"Who says no to a hot noodle soup on a rainy day? Pho seems made for Seattle, and these days it’s everywhere. But when a restaurant owned by Vietnamese immigrants changed its name from Cat’s Submarine to Pho Bac in 1982, it became (allegedly) the city’s first pho restaurant. Now run by sisters Yenvy and Quynh-Vy Pham — who have opened a half-dozen hyped restaurants and scored multiple James Beard Award nominations — Pho Bac is a little more glam than it used to be, with microbrews and cocktails, but that broth is timeless." - Harry Cheadle