Pho Maxima Restaurant — Restaurant in Connaught Heights

This is actually my favourite Vietnamese resto: I'm here often eating banh mi or chicken wings. I also love their mango bubble tea with pearls which I normally get for takeout. Prices and service are amazing!

Updated August 2021 review — ordered lemon grass chicken with vermicelli noodle bowl, it comes with a fried spring roll and side salad, as well as fried prawns (rolled into a ball).

My other fave order is their ham and salad veggie which is pictured here and comes with peanut dipping sauce

September 2021: got the house special pho (large) and vegetarian salad rolls. I will stick to the vermicelli bowls — found the broth lacking flavour… and the veggie salad rolls were ok (prefer the ham and shrimp one). Friend ordered seafood soup (large) and was satisfied with the veggie broth

Update October 7, 2021 — tried the beef brisket curry with rice, OMG loved the sauce — had potatoes, onions, beef and it’s so rich! Attached pic of curry dish and appy order of ham and shrimp salad rolls. Also added pics of the entire new menu

Update October 11, 2011 Dragged my family out for noms ☺️ We shared shrimp and ham salad rolls. I got a Vietnamese ham sandwich! 😋 Dad had house special pho. Mom and granny split a chicken pho. 🐸 The Child had fried banana with ice cream #grogu #pho #shrimpandhamsaladroll #banhmi...

It started off bad with the booths being adjoining to one another and the person behind me kept moving and kicking their own booth which in turn kept rocking my booth, kind of like someone kicking your seat at a movie. It was super annoying.

When the food came there was no service after that, never came and checked up on us once. No tea refill, no bringing us the bill, nothing. the owner/lady wasn't even around for a long time. Expect when the door opens a bell goes off and she pops out to give the new patrons the menu.

The daughter was looking down at her phone outside the restaurant, then inside at one of the booths then over by the cash registers. The whole time. The only value she had there was us going up to pay the bill when she got off the phone for 30 seconds.

The pho tasted decent, the lime wedges were cut for days as the edge of the lime wasn't even dry, it was starting to go...

I was very pleasantly surprised by this pho restaurant. The soup was what I would consider average for a pho restaurant, though for reference I don't consider any pho place in North America that I have been to above that. The portions were good. I was not a big fan of their egg roll or spring roll. There was also some confusing signs. One said cash or debit only, but they do in fact accept credit. There was also a lot of Chinese characters on the menu and around the restaurant, and when questioned about it the server said it was because it looked cute. The owner, staff, and customers are apparently not often Chinese, so it was just odd. Lastly, the lotus tea was really good. They apparently have it brought in...