Vietopia Bistro

This place was recommended by a work colleague and came by on Thursday morning with a guest around 11am. This place was once call Pho To and under new ownership with a new name now Vietopia Bistro. Plenty of parking but surely during lunch peak time, parking can be full on the west side of Redwood. Also, notice a Tesla Supercharger station for BEV owners out there. We were kinda unsure if it was open or not as the sign say "Closed. Come back." I have to investigate and surely it was open....figure the staff forget. While inside, took like a couple min or so for the host to greet us. The host would seat us by the windows overlooking Redwood Road...the sun heat ray would make us uncomfortable to sit there and let our host know we like to move somewhere further north side area away from the sun heat ray. By observing the interior on the establishment, it seem run down where the seat cushion is worn and ripped....owner(s) negligence and feel the dinning experience not so great plus on top of that, this VERY annoying 3 beeping sound going off every minute. Not so great for our ears to hear. Even some plates we had were chipped on the side and can be a cause for concern if someone can get cut by it. Our host would bring us our complimentary glass water(had nugget ice) and a menu to look at. After a couple minute, she would later come around to ask if we were ready to order in which we were. I would start with appetizers, order the #6A Hot & Spicy Chicken Wings 6 piece, #8A Fried Calamari. Then order the #13P Vietopia Special and a Coke. My guest would order #48R Special Rice Noodles to which to our surprise the host would come back to tell us they don't have. #23P Oxtail?...NOPE! The host would continuously back and fourth on my guest order before they FINALLY have the #47R Wagyu Tenderloin Pho Noodles. We were in disbelief an establishment like this not carrying certain type of dish on the menu. 15 min later, we would get our FIRST dish which is the 6 piece Chicken Wings...for the recorded, it did stated 15 min for wings. First order, #8A 6 piece Hot & Spicy Chicken Wings(4 drumette, 1 wingette, and 1 wing tip). It was pretty much bland with no flavor. Toss in sweet & spicy sauce?...NOPE! Came with a sweet mayonnaise sauce instead of the fish sauce. It's pretty odd we got 1 wing tip as it doesn't consider to be consume as it's mostly bone. Disappointed on this appetizer. Second order, #8A Fried Calamari. This order came 5 minute later. What to say on this appetizer?! It was literally over fry/burn and came with the same sauce as our wings. Meh...another let down. Third order, #13P Vietopia Special...30 minute into our order to get this. Broth is okay and rice noodles seem like wasn't cook long enough and feel edible like gummy texture. Good portion size meats and meatball is not out of this world tasty. Could be better. The Sriracha was a struggle to pull it out from the spice holder rack...bit too big to fit. Fourth order, Coke. Sorry Pepsi fan, only Coke products. UNLIMITED free refill. Disappointed to say, but I don't like establishment using nugget ice as it melt too fast and make it watery. Fifth order, #47R Wagyu Tenderloin Pho Noodles for my guest....30 minute into our order to get this. Rice noodles were bit soggy and not chewy/slurp texture. Good portion size meats. Sixth order, Banana Smoothies. Mostly just ice blend and wasn't banana tasty but odd taste. Seventh order, Vietnamese Steak & Egg with Pate was a "complimentary" dish from the House for long wait time which was unexpected for us......courtesy from Juan. WONDERFUL dish and really good except for the white rice. Final thought, would I come back? Perhaps or maybe but we'll see?! It was a disappointing dinning experience overall. I do appreciate Juan for his above and beyond customer service and he deserve credit for that. Thank Vietopia Bistro staff/chef and enjoy my time here.

The mangonada was incredible! The bahn mi chicken sandwich is worth stopping in for for sure! The chicken was so delicious a little sweet with a little char very well made. We tried the flat noodles for the first time, the ingredients seemed good but wasn't our thing. Over all though a great try!

The food was great. The Chinese girl really didn’t have a good knowledge of English and it was hard to express to her just to get a plain iced tea and then I went into the men’s room. What a disaster they’re the toilet was so full of feces …

The food was amazing and the staff who served us, Sarah was great! The pho, sandwich and coffee were prefect!

Sorry. I LOVE pho and want them to succeed but holy cow was this salty. Getting the broth right is fundamental and not that difficult to fix. First time here. Ordered 3 pho to go and 2 were wrong. Not sure if it’s a communication issue …