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Richmond's Victoria Street is one of Melbourne's great Vietnamese strips, and this guide ranks the suburb's Vietnamese rooms by their Curateria Score and what reviewers keep saying on their most recent visits, with chains and far suburbs left out. Old-school pho houses and broken-rice kitchens sit beside a newer wave of modern Vietnamese dining, 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 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. Paper Plate Restaurant is the room reviewers come to for the modern plates, the caramelised pork belly clay pot and beef short ribs beside seared scallops on betel leaf, imperial spring rolls and a pandan creme brulee. 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 room reviewers rate for the modern seafood, 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. Mister Minh is the room reviewers rate for the banh mi and the duck, the crispy pork banh mi and a Peking duck beside spring rolls, prawn dumplings, chicken roti wraps and salt and pepper squid. La Chanh is the room reviewers come to for the broken rice and a satay pho, the broken rice with grilled pork and a satay pho beside a dry chicken noodle soup, crispy chicken noodles and rice paper rolls. Super Bowl Pho & Bun Bo Hue is the room reviewers rate for the bun bo Hue, the bun bo Hue and a combination pho beside Hanoi-style spring rolls, and Vinh Ky rounds it out, 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.
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. Richmond's Vietnamese cohort runs along Victoria Street from the old-school pho houses to a newer wave of modern Vietnamese dining, all named by their own diners. The category gate keeps the cohort to full-service Vietnamese rooms, so the order reads as the genuine local ranking. The corpus is Victorian and scored; no AI writer ever reads it. The ranking is arithmetic; the words are ours.
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