Thap Ba Restaurant

Excellent, super fast, friendly service. Kid friendly. Delicious food, good price. It’s not the best lit or the freshest look, but it’s still a great restaurant. Will be back next time we are in Red Deer.

Very good phở! I like their regular size, not a meat person and the regular size just works out perfectly for me. Their phở is lighter than usual phở places I think. And the price of course is amazing. I’m from edmonton and here normally a regular size phở is around $ 10. Theirs was only like $ 7.50. And I was full.
Very friendly service too. I will definitely go back.

Simple great value. It’s nice to return for the comfort of noodles, soups and spring rolls. The salad rolls come in chicken, pork, beef. With or without shrimp. My pregnant wife keeps sending me back. Good thing they are open everytime so far. Often the staff hangout in the resteraunt area.

Good food, good value (as is typical for this type of food), good service. Like that they deliver. Personal favorite Phở in Red Deer. Vermicelli dishes are also very good — same goes for spring rolls! My kids love it too, and our family eats a lot of Asian cuisine so we are quite picky. Tried a few other dishes and they always have lots of meat and veggies. I find a lot of other places don’t have very much meat at all in most of the dishes and often flavor is lacking but this isn’t the case with Thap Ba Restaurant. This is now the go-​to take-​out restaurant for my family for Vietnamese food in Red Deer. Definitely recommend!

Great value and excellent service! Food was fresh and flavourful!!! I would definitely recommend #21 and has a full variety of bahn mi which I can’t wait to try.

i order the number 21 and 25 and no flavour.

this is by far the best restaurant of its kind in Red Deer. food is amazing along with the service and price you just can’t go wrong here.

After reading all of the good reviews for this restaurant, I was pretty disappointed in my experience here. Came in for lunch with my mom — I had the pork and spring roll bun, she had the hue spicy phở and a vietnamese coffee. The pork on my bun was well flavored, but everything else was very bland, including the spring roll and the vinaigrette that you dump on the bun. My mom’s phở was completely bland, tasted like water with some spice in it, nothing like a true phở broth. The worst part though was the vietnamese coffee. The server who made it took well over 10 minutes, as he apparently struggled with the filter. The filter still had issues after he brought it to the table and took well over 10 minutes to completely filter through, was no longer hot, and was served with too little milk — pretty much undrinkable. When we said something to the server he first said he wasn’t sure how to make it, and when we complained further (saying that there should be more milk), he said that just how they do it there and that their customers like it. OK.
Overall, the mostly bland food was probably worth three stars after adding some sriracha and fish sauce, but the slow, marginally competent service brought it down to two. My mom didn’t leave a tip (mostly because they still charged her for the undrinkable coffee), and that’s pretty much unheard of.

I was craving viet food badly. I hunted for a place on Unilocal,and I read the awesome reviews.
Good food. Great service. Great price. I ordered their Bun Bo Hue (spicy noodle soup). They were courteous to ask if I wanted mine spicy. Of course! They still held back, but the soup was good. I was happy with their quality and service, and I ordered a viet sub on the go. They make good submarines too.
Thank you Unilocal

You cannot beat the price point or the quality of food here!
I believe the quail here was under $ 5, when most places I’ve seen it upwards of more than $ 10. The salad rolls came immediately, I’m OK with pre-​made as long as it still tastes fresh, and they were definitely fresh.
Our water glasses were kept full the entire time and the food was hot and came out quickly. We were quality checked for each dish by one of the two staff who were there that night. I really enjoyed the vermicelli here and they use a LOT of meat unlike some places that use mostly vegetables and rice noodles and very little meat.
This place is a bit hidden from the main road, as it’s down a secondary parrellel road to 50 Ave, but it’s worth searching for!

My friend and I went here to grab a quick cheap meal and cheap it was but quick it was not. We were one of three tables in the place and we received some of the worst service I have ever seen. It was so bad that I couldn’t bring myself to tip and that never happens. After our first glasses of water we they were never refilled. Our server never checked in on us after bringing us our food and when it came time to get our bills, we waited for what seemed like forever. The only saving grace was that the food was quite good and very affordable. I haven’t decided if I’ll go back or not yet. If I do I’ll make sure I have lots of time on my hands. Hopefully I’ll feel like tipping the next time.

Thap Ba is a great family owned Vietnamese restaurant hidden in Red Deer’s industrial area.
My first experience at Thap Ba was poor due to me ordering a dish that I did not like and getting it as take out. The owner heard about my problem and due to their reassurance I decided to give Thap Ba another try. On my second time around I realized that the first time was not at all characteristic of how great Thap Ba truly is. I received exceptional service from the owner’s son. It’s always great to see families working together to create such a good business.
I started off with some chicken salad rolls which were fresh and delicious. Then I had the vermicelli with grilled beef and it was equally as tasty. All of the ingredients were very fresh and served piping hot. The spring roll was perfectly crunchy and hot as well.
Unfortunately this location is hidden in Red Deer’s industrial sector and is not very exposed to the public. They do get quite busy at lunch, but you will still receive great speedy service. It’s a shame that there aren’t more people there at dinner time. Thap Ba also delivers and caters, so you can get their food whenever you would like.
It’s also worth noting that the restaurant is licensed and offers happy hour from 3pm to 6pm. They also have daily specials for extra deals. Their normal prices are so great ordinarily that the specials aren’t really necessary.
If you’re in the mood for Vietnamese food, drive over there and give these guys a try and they won’t let you down.

This charming little restaurant carries authentic Vietnamese food! I’m from Vancouver, and the food here is just as good! Owned and operated by mom and pop, very charming hostess, super friendly and great food. It is a little ways out, but it’s definitely worth the trip if you’re craving for good, soul Vietnamese food! Try their Phở and rice dishes. Super yummy! They do delivery too!