Sandwich Mi Bao — Restaurant in Montreal

Chicken Bahn mi is 40% cartilage. The pickled vegetables are great, but that's the only positive thing about that whole sandwich experience. Long, thin, and stringy cilantro stalks are the only other vegetables in the sandwich. The bread is pretty thick and not so pleasant to chew.

The wonton soup is not inedible. The broth is comforting... but the wontons taste like wet dog. The soup itself only has sparse vegetables, with peppered in green onion slices and salad leaves. Yes, salad leaves, you heard that right. It's really just a sad excuse of a soup.

For seating options, you either have 3 tables, 2 steps away from the cash register, seating by the windows (taken when we came in), or a 'pit' with plenty of seats. It was uncomfortable to sit at. The table is tiny and supported by milk crates?? It kept moving and spinning and really is a terrible setup for a seating area. It's 'aesthetic' for the price of functionality, which irritates me to no end. It just looks quickly put together with clients as an afterthought.

The Vietnamese coffee is good. All of that in a trio was 35$, AKA not worth it for something of...

We’re not in the business of giving mad reviews, if anything we scope out amazing places and share them with our followers. We understand that Mi Bao has their niche and clients and we wish them continued success. That being said, our visit was a very disappointing experience, $50 plus dollars for two sandwiches and a matcha latte. The breakfast banh mi was ok, put together nicely but didn’t really stand out. And the Griot stood out for all the wrong reasons, a) looked nothing like the photo (check our photo - and perhaps my fault for thinking it would actually look like that on the plate…) b) the meat barely filled the sandwich, there were just a few pieces inside. C) it tasted more like jerk rather than delicious tender meat. For the same price we paid, we can point out so many other delicious sandwich places in a walkable radius. If you’re going to charge big boy prices then you have to bring the value. This place did not. Again continued...

Enter at your own risk. Price are high while food quality is low. All the banh mis are $14 + tax (pork, chicken, tofu). We tried the pork and chicken. No taste overall. The pork banh mi was dreadfully dry and tough. Looks like the meat is a pork loin but this is the wrong cut to go in between a sandwich (two pieces of dry bread). The pickled veggies had no extra zing. Two bland sandwiches came to $32 after tax. Add $8 for two San Pellegrinos, so a total of $40. (Should have just went to our usual haunt in Chinatown - you can get flavourful banh mis for $7 each, tax incl.). Luckily we were not in a big hurry because service was slow. As for the environment, it was bright, spacious and open... but whose idea was it to have...