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Vietnam Gardens

Restaurant Chinese restaurant Vegetarian restaurant Asian restaurant Thai restaurant Vietnamese restaurant South east asian restaurant Pho restaurant

Popular BYOB restaurant serving up Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese & vegetarian fare in a quaint setting. People often mention great, rolls, soup, fresh, noodles, spring, time, shrimp, delicious, restaurant,


Address

5433 Blanco Rd, San Antonio, TX 78216, United States

Website

vietnamgardens.com

Contact

+1 210-377-1989

Price rating

$ $$$

Rating on Google Maps

4.30 (263 reviews)

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Working Hours

  • Monday: 11 am to 9 pm
  • Tuesday: 11 am to 9 pm
  • Wednesday: 11 am to 9 pm
  • Thursday: 11 am to 9 pm
  • Friday: 11 am to 9 pm
  • Saturday: 11 am to 5 pm
  • Sunday: Closed

Featured Reviews


Frequently mentioned in reviews: great (12) rolls (11) soup (8) fresh (7) noodles (6) spring (6) time (6) shrimp (6) delicious (6) restaurant (6)
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  • 5/5 Jessica R. 5 years ago on Google • 24 reviews
    Best hole in the wall you need to try. The main dish I love here is the lemongrass chicken. The seasoning used on the chicken is very good and blends so well with the noodles, cucumbers, bean sprouts, and lettuce. It's perfect. The spring rolls are great. Customer service has always been great here, they're very attentive and friendly and they answer all your questions.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Christopher G. 5 months ago on Google • 369 reviews
    It was a cold day, so I walked in for some Pho. The Pho was excellent, but their whole menu looked appetizing. I definitely will be back to try other things 😋
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 The Alamo C. 8 months ago on Google • 144 reviews
    1st time here. Their service alone is outstanding! The place is clean, cozy, and quaint! I ordered a bowl of Bûn with shrimp (shrimp is extra), and it was absolutely delicious, full of flavor! The dishes have soul! You can taste the love! Their other dishes look intising! Louie made my experience very pleasant. I'm glad I stepped in! I will certainly be back again, this time with a BYOB! Come check them out for yourself!!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Daniel S. 2 years ago on Google • 59 reviews
    Loved the food, very nice "hole-in-wall" restaurant. Authentic Vietnamese menu, they do have Thai and Chinese offerings. Had the crab rolls and pork rolls as appetizers, nice and crispy and tasty. (Can't remember Vietnamese name...)I had the "Spicy beef soup with glass noodles", good heat/spice not overpowering, great soup base flavor, plenty of noodles, and offered cilantro, jalapeños, and cilantro to add. Quaint decor, clean, well lit, bathrooms were well cared and clean. Beware if you are "impulse buyer" lots of neat trinkets and products to buy displayed around restaurant. Reasonably priced, owner is the cook.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Mark W. 1 year ago on Google
    I had the V9 Green Bean stir fry with shrimp, summer rolls and Jasmine tea. Wow, the food was so delicious! I can't believe I have never been here before, I have been missing out on some great food! I'm definitely going to be a repeat customer from now on. Well done!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Katherine B. 1 year ago on Google
    With the delicious crispy shrimp spring rolls and pho, the sweet and punctual waiter and the awesome atmosphere, this restaunt is my new favorite place to get pho! No offense to other establishment but this is the first time I've had pho and felt not only welcomed, but like I could actually ask questions on how to properly eat certain foods without feeling like an inconvenience. 5 stats across the board!!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Zanda A. 2 years ago on Google
    I just moved next to this place & they were the first new restaurant i checked out. The place is great, small and cozy with an aquarium FULL of different fish. The food is great & I order coffee from them often before work.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Jacquelyn A. 1 year ago on Google
    Everything about this place was enjoyable. The food delicious, the Waiter attentive and the atmosphere pleasant. We were asked if it was our first time, so that they could make recommendations if needed, and made sure we had our condiments for when our entrées came out. What was originally a stop to get out of traffic, turned into a new neighborhood restaurant to frequent!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Christina 1 year ago on Google
    Wonderful service, had the excellent Thai curry soup that was pretty spicy in the best way. Ingredients tasted fresh and the atmosphere was calm. Will be coming back!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 2/5 Alley Cat (. 1 year ago on Google • 67 reviews
    Really disappointed with this one. Ordered the wonton soup and spring rolls (with shrimp as the filling, which cost a dollar extra), totaled about 25 dollars after tax which is an EXORBITANT amount for those two items. The wonton came with lettuce, which was a first, but besides that it had strange black marks that I believe were bacterial leaf spots. The spring rolls were probably freshly made though very undercooked and TINY. For the 12 dollars I paid I could've got like 8 big egg rolls at another place down the street. Interestingly the lettuce served with the spring rolls was fresh and without black lesions.

  • 5/5 TM M. 4 months ago on Google • 55 reviews
    Delicious, served hot, abundant and fresh. The atmosphere is friendly, authentic, clean, and affordable. This gem of a restaurant is absolutely fantastic. You’ll love it.

  • 5/5 T A. 2 years ago on Google • 47 reviews
    Omg!! I started eating here in early 2000, moved away, came back a few days ago for a visit and it's still amazing! You can't go wrong with anything on the menu!

  • 5/5 Suzanne K. 6 months ago on Google • 23 reviews
    Delicious! Great experience. Service was great and food was amazing! I love banh xeo and it isn't really easy to find. This is the best ban xeo I have had, including Houston restaurants. It was freshly made with premium ingredients. The shrimp was perfect in size and preparation. Thank you for a great experience.

  • 5/5 Vincent C. 10 months ago on Google • 11 reviews
    Everything was great! Small eatery with a very personal touch. The food was very fresh and the iced sweet tea was jasmine. The food was amazing and fresh. They had the best hot oil! It's been difficult to find a place with hot oil that's actually hot. They even sell the hot oil by the jar! Definitely going back very soon and making this place #1 on my list.

  • 4/5 Karen D. 1 year ago on Google
    Small, comfortable spot with attentive, friendly service. We were there for lunch and I was a little disappointed that there were not lunch specials but the regular offerings are numerous. We chose soups. Please note the chili icon by Bon Bo soup because it is most certainly spicy -- waiter warned me! But it was so tasty -- the beef flavored broth was rich with spices and heat and thin noodles. I opted to add chicken -- small slices of white meat. The soup is accompanied by cilantro and some vegetables. My friend had the dumpling soup. It was loaded with plump dumplings. Please note that you cannot enter from Blanco; the parking lot entrance is on Jackson Keller. We look forward to our next visit and we will BYOB.

  • 5/5 Katrina L. 1 year ago on Google
    Best pho I've eaten. Flank steak was tender, broth was mild on the ginger, jalapeños perfectly spicy, great service!

  • 1/5 Nancy T. 1 year ago on Google
    First time and probably last unfortunately. For 4 plates and a appetizer it was over priced. $70+ 🫣. The beef pho noodles were very soft as If they were an old batch. Our beef plate the meat as well very soft. To much non flavor sauce. I wanna say that it caused meat to be soggy. The rice was very mushy no texture to it. My spicy noodle soup had no flavor other then the spicyness. All the plates I ordered had no flavor and just probably reheated stored left overs. Sucks but just go elsewhere. Save your money and appetite.

  • 5/5 Mica B. 2 years ago on Google
    10/10 recommend!! Louis was so accommodating & helped us newbies with our orders! Everything is made FRESH all by the owner!

  • 5/5 Mara G. 2 years ago on Google
    Had an awesome experience here, food was great and the waiter was so kind. Love it here

  • 1/5 PATRICIA H. 8 months ago on Google • 9 reviews
    The food was absolutely horrible. The spring rolls were fried in Filthy old grease. The meal was way over priced at $16. All I got was some dry noodles iceberg lettuce and several chunks of cucumbers. I’ve been to Vietnamese restaurants all over Texas. This was the worst. Even the simple sauce was unacceptable. This is the worst restaurant I’ve ever been to and I’m 70.

  • 5/5 J R. 11 months ago on Google
    Super adorable and Qwaint establishment. The food was fresh and delicious and Louie was great!! Very attentive!

  • 5/5 Linda M. 10 months ago on Google
    Visited for the first time and the food was delicious!! I had the chicken Pad Thai and we shared an order of yummy rolls and fresh lettuce. Louie was very nice and made me feel welcomed. I will definitely be back!


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Amenities


  • Payments
    • ✓️ Debit cards
    • ✓️ Credit cards
    • ✓️ NFC mobile payments
  • Offerings
    • ✓️ Coffee
    • ✓️ Quick bite
    • ✓️ Comfort food
    • ✓️ Small plates
    • ✓️ Vegan options
    • ✓️ Healthy options
    • ✓️ Vegetarian options
  • Popular for
    • ✓️ Lunch
    • ✓️ Dinner
    • ✓️ Solo dining
  • Accessibility
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible toilet
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible seating
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible car park
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible entrance
  • Dining options
    • ✓️ Lunch
    • ✓️ Dinner
    • ✓️ Dessert
    • ✓️ Seating
    • ✓️ Catering
  • Service options
    • ✓️ Dine-in
    • ✗ Delivery
    • ✓️ Takeaway
    • ✓️ Kerbside pickup
  • From the business
    • ✓️ Identifies as women-owned

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