Green Lemon Grass

Been coming here for their roti and curry brisket for years!!! Has not changed one bit! Still amazing still delicious still the same price!

Not my go-​to choice when it comes to cuisine, but the restaurant we wanted to come to was super full with a long wait, so we came here instead.
Unique décor reminiscent of the cuisine is seen here, but things do seem a little old school. Cell service is probably the best at this restaurant as it is more open than the other restaurants in the plaza.
The food is about as good as you can get elsewhere. My family got House Special Beef Noodle Soup, and I got the Lemon Grass Pork Chop Rice. I would say the food overall is okay, absolutely nothing special about it.
Service was quite good though, as the staff were quick on their feet and accommodating.
Probably not my top pick to come for a meal, but wouldn’t mind coming back if no other choices were given.

Overall 3.5 stars.
We came here for dinner with family. This place gets really busy during dinner rush; had to wait a while for a table.
We ordered a number of dishes to share. Portions were large.
— Curry beef brisket roti: this was one of the fav dishes of the night, even my little nieces loved it. Roti was nice and fluffy and not overly greasy; we had to order a second roti. The curry was a bit too salty for my liking, but everyone else liked it.
— Spicy beef rice noodles (Bun Bo Hue). This is a popular Viet noodle soup. I am Viet and found that the noodle wasn’t quite authentic. I wouldn’t get this again.
— Beef satay noodle soup; beef satay served with soft Phở noodles and peanut. I enjoyed this, very flavourful and I loved the Phở noodles. The small size is quite large.
— Pad Thai: comes with shrimps and chicken; decent portion. It was just alright, not bad but not amazing. Very average pad Thai.
— Pineapple fried rice, comes with shrimps and little chunks of grilled lemon grass flavoured chicken. Fried rice was quite tasty but the little chunks of pineapple could have blended in a little better. We did enjoy this dish.
Overall, decent food, large portion, affordable prices, service is typical asian standard (which means don’t expect much service). I would come back

Came here on a Friday night. This place seems pretty busy but turn over rate is quite high which is good since we only waited 10 mins for a table for 3.
The menu is considered limited, as the there’s only one side of the menu and there’s only a few selection in each category.
We ordered a small spicy house phở, and 2 large house phở. Within minutes of placing our order, food came. It was the quickest phở place I have ever been to! Either because the restaurant wasn’t super busy at that time (7:15pm, Friday night) or everything is premade accelerating service speed.
They gave us a small dish of bean sprouts, limes and bayleaf. You can always ask for more if you want and we did since one small dish isn’t quite enough to share between 3 people.
The sizing of the noodles were quite weird, we ordered 2 larges, but one came in a large bowl and one came in a smaller bowl, making us feel like one was a small and the other a large. The amount of food which were in both bowls looked the same, I guess maybe they ran out of the same size of bowls?!
The spicy house phở had and tasted exactly the same as the house phở just with some red, hot chilli oil in it, nothing too amazing about it.
Service was average, basically minimal and didn’t pay much attention to not only our table but other tables in general. If you needed something, you basically raise your hand or attention.
The soup tasted good, but I figured out why very shortly after drinking almost half the bowl. It was FULL of MSG! For the remaining of the night, all 3 of us felt SOOOO thirsty! I kept drinking water until my stomach wanted to explode and yet I still feel thirsty! I can’t imagine how much MSG they put into that soup!
MSG is a HUGE TURNOFF for me in foods! If you don’t have the ability to make good food without adding so much crap and junk into it, then please don’t trick all customers and making their body suffer!
Pricing I would consider to be average, around $ 8 — $ 9 for a small and $ 1 or $ 2 for large.
But I wouldn’t recommend this place to any of my friends/​family and WOULDN’T be a choice to come back!

I am seriously a fan of this restaurant — but now for different reasons.
The beef satay phở is delicious — SO much better than the special house phở. It is tasty and the flavour is phenomenal. Comparing the regular phở and satay phở side by side (disclosure: I didn’t eat both phos — my mom ordered the regular phở) the regular phở tasted very, very, very, very, very bland.
There were a lot of noodles along with a great portion of meat. A small filled me (and I can usually chow down a medium to large). Great price for great portions.
I will obviously return as soon as the cold weather decides to return.

Do you like curry, phở and asian naan bread? Well if you haven’t tried this restaurant then you definitely need to add it to your list.
Whenever I have a bit more time and not in a rush I like to drop by and grab a bite at this restaurant. I wouldn’t say their located in a difficult place to get to but its not a quick in and out restaurant. But for that extra little wait the food is worth it.
If you come on weekends you will often see a line up outside. Today we had satay beef Noodle, traditional viet beef Noodle soup and pork chop on rice. All of them tasted great, the noodles were cooked just about right and the portion sizes are decent. We took half of two dishes home. For around $ 12 a person tax and tip in you are guaranteed to be full.
We will be back again in a couple months. Till then stay warm Toronto

I’m personally not too big on phở but this place is alright, the portions are large and the food is okay. I wouldn’t mind coming back. I liked that the phở noodles were thin and had a nice chewy texture to it but I thought that the rice and grilled meat dish was just mediocre. Overall, it seems that this business is doing well because of the plethora of guests waiting for seats during lunch hours.

I used to come here for phở normally since it is close to my house. Food came quickly and was delicious. However I stopped coming here after finding a fly in my phở.

Ok I take the last review back. Their roti with curry is actually very good. And the tea tasted fine too.

Opened by Cantonese people. Food was just okay. We ordered Vietnamese beef noodle soup. My bf said beef was not very fresh so he just ate noodle. Fish cakes were mostly made my flour and deep fired. I had curry chicken which was fine. Service was extremely bad. Waitress have an extremely strong accent and was rude and impatience. I won’t say I will go back there again. Cuz you can have those kind of quality food every where in town.

Prices are pretty average for a Vietnamese restaurant in the GTA area. Their phở noodle soup is really good. If you are looking to eat phở in the Markham/​Richmond Hill area, I recommend this place. All the dishes I have tried here are generally pretty good — Lemon Grass Chicken, Curry Chicken with Roti, Spring Rolls etc. The food comes really quick if you go right before the dinner rush so around 5 – 6 pm. Everything about this place is awesome except for one thing — their washrooms are not clean and not maintained well.

We ordered:
–fried chicken vermicelli (8.95)
–chicken curry roti (12.95)
This place is okay. The price is too high though. Better curry and wayy better roti at Gourmet Malaysia for a better price. There was a big chunk of coconut undissolved in the curry. The chicken was nice and tender. The roti didn’t have that baked goodness on both sides, only one side was baked. The flavour and freshness wasn’t there. The vermicelli is bun, I got confused and thought I was getting chinese vermicelli (soup noodles) since they were serving fusion of items inclusing curry and phở lol, but oh well. Flavour of that dish was not bad. Nothing I would come back for. Can’t believe they charge for takeout containers… and they don’t take credit card. Atmisphere is like a food court — wall is not closed so you can hear everything from the hall outside the restaurant in the mall… and there happened to be 2 small undisciplined children hooting and hollering. All I want for Toronto is adult-​only restaurants…

I can’t really say much other than my all-​time favourite place to grab some awesome curry… I could eat the chicken curry every bloody day if possible!
Nice, quaint, clean little place in the plaza on the hill by Leslie/​16^th avenue, everything seems to be freshly made as well. I’d pay just to sit here and smell the air

my go-​to for viet food in richmond hill… best phở in town. something ppl dnt know is that the owners split off from kim po and founded this place… kim po got more expensive while this place stayed cheaper for a while… now they are about the same price … this place still gives larger portions than kim po and better quality imo … big fan of the curry and vermicelli dishes as well

I found this restaurant on Unilocal and the photos convinced me to bring my family here. We were very pleased with the food and would go back again and watch out as the portions are very big!
We ordered:
–satay beef noodle soup: very savoury, lots of beef slices very tender and fresh, lots of peanuts.
–beef curry with roti: a few potato cubes and the entire bowl was filled with lots of beef. Do watch out though as some of the thicker pieces of beef were not fully cooked where it was real pink and I could t eat it while being pregnant. Flavour was very authentic curry.
–chicken and beef satay skewers: chicken very tender, beef cooked to medium so again I wasn’t able to eat it while being pregnant but both were flavourful with hint of curry/​satay.
–pineapple fried rice: my husband loves to order this dish wherever he goes and he was very happy with it. There were bits of peanuts, shrimps, chicken and flavourful.
Definitely recommend this restaurant to anyone looking to have Vietnamese food and has a big appetite as their portions are so huge.

Third visit, that says something, and it keeps getting better.
Only thing is they only take debit or cash, so be prepared. BUT also be braced for big flavour. While it comes across as a Vietnamese phở joint, you really do want to venture beyond that section of the menu.
I went with my best friend at 5:20-ish for dinner, and there was hardly anyone in the usually bustling little restaurant. Hence, the server seemed to be in a better mood. We ordered the small satay beef phở ($ 7.50) and the curry beef brisket with roti ($ 12.95), both to share.
The satay beef phở arrived within 5 minutes of us placing the order. When it arrived, we knew we were going to have to spend the $ 0.50 for take-​out containers. The portion size could hardly be considered «small», it was definitely a mammoth compared to any bowl I’ve ever seen. The satay phở was nothing I’ve ever imagined. The soup stock was richly layered in terms of flavor and texture. The warm spice that wafts up with the steam, then the milky sweetness of coconut, then a mild tang of pineapples are but some of the flavours I most appreciated. The soup was also creamy from coconut milk and had surprising pieces of chopped roasted peanuts here and there. All these make the super tender slices of beef and phở themselves nearly sidekicks.
Then, halfway through our phở, the brisket curry and roti arrived. Both smelled amazing (though it also made it clear that I will be washing my scarf as soon as I got home). You know how most places try to rip you off by giving you a bunch of potatoes and two itty bitty chunks of meat? Well, this was not «most places». There was enough of that perfectly cooked, not-​yet-​disintegrating brisket drowned in an abundance of liquid gold — the curry gravy. And thattipsti… oh boy that pillow of fluffy, crispy, doughy, buttery roti. Words can’t describe it, you need to have that roti, tear it with your very fingers, dunk it in the curry sauce, and send it straight in your salivating mouth.
I packed most of the curry as leftovers (yeah, we tried to finish, but obviously failed by a pretty wide margin).
Including tips, our dinner came to $ 25 flat.
Come again? Do you even need to ask?

Great tasting curry here, and good portions. There’s quite a lot of gravy as well to soak up all the rice. Good stuff.
My wife ordered Thai style phở, which was pretty decent. Its huge as well… medium is more than enough for one person.
I was going to give 4 stars, except they charge 50c for takeout containers! Never seen that before.
Cash/​debit only

Visited here a couple weeks ago, because I passed by and smelled the curry, it smelled really good.
Sat down and ordered a Malaysian chicken curry with Naan and a side of rice.
The curry was average, smelled better than it tasted. The potato was mostly melted into the curry already, and the Naan was too thick and moist. Service wise. there was only 1 person manning the entire restaurant, not that it’s really big, but there were 5 tables at the time, so service wasn’t the greatest either.
Doubt I will come back again.

I like how this place was designed. If you get a window seat it feels like you are eating outside. There is no actual glass so you can hop over if you wanted to.
#03 chicken/​beef skewers @ $ 10.50 total 6 skewers — by far some of the largest portion skewers I’ve had but lacked in flavor and tenderness when compared to other restaurants like Thai Basil. Peanut sauce also lacked in flavor.
#16 chicken roti (I think it was $ 12.95) — once again pretty big portions but the sauce is missing the sweet coconut flavor that I like and the chicken meat was almost melting of the bone like it was sitting for a while. Also if adding extra roti its around $ 6 and they give you extra sauce in a bowl. A bit pricy for extra roti and the extra sauce was not even needed.
#41 fried noodles with shrimp and chicken meat (I think it was $ 9.95) — a fairly simple dish that was done well.
#76 beef brisket in curry sauce with rice (I think was $ 12.95) — same curry sauce that came with the chicken roti. The beef was tender but not fall off the bone quality and once again the curry sauce is lacking in flavor.

Located by Leslie and 16^th, this place wasn’t too hard to find. The restaurant is inside a little chinese plaza. I really liked how the restaurant was open concept. There were no windows or pillars that blocked the outside view of the plaza. The only issue I have with that is people that are walking the plaza can watch you eat.
The food was good, but nothing to rave about. The soup in my Phở tasted like the pre-​made soup cubes that you can find in chinese supermarkets. I wasn’t expecting much, as this is my second time coming here. My coworkers got the lemon grass chicken with rice. Like the Phở, it was nothing to rave about. The chicken tasted bland, even with the fish sauce added. There wasn’t enough garlic in both the chicken or the sauce, so that was a disappointment. But the food certainly LOOKED good! :)
Service was. sub par, but passable. Lady was extremely friendly, which is why I gave 3 stars instead of two.
Don’t take up my review and not try this place, though. There is definitely potential in their other foods, so make sure you try other dishes too. I come here bc it’s a minute away from work, when I don’t feel like driving. If I had a choice, I’d go to Kim Bo on hwy 7/​leslie or Vic Hong on Bayview and major mac.