Tony’s Beef Noodle

Just decided to come here after a doctor’s appointment for some quick lunch. Their service is okay,
This place’s name may be called beef noodle, but their soup base was plain as heck, no flavor. Their noodles weren’t all that special either. :(
Their only saving grace was their deep fried chicken nuggets that tasted pretty well made, ended up ordering more. This place is really only good if you’re in the neighborhood and wanted some quick lunch or wanted some appetizers.
PS. They will require you to order at least $ 6.50 worth of items for some reason.

I found this place charming. One main server but she’s very friendly and quick. Virtually no wait for seats, food, or the bill.
Ordered a large bowl of the beef noodles (fine/​thin). Also tried the fried won tons. Food was good but not amazing. Would definitely come back if in the area.

I ordered beef noodle soup. The thick noodle is good. The beef soup is plain, which was good for me. They had the basic sour cabbage, hot pepper and the green onions.

My boyfriend and I decided to eat near the Oakridge area because we had a sudden urge to eat some noodles. Although it was scorching hot outside, we wanted to try this place. The restaurant isn’t that big, it didn’t look that pleasant as well. Service was alright. I ordered the spicy beef noodle soup and didn’t seem to like the taste of the soup but the beef was tender. All in all, it was average. I wouldn’t come back.

I’m going to return to try other things, so this review is mostly pending. It was my first time with the beefy beef noodle soup. Maybe it’s my addiction to phở, but I really wanted more of a kick and, potentially, some texture changes. This could be accomplished any number of ways thanks to their menu so I’ll be back to update, hopefully to move this from a three to a four!

I live close to this place. Yes, as people have stated before, the ambience is not why you come here for. This place is strictly a place to go to get that «Mom and Pop» shop home cooking at reasonable price. I walk in here with a tank top, flip flops, and messy hair from just waking up from an afternoon slumber and still I feel like I’m not out of place. The beef noodle soup is fresh and tasty, the peppery chickens and fried potstickers is also why I come back over and over. Yes the place is dumpy looking but it does not show in the quality of the food you get, nor do you get a feel that the place is unsanitary. Just don’t bring a first date here and don’t over dress and you’ll be just fine.

Don’t expect quick service. It seems like there is only one server. The green onion beef pancake was great however, when my girlfriend asked to substitute her salt vegetable with chicken or beef instead of pork they said they said they couldn’t twice. What was so hard about that?
Overall its a mediocre noodle restaurant. I would recommend to eat here if don’t care much of ambiance or service. Some place where you can just get s bite if you work across the street.

Been here dozens and dozens of times over 12 years. It’s under new management now and initially they served you tea in ceramic cups, then tea in plastic cups, then just warm water in plastic cups. Service not the best. Not welcoming at all.
Their signature dish is thick beef noodle. Some call this dish spicy, but I wouldn’t. Even people who don’t like spicy food agree. Order A1 on the menu
Any way, I think it is still one of the best in town with their broth and very tender beef. However, the quality has gone down in recent years. They used to make decent onion beef pie, not any more. It often is very dry and almost burnt.
Portions are now smaller, prices have gone up. It used to be a goto spot for many folk who worked nearby, not so much any more. Place is cash only.

I love this place! The broth is tasty, their meals are good value, and the people are awesome!

Came here for a quick beef noodles, typical flavor, tried the cold appies and it was just tons of garlic and cold.
If you are looking for a quick soup noodle around Oakridge, this is the only place close by, but I suggest hopping on the Skytrain and head to Broadway and you have more options.

My favourite place in Van for Taiwanese beef noodles… a dive for sure, language barrier for sure but my repeat business bumps it up to a four-​star.
The cute back-​story is that I thought when I took my mom here for lunch, I thought it was her first time. I found out that she and my dad used to come here for lunch while waiting for us to finish Chinese school way back in the late 80s/​early 90s. As you can imagine, it was not my choice way to spend my Saturday afternoons, a highschooler being carted out to Oakridge from Pitt Meadows to learn Chinese with CHILDREN. This did not last long for me and no, I cannot read/​write and still have the language comprehension of a 6 yr old in Cantonese. Wayyyy off track.
The décor has seen better days and it’s amusing how even the male servers have to wear the girly aprons. There is a lot to love but most importantly, the food… I go for the regular beef noodles with thick noodles and the potstickers. The potstickers are the long style with a nice doughy wrapper. Whenever I go, I also try the various snacks like marinated seaweed or cucumbers, deep fried chicken, etc. Everything is really tasty!
It’s cash only (ATMs for Vancity, HSBC, CIBC along Cambie St. and RBC inside Oakridge) and service is basic but courteous. If you’re looking for something sweet afterwards, Yuen Yuen in the next block is a reliable place for bubble tea!

I’m not sure what happened, but the soup holding my noodles was just freaking AWFUL. I actually felt my stomach turn. My friend had the same problem, and didn’t finish his.
The salty peppery chicken here is also bland. I’m sorry, I can no longer recommend this place at all. My stomach turns just thinking about the soup.

I work around the area, and I have helped people come and pick up food from here, sometimes sitting here with co-​workers as they devour what is made here, and finally I have had a taste of what Tony’s offers and here it is. You know when you work in an area, there is always those few places that are a stone’s throw away, and yet you never seem to go into them, whether it’s want or desire, it just never runs across your mind, and that is what’s Tony’s is to me. It took a former co-​worker to come in with two kids, and a place needed to go eat to get us here, as she took the transit, and she wouldn’t risk her kids in a car with no baby seats that finally led me into this place for a sit down meal.
The place is practically your basic ‘cash only’ Chinese joint. Simple chairs, nothing aesthetically pleasing, sit down, gawk at your food, eat, and get out, which is totally fine, cause why are you really at a restaurant if your not eating? The menu is also very simple, a few pages, not too many items to choose from, everything practically under $ 10. We came on this day, with many others in the restaurant, most looking like it was their work lunch break (and it probably was) to just get a hot meal. I had a chance to sample their beef roll, a dish of marinated eggs, and also their spicy rendition of beef noodle soup.
When the server asked me what noodles I wanted with my dish, there was an option, slim or thick, so what is the difference you ask? Well with slim it’s not made in house, so obviously I went with the thick. The dish came, and even though I ordered a small, it was big in my definition. The soup had a good hint of spice, 4 nice cubes of beef, and not the alien like mushed up, grounded down, and pounded to form one lump of beef, but 4 nice cubes. The noodles, some dense, some light, a little all over the place, yet you can tell this was in house made, as they weren’t pretty to look at, but they were not bad. I was literally stuffed after completing the task of eating the entire bowl, and while I type this, and still stuffed. I would give this place another go, just to try their other dishes as this was a good first attempt.
I didn’t get my water refilled, and the place wasn’t that busy, but I’m not going to dock them for that. If you want this kind of food in this area, this is the place, with a little over 20 seats, it’s actually pretty roomy here, you may never notice this place cause of the cheap signage, and where it is located though.

Tony’s is easily one of the better spots for Taiwanese beef noodles in Vancouver with good soup and generous portions. Make sure to get the thick noodles (definitely worth it).

Dropped by for an early dinner today. Had a spicy beef noodle craving. Flavor-​wise, it was alright, but the soup wasn’t hot enough to kill the bugs methinks, and the diarrhea eight hours later wasn’t worth it. Will be reporting them to the Food Safety/​Environmental Health.
I think lunch here should still be alright. They probably turn down the gas stoves in the afternoon to cut costs.

The times that I went, they don’t speak English very well, and they don’t speak Cantonese at all. WTF was I thinking???
Aiya! Seh la!
«Do you speak English or Cantonese ah?» Shakes her head.
What’s a person to do, woh? Point onto the menu la, and speak poorly pronounced and busted up Mandarin with a Canto accent la!
The food here was not bad at all. Tasty noodles esp the thick noodle tossed in a spicy sauce, served with cucumber slivers.
I don’t know where they get the (thick) noodles from but they’re fresh. Slightly twisty with a nice chew.
I’m back when I can.

Step aside, Wang’s!
I never really got into Taiwanese noodles until I discovered Tony’s last year. I definitely prefer this place over Wang’s. Although Wang’s interior décor is more up to date and attractive over Tony’s, it doesn’t compare when it comes to their Beef Noodle soup (A1 or A2, if you want spicy).
Ranging from about $ 6-​$ 8 depending on the size, this dive outshines other Taiwanese places I’ve dined at. Their beef is really tender and lean, the soup is really rich and not oily at all. You also don’t taste the MSG. If you can, ask for the fat noodles, because that’s where it’s at. They’re pretty much like the flat rice noodles you see in Chinese dishes, except these ones are handmade, and thicker so it adds a rustic feel to the dish. The skinny noodles just aren’t the same, and I know because once I came to eat on a day where they ran out of their fat noodles.
We also ordered the crispy salt peppery chicken, and I was a happy camper! The prices are pretty reasonable, considering it’s in the Oakridge area. A heads up on one important thing: it’s a cash-​only joint, so make sure to bring some bills, otherwise you may end up washing dishes in their kitchen (just kidding, I think)! Conveniently, HSBC and CIBC are just a few doors down.
This has become a regular place for us to go to if we want something comforting, since there aren’t a whole lot of quality phở places around where we live.

This used to be one of my favourite Taiwanese Noodle houses in Vancouver, so much that it was worth all the drive to Oakridge from Burnaby on a random Saturday afternoon (they are closed Sundays).
This is truly a hole-​in-​the-​wall where the service was subpar, but the food delicious, fresh, and pretty cheap (two can dine for about $ 25 or less). My favourite were the Siu Long Bao dumplings and spicy wontons. Green onion pancakes are good as well, and of course the signature beef noodle soups with either the smooth thin noodle or chewy homemade thicker noodle.
There used to be a bubbly waitress there who would recognize us from our frequent trips, and would have our food ready minutes after we sat down. During the building of the Canada Line the business almost came to a halt, but it seems to have picked up again. Sadly the waitress seems to have left, as well as good food (bad stomach cramps for both me and my hubby the last two times). Now this place is just a hole-​in-​the-​wall with not much left to offer.

Drama in the noodle house!
I was one of the lucky ones to get an open seat before the entire place filled up for lunch and there was a line up at the door.
One of the waiting families had a baby carriage of which the restaurant told them to please fold it up and stow it as it was blocking the entryway. The patrons said they didn’t need to and the man (I assume grandfather) picked up a chair to move it to another location to make room for the stroller. He raised the chair a bit too high when carrying it and broke one of the pendant lamps hanging from the ceiling making a loud glass breaking sound.
To make matters more dramatic, some man came out from the back and started saying something to them and in the end the family left the restaurant.
It made for good entertainment if nothing else (especially for a table for one, like me). It’s a good thing the glass didnt fall and hurt somebody.
On to the food:
Is it the best taiwanese noodles I’ve ever had?
No.
Would I come back for some more spicy beef noodle soup with skinny noodles?
Yes, hence the 3 (teetering on 3.5 stars)
Though I have never been to Taiwan, I have tried some pretty awesome Taiwanese noodles and dumpings in Hong Kong a couple of months ago, and the noodles and wontons I had didn’t compare, but they did the trick to satiate my craving.
I ordered the small spicy beef noodle soup with skinny noodles and the wontons with chili oil. The noodles did have some chewy bite to them, which was a nice and the broth was not too spicy and tasty. The big chunks of beef were tender.
The wontons were a different story. Though tasty and cooked just right, they didn’t have a lot of filling in them and they looked like they had all been squashed – all 8 of them. It was as if someone sat on them. I would have preferred more filling and a prettier presentation. The chili oil was spicy but had a bit of sweetness to it which was nice.
The service was probably a 2 but then again, anytime I’m in a dive of an asian restaurant I don’t exactly expect to be waited on hand and food, oops, i mean foot. ;P

This casual eatery offers all of the typical items at a Taiwanese beef noodle house including, of course, beef noodle soup. You get a choice of thick or thin (I recommend the thick — which appear to be handcut at the shop). A small bowl is a very reasonable $ 5.50, and a large is also only $ 6.75. If you would like it spicy add 40 cents for the small, or 50 cents for the large. The quality of the broth is better than Wang’s on Granville, but still wouldn’t blow your socks off. The meat is mostly tender, with a few chewy pieces mixed in for good (?) measure.
They also have the typical deep fried chicken legs, crispy pepper and salt chicken, ham hocks, a good selection of Taiwanese marinated items (cucumber, kelp, intestines, tripe, pork ear, etc.), beef rolls, green onion pancakes, wonton in chili sauce, etc.
Many of the dishes have a good kick spice wise. Overall the service is friendly and efficient, and the food is decent. I wouldn’t make a special trip to the area for it. But if I were near Wang’s and craving Taiwanese food, I would certainly skip Wang’s and go to Tony’s since it isn’t that far away.
I’m still looking for that dreamy Taiwanese restaurant that offers up the same quality as some of the places I have tried in Taipei. I know they must be here — but just where oh where!!!