Mai's Vietnamese Restaurant

Excellent chicken broth and lemongrass bbq beef. Also excellent prices and quick service.

Food: 5

Service: 5

lemongrass beef broth so good. staff was really sweet.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Truly authentic Pho in town.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Run by the sweetest couple. It’s SO good. I get the chicken curry pho (I ask to have pho noodles) and my husband gets the lemon grass bbq pho amazing. Their imperial rolls are delicious too.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Nothing like barbecued pork over cold noodle on a warm day! Unpretentious Vietnamese restaurant; lots of people come here for the pho. Kind and generous service and servings!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

I've eaten here in the past and thought it was good so I made a big order to feed family and friends dinner and no one including myself liked the food. On top of that they forgot one entree in the order. Ordered over the phone but had I gone there first and saw the Rx medicine bottles in the dining area counter I might have skipped. Don't know we what else to say, the woman was very sweet.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 4

Honestly I don’t like customer service.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 4

Service: 1

This little place knocks out some of the best food in the City. Amazing menu with so many choices, and the servers are always so helpful. Deliciousness in every bite, and I’ve been coming for more than a decade.
Enjoy!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

LEMONGRASS PHO! The generous portion and the love they put out in the food hit the spot.

Thank you!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Cơm sườn and bánh tằm pleased this Vietnamese Southwesterner’s palate

Best cơm sườn (BBQ porkchop rice) I tried in this zipcode, and the only place that offers bánh tằm (cold rice noodles with coconut sauce) in the whole city AFAIK. Cơm sườn was truly cơm sườn, with two substantial nicely charred porkchops. The fish sauce was the thin, light, tangy one popular in the Southwest and not the thick, sweet, reduced kind often served in Saigon. Iykyk, I like both. Bánh tằm was surprisingly similar to what you can order in Vietnam. The sauce, despite being made from canned coconut cream, was still well balanced and tasty. They also the only place that has bi (shredded pork skin).
Oh there’s soda sữa hột gà (egg soda) a true Southern experience going extinct in its birthplace.

Didn’t care for their hủ tíu (pork and seafood noodle soup), though.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

i love Mai’s. Best decor! best bbq lemongrass beef pho! best customer service! long live Mai’s!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

I’ve been going to Mai’s for 25 years and to me it’s comfort food. Ricky and Rebecca are wonderful people serving a wide range of Vietnamese cuisine. Our daughter basically grew up eating there. Don’t be put off by the dated decor. They keep the quality of the food and the service high. Best place for pho in San Francisco!!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Good pho. Maybe a little hotter temperature wise would be better, but that's nitpicking.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Beef Pho

The lemongrass beef pho was delicious! Best pho i’ve ever had tbh. Service was very nice.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Beef Pho

this place is generally poor for vegetarians - even the basic cold veg roll was not good (it seemed microwaved, which I found weird), the veg plates were mediocre at best

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 2

Service: 3