Saigon Grill

Very authentic Vietnamese cuisine with a large selection of traditional dishes. I love the ones I ordered so far (combo rice, phở, bun thit nuong, hu tieu Nam Vang, etc). Their prices are very reasonable which is always a plus in my book. My family only go there because we know we won’t be disappointed. The one and only good Vietnamese restaurant in Markham, Richmond-​hill area.

First time coming here… and not impressed. Service was TERRIBLE! No one greeted, acknowledged or seated is when we walked in. So we seated ourselves, and after waiting 10 minutes, a lady came by to drop off menus. She seemed to be the only person working, and she clearly couldn’t handle 4 tables at 1:30pm lunch time. After ordering, food took an eternity to arrive. We had to ask for water after sitting there for so long with nothing on our table. Food finally arrived, and it was pretty good, but don’t think it made up for the bad service. My avocado shake also came AFTER I finished my food, which I would have preferred to drink WHILE I was eating.
Last but not least, as we left, I realized they charged me $ 9.50 for plain noodles! I wanted just noodles, to go with my shrimp on sugar cane app. I asked her why it cost so much for plain noodles when I could have got phở w beef toppings for the same price. Most restaurants only charge $ 5 or so. Anyway, she looked at it, and reduced it by a dollar. Well, thanks for the discount lady!
Needless to say, not happy. Would not come again. I also gave ZERO tip.

Saigon Grill seems to be located in a empty sketch area in Vaughan, but don’t judge the restaurant based on its location or looks, its pretty good! The menu has a large variety of different phở dishes as well as other rice dishes too. Their prices are typical of other phở restaurants and phở entrees go around 8.50 for small and 9.50 for a large. But the small for me was pretty large enough, portions are really good and there seems to be a lot of meat. The soup base was delicious.
The restaurant itself is very clean and spacious, and waiters are pretty responsive. Food came out super fast (as it should). We got the viet coffee and it was AMAZING. It had a really strong coffee taste and the right amount of bitter and sweetness.

There was nowhere else within this vicinity for a quick Phở fix. I didn’t expect much and was a little concerned about the raw beef with low foot traffic.
I walked in before noon and there was already several tables seated, so I thought I was pleasantly proven wrong. They were friendly, place is very clean and the menu was very elaborate. I’ve uploaded a page of the menu with the «traditional» Viet soup noodles aside from Phở.
I had raw beef with tripe phở. Just as good as any other I’ve had. I’m not rating 5 stars only to not devalue the 5 star they might get from true phở connoisseur.

This is mine and husband’s favourite Vietnamese restaurant in all of the GTA. I am a Vietnamese food connoisseur and have eaten at many authentic phở restaurants but this one is at the top #1. We have only discovered this about 6 months ago everytime driving along Hwy 7 so finally I told husband to let’s stop by one time and give it a try. We brought our baby here when she was shortly born and the owner was very nice and loved her.
These are the must tries:
1) BBQ chicken and rice is so good, flavourful, tender, broken rice with it makes a perfect combo.
2) steamed egg is very authentic and tastes like what I remember back home in Vietnam.
3) bun bo hue very authentic and flavourful, beef is very tender, very generous amounts of meats.
4) hu tieu, my first time trying it and it was very delicious. The soup was hot in temperature, good mix of vermicelli noodles and yellow noodle and quite a few shrimps.
5) spring rolls were exactly how spring rolls are supposed to taste, they used taro and only a authentic Vietnamese restaurant would do that, deep fried to a perfected golden colour and moist on the inside.
6) beef noodle phở, the soup broth was so flavourful you can tell they must have cooked the broth for a very long time, fresh slices of beef perfect for the steaming hot bowl, the noodles are so fresh and cooked perfect.
Perhaps the location is not very widely obvious so the place isn’t overly busy. I highly recommend anyone in the area to try this restaurant.