Restaurant Thiên-Kim — Restaurant in L'Ancienne-Lorette

Just being totally honest to warn others that do care about eating REAL authentic Vietnamese food. We were just there couple weeks ago and the food was just really awful and portions were extremely tiny!! They were charging like $30+ on avg for an entree and the bland chicken/beef pieces were cut up in all funny random shapes. The Pho broth lacked flavours and the crispy noodle got weird ketchup flavour.... I highly doubt the owner/chef had any heart in cooking decent meals.

I see a lot of Vietnamese names in the reviews calling this place "authentic" but I'm sorry.... I have to call those all lies... I've eaten tons of real Vietnamese food in Toronto/Vancouver and this place is not even close to 10% of the normal quality!!

The 3 stars given for service was for the Caucasian lady who was happy to serve us in English.

I felt like a complete idiot having to pay over $120 (after tip) over 3...

I'll start with the good news. The food is good. It's good and you shouldn't be disappointed. Unfortunately, the bad news is that it's not authentic Vietnamese food. I get more authentic vietnamesse food in Yellowknife. The prices are at least 20% higher than any other vietnamesse restaurant I've ever been to and the service was subpar. The food took much longer to arrive than it should have and I never got my water glass refilled. The place is full of older Caucasian people, so I wouldn't change the menu either. If you don't usually eat ethnic food, you'll be quite happy there. Any foodie out...

The beautiful: food is great, very tasty and well served. Price is also very fair. The good: not very busy on Fridays noon, which is great for a calm lunch. The bad: the traditional music is kind of depressing and ambient is pretty dark. The ugly: service and staff could have some major improvement. Did not...