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88 Saigon Pho & Banh Mi

Iconic/NotableCarpentersville (suburb) · Vietnamese Community-sourced, unverified
📍 7020 Huntley Rd, Ste 1, Carpentersville, IL 60110

88 Saigon Pho & Banh Mi runs a genuine Vietnamese kitchen out of a strip-mall storefront on Huntley Road in Carpentersville, a Fox Valley suburb whose dining scene otherwise leans heavily American and Mexican — a real gap this one quietly fills.

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A real Vietnamese pho and banh mi kitchen in Carpentersville, a Fox Valley suburb with almost no other dedicated Vietnamese food — pho ga and the banh mi are the two most consistently praised items across ~200 reviews.

Pho ga (chicken pho) gets singled out repeatedly for its broth, and the banh mi has its own dedicated fans among the roughly 200 reviews the place has racked up, a number that's kept climbing into 2026 rather than stalling out. It isn't flawless — the most common complaint across platforms is portion size relative to price, and at least one diner reported a chicken pho that came with bones, skin, and tendon they weren't expecting — so this reads as a genuinely good, not a transcendent, bowl of pho, worth knowing going in.

Hours are straightforward: closed Mondays, open the rest of the week with Friday and Saturday running an hour later than the other five days. No formal discount or happy hour surfaced in research, and no website or social accounts could be confirmed despite a dedicated search — this is a real, actively-reviewed restaurant that just hasn't built out a digital presence beyond the usual directory and delivery-app listings.

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88 Saigon Pho & Banh Mi

Iconic/Notable
Carpentersville (suburb)Community

Hours

Closed Mon
Tue-Thu & Sun11AM-9PM
Fri-Sat11AM-10PM
📅 Reservations not available 🥡 Takeout unconfirmed 📞 (224) 293-2800

Amenities & accessibility

🚶Walk-in only, no reservations
❔Takeout: unverified
❔Wheelchair access: unverified

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