🍲 Best pho in Australia

14 cities ranked by the strength of their best pho. Follow any city through to its full ranked list.

● Updated September 2026

The verdict: on the numbers, Brisbane has Australia’s strongest pho — led by Cafe O-Mai (4.5★ across 1,866 Google reviews).

#	City	Its best pho	Rating	Reviews
1	Brisbane	Cafe O-Mai Annerley	4.5★	1,866
2	Melbourne	Pho Victoria North Melbourne	4.5★	708
3	Canberra	Pho Phu Quoc Dickson	4.3★	1,608
4	Adelaide	Phonatic Restaurant CBD	4.4★	638
5	Cairns	Malatang Noodles Cairns City	4.8★	2,016
6	Sydney	Pho 54 Cabramatta	4.5★	345
7	Perth	Viet Hoa CBD	4.3★	2,108
8	Newcastle	Pho Newcastle	4.8★	1,611
9	Hobart	Vietnamese Pho Battery Point	4.1★	266
10	Geelong	Café Palat Geelong West	4.9★	401
11	Sunshine Coast	Sum Yung Guys Restaurant Noosaville	4.6★	2,587
12	Wollongong	Special Dish Vietnamese Restaurant Warrawong	4.9★	213
13	Darwin	Big bites NT Millner	4.8★	230
14	Gold Coast	Jimmy Wah's Burleigh Heads	4.7★	1,749

How this national table is built: it is not a separate opinion. Each city contributes the venue that currently tops its own pho ranking, and the cities are then ordered by that venue’s score — review strength above a 3.8 baseline weighted by review volume, plus community mentions where we hold them. Cities are only listed where we actually rank the dish, so an absent city means no ranking yet, not a bad one. Rebuilt weekly.

City by city: Brisbane · Melbourne · Canberra · Adelaide · Cairns · Sydney · Perth · Newcastle · Hobart · Geelong · Sunshine Coast · Wollongong · Darwin · Gold Coast.