Pho X.O. — Restaurant in Calgary

Called ahead of time to place an order for 3 viet subs and was told it would take 15-20mins. Arrived at the restaurant 5min after the call, paid and waited. There was only 1 group (4 people) in the restaurant who had got their food shortly after I arrived.

Another ~10min pass and a gentleman comes in and is seated and he orders and gets his food shortly after.

After the 20min window passes, I ask them what is taking so long and he tells me they are short staffed and it'll take a bit longer to make which doesn't add up. The only table that was there first got their food and the gentleman who came in after got his right away.

Took ~35mins to make 3 viet subs.. subs were okay. Nothing special. Bread was quite crumbly. Could find much better...

After seeing all the positive reviews, I decided to give this place a try. I ordered beef salad rolls, spring rolls, and vermicelli (no. 36 in the menu). The spring rolls and the vermicelli were good (nothing to write home about, but pretty tasty stuff), but the beef inside the salad roll tasted old and was dry. The beef in the salad rolls I've tried at other restaurants typically are marinated and grilled, but these tasted as though they were just boiled with not much seasoning added.

There are at least three Vietnamese restaurants I can think of in or within short distance from Crowfoot that have superior quality food relative to this place. I would not recommend this...

The empty store should have been a sign.... After being shocked from a $51 bill for 2 soups and a vermicelli dish and shimp rolls, I took the meal home and quickly realized the meal wasn't even edible. The shrimp rolls, $9 for 3, had no flavour, and the peanut sauce didn't help. Cutting the shrimp in half, so receiving 1.5 shrimp per roll was just cheap and pathetic. The cheap packaged lettuce was noticible. The soup was no better, zero flavour and mushy wontons. The spring rolls in the vermicelli bowl were fried to an inch of their life. Again, no flavour. No hoisin sauce? Come on. A Friday treat meal wasted as 80%...