Le La Vietnamese Restaurant

Such great Phở Tai! I called ahead to avoid the lunch rush, and it was ready once I arrived, 5 minutes later. Staff was courteous and upbeat! I’ll be back.

Le La never disappoints. Been here several times, tried several dishes and it’s always a great experience.
Good is amazing. Service is great. Prices are very reasonable. I recommend this place to anyone looking for great Vietnamese.
They obviously cater to the lunch rush for business community nearby, but I always appreciate that they are open weekends and evenings. It’s a bit of a trek for me to get here but always worth it!

I accidentally bumped into this place while waiting for my hair cut next door Lavoom.
They pack a nice typical one, two punch for a solid viet restaurant: good service, good price.
I love the all window concept. Save your money from the boring chains at Chinook mall, and spend it eating viet food for the same price, while basking in the sunlight in the relaxed atmosphere at Le La.

Not my favourite Vietnamese place, but it gets the job done. The beef here is a strange texture compared to other grilled beef. The service is fairly good and the ambiance is nice.

Le La is located in a strip mall in South Calgary, just off of Glenmore Trail. It’s about four businesses down from the South XS Cargo, quite near Chinook Centre, and right behind the Speakeasy (heh). It’s not really situated in an area I visit often, but it is definitely worth a trip if you frequent this section of the city.
The restaurant itself is rather nice. Open, spacious, very clean, and tastefully decorated. The furniture is nice, new, and sturdy, and the tables are spaced out so that it lacks the cramped feeling that you get from a lot of other Vietnamese restaurants. It was a Sunday, so business was slow and there was only one server; however, everything came to us in a timely fashion, and our waiter was very attentive.
The menu was huge, and printed in Vietnamese, English, and French (which was new to me). The prices are on par with other restaurants of this kind; although they did have really reasonable lunch and dinner specials — something that I’ve found to be pretty unique so far. Their phở dishes only come in a large (which is slightly bigger than the size of a regular at most other places) and an extra-​large (which is massive). I had Phở Tai (rare beef and noodles), which was very good, and a fresh lemonade that was teeth-​rottingly sweet. My boyfriend had the most interesting take on Phở Sate I’d ever seen — it had no peanuts and was slightly creamy, with a sort of cheese sauce added to the broth — and a hot Vietnamese coffee with condensed milk. We also split a plate of salad rolls and were both comfortably full at the end of our meal. Although we weren’t served a lot of meat, the amount of noodles that came in our bowls was kind of staggering.
While the food was not the best I’ve had, I would still go back to try the other dishes on the menu; a lot of them looked really intriguing. Le La loses one star only because it doesn’t quite fit the mold for what I expect Vietnamese food to taste like (again, the cheese sauce in the Sate — while good — was a little weird). However, for everything else — the selection, the décor, and the service — I found it quite exceptional; four stars!

This is good, fresh Vietnamese food. The spring rolls were crispy and tasty. My friend and I ordered the vermicelli with barbecued pork and spring rolls. The only thing I would mention is that it would probably be better with two spring rolls because the one that did come with it was long gone before the noodles were. Most Vietnamese restaurants do provide two spring rolls with that particular dish so I was sad to see only one because they are so good. The portions are quite ample, by the way, other than that.
The restaurant itself is sunny and bright and we even had to get the blinds pulled down because it was really beaming in. The server was friendly and efficient.
It’s a good location because there’s lots of parking. After lunch, we walked over to the furniture store and took a look so it was nice to have somewhere to go move around a bit after a big lunch.
It was busy at lunch hour and I was glad I arrived early so we could sit by the windows. We decided that we would definitely return.