Pho Thanh Vietnamese Noodle House & Restaurant

Service was incredibly fast here (5 – 10 minutes)
Loved the phở, and the restaurant had a great clean environment on the inside even though the outside looked a little sketch with closed blinds and limited visual advertisements
The waiters are polite here despite English not being a first language for some.
It’s definitely nice that you can adjust certain things on their dishes, for example we omitted fatty flank from phở #12 and the waiters were accommodating.
4 bowls of large phở only costed $ 30. Super affordable and great for its price!

I always ate here when I lived in Calgary. Super good phở. Their broth is one of the most delicious I have ever tried. I live in Texas now, but still think about this place and eat here whenever I am in town A+!

Very fast service with good food! Regular customer. If you are in a time crunch this place is good!

We go here routinely when we need food fast, and know what to expect. We order either phở (#15 sate beef) or bun (#31 charbroiled beef with spring rolls). The tea is on the table as we sit down, and the food is always there within 5 minutes (faster for phở-​only orders) … and then they leave us alone to eat. They are consistent, efficient and good value for the money. We joke with the guy on the till about his t-​shirt of the day, and then we leave. Simple, nothing fancy about it, and they certainly don’t turn us away when we walk in after a day in the mountains, which is why we land there many weekend evenings.

Very nice atmosphere, once I came in I was greeted by a friendly server and the menu had the standard no frills items like soup and vermecelli. Service was super quick, received my food in literally 5 minutes and the vermecelli was delicious. Small details were nice like the veggies were shredded finely, and the spring rolls were very meaty and substantial. Overall great experience, fresh food, community atmosphere, cheap eats. Definitely recommend if you’re in the area.

Hands down the worst service we have ever recieved.
We ordered the shrimp and pork salad rolls and two number 23s (pork and spring roll vermicelli bowls). The pros would be that the food came out very quickly (maybe too quickly) and the spring rolls in the vermicilli were good. The cons would be the basic salad rolls (no herbs), watery fish sauce, and lack of vegetables in the vermicelli.
Additionally, this is not the place to go for ambiance. It is very cramped, loud, and poorly decorated.
I don’t understand the rave reviews… but everyone is entitled to their own opinion. We just will not be coming back. There has to be better Vietnamese food in this city.

There are a lot of Vietnamese restaurants in Calgary — each has their strengths and weaknesses… this one’s strengths include that everything is quick and efficient — the ordering system involves perforated paper orders, one piece for drink order, one for food order, and one for table #/​tab #. You are seated quickly, served quickly, and your food arrives in like 5 minutes or so. Your cutlery is right at the table for you, so table turnover times consist of a quick setting clearing and brief wipe. Definitely great for a quick stop in lunch. Prices are also low!
Weaknesses are it’s not a place to go hang out and chat with friends over the lunch hour or to have a relaxed meal, and there isn’t much selection (which helps with the efficient food delivery). Salad rolls only have pork options, phở options are limited, and that’s the only options you have (no fooling around with those other options — both drinks or food — that lots of other restaurants offer). Mostly all beef options with one chicken option for phở. Parking is not great, it’s in a very busy strip mall with many other restaurants, service providers, and shops.
Recommend going around 11:30 to beat the lunch rush, this place gets insanely busy! But overall recommend for a quick and cheap in and out to satisfy your phở craving.

This is the single most consistent phở restaurant in the NW. I’ve been coming here 1 – 3 times a week for 7+ years. Soup is always perfect. Beef is great quality. And majority of the time my food comes within 60 seconds! McDonald’s speed comfort food. Will keep coming here as long as I live in the NW

This place is not as good as other viet restaurant in town. Mainly the broth is not as concentrated as others.

The soup is delicious.
The reason for one star off is you must spend $ 20.00
For one person who likes to buy one bowl of soup this is kind of crazy.

One stop that needed to be made on my trip to the province of Alberta Canada was the necessity of Phở. Thankful as always for Unilocal to help me find phở while on vacation!
Since I am doing the 50 U.S. states challenge for Phở, I might as well conquer Canada too! Alberta is my 2^nd Canadian province and found an excellent Vietnamese restaurant here in Calgary: Phở Thanh Vietnamese restaurant. One of my friends, who’s a Unilocal Elite recommended this one to me, since he is from Calgary. After 3 hours of driving from Edmonton to Calgary, I was in mood for Phở pronto. I headed here for an early dinner, since I knew I was going to be up at 4am for my flight home the next morning. Phở Thanh Vietnamese restaurant is situated off Alberta highway 2 on 64^th Avenue, in a shopping strip mall. I arrived here around 4:45pm on a late Monday afternoon and the traffic was getting a little bit crazy. The overall experience at Phở Thanh Vietnamese restaurant was overall good, positive, and well spent $$$.
Not sure what the other reviews are saying about the shouting and yelling, but in my experience here, there was nothing like that. Although they were busy serving the entire restaurant, there was some waiting involved, but no shouting was necessary. I got a table on the right side of the restaurant, closest to the kitchen. The restaurant itself is pretty clean and organized, with waitstaff walking around, taking and filling patron’s orders. Phở Thanh Vietnamese restaurant is located at 6630 4^th Street NE in Calgary — off 64^th Avenue. They accept credit cards, ONLY with a minimum $ 20 purchase. Since a XL bowl of Phở and an order of shrimp rolls was around $ 16, I had to order up more shrimp rolls to go to bump my order total past $ 20 for the credit card order. I was glad that they were not busy and that I didn’t have to wait long to get my Phở. Driving 3 hours from Edmonton to Calgary made hungry and tired at the same time. The ambiance of Phở Thanh Vietnamese restaurant was casual and somewhat loud, as the waitstaff was shouting instructions to each other, but not to the customers.
And so, I did just that. XL Phở bac diet with shrimp rolls to eat in the restaurant. Then I ordered shrimp rolls to go to bump the total past $ 20 minimum. The wait time wasn’t horrible, maybe 5 – 10 minutes to get waited on and 5 – 7 minutes after ordering to get your order, depending on what you get. The XL Phở was pretty good actually. More soup than noodles, so I should have ordered extra noodles. The broth was lighter than I thought, but it was a nice touch, although it felt like it was a little watered down. I feel like, the darker the broth, the more enriching it is to enhance the flavors. For what it was worth, the smoothness of the broth, the existing noodles, and the vegetables melted in my mouth for a reward that can’t be beat. The marathon in Edmonton was kilometers far behind me in thought and I was just enjoying the last bits of my vacation in Canada before I had to head home the next morning. Thanks Phở Thanh Vietnamese restaurant for a nice experience — delicious food in a wholesome atmosphere.
I would recommend this restaurant if you are in the Calgary area and love Vietnamese food — or just a lover of Phở. 4 stars, although the shrimp rolls could have been better, but I’d digress. Phở’s good here. ;)
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B+

Bland soup and terrible service. I don’t know why people like this place so much, but it’s one of the worst phở I’ve had in Calgary

My boyfriend is obsessed with this place. He literally takes every single one of our friends here because its his favorite. Personally, I find the food to be good on MOST days. There have been a few days that I have been disappointed, but in general the food is pretty good. As a plus, the food comes out super quick — definitely quicker than any other Vietnamese restaurant I’ve been to. So if you’re looking for something hot that is pretty good, and you want to be in and out in half an hour, this is the place for you.

If your looking for a nice budget friendly place to have a great bowl of phở or noodles… this is the spot! Only found this because of my husbands buddy who lives close by. This has become our Friday night dinner out.
You can order a small, med, or large soup and they have a huge list to choose from. #7 seems to be the favorite at our table, however I just recently tried #23 the rice noodle bowl and it’s now my favorite! It’s loaded with noodles, veg, shredded pork and lots of pork spring rolls. Oh and they do make the best pork spring rolls I’ve ever had!!!
All for a modest price makes this a very budget friendly place to visit every week.

I convinced my fiancé to come here with me as I randomly remembered this place from back in the day. When I was in Jr high I remember my allowance would be spent here every Friday with friends after school. I loved how the broth was so fragrant with cilantro and onion. Expecting what I had remembered it being like when we went, we were kind of disappointed.
It was good but nothing like I remembered keep in mind that was like 10 years ago, but I guess I just had my hopes up. Decent place though if you’re in the area. People were very nice and soup came out fast and fresh but I’ve definitely had better.
Oh and I ordered vegetarian salad rolls, usually I get some packed with veggies (cucumber, carrots, bean sprouts, basil, onion), and they literally brought us lettuce and noodles. Lol I was pretty turned off by that as well.

Mighty fine Vietnamese Cuisine. Like most Phò, the helpings are generous for a relatively low amount of money. The spring rolls and dip are the best of all the Phò I’ve ever tried.

Usually it’s a good experience for me…
I have been coming to this noodle house for a few years now and I love the quick service and delicious always hot soup.
Today I went and it was an okay experience. Noodles came in less than 3 minutes which is expected, but the rest of it was a little disappointing.
The girl who was on the till was on her phone the whole time — which is both non professional and ridiculous.
And also the coffee I ordered took forever to come. I had to ask for my coffee before they realized it wasn’t there. It was the responsibility of the girl at the till to make the coffee and it would have taken 5 minutes. But she was absorbed with her phone and she even made phone calls while ringing people through.
Totally unprofessional!

Best phở in the area. Simple fast delivery. This place is not fancy. Some might find it dated but their line ups speak to the quality.
You come here for Phở. I tried the rice and bun and they just ok. We like it here bc you eat and get out. The lines move fast.

For some reason I didn’t expect Vietnamese food in Calgary. I just didn’t expect many Vietnamese people in Calgary altogether, so was surprised when we found a few Vietnamese restaurants in the area when searching on Unilocal.I’m used to Toronto cheap Vietnamese food (the kind that one eats after a full night of clubbing), so was appalled at the comparatively jacked up prices at this joint.
The food was good, I ordered a multitude of different dishes since I wanted to impress my German friend with delicious Vietnamese food. The waitress lady asked me whether I knew what was in the dishes and I think she was surprised when I responded in Vietnamese. No further questioning after that and the food felt like it came out immediately after we ordered. Taste was good, the 3 bean drink was probably one of the best I’ve ever tasted.
We were in and out, it was a rush-​rush kind of thing, very Asian.

Good food. Bad service. Of course, I don’t expect much at a Vietnamese restaurant but I draw the line when the old lady curses at me because I want a container for my food and I’ve asked three times for it.
I used to go here about once a month with friends and we’ve switched places because of the she-​b1tch.