saigon restaurant

great little place - always seems busy at lunch!. we eat here as much as we can. love the beef or shrimp fresh noodle soup! also love their fresh spring rolls! we have dined in and gotten carry out and food quality is the same either way! wouldn't hesitate taking friends here for a meal!

saigon. the food is amazing. the service is slow, so probably not the place to go if you only have an hour for lunch. they only take cash.

being unfamiliar with vietnamese food, i really wanted to try it. while the decor at saigon isn't the greatest, the food sure is! a friendly and extremely helpful waitstaff helped with my order and even mixed my pho gau all sorts of spices and sauces. broth was amazing along with the chicken, noodles and veggies. try the egg roll with he waitstaff's special mixing sauce.

delicious. i had a wonderful lunch today at saigon restaurant. the egg roll is among the best i've had. i had one of the lunch specials, which consisted of rolls of bbq beef around vegetables. you eat them by rolling them alone with noodles, vegetables and herbs in a lettuce leaf. it was fun and delicious to experiment with the different options, dipping each into a wonderful sauce. the people were very helpful and friendly - i guess they could tell i had never eaten that meal before - but they walked me through the first one and i was able to take it from there. really good, different and fun.

the vegetarian spring rolls are so yummy! the sauce that comes with them is fabulous!

i intended to go to the loft the other night, to pursue this burger that is served on a donut instead of a bun. i have not given up on my mission, but on this night, the loft was closed (rat infestation? doesn't phase me), and i was momentarily stymied, since i was on foot.  faced with the relatively bleak dining options of out forest avenue (dominos? takeout?), i was excited to see saigon, a vietnamese restaurant i haven't tried. i wrote about the pho at thanh thanh 2  during an o-rama, but have yet to make it across the street to the other vietnamese restaurant in that block.  some fairly standard soup, dumplings, and crab rangoon started out our meal. they didn't indicate much about the quality of the food to come - they were fine, but forgettable.  a. and m. ordered pho, which came accompanied by a giant plate of fresh vegetables and herbs to add to the soup.  m. fixed his soup and dug in, but a., not having had pho before, was a little slow to start. one of the employees, maybe se

best place in town. though portland is considered a "foodie" town, i am often hardpressed to find a place i feel comfortable going back to. i have worked in food service for more than a decade and am often baffled by the "its very annoying to have to wait on you and be even remotely good at my job" attitude of most portland servers. i was soooo pleased and relieved to go to a restaurant that not only serves a great product, but actually acts nice to you and even seems like they really really want you to come back. it worked for me at saigon. went two days in a row in fact and can't wait to return. been trying pho all around town and this place is definitely the best. keep it up folks!

best vietnamese food around.

delicious... my family and i have been to saigon a handful of times so far, and plan on going back many more. the service is always friendly and the wait for the food isn't long. we have tried a few other vietmanese restaurants around town, and we have to say saigon is our favorite. i have yet to try all of the menu items, but i would have to say the shrimp vermicelli is my favorite. it comes with about 8 plump grilled shrimp mixed in with a bowl of noodles. i also really enjoy the rolls they offer as appetizers, the spring rolls and especially the summer rolls are really good.

won't go back!. we bought an amazon voucher to eat at the saigon restaurant but when we went there they told us that the voucher had already been used. we had never been to the restaurant and had not used the voucher. what a rip off.... unfortunately for us, they would not honor any part of the voucher. we stayed to eat, but will not return because of their lack of customer service. too bad for them... we totally would have made this one of our new favorite restaurants! i hope they're happy with saving $15 and that they feel they have a big enough customer base they can turn new customers away!

i'll join the other posters and sing the praises of this restaurant. we too were served complimentary cups of the crab soup. we shared one of the spring rolls which, for $3.50, has to be one of the best bargains in portland. the peanut sauce was great and not spicy, which is very important for me, but hot sauce was on the table for anyone with the tolerance. speaking of heat, my wife ordered the pad thai and they offered her a heat option between 1 and 5. when she said 4, the waitress asked twice to make sure. my wife loved it. i had vermicelli with beef and shrimp; also wonderful. all together, plus a small carafe of sake came to only $29. what a gem! oh yeah, they don't use any msg either.

cheap gourmet. i convinced an older friend who is still a little cautious about unfamiliar food to join me for lunch. the decor didn't reassure her, but when she tried the homemade eggrolls and tasted the fresh veggies in the shrimp fried rice, she was in love. i have been going through the soups one by one, as customizing your bowl with the little plate of fresh bean sprouts, jalepenos, thai basil leaves and a lime wedge, and them using the condiments that are on the table such as hoisin sauce, sambal and chili sauce is so enjoyable and keeps the heat where you want it. you are not going to find a better deal for asian food in ft. wayne!


-----04 mar, 2011-----

try saigon!. going to saigon restaurant was a happy accident, but one i'm glad we made. i didn't know soup could taste so complex. we asked out server, a young woman, avout many of the dishes, and she took time to explain what the differences were. the price is truly great, if you look at recipes for some of the soups you could spend $15/ 20 trying to make them yourself. so much healthier than any chain restaurant or fast food joint.

wonderful place!. great place! reason i am writing the review is how impressed we were with how they took the time to help us properly enjoy the main dish. this was our first time in a vietnamese restaurant so our background was basic at best. often we choose things on the menu that we are familiar with and wont deviate for fear of the unknown, this place is the place to give something different a try. they showed us how to blend the extra ingredients such as a little ginger and pepper spice to give it just the right flavor and just the right kick. so many places will serve and come back at the end but they were so friendly even though it was one busy place.  place was very clean with silverware that was better than home, price was not bad at all hence a nice tip was very easy to figure in.
this place made trying new cuisine a fun delicious experience. looking for a new place to try? this is a must to put on the list :)

best dish is bun bo xao!. you cannot find this anywhere else! this is the only vietnamese restaurant i will visit!

love it!. i love saigon,
food is tasty, cheap and affordable.
i come almost every weekend and i'm never disappointed.