Pho Ottawa

780 Somerset
613.567.6050
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A Vietnamese place that I'm not sure how to enter the accented characters to spell correctly.

It's a small place that serves pho, hu tieu, and Vietnamese submarines. That's a first for Ottawa, to my knowledge, to serve pho and submarines in the same place.

Pho and hu tieu is $7.00 and only comes in one size. Deep frides spring rolls are $3.25, and sub sandwiches are $2.25 each. Bun is also available.

Their hours are 10:30AM to 9PM except on Sunday when they close at 7PM. And they are CLOSED MONDAYS.

280 Elgin
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613-233-2888

This is an Asian place that includes pho on the menu, although they just call it "noodle soup". Their other dishes are sushi, bubble tea and other drinks, and appetisers including spring rolls.

Pho comes in two sizes. Regular sizes range from $7.50 to $9.00, and large sizes cost $1 more. Spring rolls are either $3 or $4 for two rolls. Bubble tea and other drinks range from $3.50 to $4.00.

778 Somerset St. West
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613.237.3002

A new entry in the Pho Bo Ga "chain" that's been open since last year.

Open daily 10AM to 1AM, and Friday and Saturday until 4AM.

The menu is similar to others in that they have pho, Bun, Hu Tieu, Com, appetisers and drinks.

Pho comes in 4 sizes. Smalls are $6, Mediums are $7, Larges are $8 and XLs are $9.

This is right in the heart of Chinatown so parking is very hit and miss.

1053 Somerset W.
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This restaurant is renamed from "Pho Bo", in the same location.

According to the lady there, this restaurant is still in the same family as before. The original owner has opened two more restaurants in Ottawa, and brought in family to help run them all.

Their menu is not large, and contains pho, hu tieu and bun. Pho is $6.95 for small and $7.95 for large. Hu tieu ranges from $7.25 to $8.50. Appetisers, stir frys and the usual selection of drinks are also available.

They do take out as well.

In what has turned into an annual event, we hosted pho at my place on Friday at lunch time instead of one of our usual pho restaurants. I made Pho Bo (beef soup), and my SO made deep-fried vegetarian spring rolls for an appetiser, both made from scratch.

Here's a slightly doctored photo of most of the group:

There were eleven of us, and 72 spring rolls. We ate them all.

The Pho Bo was an assemble-it-yourself type lunch, where the broth, rice noodles, thin-sliced eye-of-round and barbecue pork were laid out in the kitchen, along with some sliced shallots and green onions and tofu puffs. Each person helped themselves, buffet-style, to the fixings for their own creation.

Pictures of the soups are below.

1671 Carling Avenue
613-729-6019
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This Japanese restaurant has a small lunch menu of Vietnamese Pho, although it specializes in teppanyaki style cooking and also has a small sushi bar. There is parking available on side streets.

A restaurant in San Fransisco is offering a challenge to pho lovers. A huge bowl, about the size of three large bowls, contains two pounds of noodles and two pounds of beef and tripe. If you finish it in an hour, it's free. Or else they charge you $22.

Details are here:

Pho Garden Challenge

300 Booth St
613-680-5230
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This place is just south of Somerset on the west side. They have the usual selections of soup with interesting daily specials. There is street parking only, with steep steps into the restaurant.

Hours:
Mon-Sun, 11am - 9pm

343 Booth St.
613-237-8755
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This used to be called Pho Hoang Linh - is upstairs, across the street from the well known New Mee Fung restaurant. Has the usual selection of noodle soups, vermicelli and rice dishes.

120 Lebreton St. North
Ottawa, ON K1R 7H6
613-232-7289
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This place is at the edge of Chinatown, at the far end of Lebreton closer to Gladstone then to Somerset. They've been open a quite a while, and have karaoke if you're into that.