake as it’s not often I come across it (if I am not in Chinatown that is). I had such a wonderful meal and the ambience was very relaxed; little did I know from arrival of the restaurant at 6.30pm I would be wandering out the restaurant at 10pm! It definitely says something and if I could, I would have stayed a little longer if I didn’t realise we were pretty much the only customers left. Check out Pho Cafe’s full menu here
FYI I’ve never failed to order a glass of vietnamese iced coffee 
and for more details about Phocafe; there are 14 branches around London. Pho is a family run business which opened it’s first branch in Clerkenwell serving authentic Vietnamese food for all. I tend to do my food pic research on Instagram so do check out their pics for more inspiration before you order
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