Le Pho

Fast service, classic vietnamese food located in the bustling Hastings Village area. The BBQ duck noodles were tasty and delivered large chunks meaty duck leg. The soup leaves more to be desired for as it was bland but the prices in this family owned restaurant more than makes it up. I would definitely come back if I was in the area, but probably will not seek this place out in the future.
Food: ³⁄₅
Ambience: ³⁄₅
Service: ⁵⁄₅. The food comes to the table very quickly.
Overall: 3.5÷5

Have only tried the duck phở here which was different. However, it reminds me of the bbq duck noodles at a chinese restaurant except with phở noodles instead. Broth was alright, a little bit on the lighter tasting side and not sure if that is their intent. Maybe will stick to the regular phở soup dishes next time.

By first glance, it looks welcoming. There were a lot of families eating very yummy looking things! I saw some fried spring rolls, boba tea, bbq duck, grilled chicken, and three bean ice cream. Although I was craving bacon, everything here looked good and had me excited to eat. Plus, it was cold (compared to Arizona) and a warm bowl of phở seemed like a perfect meal to match the day.
I was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked my food. I had the house special which was a barbecue duck phở and fried spring rolls. I also had a milk honey dew green tea with coconut jellies. The spring rolls with the side of the sweet sauce were heavenly. Warm, crunchy, and flavorful. My duck phở was so good. The broth was full of flavor and the soft clean noodles were just what I needed on a cold day like today.
Weird Megan Issue:
The duck phở has duck in it — none deboned duck — so you have to get in there and separate all the bone with you chopsticks or fork. Which made things messy and awkward when eating. This didn’t subtract from the flavor or the yumminess — just a weird peeve I have.
I also ordered a milk «bubble» tea with pearls. Apparently they call boba tea bubble tea here. I definitely need to look into the right terming for that — either way (!) — whatever it’s called, it was good. The waitress informed me they ran out of «pearls» and asked me if I wanted «jelly» instead. I shook my head yes because I was confused what pearls and jelly were (I’m still new to the boba tea world). I should have said no. The tea was delicious except for those overly sweet coconut jellies at the bottom.
Food and drink were spot on except for those weird Megan issues like duck bones and coconut jellies. The service was quick and friendly and the place was nice and clean. However, am I going to come back? Vancouver is such a large city with so many things to explore, I was hungry and lost and confused and Le Phở provided me an amazing experience for the crazed state that I was in. Although the food was good, I could get the same at my local little Phở place in Arizona. I might be back, but I also want to see what else Vancouver has to offer.
Rating:
Food: 4 stars
Service: 4 stars
Average: 4 stars

Frequent this place with my family– Have two small kids and they love the food too. Very kid friendly and nice fresh food. First Vietnamese place we have found that is super clean and friendly family run.

I don’t know what happened, but I came here for the first time with my wife and didnt have a good experience.
I usually rate phở restaurants into 3 categories:
2 stars for food
2 stars for customer service
1 star for something amazing (i.e. amazing food, customer service, environment, etc.)
Food was pretty decent, what you would expect from a phở restaurant. Unfortunately, they got my order wrong, I ordered the rare beef with tripe, but only got rare beef. I didnt bother telling our server because: 1. I didnt realize it till I ate a nice chunk of it already, I thought the tripe was hidden underneath; and 2. Our server was never around. So 1 star for food.
Customer service was non existent; besides taking our order and bring us our food, our sever never appeared again. She didnt even do the standard, «hows the food?» or refill our waters. Now you might say I’m asking too much from a phở restaurant or from two teenage girls but I probably wouldn’t have mind it as much if it was busy, because I would understand, but no, they were talking to each other and on their phones. Near the end I ask for an empty container to take home some extra food, that container never came. I wish I never left my pitty $ 2 tip. 0 stars for service.
And of course there was nothing amazing. So 0 stars for extra amazing anything.
Overall, we probably will never go back unless someone invites us to go there, and even then I would recommend against it. The only way this rating would change is if I was forced there and the customer service turned super amazing.
P. s. to the restaurant owner, feel free to contact me about this, my wife and I was there on May.02^nd around 6pm, you got cameras there, you can see for yourself if I was lying.

I love Le Phở. I always get the same thing– a chicken sub and vegetarian phở with lemongrass chicken on the side. Their subs are the best in the area. There is one lady there that always remembers me and is very nice.

We had the seafood phở and the beef stew phở on New Year’s Day. It was one of the few places we could find open. Both soups were tasty and piping hot, served with a generous pile of fresh bean sprouts and basil. The restaurant was clean, with plenty of seating, the kitchen also looked clean and organized. The service was friendly and efficient. We would definitely come here again!

There are many choices of Phở restaurants in this area and this place always appeared empty. I came here today as the more popular ones I regularly came to were closed on New Years say. And today I found out why it’s not as popular.
The phở lacked flavour! For the same price, I would try your luck at Le Petite Saigon with consistent good results!

To my books, definitely a solid 4 stars! The fatty beef is just right in flavor, fat/​lean proportion, and thickness. I tried Phó special, and Bun Bo Hue. I love the spiciness and they do serve the pork knuckle here, although there’s no pork blood. Just the spicy aroma of the Bun Bo Hue soup base is enough to make me sweat ! My new favorite place! I see that fellow Unilocaler Kenneth had a review too… we shall cross paths one day…

It seems like East Hastings is the new ‘Phở Alley’ from all the Vietnamese restaurants that have opened up during the years, and another one joins the fray vying for your dollar. After a long day of work and errands, and some bad drivers blocking my usual route home I needed some food and this was the perfect opportunity to come here. A ton of parking can be located right in front of this place, just watch the signs, but most of the time there is parking, and if not that, roll around the back to the huge parking lot.
I remember this place used to be a frame store, and a florists, and to see that they installed a kitchen in here means they didn’t recycle this place from a former restaurant that went under. The place is still feeling new, clean, nothing much on the walls, no Saigon pictures, or anything themed, it’s just a simple, clean cut restaurant with a few tv’s along the walls. The place has a few tables, and along the right side. some booth seating. We were advised to just sit anywhere we wanted, and right after that the server came over with two menus.
Looking through the menus, some good selection of phở choices, specialty noodles, appetizers, banh mi’s, rice and vermicelli dishes from what I remembered. I quickly decided to go for a big bowl of the house special phở, and we also ordered salad rolls. Not too long after our order was placed, the food started coming out to the kitchen to our table.
The setup is pretty standard, with your chopsticks, spoons and sauces on the table (like self-​serve) but what gave a hint of cleanliness was the individual envelope’s for the chopsticks (no they weren’t disposable!) and probably for presentation, and fitting on the plate, the Sriracha sauce was in a small plastic ketchup bottle (just like the sweet sauce) where you couldn’t see through it. I actually had a hard time squirting these bottles, so do watch out, or you could cause a mess.
I can say that the large here is definitely a large, I came here hungry and was barely getting through to the end, they don’t cheap out on the noodles or the meat, actually a very good proportion, but if you order this size, do come hungry! Nothing really stood out for me, except the fact that the broth was very clean, not overly sweet like some places around the block, and not salty either, just a very clean broth that didn’t make you reach the water everytime. The portion of meat variety was all cut well to size where you weren’t using your molars to break things apart. As for the other dish that was ordered, the salad rolls, I was surprised how tightly wrapped these suckers were, no chance of fall apart, even while munching through. The peanut sauce that came with it was filled with nuts but not thick enough in my opinion.
After we were done, we paid up front, where there actually is a sign to instruct you of this. While I was here, they were replaying some World Cup soccer, so it’s a good place if you enjoy watching some TV while eating your meal. I would come again, knowing that I didn’t feel any MSG craze, the soup was clean… the place is clean, the food quality is there, and it’s cheap, just another one to add to the Hastings strip!

I work in the area and have only had their Viet subs for take out a couple of times. First time I tried the pork sub and second time the veggie sub (deep fried tofu). Never had a problem neither times! Staff are attentive and both times have waited maybe five minutes or so for my take out order.
Prices are fair for restaurant-​Viet subs. Meat subs are around $ 5 and veggie sub is $ 4. Pork sub was very flavourful, and tofu sub made it nice and crunchy. Would definitely order both of them again.

Had the #17 phở. Broth was a touch on the salty side, but wasn’t too greasy. Good amount of noodles and toppings for the small size portion.
Service was minimal. Staff took orders, dropped off food then we went up to cash register to pay. Table we were seated on had some crumbs from a previous customer. Same thing happened with the chairs. Looked like staff just literally wiped the food off the table and it landed on the chairs.

There are a few Vietnamese restaurants within a mile radius but Le Phở have the best subs. When we want spicy beef soup, this is the one we go to as well. However, the best spicy seafood soup goes to Phở Don east of here. Price is very reasonable. They seem to like to be treated like family and so do we so service is very good
It would be better if they can serve their noodle looser instead of one tangled clump.
They get 4 stars because the subs are that good, especially the grilled chicken or grilled pork. I find the service for all the nearby Vietnamese restaurants and this one so much better than the Main and 18^th Vietnamese restaurant (forget the name.)
When summer comes around, I’ll be trying the cold drinks.

Solid 3.5 stars to warrant another visit to try the real food; only had their deep fried shrimp roll and of course, the ice coffee. 1^st time ever to have this in a takeout BBT with the sealed top.
owner recommended to give this a good shaken’ to get the foams happening, at first i thought he was joking, but… did it make a difference? just cosmetically.
Passed the test, will return b/​c it’s pretty clean. Liked their wrapped chopsticks and the chinese-​style hot sauce where you get to scoop in that greasy oil, the good stuff instead of the ketchup-​squirt, which barely passes the spicy test.
free wifi, another bonus, heck, i should bump this to a 4 ;)

Came here for some Vietnamese goodness after noticing their nice new canopy.
Parking is available in front on Hastings, as well as along the side streets.
The inside is fairly casual, with wooden furniture.
Staff were quite friendly and helpful. Special mention.
The beef phở was done quite well, with quite a generous helping of green onions and onions on top. The broth was clear, and didn’t taste like there was too much MSG.
Overall I was quite happy with the place. Now if they only closed a bit later.

Best chicken sub in town! Also, their bun bo hue with phở noodles is so yummy. The beef brisket compliments it well.

Since I occasionally drive along the Hastings area for my lunch break, I was delighted to see that a new Phở place had opened up. As expected, everything was still pretty much clean and new. I ordered my BBH as per usual and it looked pretty good. But for whatever reason I just wasn’t blown away by the taste (the soup lacked a bit of flavour) so technically this is actually like 2.5 stars. There wasn’t anything actually horribly wrong with the food to warrant 2 stars. I also didn’t have any problems with the workers or have any communication issues. But would I come back again? Maybe. If it sticks around for another year, I’ll come then and see if things have improved or gotten progressively worse.

I think people should understand that Le Phở is NEW. They’ve been open for less than a month or close to that. Compared to many of the Vietnamese places around, they are clean, priced reasonable and service is good. The food isn’t all that great — I’d say it’s just an average place, nothing special, lots of MSG… the whole shebang.
I went to the restrooms without coming out appalled. Kudos. Also the server actually talks to you and communicates, don’t take it as bad or aggressive, it’s their job, if you don’t want to be served or waited upon stay at home and eat. Maybe a little bit more training on the menu and ingredients would be nice, but hey it’s all a learning process!
I had the cha gio, or egg rolls, and also their banh mi dac biet. It was alright. Cha gio was nice and hot and lots of filling, but they weren’t wrapped all to nicely, that’s ok though. The banh mi, or sandwich had a nice selection of cold cuts, pâté and the usual pickled veggies. I think the bread was a bit stale but it was yummy and certainly filling. Like always, got a café sua da (iced coffee), it was… coffee… yum… So for about $ 15 you get a nice filling meal in a nice atmosphere. I think once they fix the small kinks in communication and being less flustered due to the rushes it will all be alright. All-​in-​all a pretty decent place.

It’s great that they are enthusiastic about opening, however, when I arrived they would not shut up about opening. Every second word was open or a variation.
The service seemed a bit aggressive.
The water glasses we were given tasted like the solution they were washed in.
The broth wasn’t that great; too watery. the raw beef in broth wasn’t raw. it was cooked (lol I know that sounds silly but the raw beef soup is my favorite and it has to be a certain way).
If they were to improve in the future, I still wouldn’t care.
Nothing would convince me to give them a second chance.
the one chance dance, I’m afraid.

Came here tonight for some phở cause I was just craving it and decided to try this new place out as they have a 10% grand open deal.
I live in the area and tried almost every new place in East Village.
I have to say this place is nice, clean, spacious and pretty quick with their services.
I take it that they are still relatively new. I ordered a small rare beef and beef balls in noodle soup. Didn’t really like the soup base such that it was kinda minty. Not sure where that came from. I had one beef ball split into two pieces. A small was like 6.75 and a large would be like 7.25.
I wouldn’t come back here for phở but I would try this place again for their viet sub as it looks pretty good on the menu and this would only be like the second place around for viet sub that serves it.
They also serve BBT. Not sure how that would taste considering they don’t look like they specialize in it.
Overall, it’s ok but servers need more communications amongst each other, knowledge of the food, better training and organization.