After seeing so many high ratings about this place and personal recommendations from Levi and Kai Bent Lee in their vlogs( if you don't know who they are, they are the sons of Toronto's celebrity chef Susur Lee), my wife and I decided to give this Vietnamese restaurant a try after work.
We arrived at the restaurant at around 5:45 pm and the first thing we noticed was the outdated decor of the restaurant, but that's okay! As long as the food lives up to the hype and tastes delicious, that's all we really cared for.
We immediately placed our order. I ordered a rice pork chop with a sunny sided egg and the wife ordered their house special pho. We also got a side order of their crispy spring rolls. The waiter took our order slip and went straight to the back for processing.
When the food came, it looked good! But to our disappointment, it definitely didn't live up to the hype and here is why. The grilled pork that came with my rice was small in portion and was chewy! It didn't have that grilled and tender texture taste like in some other Vietnamese restaurants. My wife's pho was medicore at most, nothing mind blowing. The beef slices were a bit thick for her liking as well. The spring rolls had some crunch but was too oily. Oil was seeping out of the rollls with each bite.
Overall, food was medicore and nothing special. My hunt for the best Vietnamese joint in Toronto continues...