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Richmond's Victoria Street is one of Melbourne's great Vietnamese strips, and this guide ranks the suburb's pho houses by their Curateria Score and what reviewers keep saying on their most recent visits, with chains and far suburbs left out. The bowls run from a classic combination beef to Hue, herbal and vegan versions, with a couple of modern Vietnamese kitchens that ladle a serious pho alongside, and these are the rooms Richmond diners actually name. Here is how they sit this month.
Top of the list is I Love Pho, the high-volume pho house reviewers rate near the top of the strip, the sliced beef, tendon and brisket pho and a beef and chicken combination pho beside prawn spring rolls, sugarcane juice, broken rice and a bun cha gio. New Quarter follows, the modern Vietnamese room reviewers call a standout, the smoked lamb curry with Thai basil and a beef tartare with pho jelly beside a cha ca barramundi with burnt butter nuoc mam, a crispy pork belly banh hoi and chilli prawn tiger noodles.
Minh Minh Saigon Soul is the room reviewers rate for the Hue and crab bowls, the bun bo beef vermicelli and a bun rieu crab-paste noodle beside a goi bap bo beef salad and a broken rice with pork chop. Pho Hung Vuong 2 is the pho counter reviewers come to for a combo bowl, the combo beef pho and a chicken pho beside a bun bo hue, pork spring rolls and rice paper rolls. Co Thu Quan Richmond is the room reviewers rate for the Hanoi classics, the bun cha Ha Noi and a banh xeo sizzling pancake beside a bun bo Hue, a bun rieu cua crab noodle soup and stewed beef with baguette.
Easy Vegan is the vegan room reviewers come to for the meat-free bowls, the Beyond pho and a spicy royal noodle soup beside a bun hue chay, broken rice, crispy mushrooms and a satay tofu. Anchovy is the modern room reviewers rate for the seafood alongside the bowl, the pork and betel leaf and a whole Murray cod beside grilled prawns, a prawn and papaya salad with handmade prawn crackers and an anchovy mayo. Van Mai is the room reviewers come to for the pho and the roast duck, the beef and chicken pho and a roast duck beside a tom-yum noodle soup, spring rolls and a Vietnamese shredded chicken salad.
The list closes across the suburb. Super Bowl Pho & Bun Bo Hue is the room reviewers rate for the bun bo Hue, the bun bo Hue in a medium or big bowl and a combination pho beside Hanoi-style spring rolls. Vinh Ky is the room reviewers come to for the rock-salt chicken and the noodle soups, the steamed rock-salt chicken and a wonton noodle soup beside a mi sui cao, a Mongolian beef and a broken rice with BBQ pork. Pho Chu The is the room reviewers rate for the special beef pho, the special pho of rare beef, brisket and tendon and a special chicken pho beside a beef and tripe pho, house-made spring rolls and a three-colour drink. And Thanh Ha 2 rounds it out, the room reviewers come to for a classic bowl with the pancakes and rolls, the pho and a banh xeo Vietnamese pancake beside banh cuon rice paper rolls, broken rice with pork chop and a bun rieu chay.
If one thread here pulls you in, follow it across the city. There is a guide to the best Vietnamese in Melbourne for the citywide picture, and a cross-cuisine tour of the best restaurants in Richmond for the rest of the suburb.
Every room here carries a Curateria Score built from its full review history, then weighted toward its most recent hundred reviews so the order reflects the room as it runs today, not as it ran two years ago. We hold the cohort to this one suburb and a tight inner-Melbourne radius, roughly 15km of the city, and we drop the multi-location chains and national franchises that trade on a logo more than a local following, so what is left reads as the genuine local order. Because a long-running room collects more reviews than a newcomer, we shrink the raw average toward the cohort mean for places with thin review counts, so a handful of glowing reviews cannot leapfrog a room a thousand diners have judged. For a pho page the category gate keeps the cohort to the pho houses and Vietnamese kitchens that genuinely ladle the bowl, so the order reads as the genuine Richmond ranking rather than a broad Vietnamese list. The corpus is Victorian and scored; no AI writer ever reads it. The ranking is arithmetic; the words are ours.
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