Top Saigon Restaurant

I’ve only been here once and that is one time too many. While the interior isn’t bad, the food isn’t anything special and the service is terrible.
I came in on a Saturday night and the restaurant was (surprisingly) pretty empty. There was only one other couple besides myself. I ordered a bowl of phở which tasted alright, but the portion itself was small and definitely not worth the price. I could get a bigger, tastier bowl of phở elsewhere for the same price.
The server who took my order was unfriendly, but at least she got my order correct.
After I paid, the server came back with my change, but I noticed that it didn’t add up. I soon realized that they already took the 15% tip before returning my change. Ridiculous. I was planning on tipping before that happened, but now I’m planning on never returning.
Overall, I was very disappointed with my experience here and I wouldn’t recommend this place.

Came here after a workout with a few friends, looking for a quick and filling meal to replenish our resources. Noticed immediately that we were the only people in the restaurant, but proceeded on anyway.
FOOD: The menu was fairly consistent with what you expect from any Phở place, so I went with a «Beef Satay Noodle Soup» and a HK style tea. My soup was of a respectable size, and met my standard for meat/​noodle/​spiciness ratio — so no complaints here.
CUSTOMER SERVICE: The lone server almost seemed annoyed to actually have to serve customers (place was empty other than us). She forgot our orders, despite there only being 3 of us, and was generally socially awkward from the very start. One of my pet peeves is when the server literally stands over you after handing over the bill, waiting for you to pay immediately while they wait. Overall, poor customer service.
ATMOSPHERE: The decorum of the restaurant is actually impressive, and probably the most lavish Vietnamese Phở place I’ve been to. However, the tables were sticky and clearly not attended to with much effort.
SUMMARY: Food itself was pretty standard, but the sub-​par service means I’ll be going somewhere else for my Phở fix next time.

This was my first time there and it was empty on a Sunday night which seemed weird. The food was ok but the portions were small. The large phở I got was mostly soup. My friend’s small had more food. The service was terrible. There was only 3 of us and the waitress forgot who ordered what. In addition she was not at all friendly. The location is convenient at finch and leslie. I will probably not recommend going there to anyone. If you want phở I say go check out phở 88 on yonge near empress walk

Mediocre food! Crap service! They left out the daily special menu so u won’t order it from there! Took 10 mins of Waving our hands to get the boss lady who was sitting in the back’s attentions to take our order!
I have never had Vietnamese meat platter rice paper that came with only 4 rice paper to make ur own wrap with! All the viet places I have been, came with at least 6 – 10 pieces! Even when we finish they would always give us more! This place charge us $ 2 for 4 dinky sheets of rice paper!
Doubt I will come back again!
So many viet place in Toronto! Why bother with mediocre food and horrible service!
Give it a past! So many food joints in that plaza!

This is a Chinese restaurant that offers «Chinese-​nized» version of well known dishes from around southeast Asia.
The good thing is that food is fresh and tastes alright as long as you expect to get Chinese food. If it is Thai or Vietnamese you are craving, there are better places in TO to get the real deal.

I ordered a Hainanese Chicken Soup Rice Noodle. Why was the Hainanese chicken slightly orange in color? The green onion sauce that came with it tasted bland. The rice noodle in soup was okay. My BF ordered a 3-​meat Dry Vermicelli. The meat looked a little charred/​burnt, but he said it tasted okay. They forgot my Durian drink order; I had to remind them. It tasted refreshing, rich and tasty.
The service level was subpar. The waitress left us alone with the menu for so long that we thought we would walk out of the door, and she would not notice. She never had a smile throughout our stay. to anyone. It was as if she was having a bad day or didn’t want to be there.

Admittedly it’s hard to have high standards overall for typical phở restaurants, but it’s pretty decent given location, food and prices.
Ordered the goi cuon (garden rolls), very typical and decently done.
Had Phở tai gan (rare beef with tendon). A bit on the salty side, but hey, which phở isn’t? I thought they were generous with their meat and their small was more than enough for me, almost didn’t finish the noodles.
If you do go, I would HIGHLY recommend the crab curry. Even though it’s very messy (it comes with gloves and a lot of extra napkins!), the mess is definitely worth it. The best part is the curry sauce — just the right amount of spice (and I’m not a spice eater) and delicious flavour that you’ll want to take home just the sauce to dip bread! A must-​try when you’re here.
Slightly loud televisions, but that’s alright for a phở restaurant. Service is decent.
Decent overall, but you must try the crab curry.

Went there the first time when they just opened up the first time last summer; was not impressed. The place was still renovating, didn’t have a lot items on their menu and I got the wrong dish.
Decided to give this place another try a couple weeks ago. I had their lemograss pork rice, it was actually pretty good. The portion of rice is way to much for me, but I don’t eat much. I’ve been going their during my lunch break cuz they have good lunch specials for cheap! I like their house special rare beef noodle, satay noodle and curry soup base dishes. I’ve been absolutely obsessed with this place.
Glad I gave this place a second chance, definitely the base phở restaurant in town, highly recommend trying this place!
Also the place, doesn’t look like your typical phở restaurant, I think they overdid their decoration of the place, a phở place doesn’t need to look that nice. well at least to me… but its clean I guess i don’t have to worry about getting diahrea there lol
Reasonably priced. phở for less than 6 bucks

Rare beef and tendon phở, it was a pretty decent broth considering its a Chinese viet restaurant.
The medium bowl was a bit on the large end for me as it was pretty salty, but on the plus side it wasn’t too oily/​greasy.
The prices are pretty decent, wouldn’t mind going again, but I’ll probably stick to my usual order of bun rather than phở.

We came to this restaurant within the first month it opened. We were excited because we love phở and love trying out new places. We were seated quickly and ordered two bowls of phở. and well…
— the portions were tiny
— there was barely any beef in your phở
— it is expensive
— the phở wasn’t that good
After we paid the bill, the staff never gave us back change. We sat there for around 15 minutes waiting for our change but nobody came to give us change or ask if we needed anything. In the end, we had to go up and ask them where our change is, because our change far exceeds the amount of tips we were suppose to give. The staff and I think the manager looked at me, and began to ask each other questions. It took a minute before they sorted it out among themselves and gave us our change. We were very tempted not to leave any tips, but we did anyway as a farewell tip, since it will be the first and last time we ever go there to eat again. It is a shame that this restaurant turned out to be so disappointing, especially since it is located right across from my home and I love phở.

I came here with my sister to buy some drinks from the grocery store, and we saw this restaurant. New phở in the area. Hell Yeah!
I was here for lunch two days ago, and last night for dinner. The seems to be only two waitresses here, both in smart uniforms. The younger waitress had her hair tied in a bun, and moved with great efficiency. The other waitress was more friendly.
The place was fresh. The gift baskets of fake flowers with cards of congratulations were placed at the front door, and the counter. The walls had glass lit sections displaying.nothing. They didn’t even pick the art to put on the walls yet, that’s how fresh this place is.
Two cylindrical chandeliers, an open ceiling that makes no sense hanging chandeliers from, lightly decorated walls of printings of bamboo, cream coloured everything. Not tacky though. So far so good.
I ordered phở both visits, and honestly, whole heartedly… the best soup base I have ever had in the city of Toronto. The rare beef was quite raw, but cooks in seconds in the hot soup. The deep fried springs rolls was delicious. I ordered the mango juice, but it was more like mango slush. Too cold and thick for the flavour to come through. I couldn’t finish even half the glass. Menu’s full of things, so if you don’t like Vietnamese noodle soup, there a lot more to choose from.
I could say this place was very clean and the service was good, but the restaurant is new, and hasn’t settled into this hole in the wall which used to be my old dry-​cleaners. So… so far so good.
One round table at the end for groups of 8 or 10.
Two television screen showing different programs, but mostly on Fairchild (Canadian Chinese network).
Closes 10pm weekdays and 11pm weekends.
It seems that many quality restaurants finds their dwelling place in Finch & Leslie plaza, and as long as they keep their standards, they remain their success here. I hope Top Saigon Restaurant is one of them. Any time I’m craving phở, this is my number one choice.
When I was sitting down, one hot mother and her beautiful Vietnamese daughter came in for dinner. followed by the Caucasian husband/​Father with a permanent frown on his face. Every time he would give me a disapproving look when my glances shifts over to his daughter… so I eventually ended up staring. CHALENGE ACCEPTED! He stared at me back in defence of his girls… until I won the staring contest. THAT’S RIGHT!
I’m bigger Mafuk*#%R!
If there’s gon be gud lookin Womanz. I gon be LOOKEN!!! WALALALALA!

Here for lunch today.
This is not a Thai or Vietnamese run restaurant per se but rather a Chinese (Cantonese) restaurant serving Southeast Asian dishes with a Cantonese influence. The food is not bad but I am giving it one star for obnoxious service because the server and owner hassled one of our party about sending back a dish. He ordered Singapore Noodles and was expecting the usual fried curry noodles with shrimp, pork, and chicken and instead got a soupy concoction with shrimp. Who know, perhaps it WAS more authentic but it was not what he wanted. They were very argumentative and made a stink about it and he decided to go hungry instead of ordering something else. Furthermore, they forgot to bring an item I ordered as well.

Top Saigon Restaurant has opened up their 2^nd location recently in North York.
Great selection of lunch specials which includes items that are available everyday and some are exclusively for that particular day of the week.
My Seafood Tung Zum Kong Soup Noodle ($ 6.95) which is one of the specials for Friday is A-​OK. It has shrimps, cuttlefish, fish balls and even 1 fresh mussel. I requested extra spicy and fresh chili pepper were used and the broth was really coconuty…
Drinks are not free, as if you want to have a HK style tea or other hot drinks there are an additional of 65 cents. I might passed on that as the tea was kind of lukewarm and lack the taste.
Services are fast and friendly. Deco are nice and pleasant…
No free WIFI but I was in and out in 15 minute…
If you in the area and have cravings for some decent lunch specials, definitely give Top Saigon a try!
For lunch specials, cash only!