A NEW Vietnamese restaurant is getting ready to open next month in Bournemouth town centre.

Pho is stepping up preparations to open in the former XOXO site in Bourne Avenue, near the Square.

Construction is well underway with a sign outside the restaurant reading 'Opening December'.

Malachy O’Keeffe, Pho marketing manager, previously told the Daily Echo the business focuses on providing “delicious, healthy Vietnamese food”.

“We specialise in pho noodle soup, the national dish of Vietnam, but also serve amazing salads, hearty rice bowls and fragrant curries too.” 

”To wash all that down, we have freshly prepared juices and of course excellent beers, wines and cocktails.

Bournemouth Echo:

“Bournemouth is a brilliant, vibrant town that ticks off a lot of our customer bases – a fast paced, cool crowd, students, tourists, and a great local food scene too.”

Pho opened its first restaurant in 2005 after foundered Stephen and Juliette Wall travelled to Vietnam and fell in love with the food.

Seventeen years later and they have 36 sites and are getting ready to open their first branch in Dorset.