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Le La Vietnamese Restaurant Ltd.
Category: Restaurants Vietnamese Vietnamese [Edit]
6624 Centre St SESte 4
Calgary, AB T2H 0C3
(403) 255-5665
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
3 reviews for Le La Vietnamese Restaurant Ltd.
3 reviews in English
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Review from Alberta G.
Calgary, AB
10/24/2011
We love this place, it's our go to place when we need hot pho on a nasty Calgary day. It's not cheese sauce in the sate pho, it's coconut milk...that's what makes it creamy, and really puts it above most other places by a country mile. This place has some great options for low carb eaters, the beef steak salad is just fantastic, grilled chunks of beef with spicy sauce on it, on a bed of lettuce with some veggies and a lime salt sauce, outstandingly tasty. The papaya salad is amazing as are the beef salad rolls. The food is always fresh, amazing and tasty. Check this out if you want an alternative to Bagolac, it's in the same general area. And by Olympia Liquor....
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Review from Orpha C.
Calgary, AB
3/10/2010
This is good, fresh Vietnamese food. The spring rolls were crispy and tasty. My friend and I ordered the vermicelli with barbecued pork and spring rolls. The only thing I would mention is that it would probably be better with two spring rolls because the one that did come with it was long gone before the noodles were. Most Vietnamese restaurants do provide two spring rolls with that particular dish so I was sad to see only one because they are so good. The portions are quite ample, by the way, other than that.
The restaurant itself is sunny and bright and we even had to get the blinds pulled down because it was really beaming in. The server was friendly and efficient.
It's a good location because there's lots of parking. After lunch, we walked over to the furniture store and took a look so it was nice to have somewhere to go move around a bit after a big lunch.
It was busy at lunch hour and I was glad I arrived early so we could sit by the windows. We decided that we would definitely return. -
Review from Janet L.
Calgary, AB
8/22/2010
Le La is located in a strip mall in South Calgary, just off of Glenmore Trail. It's about four businesses down from the South XS Cargo, quite near Chinook Centre, and right behind the Speakeasy (heh). It's not really situated in an area I visit often, but it is definitely worth a trip if you frequent this section of the city.
The restaurant itself is rather nice. Open, spacious, very clean, and tastefully decorated. The furniture is nice, new, and sturdy, and the tables are spaced out so that it lacks the cramped feeling that you get from a lot of other Vietnamese restaurants. It was a Sunday, so business was slow and there was only one server; however, everything came to us in a timely fashion, and our waiter was very attentive.
The menu was huge, and printed in Vietnamese, English, and French (which was new to me). The prices are on par with other restaurants of this kind; although they did have really reasonable lunch and dinner specials - something that I've found to be pretty unique so far. Their pho dishes only come in a large (which is slightly bigger than the size of a regular at most other places) and an extra-large (which is massive). I had Pho Tai (rare beef and noodles), which was very good, and a fresh lemonade that was teeth-rottingly sweet. My boyfriend had the most interesting take on Pho Sate I'd ever seen - it had no peanuts and was slightly creamy, with a sort of cheese sauce added to the broth - and a hot Vietnamese coffee with condensed milk. We also split a plate of salad rolls and were both comfortably full at the end of our meal. Although we weren't served a lot of meat, the amount of noodles that came in our bowls was kind of staggering.
While the food was not the best I've had, I would still go back to try the other dishes on the menu; a lot of them looked really intriguing. Le La loses one star only because it doesn't quite fit the mold for what I expect Vietnamese food to taste like (again, the cheese sauce in the Sate - while good - was a little weird). However, for everything else - the selection, the decor, and the service - I found it quite exceptional; four stars!
