Bowness Vietnamese Restaurant

I have tried the chicken Vietnamese sub and it was incredible! I highly recommend this place. Service was quick and price was very reasonable.

I LOVE this place for some comforting phở on a cold night. #33 (beef satay) is amazing, the creamy peanut based broth is unlike any other satay you have ever tried. This place is also to my knowledge is one of the few Vietnamese places that doesn’t use MSG which I love. The last thing that keeps me coming back is the owner, he is such a kind genuine man that remembers my name every time I come.

amazing food and quick service! Love the ribs and rice. The spring rolls are mediocre, but everything is always fresh

Very good, I recommend the Vermicelli plates, spring rolls and fruit Smoothies. Portions are hearty. Good value overall.

Very bad service… Actually no service at all. I had to go up to counter to get menu and place orders. Owner was very grumpy. Portion of phở was very small for price — too much sugar in soup. Dumplings was cheap but too oily. Not going back ever again.

Ate here for supper tonight. We started with the spring rolls and had the special seafood pad thai and the cooked beef and beef ball noodle soup. Let me start by saying that nothing that we ordered tasted authentic. Spring rolls tasted store bought and of little at all and that was echoed through to the soup. The broth tasted like nothing. Perhaps plain beef broth from a can. This was by far the least flavourful phở I have ever had and I love phở. The vermicelli noodles in both dishes were badly overcooked. Seafood pad thai was a glop of noodles in an overly tangy «too much ketchup» sauce.
Not once did the manager ask us how things were. Wouldn’t even look at me when I paid.
What a shame…
Please find your vietnamese elsewhere.

Always tasty! The owner is a sweet man who remembers my preferences every time. The service is good, the food is always tasty and we always enjoy it.

Quaint little restaurant on the South side of Bowness Road in the heart of the Bowness district. Well kept, clean restaurant that obviously is a favourite in the neighbourhood. It’s early on a Friday evening and the place is busy with both seated and take out. We had the vietnamese subs, pad Thai, Vietnamese coffee and a Chinese beer. Wow all was very tasty and arrived fast. The owner is the host and server. What a fun and friendly guy. This was not our first visit nor will be our last. Come on down and enjoy a little walk around the «old town» before or after your meal.

This small, family run restaurant serves up tasty, fresh tasting food at a good price. Laminated paper menus that bring to life all the fancy design techniques and word art of Microsoft Word 1993, give the Bowness Vietnamese Restaurant a certain charm. Why? Because you can get a giant bowl of delicious beef sate peanut soup for under $ 10 from excellent people — that’s really special!
Speaking of specials (and smooth segues), I love the giant growing number of «Specials» they have. It seems like instead of redoing the menus, every time they offer a new item, they add it on as a special, and feature it on a paper sign with rainbow gradient word art scotch taped to the wall next to each of the tables. These quirks make me smile because it still loops down to the same thing. Fantastic folks and great food at a great price.
If I lived in the area, there’s no doubt I’d be a regular here.

I thought that it was great that they offer MSG free phở. It is super hard to find in this city and the best part is, you don’t get that phở hang over. I ordered a guava bubble tea that was refreshing and yummy.

Its kind of hard to find, but worth it.
right across from the RBC, beside the UPS store.
the owner is a super nice lady! the phở tastes very similar to the phở I had while I was traveling in Vietnam this past summer.
I would like to try more from their menu, but so far so good!

This is a nice little place with a bit of a pan-​asian menu (Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese). I only tried the Pad Thai, which was a noble effort, but was more ketchupy than I prefer. But all the dishes look like great value for the low, low prices, with fresh-​tasting ingredients, prompt service, and your dishes served piping hot. Worth a look.

This is my local Vietnamese and it makes me so so happy. The chicken sate soup is fabulous and perfect for lunch. All of their seafood dishes are incredibly fresh also. The food is done to order so best to call and pre-​order if you are with a big group. Also — check your take out before you leave… sometimes they forget stuff.

:(I was really hoping for better. After being told by everyone how awesome this place is, and living super close I had to check it out.
Being a celiac, one of the only things I can eat and love is vermicelli. Now most places have a page of options for this, here not so much. There was 3 to pick from.
My order was supposed to come with salad rolls, not spring rolls, which it was the opposite way, the meal itself was ok, but I’ve had better, a lot better actually. I found them to be really slow as well, especially seeing as we were the only ones in there and we were getting take out. If I have to go again I will, but there are other places I’ll hit up first.
Oh! and you can only pay debit if your order is more than $ 10, other wise it has to be cash. I’m a perosn that always carries cash, but most aren’t so make sure you are aware of that before you go.

Fantastic little Vietnamese restaurant in the heart of Bowness. This is my boyfriends favourite place to eat, the owner knows him by name and his usual order. I had a huge craving for Phở, and I wanted to see what he kept raving about, so we ended up here. Luckily for us, we were seated right before the dinner rush as the place was packed about 30 minutes later. We ordered the salad rolls and spring rolls to start… both were wonderful. The salad rolls tasted so fresh (and didn’t smell funny like they do at a lot of other Viet places!) and the spring rolls were so hot and tasty. I was SO impressed with my soup and my boyfriend got his usual vermicelli dish which was also excellent. Our food came out very quickly and the service was great, I think it’s a family owned place, everyone moved very quickly and fluidly and were all so friendly. I also finished with a honeydew bubble tea and it was great! The price was extremely fair considering the quality and amount of food we got… I WILL be returning! Love it!

This is an excellent Vietnamese restaurant in a little strip mall beside Bow Cycle. The food is always fresh and flavorful, the bubble teas and smoothies are the best in town and they don’t use MSG. Our favorites are: grilled shrimp skewers, spring rolls, beef ball noodle soup, BBQ short ribs with rice, basa with rice, and grilled meats with rice vermicelli bowls.
The owners are very friendly, attentive and accomodating (my son has a mild peanut allergy). Reservations are recommended on most days because they can fill up pretty fast!

Love Love Love this place! The owner is so wonderful to deal with and is really helpful when dealing with allergies. The peanut satay soup is our favourite and we always ask for it extra spicy. It is definately a bit different than the traditional beef satay soups but still fantastic if you go in with an open mind. Another favourite is the lemongrass chicken– so flavourful. We have never eaten in but the food and staff for take out is fantastic!

Its a pretty good little vietnamese place. Always tastes great and is good for the price.

Bright, clean, cheerful. Delicious chicken satay noodle soup, yummy mango and lychee bubble tea. Simple menu, not a whole lot of choices, but what’s there is good because of their deliberate focus. Fresh food, friendly service, great value. Been here enough times I’ve lost count.

This little Vietnamese restaurant in Bowness hasn’t even been open a whole year yet, but I have no doubt that is is the best Vietnamese I have had yet. Appearing very small from the outside, the inside is nicely decorated, the tables spaced well.
We came in on a Friday night and the place was full, always a good sign! There isn’t anywhere to wait, except maybe near the bar in the back of the restaurant, so we felt a bit awkward hanging around by the door. The owner was very apologetic about us having to wait, even though we could tell he was really the only one serving. After a short wait we got a table and had to wait again to have it cleaned and get menus. Again the owner was very apologetic. We ordered the grilled chicken salad wraps and the vermicelli, always a safe bet when trying a new place. I also got a taro bubble tea, which turned out to be the best, most flavourful, bubble tea I have ever had! When we got our food we were pleasantly surprised at how fresh and tasty everything was! Absolutely delicious!
We now go a bit earlier, than that first time (like 4:30pm), and have no issue getting a table. All the salad wraps are delish! They don’t use MSG and try to cater to allergies. The portions are huge! A meal for 2 people is usually under $ 30. They are closed on Sundays.
This is my favourite Vietnamese restaurant! I highly recommend trying out this gem of a place!