Aobaba Bubble Tea & Juicy Bar Restaurant

The perfect lunchtime warm up during the winter months! Lovely people, no messin, very fast service and steaming bowls of delicious phở! The spring rolls are top notch, as are the summer rolls for a healthier option. Phos/​soups are about € 7 and rolls about € 4!
Well worth a visit. Enjoy!

I’ve been coming here for years when I need a quick bite to eat in town. It really is nothing fancy, but the service is quick and the phở is pretty decent. At about € 7 for a big bowl, it is good value for money for a healthy fast food in town. The spring rolls and summer rolls are very good too.

best milk tea ever, and after seeing the portions for sure coming back for food soon!!!

Had the spicy beef noodle and original milk bubble tea. It was more Chinese than Vietnamese but the food was still quite good considering its’s Eastern food in Ireland. Would definitely come back again if in the area and craving noodles.

Went in here after a huge barbecue next door and i got a reasonably priced smoothie that tasted excellent and was made quickly. Not much more to add!

Really love this place. Summer rolls are always perfect. All I have ever selected for main is one of the soups /​ramans. They are lovely. Have eaten here 20+ times. Great value, filling and feels fresh. Only let down is the paint job inside.
Remember to get the summer rolls !

Si vous cherchez à manger un bon vietnamien c’est The Place To Be.
Ce n’est pas un restaurant mais plutôt un take away. L’endroit né paye vraiment pas de mine mais il est tenu par de vrais vietnamien. Les plats sont traditionnels et vraiment authentiques. De par mes origines je sais quel goût à la vrai cuisine vietnamienne et je peux dire que je né suis vraiment pas déçue d’Aobaba.
J’ai testé presque tous leurs plats et je conseille vivement la Banh Mi (le sandwich baguette vietnamien), les nems sont succulent (un peu gras je l’avoue mais vraiment savoureux) et le Banh Cuon a presque le même goût que celui de ma mère !
Par contre petit hic: ils né prennent pas la carte bleue alors préparez du liquide avant d’y aller !
Pour tous les amoureux de cuisine vietnamienne c’est le top !

LOVE the phở here, great for vegetarians, super cheap and good fresh food. Best if you have a hangover!

I had enough fried food while visiting the area, when I saw this on Unilocal I was like THATS IT! YES! I was on vacation from the states and had no idea if there would be quality Vietnamese food in Dublin. Let me say it’s the best I have ever had! I ordered the summer rolls and grilled pork with vermicelli. I spent only about € 11 and there was even some leftover. I can’t explain better, you MUST try this place for yourself! I wish we had one in Orlando!

So this place is gas–
I wouldnt class this as a restaurant…
Dont come in thinking your getting a 5star dining experience and youl be very pleasantly suprised.
This is quick ready to rock street food– no messing soup, noodle, rolls, served up quick at awesome value…
If your in town and around the area its very very hard to beat this place for value and volume, I wouldnt be a fan of sitting in, for take out it A1!

It’s my first time here and it’s sooo impressive! With such a low price, the summer roll is lovely and the spicy noodle soup is huge! Will definitely come back again!

This is my newest discovery (and love). It’s a bit cramped in here and dingy looking, but don’t let appearances fool you. The food is great!
I’ve had the grilled pork on noodles, the spring rolls, and the soup noodles — all of them have been great! The portions are large enough and you’ll definitely leave full.
Lastly, the traditional milk tea boba here is actually decent — yay!

Aobaba is a great place that my friends and I frequent in a lot especially during the winter months! One cannot resist a good, hot phở on a cold night.
This place is small and cosy. The food is really affordable and budget friendly to broke college students such as myself. Most of the food on their menu is about € 5 – 7 and if you are that broke of a college student, it does not hurt to share a bowl of phở! The portions are quite generous that can be shared between two people.
The downside to Aobaba is that some times, the place would get packed that it would be difficult to get a seat especially if you are going to eat there with friends. Another thing is that they only accept cash which can be a burden since you only want to pay for the food without taking € 20 from the ATM.
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In my quest to find a decent phở bo in Dublin, I went to this place with a friend of mine. We ordered fresh spring rolls, a phở bo and a phở chicken. The first annoying thing is that they don’t accept debit or credit card payment, only cash. Are they allergic to taxes? Spring rolls were pretty good with the fresh herbs I like, chunky and flavorful. Unfortunately my phở bo was really so so. The beef slices were scarce, chewy and overcooked… There wasn’t any Thai basil or cilantro on the side to add in the broth, only chili and bean sprouts. Hopefully it’s cheap which makes the overall experience OK. I’ll continue looking for the perfect Phở Bo.

Being New Year’s Day and being incredibly hungover I had a hankering for Noodle soup and figured Capel St wouldn’t let me down.
Aobaba is strange one in that they sell Vietnamese street food along with many different types of Smoothies. Can’t say I have ever wanted a Tropical banana soy smoothie with my Phở but hey maybe that’s just me.
The décor is basic and the food menu brief but that suited me (did not want to think with massive hangover). My noodle soup (€ 7) and summer rolls (€ 4) were some of the best I have had and definitely on par with what I have been served in Vietnam. All that’s missing is the Bia Hoi. Lots of Asian people eating in here too which is always a good sign.
Just don’t expect a smile with your service. The staff are colder than the temperature outside. I guess it’s lucky they do such good food.

We stopped in for a quick weeknight meal because it’s on our way home. We both ordered the Spicy Hue-​Style Noodle Soup with Beef & Pork. A few quick notes:
Pros:
— The soup was tasty without being salt/​MSG-​laden
— They have soymilk bubble tea
— € 7 for a meal is a great value in the city centre
Cons:
— The meat was pretty chewy
— VERY surly-​faced woman taking the orders and serving the food
— No atmosphere to speak of and very cramped seating area
That being said, it still tasted like comfort food. Nothing compares to that warm soothing feeling of a big bowl of hot noodle soup, and I have to admit that it «hit the spot».
I have to say the biggest reason for not returning would be the service. The entire time, I couldn’t help wondering why she was just so darn angry! From taking our order, to throwing down our bowls without a word and storming off, the unnecessary moodiness was almost comical. Being big on service, I have to take a star away for that.

So exciting to find Bahn Mi in Dublin (for € 4 no less)! And while I could have done with more pork in the baguette, the flavours were all spot on.
As we waited for our rolls, the series of phos that came out led to some serious order envy. I’ll definitely be back to try some. Oh but our impulse order of spring rolls to start was a total win. Yum!

I must be on a kick of finding good places to eat this month. Or maybe it’s the adage third times a charm. But guys. I finally found it. I finally found the place in Dublin that serves excellent phở. And egg rolls… And vermicelli. (I wish I left room for boba!!) it’s a quaint… Ok tiny and not a very attractive shop with horrible fluorescent lighting surrounded by sex shops… Now before you say no way, hear me out. I’ve tried 2 other phở establishments that have been major disappointments. This place has finally fulfilled what other places couldn’t. Serve excellent and authentic Vietnamese food at a very reasonable price.
I ordered the spring rolls and vegetarian spring rolls. Both are just € 4 each. The veggie ones were meh while the spring rolls were just like the ones I had in LA! SOO yummy! I ordered the chargrilled pork with vermicelli which was very yummy but the pork was far too charred and tough. My partner ordered the phở which was sooo flavourful and delish. Thank goodness they didn’t serve overcooked noodles in a bland broth! It was perfect in every way… Oh and how do you know this place is legit? Sriracha and hoisin on every table. Booya. Never will I waste money on horrible Vietnamese food again. Tim… Thank you so much for discovering this little gem. I now feel complete and Dublin can now be considered home after 5 years…

I ate there last night with a friend, was very interested, based on the positive reviews. Well… it was as if we went to a different place.
The first impression was of a strange smell, like the combination of cooked food and rotting food in the corners. The staff was morose, not a smile to seen. The one thing that was really nice is that they gave us two spring rolls, compliments of the house.
I had the phở. The portion was huge, but it was mostly water, bean sprouts and noodles, not much in the way of vegetables. Maybe this is how it is served in Vietnam, I don’t know. But the phở I have eaten in the U.S. is much richer.
My friend had a plate of noodles (I don’t remember the name of it). Same thing, lots of noodles and not much else. And she left most of the pieces of pork, said the pork wasn’t very good. Hers was tastier than mine, though. If you like lots of carbs, then maybe this is good enough for you.
Now I’m thinking that maybe 3 out of those 6 reviews are fakes – very suspicious that those 3 were all within 8 days of each other and then not a single review for almost 4 months.
It’s cheap. Maybe they will up their game, at some point. If you go, go for lunch. It’s not a proper sit-​down restaurant anyway, more like a snack joint. And don’t have high expectations.
There are other cheap restaurants in Dublin that are far, far better. Try Govinda’s, on Abbey St. And Mongolian BBQ, in Temple Bar, has an amazing lunch deal until 4:30 pm.

I was brought here as a lovely surprise with the promise of a new place to add to our ever growing database of eastern cuisine favourites and as always Timmy didn’t fail to impress!
This place now holds the title for my favourite summer roles and I also had a gorgeous buncha, small pork spring rolls with fresh vermicelli noodles, vegetables and a lovely sweet chilli sauce topped with a sprinkling of nuts… I’m getting hungry thinking about it!
Finished up with a sweet plum and mixed bubble tea which I liked an awful lot more than I thought I would! It’s not something I’d have regularly but a nice novelty!

Popped in here with a few colleagues today for lunch with a craving for some good Vietnamese food after being wind-​blasted on the quays today.
I usually go to Phở Viet but I have fallen out of love with the place — given their relentless price increases for no clear apparent reason (3 times since my first visit in April).
The food here is equally good and being a small café, you get a more personal and local touch to their service too. There were also quite a few other Vietnamese patrons there, further reinforcing their authenticity. The staff were very friendly and happy to talk us through the dishes.
My new Vietnamese haunt in the future — oh and try their spring rolls made up of mince pork and chinese mushrooms, YUM!