Pho Garden

Absolutely impressed with the service! I walked in during lunch hour and was immediately seated and given a menu and tea. It took me a bit to choose something and ended up getting the beef ball phở. I only waited less than ten minutes for my food and was given everything I needed before I even asked.
The food was amazing! It was hot and fully cooked. The noodles weren’t mushy and perfectly cooked.
When I was done eating, I paid for my food and didn’t have to wait for the bill.
amazing! Definitely a place I will return again!

Disgusting experience. Vile food, food poisoning, and bad service. Walked in to take a look at the menu and possibly order food. Looked at menu and sat down with permission of waitress. 15 mins pass and no service. I waved over waitress. She told me I ordered food I didn’t order. Somehow between looking at menu and sitting down, the english conversation impaired waitress shockingly created an order I didn’t make. She told me I placed an order, when I said I didn’t she insisted that I did. The most bizarre experience I’ve ever had dining. I should have left.
I ordered an appetizer and main dish from rude waitress.
15 more minutes, then main dish arrived. No appetizer. After completing meal and giving up on appetizer, I went to pay check. The rude incompetent waitress tried to make me pay for an appetizer I never received. She claimed it was being made. I told her I needed to leave (after 45 mins) and most appetizers come before the main dish. The clear relative of someone, tried to demand I pay for an after dinner appetizer! Saying i couldn’t cancel!!! It was becoming an issue. Until I placed money for what I actually consumed on the counter and left.
The food was fatty, bland, and even gave me food poisoning. Don’t go here… ever!!!

I just got takeout from Phở Garden. I called them with no menu in hand and they were super helpful in making a selection. They were very welcoming and warm when I picked up my dinner, which was super yummy. I was in Vietnam last year and have eaten a lot of Phở soup! Theirs is among the best. Highly recommend on all levels.

Sat down. After removing my jacket, purse, shoes pants, etc. oops! not pants or shoes hehe… I was told that Ineeded to have cash bc their machine was broken. Wow! now that’s raking in the customers .wait until they sit down and get comfy and then tell them to leave and travel through traffic across the busiest street by foot and back.
And yes… I did it. Felt like a donkey… or yet another desperate moro# that does not know how to cook, yet I do.
Ordered bahn mi sandwhich 3.50 cheap but good quality — little ingredients, mostly bread but fresh tastings. I just wish the put more veggies!
Had the spring rolls as appie… hot and tasty but not much filling inside. A little salad on the edge was a nice palate cleanser.
Went to pay at front, was told to hurry hurrry, repeatedly as I was counting change… I nearly got into an argument and she kept saying it… I suppose she wanted a huge tip or was busy, but there were only 4 tables busy. She was the server, host and cashier… along with a male assistant and chef.
To the guy using Phở to clear your cold, sinus problems or by chance a cleanse… get up, move your legs, get inside a washroom and blow your nose!!! I had to listen to him slurping his snot the entire meal and blowing his nose here and there. Disgusting. Looking at him 3 times as I turned around with a scowl did nothing.

I feel bad because the owners of this restaurant are very nice. However, after three visits I have no choice but to give them a poor review, as the phở was consistently bad. I am half-​Vietnamese; I know my phở. I always order phở tai (phở with rare beef). On my last visit, the noodles were overcooked and watery; but the worst is their rare beef slices. They are sliced so thick and yet when the bowl arrives the beef is already cooked. It is tasteless and chewy.
Their salad rolls are also shockingly bad. Huge and full of noodles — tasteless. Salad rolls should be thinner, with less noodles and more mint leaves, lettuce and prawns/​pork.
I live nearby and would love to be able to frequent this place — please try to improve your food and I will come back.
One funny anecdote: on my last visit, when i went to the bathroom you go by the kitchen and someone was asleep on top of the chest freezer, wearing shoes and all, right next to the food prep area. It gave the appearance of bad hygiene practices.

The couple who run this place are very sweet and always remember us when we come in. Fresh, tasty food, what more can you ask for! Great little place. We really hope they’re doing well because it’s one of our go-to’s for a quick dinner.

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I really not recommend you came to this rectaurant. The food is not really good but it ok, the women in the restaurant just stole from me 5 $ Can in front of everybody. I know it just 5 $ can but she is a boss in the restaurant how could she do that thing? I gave her 20 $ usa and my meal is 8.95 $ can so she should change for me 16.22 $ can but she change for me just 11.05. Then i come to claim her to of her mistake but she said she said alot of thing to make her to be right. I was super mad when she do that to me because me and her are Vietnamese.

I would never go here again or recommend to go here to anyone. I simply wanted just the broth and beef balls. With no noodles. Most phở restaurant would never charge you the full price of a bowl of phở. Keep in mind the bowl of phở was 7.50 with noodles and meat. The server told me it was the same price cause the beef they use to boil is expensive. I wanted 2 beef balls in soup, she was charging me $ 16 dollars. So I said OK I’ll just get 1 large phở, just give me the whole phở with the beef balls and the noodles. It wasn’t busy, only had 3 people in there yet it took a while to make 1 bowl of phở to go. She charges me $ 8.50 for a large bowl of phở. Thinking I would pay for a bowl with everything $ 8.50 is reasonable. I open the bag and see just soup and beef balls even after I told her I wanted everything since the price was rediculioius. I went back asking for the noodles and she was choked saying that’s what you wanted. I said I wanted the phone with everything and I told you. She gave me attitude and told me «We gave you EXTRA beef balls». I was way to tired and hung over to make her understand my order. She clearly was not gonna fix the order so I walked off. If I could give them no stars I would. The broth wasn’t anything spectacular, and I’ve grown up with phở. Horrible service. Total rip off!!!

I know Phở and this place is great! Excellent portions, quality ingredients, perfect temperature. There was absolutely nothing to improve this dining experience. Great service, clean restaurant, and excellent pricing.

Phở in Vancouver! Might as well start my Canadian provinces quest to eat Phở in all 13 provinces & territories in Canada. ^_^
It all starts with Vancouver and you could say that I just kicked off my Canadian spree with a nice bowl of Phở for dinner. Here I was in north Vancouver and there was a Vietnamese restaurant down the street from my hotel, so I decided to chill out and have dinner here on my 1^st night in Vancouver on 04÷30÷15. Phở Garden was a quintessential Vietnamese restaurant that prides itself on good quality Vietnamese cuisine. All I wanted was a great bowl of Phở to kick off my adventures in Vancouver. The ambiance of this restaurant that night was quite quiet and reserved. I would say that the service here was kind of slow, but I didn’t really care much, since I was close to my hotel, on vacation, and not in a hurry. I ordered the combination Phở, which they call it something entirely different here, and shrimp summer rolls. The overall experience ended up being a mixed bag, but the food was good and delicious. To my amazement, it was Canada and I was having phở. It was perfect.
Phở Garden Vietnamese restaurant is located on the main drag of Marine Drive in north Vancouver, BC. I even had to use gps, just to locate it since my eyes could not see that it was in a corner of a shopping cluster. I entered around 7:30pm on a brisk Wednesday evening. The parking was nice, since it was shared among the other tenants in the shopping cluster. Plentiful parking options abound, but do take care that it can get filled up under peak times of the day. I got a table pretty much next to the entrance, where the rest of the tables were already occupied in the main dining area. Phở Garden accepts major credit cards, which is always a good plus when traveling abroad or just traveling within your own city /​town. I ended up taking back those summer shrimp rolls back to the hotel to be eaten later that night, instead of woofing them down with my Phở at the restaurant. As aforementioned before, the service was slower than I thought. I guess they served everyone at a table before going to the next, which is understandable. Making each phở or dish as perfect as it can be takes time. It seemed longer than 15 minutes to get my order after putting in the order, but I’m not complaining just yet.
The décor of Phở garden Vietnamese restaurant was subtle and welcoming. The restaurant itself was clean and organized, something similar to what you may find in a private middle class home. It was clean and organized. The service here was positive and friendly, albeit slower than what the norm is — at least for me anyway. The phở itself was pretty good. They don’t really give enough vegetables, so I asked them for another round of bean sprouts just to make the meal more enriching and satisfying. The broth of the phở was decently good and they gave an adequate amount of noodles, but I should have ordered extra noodles anyway. Prices were decently good, although being an American, I had to convert it back to USD from CAD. All in all, Phở Garden is a good place to check out if you are in the mood for Vietnamese in north Vancouver, it’s away from the urban sprawl of downtown, so you can kick back and relax with a heartwarming bowl of Phở here at Phở Garden. Eat up!
3.5 stars, rounded to 4.0.
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We tried this new restaurant recently. Everything was meh. The Vietnamese salad rolls had three halfs of prawn veeeery spaced out to make it look like there was more inside; the roll could easily have fit five. Other than that it was just noodles, a tiny single piece of iceberg lettuce, and the rice wrap.
The phở beef was surprisingly chewy for thinly sliced beef. The broth and noodles were tasteless and the spicy sauce wasn’t very spicy, so we really had to use a couple heaping teaspoons to get any flavour. The accompanying veggie plate was the saddest I have ever seen at a Vietnamese restaurant: lemon instead of lime, and no jalapeños or onions. We got two napkins and two sets of chopsticks for a table for four. When we asked for more, we got one more set of chopsticks and one more napkin.
There is another phở place nearby with similar pricing and MUCH better food. I will go there from now on. Skip this place. The convenient location and friendly staff don’t make up for the disappointing food and overall feeling of stinginess.

Was about to give a 2 star as ordered their ice coffee to go, way too much condensed milk but for a phở connossieur, I know I have to be back, but for the wrong reasons.
While I try not to put too much weight on Unilocal reviews, but the high ratings here are from those who either have a low review # or friend count… really have to come back to prove it once in for all lol, next week if there’s time after my meetings but I’ll digress.
Indeed, it’s spacious, clean, good layout, and does not have that lingering fish oil sauce that we are all accustomed to.
Bonus star is they are authentic, overheard them speaking Vietnamese instead of Chinese lol.
Located in plaza with Tim Horton’s, 1 km off in from the 1^st exit off Lions gate.

I come here because they have vegetarian phở (yay) and vegetarian spring rolls. The vegetarian phở is not bad but I really wish they would include vegetables other than the standard broccoli and cauliflower. The vegetarian spring rolls are a bit soggy and tough but I like that they use rice paper instead of the chinese spring roll paper.
Service is good and there is tons of free parking out front.

When u r hungry, there is nothing like a bowl of phở. Nice little restaurant for a quick dinner. Don’t have to think about what to cook. Lol.

We ate here yesterday for the first time and we’re so happy we found this place. It was very clean, the people were super nice, and the food was awesome.
We had the #26 Phô soup in beef broth with vegetables and beef and holy smokes was it good. I’ve been to so many Phở places and the broth is just yuck! She ordered a size small and it looked like a large.
I ordered the #36 Chicken & Vegetables on rice and it was soo good. It wasn’t greasy and tasted great!
We’ll definitely be back and my bet is if you give it a try you’ll be back too!

I’m surprised this place has already gotten 3 5* reviews after opening very recently. I would love to give it at least a 3* but the ‘Meh. I’ve experienced better.’ pretty much sums up my experience.
I’ve enjoyed my fair share of phở in Vancouver and unfortunately this is one of the worst and be worst I don’t mean it’s horrible, it’s just we have such good phở options in this city so this did not even remotely live up to my expectations. We were a group of 6 of us and ordered a bunch of things to share so I feel like I got a fair taste of what they had to offer.
The small soup sizes are really small. I usually only order a small size at other places and am stuffed and not able to eat the spring rolls or any other appies but this time I polished my bowl and was still hungry. Fairly small portion and not quite enough noodle or meat but the worst part was the broth. Again by ‘worst’ I don’t mean it was inedible, it just wasn’t as flavourful or tasty as I’ve experienced elsewhere. It’s like they cooked the broth but then added some water so the flavour felt diluted.
We also tried the fried spring rolls (thinner than other places but okay tasting) and the salad rolls (normal but the dipping sauce wasn’t as good as I’ve had before). I also tried the lemongrass pork and chicken on vermicelli and just like the rest, it was a bit lacking.
At the end of our meal we order the red bean with coconut milk drink and again it was decent but just okay. They do add the green grass jelly and a big chunk of ice so be sure to mix it up well.
On the positives, it’s a brand new restaurant and definitely the cleanest Vietnamese restaurant I’ve been in. The people who work there (I’m assuming are also the owners) were friendly and helpful as the people we were eating with were very confusing with their order and questions. hopefully with the fairly new opening they are still working out some of the kinks and it’ll improve — not too many options for this type of food on the North Shore!

Good food and nice people.

So delicious! The best phở on the north shore! Super friendly service too and very clean!