Pho Lien Restaurant Chef Deck Says:
Mr. Pho Lien, you’re in my top 5 Montreal Vietnamese restaurant favorites for good reason. You’re always consistently good and in my opinion have the best lemon grass chicken in Montreal (except for maybe Hoai Huong on Victoria, Montreal). All your tonkinese soups are great, especially your weekend spicy soup (WSS), sooooooo fabulous, fresh, and so clean (but if u want the best WSS go to Pho Bang on Côte-des-Neiges). I guess your only drawback is that your appetizers are just standard, and your bean drink doesn’t have enough slimy green, red, and yellow things. All and all kind Sir, hats off to ya.
Cleanliness: 9.12131/10
Tastiness: 8.1131236/10
The fact that there’s always something interesting to look at due to the fortunate fact that there’s a lot of crazy people across the street: I’m sorry for being so insensitive/10
Chef Deck signing out!
Pho Lien Restaurant
Address : 5703-B cote des Neiges, corner Côte-Ste-Catherine, Montréal;
Téléphone : 514-735-6949
9 responses so far ↓
1 Gus // Jul 11, 2007 at 11:55 pm
Good food but i prefer the place next door (saigon something better)
2 Jude // Jul 17, 2007 at 1:43 pm
try this place:
Café Banh Mi Linh (Metro Jarry)
8084 Lajeunesse
-No MSG!
- they don’t have a huge selection, but for what they make.. it’s damn good
-broth made from real meat and bones
-100% family operated
-it’s connected right into Metro Jarry
-they definitely make the best subviet (viet submarines) and best pho
3 Chef Deck // Jul 17, 2007 at 4:07 pm
Thanks Jude… me i’m a big Vietnamese junky and i’ll post many more of my favs.
Thanks for the recommendation ill try it out next week
4 Nicholas Robinson // Jun 10, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Wow, Pho Lien . . . where I met my girlfriend (but I only had a beer–more fool me! I’ll have to go back).
5 Boris Anthony // Jun 11, 2008 at 12:33 pm
@Jude the “Banh Mi” in the title refers to what you call “subviet” (which is a new one for me. cute!)
this city is packed with awesome vietnamese pho joints, pretty much all of them family or individually owned by people who take their food seriously (enough to not need MSG, btw.
@Nicholas definitely worth trying out. It was my fave for a long while before moving on.
6 Arthur Nguyen // Oct 3, 2008 at 8:34 pm
I’m actually Vietnamese and this is the best Pho restaurant I’ve been to in a while
7 Marie // Oct 21, 2008 at 5:13 pm
I’ve tried Pho Lien a few times and I was so sick after because I think they put so much msg in there soup. So my friend (who’s vietnamese) recommend me a small restaurant on cotes des neiges street named Dao Vien vnow it’s my turn to recommend it to you, it’s definitely the best vietnamese restaurant in Montreal
8 Koopseh // Nov 17, 2008 at 7:17 pm
i went there,
very nice indeed
9 Duc Hoang // Dec 3, 2008 at 1:04 am
The best place to go for the TRADITIONAL vietnamese soup is BUN VIET (Bun = Vermicelli and Viet = Vietnamese’s). The restaurant is located near by St-Hubert and Jean-Talon corner. It is on St-Hubert. A family operated business. All vietnamese go here for a great taste of soup (5 kinds). The restaurant is face to the Payless Shoe store on ST-Hubert.
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