With special shipments of leaves from Hawaii and wagyu beef from Dallas, The One Pho presents a Vietnamese and Asian fusion menu with something for every taste palette. The menu has grown by over 30 items since its opening in July 2023, doubling the initial variety offered.

The background

The restaurant business is no stranger to Owner Dao Nguyen who owned a Cajun seafood restaurant in Minnesota before moving to Austin a little over two years ago. Everything on the menu is freshly made by the restaurant’s staff who arrive at 9:30 a.m. everyday to prepare ingredients for the day.

Nguyen said the restaurant serves dishes that can’t be found anywhere else in the city. These items include the hot stone pho, crunchy skin baked catfish, the five-course beef meal and the beef in Hawaiian betel leaves.

“Most typical Asian restaurants are mom-and-pop places so they offer what they cook at home or what they are good at, but the reason I wanted to open a pho place here is I wanted to bring the idea of eating hot pho in a hot stone bowl,” Nguyen said.


What’s special about it?

Nguyen takes customer requests and recommendations to heart. He said a great number of menu items have been added due to conversations he’s had with customers.

“After a few months of opening I interacted with customers and a lot of the regulars have requests,” Nguyen said. “Then, I’ve been talking to some social media foodies and they’ve been complaining that there are certain items not [in Austin] yet. I said, ‘Okay, well I can try to make that happen.’”

Both the crunchy skin baked catfish and the five course beef meal were dishes people asked Nguyen to consider adding and they have since been a huge hit, Nguyen said.


What's in a name

“Some people go to restaurants and say, ‘I want this. I want that. I want variety,’” Nguyen said. “What I’m trying to say is that The One Pho is the one place to go because you can try a new variety of items that everyone can have.”