Minh Chau Vietnamese Restaurant

We waited for an hour for our food, 40 mins for our drinks. Service was beyond slow and the food was mediocre. Save your money on someplace else.

The quality and taste at Minh chau have vastly improved since my first review. Now it is our go to Vietnamese restaurant.

Good value for your money. I prefer to take out, the staff probably prefers you do to.

Was in the area for a wedding and needed some lunch after the ceremony. It has pretty decent food. I got a vermicelli bowl with grilled pork, spring roll and grilled shrimp. Portions size was good, decent flavours and the restaurant was Clean.
I was with a friend who had a toddler. She needed her diaper changed and they don’t have a change table in the bathroom… She had to change her daughter on two seats… But honestly… They just need to invest in a wall mount change table for their customers.

We took a chance on a magazine review and tried out Minh Chau Vietnamese Restaurant in #Inglewood #yyc for the first time last week. It turned out to be a great discovery.
The menu had over a hundred items to choose from so there was no shortage of dishes to try. It was not a long wait to be served our dishes. All the food we tried was wonderful and it was loaded with more flavour than we have experienced in similar dishes recently at several other Vietnamese restaurants around Calgary. We both said to each other that It tasted like very high quality ingredients — no skimping. And the presentation was well-​done.
The restaurant is located right on 9^th avenue in #Inglewood so it was easy to find and the restaurant-​only parking was great. The interior was clean and very well kept. The staff were very friendly and helpful at every moment.
It was an all-​around nice dinner experience and we will definitely return with our friends (maybe some clients too).
Thanks Minh Chau,
~ Shane

It’s not bad but not the best either. It’ll do in a pinch as there aren’t any other Vietnamese places in Inglewood. Charboiled pork overcooked, so it was tough and dry. It wouldn’t be my first choice.

Team Fam came here and I got a good taste of the following:
Phở Tai Gan (Vietnamese noodles with beef slices and tendon)
Cha Gio (spring rolls)
BBQ Pork and Rice
The beef in the phở comes well done here like most Calgary phở restaurants. The slices were chewy but lacked much flavour unless I doused them with hoisin sauce. The tendon fared a little better in flavour and the quantity was good for both toppings. Compared to the simple Pork and Rice dish though, I don’t think the broth was good enough to warrant only having phở here.
The Cha Gio here are made with the unexciting kind of skin and not the rice paper skin. As such, they are quite hard and do not have the chewy crunch you get from more premium spring rolls.
The Pork and Rice were my favourite dish from this meal. The BBQ marinade is nice and gives the meat a subtle sweet taste that mixes well with the rice. If I went back I’d probably order another rice or vermicelli dish and skip any phở or spring roll cravings.

This place isn’t bad. I’ve only tried a few dishes and both were pretty good. Drinks are overpriced (as is the norm for Vietnamese restaurants in Calgary these days.) I was pleasantly surprised that they have rice crepes with Vietnamese ham. The crêpes were a little doughy and overcooked for my liking but still tasty nonetheless. Since there aren’t many great places for Vietnamese anymore this is probably one of the go to places for inner city. At least parking is plentiful and food is acceptable.

I stopped in for a quick bite mid-​week and ordered the shrimp appetizer to go on my way to an after-​work meetup. Maybe they were having an off night; the counter staff was surly, and the portion was smaller than I expected. Every impression counts, and so I’m not inclined to go back.

pretty delicious! I had the veggies & tofu on rice, and it was great. Amelia got lemongrass chicken & springroll vermicelli — she said it was amazing. what I wish most for this place would be a cozier atmosphere, but whatever. service & food wise it’s perfect, though!

I arrived on a sunny Sunday with a large group and a hankering for a bun bowl of soup. We were quickly greeted, seated and given tea! That is always a good sign. I ordered the lemon grass and spring roll vermicelli soup. It was fast to come and supper fresh! So don’t just walk by next time you are walking down 9^th in Inglewood-​go in for a yummy meal

Generous portions, good food. Very basic atmosphere and although the service is not unfriendly, you will probably have to go find someone if you want anything else after your order is delivered to the table as they will not return to check on you. Despite this, the prices are low and the food is definitely delicious and of good quality.

Last Thursday of the month means Garden Variety Show at Loose Moose Theatre! Have to grab a bite nearby, stop for noodle soup. salad rolls and phở tai. Flavourful clear broth, speedy service, fresh sprouts and basil.
Not the best phở in town, but definitely the right bowl at the right time.
Only complaint was that my soup could have been hotter. Thanks!

Excellent food, quick serve time. I really enjoyed it. Would suggest it. The price is pretty good too!

Excellent local Vietnamese. Lovely owners.

I wish I had the same experience here as Starsia, but I wasn’t as lucky today I’m afraid.
Inglewood’s rich with historically protected buildings… most places I’ve been to in this area have been renovated or at least well kept. This place… not so much — it smells and the carpets look as though they haven’t been changed since the 70’s.
All that stuff is secondary to the food of course, but they failed in that department.
I use to work around this area and definitely wondered what how this place was… I mean, was it just another local dive? or could it be a hole in the wall that I’ve been missing out on all these years?!
Unfortunately Pholks, it wasn’t the latter. On the bright side, I wasn’t super disappointed because 1) I wasn’t expecting much in the first place 2) my curiosity is now satisfied but killed this cat and 3) I was treated to lunch at this restaurant by one of my close friends. Although, they had never been to this place before either so it was just one of those lunches that will never be brought up in conversation again hahaha.
Oh and BTW, it took 45 minutes for them to serve us our order… partly because they ran out of steamed rice… but I think they were kidding cuz who runs out of rice at an asian restaurant right? :P
So, it is with great displeasure I have to write a sad and disappointing review such as it is, but its the real deal kids.
I still love Vietnamese food and always will. If you’re down for some phở anytime, lemme know! except I will say no if you suggest this place haha :)
PEACE

I would describe this as an interesting little place in Inglewood. The décor is plain (but not bad), the food was good, and the service was friendly enough.
There certainly were some funny little things that happened to lighten up our dining experience. The server was nice, but also direct — no standing around to listen to anything special about our orders or when my friend asked for extra sauce. When ordering 2 waters (I had to get up and go to the counter), only 1 was brought so we had to ask again when she came around to collect our bowls. Also, the bill came all together (which was fine), but there was no breakdown in the prices for each meal, so we were left to guessing/​remembering what our individual meals and drinks costed. Oh yes, and the server started to vacuum while a few tables were there eating. That made me laugh for sure.
It’s a nice quaint little place and I would eat there again. Good prices and quirky atmosphere, it’s all good to me.

Are you Phở real? Ohh, bad pun. Awful way to start a review, but I went there anyways.
I stopped by this weird little place last night after absolutely crushing myself in the gym. I feel it’s important that the reader understands that I was feeling extremely manly and also very hungry.
The guy at the front door was incredibly attentive and got us seated right away. I ordered what I normally get when I go for Vietnamese: Vermicelli noodles with spring rolls, shredded pork, char grilled pork and char grilled shrimps.
I was feeling a little tense, so I picked up a Tiger beer as well.
Décor was … well, confusing. It looks kind of like an upscale truck stop in there. Maybe that doesn’t do it justice, but it WAS clean. So. there’s that. Don’t go here if you’re an atmosphere glutton.
Now, I don’t think our server was Vietnamese. In fact I have no idea what he was. He was just large, and friendly and very good at his job. Well done, man of mysterious ethnicity — well done.
When my meal came it was large, hot and full of delicious meats — just he way I like it. I immediately doused it in fish sauce, hot sauce and whatever that brown sauce is (as I normally do).
And then, dear reader, I ATE IT. I ate the whole thing. I ate it with chopsticks like a champion. I shoveled that vermicelli in my mouth like it was the last bowl on God’s green earth. Had one of the ladies I was with tried to steal a spring roll I would have probably gnawed her fingers off — that’s how famished I was.
And by the end, I was full. I was pleased. Joy coursed through my veins.
So, on the whole this is pretty standard Vietnamese. There wasn’t anything special about it, though like another writer pointed out their meat is really well done. I’d definitely recommend this place if you’re in the mood for some Viet in Inglewood.

Even if I don’t order for months they remember me and what I like just by my voice if it’s for pickup. I love their avocado shakes and if I forget to order one she reminds me because she knows how upset I’d be if I didn’t get one. The quality of the food you get for the price you pay seems almost unfair to them. Even a small soup is meal sized. I can’t think of one item on the menu that they don’t do well. When you eat in the restaurant even when it’s busy your food comes out fast. If you have never tried a three bean shake or an avocado sake I highly suggest you leave preconceived notions behind and try them. I have never had phở that tasted better. They were even named best phở restaurant in Calgary a few years ago when all the popular phở places were compared in the newspaper. You can’t beat this quality, price and service.

I have eaten at this restaurant many times and so far it has the best phở I have had in Calgary. Most of the soups are quite good, the vermicelli dishes are decent and the chinese food is quite goodd as well (try the salted black pepper pork).
The restaurant itself is quite old but everything is very clean. There is also lots of free parking available in a side lot; something you rarely see in Inglewood.