Viet Thai Bistro

Good satay phở soup. Very expensive, quick takeout option. Good amount of beef in the noodle soup. First satay phở noodle soup that I have gotten to go that was packaged with the beef already mixed with the broth, noodles etc.

This place is great. Food and service is fantastic. Everything is made fresh and they are able to make the necessary changes to facilitate dietary needs, gluten free, vegetarian, vegan.
They even marked out a menu for us with all the dishes that can be modified.
Food is delicious but you will needs to bring your own gluten free soy sauce if you are gluten free!

Service is great, food is not. Extremely disappointed! What Vietnamese restaurant gives you unseasoned fish sauce? They didn’t even have garlic chili for me to add into the plain fish sauce. They gave me a whole raw chili instead. The chicken in all our dishes were over cooked and bland. The portions and presentations were not impressive either. It is actually my second time visiting, as the first time was not too shabby. I had the phở. It was not amazing but it still satisfied my phở craving. Decided to satisfy my bun craving this time. Major fail. Will not be returning unfortunately :(

If you like bland cold food this is the place for you. My best friend said skip it but I had to try, why didn’t I listen. I ordered the lemongrass chicken vermicelli and there was NO flavour. The sauce they give on the side, did not have a spec of spice. The chicken was cold and bland. There was no green onion, basil or cilantro, did I say bland. Save your money and don’t waste your time.

The boyfriend and I are regulars at this little gem for so many reason. The atmosphere is lovely, the service is phenomenal and not to mention everything both of us have had to eat on the menu has surpassed all of our expectations of thai cuisine.
Great addition to copper field corner!

Food is tasty, service is always excellent and décor is a1… great to support local restaurant.

Great food, spring rolls are hand rolled with rice paper very hard to find. Service was good and friendly staff.

This is an inexpensive dine-​in and takeout, and I am a regular takeout guest. This place always pleases me, and makes grabbing vegetarian dishes for my girlfriend easy. The flavors are great, food is ready quickly, and the staff is always kind. I work as a flight attendant and this is my go to place for something quick to take with me to work, or to order on the way home from the airport. It doesn’t pretend to be gourmet, but they excel at doing what they need to

Not very many viet restaurants in south calgary, so when I was craving for it we tried it here. There was a funny stale smell them minute we walked in (my neighbors had warned me not to go here and had walked straight out due to the smell). Place was small but decent inside, and we liked how they have a separate take-​out section. However sit-​down service was okay, and even though food was quick to be delivered it was greasy and we couldn’t even finish our meals. Do not get the springrolls… it’s $ 4-​$ 5 for 2 greasy vegetarian rolls.
Slightly more expensive for a viet restaurant (which we would’ve accepted given the limited # of restaurants down south) but not worth the food quality.

I have been here several times and have noticed that this went from a great little bistro to a slow and not so good bistro.
We ordered take out the other day and it was terrible. Over cooked and burnt. My spring rolls were visibly burnt and the chicken so over cooked and dry it was inedible. We had ordered lunch around 2 in the afternoon so the place wasn’t busy at all so we don’t know what took so long. I am so disappointed this used to fairly good and has just gone down hill. I will not be going back again!

Horrible! If I could give 0 stars I would! Terrible tasting food (the microwave didn’t stop running while our food was being prepared), food did not taste fresh and had a funny taste, and took forever to come out! (At dinner time no less). Avoid this place! There never seems to be any people inside eating and that’s usually a bad sign for a restaurant!

4 solid stars!
We are never this far south but we had some errands to run in the area and a friend who does live around there recommended it to us.
It was not very busy on a Thurs evening — this is the type of place where you just walk in and seat yourself. Very casual but after speaking with the owners it is not so relaxed that you do not feel like a valued customer.
This is a husband and wife team running this restaurant, they are very sweet.
The wife takes your food and drink order. The husband will come out of the kitchen and bring you a set of chopsticks and then later serve you your food with a smile.
We ordered some delicious tea and enjoyed sitting at the only high top at the window. Parking in the lot is a breeze. The washroom was spotless.
The food was made with a lot of love — hubby got the Phanaeng Curry with chicken (mild spice) and I got the hottest dish they make — the Green Curry with shrimp. If you want it even hotter than how it is served, just ask for added chili peppers in the dish. If you adverse to red peppers, this may not be a good dish for you. There was a lot of them, but other veggies as well. I counted my shrimp, there were 10! They were surprisingly lightly breaded and I liked the texture! The shrimp were a good size and the chicken in the other dish was perfectly tender. $ 10 per dish, not bad at all!
Portions were very good, (loved the white rice too) and we left comfortably satisfied with that warm feeling that homemade curry gives you on a cold winter day.
I recommend this place and if in the area I would like to come back and try the Pad Thai (still on the the hunt for the best in Calgary — so far Thai Bistro wins). It is said to be their most popular dish (of course) and I will say there were a lot of people coming in for take out. It did not take away from our service but I would say that if you are in a rush, this may not be the place for you. Like I mentioned, it is a very relaxed atmosphere!

It was empty but I was alone and being the only one in there didn’t bother me in the least! There food was amazing! They gave me some new pointers on how to maximize the flavour of their foods! I am impressed and since I live close I will be returning.
10 months later:
New chairs nice new colours. This place has upgraded it self and it looks great. I am always impressed by their food. I will return many more times to come.

Myself and friends love this place! Family run, and great portions and food for the price. You gotta try the beef sub, coconut prawns, and coconut soup, soooo good!

Great food and the BEST BUBBLE TEA!
My Wife and I live in the SW and have frequently made the 25 minute drive just for this place. The staff are much more friendlier than some of the standoffishness that I have received from numerous other vietnamese restaurants.
The food is great, the portion sizes are big, and the bubble tea actually tastes good and mixed. Some bubble teas I’ve had from other places used a cheap tasting powder that didn’t fully dissolve or had rock-​hard pearls.
The only downside is the fact that it’s a bistro and space is limited. Even so I’ve come as a group of 4 with no problem.

This is pretty far SE to find a good Vietnamese restaurant, so I wasn’t expecting much. I stopped in at a strange time (thus, it was quite dead and so I cannot qualify the other comments mentioning slow service). I ordered a couple subs, which admittedly took a fairly long time, relatively, to put together. Maybe a little bit of growing pains here, as the staff learns how to speed things up via good prep work.
However, I found the sate beef sub pretty tasty. Nice picked carrots, very fresh bun, and a decent sauce. Nothing to write home about. However, it was only $ 5. So with the price in mind, I found it to be very good value and worthy of stopping in. I’d order ahead, as mentioned.
But Viet places are a dime a dozen in Calgary, and the market is very competitive. As a consumer, you’ve got your pick. Now, in the Mckenzie/​Douglasdale/​Copperfield area we have three (more?) choices.
For Vietnamese in the deep southeast, consider Saigon Royal instead.

This is a cute little family run business in the suburbs. Prices are great for the quality and quantity of food you get. Most people come in for take out here, so there usually aren’t a lot of people sitting in the restaurant. I came in to order take out for 2 on a Friday night and waited about 10 – 15 minutes for our order. I have actually sat in the restaurant and had lunch here and found it quite relaxing. Good place to hang out and eat while checking your email or surf the internet. You can usually get free wi-​fi from the Starbucks next door too.

Primarily a take-​out place, there is a small restaurant as well.
The cost, quality of food and portion sizes are fantastic at Viet Thai Bistro.
Call ahead and pick up an order without waiting.
The service on the restaurant side was decent and worth waiting a little longer.

Parking: ⁵⁄₅
Convenience: ⁵⁄₅
Dining Area: ³⁄₅
Kitchen Speed: ⁰⁄₅
Service: ⁰⁄₅
Value: ²⁄₅
We live in this area so we eagerly awaited the opening of a Phở shop in our neck of the woods. This place is in the same little plaza that the Starbucks is in so parking is ample and free. The dining area is small with nice décor appropriate to the theme and on the day we went, it was relatively clean. Unfortunately, that’s the end of the good news.
Its pretty clear that the staff here have never run a real restaurant before. There’s no sense of order and efficiency. When we sat down, we were the only people ordering and the only other table was packing up and leaving at the end of their meal. Given this and the quick prep nature of Phở, we expected good things. By the time we ordered drinks, a few other people started to come in to order take out or take tables. 10 mins after we ordered drinks, my tea hadn’t yet arrived. 35 mins after we ordered, the food hadn’t showed up. Some take out orderes were getting done. When we finally got someone’s attention to find out what happened to our food, it became apparent that someone had lost our order. Sadly, our waitress had been so busy serving the take out people that she didn’t even know we never got our food. We ended up leaving before any food came.
Bottom line, we were there for more than 45 mins and left having just gotten tea. UNACCEPTABLE. If you’re in the mood for Phở, make the trip up to 130 Ave SE or better yet, go to one of the MANY good Phở places in town.