Saigon Passion Vietnamese Restaurant

Amazing every time! Customer service is always exceptional, their staff are all super polite on the phone and in person. I have only ever ordered #604 but have had it many, many times. If you want fantastic soft noodles, get them from here! :)

This place is great for a quick take out or dine in, the spicy seafood soup is brilliant

Not my fave Viet place, but super convenient for me so it’s a bonus. They have the traditional rice plates and noodle bowls, but my go to dish here is the Bun Bo Hue. Not too spicy, broth is flavourful and they use the proper Bun Bo noodles (I’ve had it at places that serve it with phở or vermicelli noodles — no thanks!)
Decent prices and satisfies your Viet cravings.

Very good foods, very authentic, the rice paper wrap dishes are awesome.
The only cons are sometime too noisy from the kitchen, we can hear everything.
Would give a 4 — 4.5 for the good foods. Thanks!

This might turn out to be a long review, but please bear with me:
My sister and I ate at this restaurant two nights ago and we had a pretty awful experience. She had eaten here a couple times with no issue before, but she had always gotten the same dish. That night I did not feel like eating the dish that she suggested (the portions here are pretty generous, so this dish easily fed two) so we opted for other dishes. I had ordered Curry Chicken Rice and she had the Seafood Noodles.
Admittedly, my food was pretty tasty, but my sister said her noodles had way too much sauce in it and that it was incredibly salty. We called our waiter over and she kindly asked for it to be taken back. Their manager comes out of the kitchen with the dish and tries to get my sister to take it back. She said and I quote, «We in the kitchen all tried it and it’s not too salty. The dark colour is from the oyster sauce that we use to flavour the noodles and it is perfectly seasoned.» My sister protests that she did indeed try it and was that it was not just deemed too salty from the colour. The manager looked pretty angry/​frustrated and just walked away.
Instead of remaking the dish, she orders Roasted Quail w/​Rice, and they take at least 40 mins to bring out her new dish (the place was not busy) and her rice had been pretty dry and stale/​old tasting. The night had already been soured, so she decided not to say anything. While we were eating, we could hear the workers in the back gossiping in the back about us (we sat right beside the kitchen), granted this part was anecdotal, but was extremely unprofessional and was just another sour note on our already dampened experience.
After we finish up, we got up to pay and we find out that they had charged us for the dish that she had sent back. Instead of protesting or making a scene (there were other people behind us waiting to pay), we decided to just quickly pay and leave.
TL;DR:
My sister ordered a dish and it was too salty, she kindly asked for it to be taken back, the manager came out and argued with her to try to get her to finish it. After ordering a different dish, they take 40 minutes to bring it out to her and her new dish was less than sublime. When we went to pay they charged her for the dish that she took one bite of.
Please don’t eat here, there are plenty of (especially in YYC) fantastic places to get Vietnamese cuisine.
Definitely do not recommend.

Been there several times both for lunch with colleagues, and with family/​friends, great tasting food but service is very slow and you have to flag employees down later to get the bill, so not the best place to go to between work hours. Décor and music cheesy, but again sometimes the best foods are found in the worst places!!!

I’ve been here a few times so I’m definitely a fan. They have a huge variety of food here but there’s only a few select dishes that are actually good.
First of all, I wouldn’t recommend phở here. It’s not great because there are other dishes here that are better. The people that gave this place a bad rating is probably because they ordered the wrong items such as phở. If you want good phở, go elsewhere. If you want vermicelli, go anywhere as they all taste pretty much the same to me.
We come here for the rolls (the kind where you roll yourself) and some specialty items like banh xeo. Until I find another place that has better specialty items such as this, I’ll continue to drive all the way from the NW just to have it. It’s that good.
Ambiance +1 star
Food +2 stars
I would come back +1 star

Definitely a mistake going to this restaurant, and it’s left a sour mark on my Calgary experience (visiting from the US).
The food was GROSS. My food and my parents’ food all tasted bad and the entrees definitely wasn’t authentic Vietnamese cooking. The service was very lacking and inattentive of our group. Would definitely protest ever coming back to this place.

This is my FAVORITE Vietnamese restaurant in CGY. Price is fair and portions are very generous. These are some of the dishes I enjoy or have tasted :)
Appies:
#51 — deep fried spring rolls
#52 — Prawn Salad Roll
#56 — Deep fried Won Ton
#59 — Saigon Passion Combo plate
skewer of beef chicken and shrimp
2 spring rolls
2 salad rolls
Rice Dishes:
#403 is my fave: rice dish w/​shredded pork, egg, pork chop
Vermicelli Bowl:
#501 — the basic shredded pork, charbroiled pork and spring roll
BANH hoi — make your own salad rolls is my all time fave
— #903 shrimp paste and charbroiled pork
Sorry no pics at the moment