downtown

1671 Carling Avenue
613-729-6019
Map

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.

300 Booth St
613-680-5230
Map
Facebook

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
Map

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
Map

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.

232 Bank St.
613-232-0888
Map
Website

This is right off of Bank St in busy downtown Ottawa. At the time of this writing, major construction is underway on Bank Street right where the restaurant is located, but they are still open. There is metered parking on the side streets close by.

They have a large selection of Vietnamese dishes, including appetizers, soup, rice dishes, roll-ups, desserts, and fancy drinks. Dishes range from $8 - $14, while the beef noodle soup is $6.49 (sm) to $8.49 (lrg).

Hours are Monday to Saturday 11am - 10pm, and Sunday 11am to 9pm.

726 Somerset St.
613-230-6815
Map

Formerly Cam Kong, Fuschian Vietnamese Restaurant opened in its place. There's a small Pho menu with small bowl $6.75 and large bowl $7.25, but no medium sized bowls. Also on the menu are vermicelli, rice dishes, and stir fried noodle dishes.

Closed on Tuesdays.

343 Booth St.
613-237-8755
Map

This place is CLOSED. Or maybe just the name is changed. See Hoang Vietnamese Bistro for the latest incarnation of this restaurant.

This place is across the street from the New Mee Fung and is upstairs. If this sounds familiar, then you are correct because it is the same space that used to be called Pho Rua Vang. Once again, it is upstairs in the same building as another pho restaurant although there is no apparent connection between the two.

Pho Hoaing Linh has the usual selection of spring rolls and other appetisers, beef noodle soups, buns (rice vermicelli), rice dishes, and some rice paper roll ups. There's also a selection of drinks if you are into that.

648 Somerset
613-230-8080
Map

A new place on the fringes of Chinatown. It's open 11AM to 9PM, and slightly longer on weekends.

They serve the usual dishes of spring rolls and summer rolls for $3.50 to $3.75, Various pho dishes for $5.75 for smalls, $6.75 for mediums and $7.75 for larges. Most phos are beef and rice noodles but there are chicken and egg noodle variations. There are also a few rice vermicelli and rice dishes for $7 or $7.50.

Drinks are on the menu, standard fare of iced coffees, soft drinks, juices and avocado and durian shakes, nothing out of the ordinary.

300 Booth St.
(613) 565-8410
Map

This restaurant is closed. Pho'licious is now in that location.

Pho Sai Gon.... is gone. A new Pho restaurant with new owners and staff is in its place. The decor has been updated, and the door no longer scrapes along the floor as you enter the restaurant. Even a table was placed in the cramped patio area (I don't want to ask if it's legal to put a table there). The menu looks surprisingly similar to the old restaurant's, although I can't be sure, a lot of the pho restaurants in town do serve the same soups.

324 Bank Street
Map

A small place outside of Chinatown. Open 11AM to 10PM daily, except it opens later on weekends.

Different? yes. Good? read on.

Luckily, there's a patio so the capacity doubles when weather permits. There's a small menu of which more than half contains specialty drinks like bubble tea, bubble sherbet, special calpis drinks (whatever they are), plus others. Rather expensive, too, ranging from $3.50 to $6.00 each.

Food is available as well. There's the usual pho, spring rolls and some bun. Then there's stir-fry's of chicken, lemon grass, oyster sauce and other nice stuff like salads.

Pho comes in one size only, and cost $6.75. Side condiments are sparse. None of them are on the table, not even the hot sauce.