Saigon Xpress

It’s meh. Its the best Phở in Longmont, and that’s only because the other place is unequivocally awful. So this is where we go. Its not awesome, but it gets the job done. We have only ordered the Phở here, so I cant give advice on anything else, but if you live in Longmont, this is your best bet. If you dont live here, skip it. There are far better places in Boulder.

Super good. Small space, extremely crowded at lunch (always a good sign.) I had the combo noodle bowl and it was fantastic. Will definitely be back!

A great hole in the wall spot. Their phở has a very tasty broth which is of course the defining characteristic of phở. It’s also the hardest component to get right and they’ve nailed it. The chicken curry extremely tasty as well. Their wonton soup with egg noodles is some of the best I’ve had stateside. Service is friendly and fast. Great staple of Longmont.

We went for late lunch and we were not impressed. As soon as we sat down, a guy came by and asked what we wanted. I looked at the guy confused and he asked if we wanted menus. Yes, menus and water would be nice. We ordered an appetizer of egg rolls with the lettuce and they give you 2 less egg rolls! $ 8 for 4 egg rolls and few pieces of lettuce seem a bit over priced. We also had beef combo phở which had very little meat and the broth tasted more like hot water than beef broth. The plate of veggies also had 1 piece of lime and it looked like someone had already used it! So gross… we had one of the stir fried noodles which had few tiny pieces of chicken. Considering all 3 things cost just about $ 8 each, we were quite disappointed. To top it off we ran out of water during our meal and no one came by to refill. I had to go up to the register to pay my bill and they weren’t even busy.

Awful. Doesn’t even deserve 1 star. I feel like I am going to throw up. Service was terrible. The family had walked out previously why we were sitting there because they were so unhappy. We almost walked out as well! Again, we will not be back

If I can give this restaurant 0 stars I will! I was ordering to pick up and this guy suddenly tell me that to hurry up because they were so busy and shout at me! and start talking in Vietnamese! I was thinking I’m a customer too! And they should not treat their customer like that and I told him I am not going to order anymore! My money is not worthy on their restaurant! And bad rude phone service.
…but a lady, called me and politely apologize, and I told her, don’t hire that guy anymore, because its not good on their business.

Phở was almost as good as the ones I’m used to having in California. I had the charbroiled pork rice dish and that was really good. Customer service sucks though, but food is good.

Love love love! They have great vegetarian options and their noodle bowls and curry are amazing. The staff is super friendly and on the rare occasion something has been wrong with our order they went out of their way to correct it.

Actually dined in this time. Got there during the noon rush and the place was slammed. We grabbed the only remaining table. The food still made it to us quickly, and the phở was boiling hot. We also had the Saigon spring rolls with beef at the cook’s suggestion and were pleasantly surprised. Don’t get me wrong, the phở-​to-​go (photogo?) was hot and perfect, but getting it right straight out of the pot and with all the hoisin and sriracha I wanted made it just a smidge better.

Maybe just a bad night. We asked for recommendation and they suggested the noodles bowls. Came back a bit later and said they’re out of noodles :-/​Also the boba we ordered they were out of the black balls for it… so we ordered two other dishes, which we weren’t as up for and surprise, they were just okay. One was a fried rice combination and rice noodle combination. We went late Friday and a few people came in then also so maybe we just hit it too late for what we were wanted.

I only ever get the Chicken Phở. It is like crack to me. I’ve eaten Phở all over the Denver metro area and I still think this has the best broth hands down. Even with the ownership change. I think the broth was part of the deal ’cause I can’t taste a difference (and that’s a good thing.) They seem to be getting busier and busier as word of mouth spreads. I don’t even go there anymore unless it’s off hours.

Awesome noodles and very authentic! I keep going back! Beef ball phở and spring rolls are my favorites.

No carb/​paleo SCORE! I asked for Phở with no noodles. They substituted julienned chopped carrots, celery, Bok Choy. It was so fantastic and I feel even more of a health infusion than I usually get from Phở. Fast and delicious!
(Only four stars cause it’s not fine dining, you know, but everything they do, they do well. Very efficient service from a sweet teenager.)

I’ve eaten phở pretty much once a week for the last… many years. Used to eat at Saigon Xpress fairly regularly. Had no idea until just now they’d gone through an ownership change, but explains a LOT, because tonight I had the worst bowl of phở I’ve had since moving to Colorado in 2005. Not only was it too salty, with stale clumpy noodles, it was extremely poor value. There was ONE miniscule jalapeño slice, around ¹⁄₁₆^th of a lime wedge, and really… the order was about ½ the portion size of a medium despite the price, making it the worst value for money I’ve ever seen at a phở joint. I will never be going back… there are far too many decent phở houses between Denver, Boulder, and Longmont, to waste any more of my business on Saigon Xpress.

I love this place. We have lunch with the office crew here often. It’s «hole in the wall» type of place (4stars), but it’s delicious and budget friendly.

Great place in Longmont to grab a bowl of Phở. Service is a bit slow which is why it does not rate 5 stars.

We have been going to Saigon express for years up to two months ago new ownership took over quality of phở has gone down we ordered five of them and all of them had excessive grease floating on top nothing bad to say about the egg rolls we ordered they were great. Deafly would not recommend ever again

The food is very good & affordable, however they are often out of boba which is a disappointment because it’s one of the few places in Longmont that has it. The waitress can be a bit impatient as she is often waiting all of the tables at once, but the service is always pretty fast.

The Phở was very good! Very aromatic broth. Adding the vegetables is a must. Not much sriracha needed, I just like sriracha! Wait staff was polite but overwhelmed being the only one running the entire front of the restaurant. His overall performance was lacking do to the workload. Also my bowl had a leak that got on my phone and keys. All the negative will not prevent me from coming back again. I would recommend to friends.

Ok, so let me get this out of the way before everything else. My wife and I have been ordering take out from Saigon Express about once a week for the last 6 months or so. Food wise it’s pretty good, nothing exceptional but hits the spot when I’m wanting some Lemon Grass Tofu within 10 mins of my house.
I would never say the workers were every really friendly, but historically speaking they were mostly more of a «let’s get this order rung up and out the door, no chit chat needed». Which was usually fine with us, until tonight.
Why the one star, because really the customer service at this restaurant is abysmal beyond belief. I ordered my usual weekly order tonight, the same thing I always order every week for the last handful of months. I usually speak with one of the women that run the front of the restaurant but tonight I spoke with a man. I gave him the weekly order (again same as it always is … which is an all vegetarian order.) He reads it back to me, in at best a somewhat passable English. I said «sounds right» and hung up the phone. We arrive, pick up our food, get home and half the order is totally screwed up with beef instead of tofu. Maybe not a big deal to some but I just spent $ 26 for a meal that no one in our house will eat.
We call back, explain what happened with our order being wrong, ask them to remake the dish and we’ll be on our way back up there to pick it up. The man simply says, «I repeated the order to you, you said it was right, we are not making another order». This goes on for about 2 minutes of back and forth before we told him we’d never come back to his restaurant again.
So … go there if you want, and again the foods is decently good (not great). But if you expect any level of service or a restaurant that puts their customers first, you should really look somewhere else b/​c you will not find it here.
Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to drive down to King Soopers to see if the guy that usually stands outside with his homeless sign would like 6 beef and shrimp spring rolls.