Pho Kien Giang
Freiburg, Germany
The read// why locals go
Pho Kien Giang is a Vietnamese kitchen on Barbarastraße in Freiburg, sharing its name with a province of the Mekong Delta. Pho is the house subject: a broth that takes hours before service and cannot be improvised, which is why the dish works as a test of a kitchen's patience. The restaurant keeps its own website rather than living on a delivery platform, and it turns up in Freiburg's local food press and neighbourhood guides rather than in the visitor listings — the layer of a city that residents build for each other. It is a sit-down room in a residential street, several minutes from the tourist centre and better for it.
Opening hours
Mo-Su 11:30-14:30, 17:30-22:30
Barbarastraße 18 — Freiburg
The read// why locals go
Pho Kien Giang is a Vietnamese kitchen on Barbarastraße in Freiburg, sharing its name with a province of the Mekong Delta. Pho is the house subject: a broth that takes hours before service and cannot be improvised, which is why the dish works as a test of a kitchen's patience. The restaurant keeps its own website rather than living on a delivery platform, and it turns up in Freiburg's local food press and neighbourhood guides rather than in the visitor listings — the layer of a city that residents build for each other. It is a sit-down room in a residential street, several minutes from the tourist centre and better for it.