Pho 88 Viet Thai Cuisine
Category: Restaurants Vietnamese Vietnamese [Edit]
250 Alton Tower CirSte C6
Toronto, ON M1R
(416) 299-8899
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- No
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- No
- Delivery:
- Yes
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- No
5 reviews for Pho 88 Viet Thai Cuisine
5 reviews in English
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Review from Josephine C.
Markham, ON
2/1/2012
Pho 88 is probably the most popular vietnamese food chain in Toronto. This location along with the Warden/Steeles location are the ones I frequent the most in the past 20+ years I've lived in Markham.
The pho here is excellent. The best in Markham by far. The soup is always tasty, the beef is thinly sliced and easy to eat, the noodles are always cooked perfect.
Last time I came to this Alton Tower location with my sister, we ordered a combo meal which was a great deal for $12 (two phos, two cold drinks, spring roll). I don't recall the name of the drinks (honey lemon ice tea?) but they were probably the best i've had at an Asian restaurant.
Definitely recommended for your pho fix! :-) -
Review from Audrey L.
Toronto, ON
5/1/2012
I've been coming here for years; definitely the best place for Pho in Scarborough. I've tried most things on the menu and though they're all really good, their pho is definitely my go-to item on the menu (P4 is my favourite). Their spring rolls (A01) are AMAZING, and hands down my favourite spring rolls ANYWHERE, from any restaurant, in any city... good prices, open fairly late most nights, and simply: delicious.
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Review from Ping p.
Markham, ON
10/5/2010
My favourite place for Pho.
I'd been going here for years. They just did some renovation... making the place more attractive.
Normally, I just order family Pho ($8). It comes in very large bowl, which is enough for 3 people (or 2 very hungry people). The noodle served hot and the soup tastes good (not too sugary sweet like some other places).
They also have special, which includes drink for under $8. -
Review from Jennifer K.
Markham, ON
2/10/2010 3 photos
I am surprised that no one has yet wrote a review for Pho 88 location at Alton Tower Circle! It has been around for over 10 years. This is NOT my usual Pho joint but I think I drop in for a visit for Pho-bruary.
I arrived at the lunch time, usually the restaurants I went to are quite busy however there were only 1 other lonely person eating there for lunch beside me.
There are no lunch specials but there are whole day special like a small pho with iced coffee for $7.50.
The place is runned by Mandarian speaking staffs with Mandarian songs playing so loud that you can barely hear yourself think!
I ended up ordering the rare beef Pho Medium ($6.50). I can tell you the broth is one of the saltest one. I am so thirsty after I eating the noodle and I barely drink the soup! They use dried noodles and it tasted ok a little chewy at first but as I kept eating it got soften up with the broth. The portion is smaller than other restaurant in the area. (I am still hungry :p)
I do like the way how they present my rare beef, right by the edge of the bowel so the beef still stayed rare when I eat them!! The cut of beef is really lean too.
The restaurant was empty when I am leaving! no more patrons at all.
Cash and Interac only!
I don't think I will go back to eat again! -
Review from Andrionni R.
8/21/2010
The service sucked bad for my first experience here....
I ordered one order of the thai chicken fried rice which includes your standard thai ingredients: rice, carrots, peas, egg, chicken, etc... plus pineapples and cashews. I was thinking, "pineapples and cashews... I love pineapples and cashews in my rice (reminds me of home)." I was saddened to find my plate contained no pineapples and cashews and brought it up with the server.
That's when the funk experience happened.... I tell the server (we'll call her server A) that my dish has no pineapples and cashews. She looks lost for a moment. The server walks to the back and looks at the menu and brings it up to one of her other coworkers (whom we'll identify as server B).. Server A comes back and says we have no pineapples. I tell her I should've been told this prior to receiving my order. Server A goes back again to talk with Server B. Then I see Server B walk to the kitchen and comes back with a can to open it. "The can looks like a can of pineapples" I think to myself. She walks back to the kitchen... and sure enough comes back with a serving of cold pineapples and fresh cashews to go into the fried rice.
Frustration kicks in for me.
Now... I've had pineapple fried rice back home in Sacramento.... and pineapple and cashews can also be fried into the rice...... hot pineapples go much better with fried rice than cold pineapples. I get the sense these people don't know what they're doing and cancel my order altogether telling them to take the plate away.
Server A appears slightly panicked and walks to the back to talk with her server B (again). They look at the menu.... talk... and then comes back to tell me I wasn't told to include the cashews and pineapples in the order. (really?) We go over the menu together. There's no indication in the menu that I have to request these to have it in the order. She sees what I see as I call her bluff. She apologizes.
The experience doesn't end there. At the end they still include the rice in the bill even though I didn't eat my dish, told them to take it away, and told them to take it off the bill because I didn't eat it.
Blah... Apparently there was another table that had a pretty bad experience (maybe they'll be yelping here shortly). These people seem to look out more for their bottom line than focus on a positive customer experience. Do not recommend.. One star. Stay away.
