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| - I've ate in this branch a couple of times, not out of my own cravings but the insistence of my significant other who likes this place better than myself. This place is a fair place to eat, notably for the setting, cleanliness, service, food presentation, and to a degree the price. But for actual food taste, I would argue I have tasted a little better or better somewhere else.
Setting
This fairly new Ben Thanh Mississauga has an elegant touch setting, comfortable chairs (with the sofa seats) and roomy interior, and decorative walls. Soft lighting. It's mainly divided into two areas. One area is near the entrance has sofa like seats, and the bar. The second area just behind the bar has the normal table and chairs setting, and closer to the washroom. For comfort take the sofas seats near the entrance, but you may have to be more than two in your party to get those seats. For a little more privacy though, you may want to have the seating behind the bar.
Service
The attendants and servers are dressed pretty formal and are in general courteous, but you will find others are friendlier and more helpful. Wait time is not bad. You'll get your appetizers in about 5 minutes. The main entries follows a few minutes later.
Price
Pretty decent. You pay more for the setting, presentation, service rather than the food taste, explained below
Food
And the significant part of the review is the food.
The serving sizes are average. what makes it look big are the plates. Most entries have the food spaced evenly on the plates. I don't mind the big size, it's actually helping than small size plate, plus the plates are real decent ceramic, with no noticeable scratches, maybe because these plates are pretty new.
As for the taste, I'll say there is adequate spice in most food, but not much on the taste. But beware of the entries that have the red chili icon besides them, especially if you don't have high tolerance to spice, it means it's really spicy/hot to the taste buds. The good thing is that the servers do warn you that it's really hot. Also you can ask the servers to reduce the spice, or either mild , or none. But if you selected to have no spice, the food will taste really bland. The taste is not too savoury though. For example, I ordered the seafood Pad Thai, there's not enough of the flavour food stuff, like ground peanuts, egg, tofu, squid, shrimp. 90% of it was the noodle, maybe that's why it didn't taste as good. The food stuff should be about 30-40% and noodle is 70-60%. Also the shrimp rolls are good appetizers, provided that you dip them in the the peanut sauce. Without the sauce, it would taste bland.
In summary,
Other than the (sort of bland) food taste, I'll say this place is good for dining in for the elegant setting, courteous servers, short wait times, cleanliness. I sincerely hoped that they satisfied my taste buds as their ad promo insists on the Ben Thanh website, but unfortunately didn't. I do plan to come here again, but when I do, I hope the food taste has improved.
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