Do not ever come here on your own free will. I can understand if you're dragged here by your co-workers and they may feel that this place is awesome to their untrained phoreign tongues. This place is probably one of the worst places I have ever had the displeasure of eating pho at.
You read my reviews and you know how much I love pho. I eat it everywhere and I eat it many times a week and I will never say no to trying anywhere that serves it.
My boss and I had so many opportunities to go anywhere but this place and after foolishly convincing me to hop on the ctrain for whatever reason (we had no real reason to get on besides the fact that it is free downtown) and ended up by Art Central and hopping on the train again and end up coming back to the 4th street station.
We walked over and saw Ha Long Bay as I have seen so many times walking to TD. Don't be fooled by the name as Ha Long Bay is a really beautiful place in Vietnam but unfortunately in Calgary its a sight for sore eyes.
I'm going to go right into the food and tell you how bland and boring the broth was. That basically ruins my meal right there. I should have known when we walked into the restaurant and there was literally just one table aside to ours in that place.
Normal good, decent, average Vietnamese restaurants will be jam packed at lunch time but this place wasn't and that sums it up.
Did I mention the price? Two bowls of pho, a plate of spring rolls and two coffees cost me about $50??? If you're going to charge downtown price then be sure your restaurant has downtown taste.