Pho Dau Bo Restaurant

The best fresh rolls and double the size of other Phở restaurants. Peanut sauce is amazing! The grilled chicken rice noodle soup was the best I’ve had. My hubby loved the rare beef and well done flank rice noodle soup and he devoured it. Great flavour. Service was quick and friendly

Decent food for a good price. This may not be a place you come to for good ambience or good service, but the food is relatively cheap.

Clean, very attentive service, great phở, reasonable price. Summer rolls were very fresh. Mango salad should have been shredded. Good Bahn Mi.

Just like the other locations in Ontario, this chain is pretty solid for viet food. Ordered two dishes. One was the vermicilli with grilled chicken. The other was the dac biet rice special. Both dishes were solid. Food is def. on point here. The service was also pretty good which is not true of most viet restos. For the area, this viet resto cant be beat. Would come again. 4 stars ****

This was our first trip to Niagara, and we were astonished as to how expensive the food was in town! Dying to not get stuck in those American franchise, burger and pub food joints, we stopped by here after shopping at the outlet.
It was a cold evening for June, and this phở totally hit the spot. My husband and I both got phở and we were very satisfied. All bowls are pretty much under $ 10, and that’s a steal in Niagara. The broth was a bit thin in my opinion, compared to what we are used to in Vancouver, but had good flavor. Good amount of meat, and I loved that they serve raw bean sprouts, not cooked. All the fixings were there too– lime wedge, Thai basil, hoisin sauce, hot sauce… I would go back if in the area again.

The food was great. The place seems to always be busy, but now i see why. I’d come back again. So much better than that phở 99 ‘s service close by.

Always a good eat. Phở Dau Bo chain where I first knew of the vote/​thai cuisine when I lived in Mississauga.
My boyfriend and u were hungry and it was getting late where in St Catharines there aren’t many places to order from. This location is open til 11pm.
Dishes order:
Beef/​chicken noodle soup
Fresh rolls
Spring rolls
Grilled chicken in lemon grass marinade
Fried rice
The fresh rolls are my favourite as they make it with tasty pork.
We order take out and the service was quick and correct.
The family that owns the business are friendly and courteous.
If you ever need a wholesome bowl of noodle soup or craving asian cuisine phở dau Bo St. Catharines is the perfect place to go!
The spring rolls are delightful with the spring roll sauce as I order a small portion size for my friend who’s first time trying their food and he enjoyed every bite of it.
Overall, prices are affordable.

The best phở in the region by far. The food is fresh and arrives quickly. The staff are friendly and a pleasure to deal with. I have been here many times in the past and don’t see any signs of stopping. A must see for phở lovers everywhere.
Usual order: fresh rolls with shrimp as an app. And the phở with rare beef, flank and tripe.

Love the Phở here and the veg fried rice. Great place for lunch and the portions are quite generous. The medium size Phở is enough for 2 to share. Prices are reasonable and service is fast. My wife and I go quite often for lunch. Atmosphere is ok but the food makes up for it. There is also free tea when you sit down to eat.

phở= meh, service= crap. I ordered the spicy beef phở with tom yum broth… lets get this clear, I LOVE spicy food and I can handle a lot of heat. But this phở was like satan’s diarrhea. I physically could not eat it. Each noodle I pulled out had like 100 chills on it and the broth was red and burnt off my nose hairs when I smelt it. I literally had to BEG the server to give me some coconut milk to add to it «we don’t do that here» is what I got. Then I said I would pay for it, I’d pay for the drink the coconut milk came in, I’d pay anything I was desperate… finally he gave me some coconut milk and I was able to eat a couple spoonfuls max. I tried both my sister and mom’s phở which was decent. But I have had way better phở in Toronto and that is Phở sho!

Inconsistent in taste. The food may be good one day but terrible the next. On a good day, the Phở is delicious, best in the region. The grilled pork vermicelli is great as well. Fresh spring rolls are delicious. They’ve improved their service and the staff trues to be friendly. Keep it up!

Been here at least a couple dozen times over the years. It is consistently delicious every time! Fast, cheap, and the vegetarian spring rolls are very tasty!
Normal order is Phở with rare beef or the Spicy Beef Vermicelli. Never disappointed.

Phở is always good at this location but the service had always been inconsistent.
At times the service is very slow and other times it’s pretty fast.
Price is cheap
Bad experience with customer service. Brought my family in for dinner and my four year old daughter wanted to sit in the front but the server insisted we should sit in the back. Went to the back to see if there was any room and it was very busy. We decided to sit in the front where my daughter had wished and I could see the server giving us dirty looks. After taking our order we waited about 30 min until they served our food.
I found out the reason why they were doing this was so that they could clean the first half of the restaurant so they could leave earlier.
In my books customer service is everything. In this scenario I felt very uncomfortable and rushed to eat my food so they could clean.
5 stars for phở but had to take 2 for the lack of better customer service

This place is not for you if you’re VNmese and this review only apply for VNmese. NONE of the clientelles here are oriental so don’t expect real phở flavor or all the typical vegetables. If you can drive to other Dau Bo locations you’ll get much better phở and much better egg noodle.

Had the soup noodles there and It was not to shabby but I have definitely had better in NY. I did feel though that it was a little more pricier than what I was expecting. I guess there is where my NYC comparison is coming in.

There aren’t many places to get a bowl of Phở in St. Catharines, but this place does the trick. The broth is a mite sweeter than I’m used to, but the basil is fresh and crisp with lots of flavour. The beef could have been more on the rare side.
The staff are very friendly.
I like this place and will come back again in St. Catharines, but I’d recommend driving to Niagara Falls where there are more Vietnamese restaurants to choose from if you’re looking to compare.

A late review, we went here a month or so ago.
Before I start, the people that gave this place any more than two stars, well they must be sheep or not very well versed in Vietnamese food…
Holy crap if this was another experience I could give a negative rating to, I would!
Where to begin… well, I wrote another review on the Mississauga location. Ok it wasn’t great, but we were in St. Cats and I agreed to give this chain one more try. I REGRET EVERY MINUTE OF IT.
We meticulously wrote the orders down so they couldn’t possibly screw it up. Up comes a tray with what appears to be a wrong order. «That isn’t our order» we say. The girl looks confused. «No, that is not the bun bo hue, and that is not the vermicelli (bun), that is the wrong order»…
Girl goes back to kitchen, comes back with same order… we say «no sorry that is still not our order, there is no bun or bo hue on that tray»… girl says «you mean the dry stuff, you want that?» — HUH? The «dry stuff»?? You’re Vietnamese and you call it the «dry stuff»?? Just because I am not Asian, don’t play me for a fool for god’s sakes.
She yells to the kitchen, goes away, comes back finally with the «dry stuff» — and keeps insisting that the other bowl was the bo hue… it looked absolutely NOTHING like the bo hue we have had at many Viet restaurants from east to west coasts… We were getting totally annoyed and we were hungry, so my dining partner agreed to taste his soup to see if it was at least acceptable. He was willing to just eat it, and I as well even with the really gross looking «meat log» on my dish of the «dry stuff» (which I have never seen before at ANY Viet restaurant). The description of my dish was supposed to have «grilled beef meatballs» like the little beef balls that go in the phở… but I got some wierd looking meat log, it looked like a big turd. So I call a manager, and we say «this is not bo hue, what is this, and what is this meat log?» She says «that is how we make it, do you want more sauce in it, we can put more sauce if you want more flavor?» HUH? More sauce? What freaking sauce? Holy mother of god help me. Bo hue is an entirely different recipe than regular phở. it didn’t even have the correct meats in it, tasted and smelled nothing like bo hue. More sauce? WTF? But wait. it gets better…
We got some rolls as well, fresh and fried. «Where’s the dipping sauces?» I ask… manager points to the condiments on the table and says «there!»… «where?» I say… she says «there, you can mix yourself»… FACEPALM. A bottle of fish sauce and rice vinegar. MIX IT MYSELF. Are you f*cking kidding me right now? I have never EVER ordered cha gios and did not receive a small dish of dressing with them, let alone be told to «mix it myself»…
SUPER ANNOYED right now, the lady says «if you want it like how you know it you have to go to the other restaurant because we do it different here»… WHATTT!!! We say «but this is a chain, why is it different?» — she says «no, we not a chain, we own separately» — WHHHHAAAT??? Everywhere in this stinking restaurant, they are sooo proud of their STOLEN trademark, advertise as a chain with many different locations… holy hell these people are effing crazy.
Disgusted and fed up, I said «lets get the hell out of here right now I’m not giving this place one cent» — we left that stinking food on the table and walked out and will NEVER EVER even think about going back there EVER. Sorry lady but us whiteys do know what good Vietnamese food is and this place does NOT have it! UGGGH!

My friend took me here and it was my first time having phở. I could not believe how inexpensive it is! I had the chicken and noodle one. It came with lots of bean sprouts and some green leaves (I don’t remember what they are) lol which made me think I was being really healthy!
It was only like $ 4 or $ 5 for this massive bowl of soup. I’m a huge soup fan and I like this place. It’s kind of hidden. I passed it so many times but only started noticing it after she took me there. There is spicy sauce on the table too and green tea.
There was ample seating and the service was quick. I love so many places in St Catharine’s and if you’re living there, I would suggest you check this place out.

As a customer for the Phở Dau Bo in Mississauga, I had to try this location while on vacation. The phở was absolutely delicious, pretty much the same as in the Mississauga location. The hot flavourful broth is perfect with lime and basil plate they give as a condiment. The Cha Gio (vietnamese spring rolls) is not traditional here, it was very chinese like because they used a different wrapper that is not as crunchy as the rice wrapper. The Chinese style noodle dish was delicious with the garlic chili dip. The waitresses were ok, not the friendliest but served us quickly and efficiently.

Cafeteria like service. I’ve never had to write down my own order before. Poor broth (unforgivable at a phở joint) and small portions on almost everything. This Vietnamese restaurant survives as a result of lack of competition rather than any excellence.