"New place with a lot of new takes on a traditional classic. Fresh, fragrant and delicious"
This place came up in a search as part of a commitment to try new "pho" places around the neighbourhood. This one has been open about a month and half or so just south of First Markham Place. It's not in First Markham place so you don't have to worry about finding ridiculous parking it's actually one street south in a "strip mall plaza." so keep that in mind if you're trying to find it.
Location and Restaurant
It's a nice size to it. It's got a ton of little tables crammed in there with modern finishes and what not. They have a pretty extensive menu as well as well as a "build your own" option which allows you to build the regular pho you might be used to.
Menu & Food
I've taken a few photos of them but you look at the menu and you some interesting combinations as well as a design-a-pho option where you can go back to a tried tested classic (like a Ph ?c bit) at no extra charge. It simplifies the process of ordering as if you like Rare Flank, or Brisket or Tripe or beef balls, you can mix and match or get them all. You can add chicken too if you like that. You also get your choice of broth, Chicken, Beef, Vegetable, Satay, and a few others. The others are extra charge but it might be worth it. They also have their a selection of noodles you can choose too.
Ordered the classic house special type of pho and was very impressed with the flavour and freshness. I mean you can only use so many adjectives to describe Pho but the pho I had there was tasty and delicious in a "wow this was really, really good" kind of way. I really liked it and thought it was priced fairly. Also the "Regular" was definitely enough food in my honest opinion and i was really hungry.
Service
This is probably a growing pain but as I sat there I noticed they were kinda all over the place with service for a bunch of different guests. The biggest thing I noticed were some orders were missed or not served quick enough and some people were waiting for their food. I know myself I was waiting maybe 20 minutes. I will give them a pass since a) they're new and b) it's lunch time and it was packed. If this was great this would've been a 4.5 rounded up to a 5.0
In summary, definitely try this place out if you're hungry for a good bowl of Pho with a ton of different configurations. 4.5 out of 5.0 but marking it as a 4.0 because it's not "perfect"