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Pho's Thai Cuisine

Lakeview · Thai Community-sourced, unverified
📍 3332 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60657

Pho's Thai Cuisine has been a Lakeview fixture long enough to have operated under at least three different name variants at the exact same Lincoln Avenue address and phone number — Pho's Hot and Spicy, Pho's Spicier Thai Cuisine, and now simply Pho's Thai Cuisine — which is less a sign of instability than of a small, unpretentious BYOB spot that's never needed a rebrand to stay in business.

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Garlicky papaya salad

The signature hook is its spice scale, running from mild to extra hot in a way reviewers over more than a decade keep describing as genuinely punishing at the top end rather than a marketing exaggeration. The menu covers the expected Thai staples well — Panang curry, Pad See-ew, Tom Yum and Tom Kha soups — plus a garlicky papaya salad and family-size red curry portions that reviewers single out as takeout favorites.

A bar next door rounds out a BYOB visit for anyone who wants a drink with dinner. It's a straightforward, no-frills neighborhood Thai spot that's built real review volume (over 700 on Yelp) the old-fashioned way, one spicy order at a time.

Specials at Pho's Thai Cuisine

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Hours

Lunch and dinner
closed Sunday (per Time Out; hours vary by source)
🥡 Takeout unconfirmed 📞 (773) 755-1995

Amenities & accessibility

❔Takeout: unverified
❔Wheelchair access: unverified
🙂Kid-friendly

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