Claire Cameron
Probably the best Vietnamese food I’ve ever had. Food was pipping hot, there was an incredible amount of meat in the bun bo hue, and the flavour was extraordinary. The owner even took a minute to show me how to roll the spring rolls correctly, which I really appreciated!
The store seems to have plenty of regulars, and I can see why. The amount and quality of food you get is mind blowing with how low the price is. This is hands down my new favourite restaurant in Ottawa!
Henry
Hands down the most underrated and my favourite Vietnamese restaurant in Ottawa. The food is fresh, delicious and really well priced! I'd say around 30-40% cheaper than anywhere else but serving just as big if not bigger servings. Tried the bun bo Hue here and this is what it's supposed to taste like, so freaking good.
Staff was really friendly and you can see how hard they are working. They deserve the best! Overall, this place is awesome. I would HIGHLY recommend trying out the food here!
Peter Chung
Best Bun Bo Hue in Ottawa hands down. Pho was also really good and the fried spring rolls were perfectly cooked...light and crispy. We will be back for sure.
Mun’s Channel
I’m Vietnamese and always looking for authentic Vietnamese restaurant in Ottawa . Im quite picky in Vietnamese food . But Huong ‘s Vietnamese Bistro met every my needs . Should try : bun bò Huế , bò lá lốt . The price is 👍🏻👍🏻
Staffs are friendly and kind
Jessica Xiong
If we lived in Ottawa we'd come here every week! Bun bo hue and grilled pork were delicious. Also very friendly service. I'd definitely recommend this place!
Chris Tom
One of my favorite places to have traditional Vietnamese dishes i haven't found in Ottawa since traveling around Vietnam. The owner is amazing and remembers my orders and quirky preferences. Easily a staple place to eat in Ottawa.
Jack Wang
This is my favourite Vietnamese restaurant in Ottawa. The pho broth has a very homemade kind of taste and is much better tasting and less oily than any other restaurant serving pho in Ottawa. The pricing is competitive compared to their competitors. Have been coming in for years and will continue to do so.
Windelynn Wonder
You know a restaurant is good when it's packed with locals both dining in and take out. This place offers authentic food, and it's very quick. The pho was piping hot same the banh xeo was amazing! Well definitely come back. It is located just within the outskirts of Chinatown but there's plenty of parking.
Thao Nguyen
Delicious food and friendly service.<br/>The restaurant is open for take-out during the covid-19 pandemic. Their food is well-packed and prepared very quickly.
Mark Warburton
Huong's is one of the gems in Ottawa's flourishing Vietnamese food scene. Overall quality is good, and it's the best or only place in town for certain hard to find dishes like bánh xèo, bún riêu, bún chả cá, bột chiên trứng, and hủ tiếu sa-tế. Free parking in the lot across the street after 5pm on weekdays and all day on weekends.
HJN
Most authentic Vietnamese cuisine. I love this restaurant, especially for being true to the vietnamese cuisine. As much as I am not particularly picky, but I am with vietnamese food (since I am vietnamese). <br/><br/>I would recommend trying their Hanian style chicken dish, pho, rice wraps, bun Bo hue (spicy beef broth soup), Bun cha ca (Fish patty in broth with vermicelli) and just almost everything on their speciality menu. Don't be afraid to try various dishes.<br/><br/>The staff are also wonderful and efficient. Only thing negative, is finding parking, but again it's location falls between Chinatown and Little Italy.
Hayley P
Saying the food is mediocre is being generous. Worst vietnamese food in the city.
Hoxjennifer
My go to place for Wraps!. Well not just mine, my family's. But this place is awesome. They renovated about a year ago, so it's much more spacious and decor improved. They do great traditional rice dishes, vermicelli and do-it-yourself rice wraps (you can't go wrong with this dish). I recommend this place for non-Viets who are curious about what we eat other than pho LOL!
WMSmith
The BEST Vietnamese food in Ottawa, hands down. Broth is perfect, and you can't go wrong with any of the vermicelli dishes. Their Vietnamese spring rolls (deep fried rice wraps) are so, so good. After going to Vietnam and having real Vietnamese food, I can confidently say that Huong's is the most authentic experience in Ottawa. Highly recommended.
Guy Eating
This place is awesome. The regular menu is aimed at individuals not familiar the Vietnamese language. Having some familiarity with it, I order off the white-board and the regular menu. <br/><br/>If your are not adventuresome, and stick to the menu, you will not be disappointed.<br/><br/>What would be best is if the white board was also in English. This place could introduce Ottawa to the wonderful varieties of Vietnamese cuisine.<br/><br/>Excellent.
Alex
It's unfortunate that many diners will miss some of Huong's best dishes, for the simple reason that the specials menu (on a whiteboard on the wall) is printed in both Vietnamese and Chinese, but not in English. If you don't read either Asian language, you'd never know to ask for the Bun Bo Hue, which is a beef noodle soup entirely different from the more familiar pho. It's thick, intensely flavored with lemongrass and chili, and the noodles are fat round rice noodles rather than the flat kind. Another dish to try at Huong's (this one featured on the regular menu) is the Banh Xeo, which is a kind of large crepe stuffed with pork, shrimp and bean sprouts, and served with lettuce and fresh mint leaves.
Micheal
Overrated period! Average food at best. Def not the best. The fish cake soup was horrid esp. The fish cake was brought frozen! Who sells processed food at restaurant? The pork chop was dry and hard. Sorry, it is unacceptable.
Hannah
Tasteless and not fresh!. Pork chop on rice was dry and tasteless! They have many dish option and most of the special is not even fresh probably cook over months and just reheated...
John Ng
Winner. From the friendly and polite staff, to the well thought-out and patiently prepared dishes, this unassuming restaurant off the fringe of Chinatown is a delight in so many ways. As other posters have commented, the spring rolls are superb - fully filled, tightly wrapped, with a satisfying, crunchy bite. I had the spicy crab meat noodle soup and its broth was infused with lemongrass, mint and onion in a deep, beef bone stock. It was unique in that no other Vietnamese restaurant in town has a soup quite like this. Very original.<br/><br/>There are house specials listed on a board hanging on the wall. They are all worth a try. The price is reasonable. The portions are decent. And again, the owner and his staff are very welcoming.
Robb Angelo
Great Springs rolls (A3). I have been trying all sort's of pho for years now, and Huong's Pho is great. However, the Spring Rolls (A3) are to die for! Simply fanstatic and consistent. This place is full with local foodies every week, and rightfully so.
Imhungry
Oh so good!. This is a place I frequent often. It has amazing pho, and I know people always say that about Vietnamese restaurants but this really is good. The shrimp salad rolls are HUGE and you get individual peaut sauce. Yes, the peanut sauce is amazing. If you are interested they also have a seafood salad that is to die for.
Foodguy
Very good.. Great service and great food.Best Vietnamese in town! The real thing a must go.
Anton Ego
I've been going for a couple of years for a number of reasons - great service, the best pho in town (get N11!!), great food, great prices, and I've never been disappointed. The BBQ pork is delicious and the broth is also very good. Also, their satay soup is home made and has lots of flavor. A must try!
Wolf
Yes!. Without a doubt I wanted to try this place, since the review, and the critic, who is hard to impress from the get go, both were impressive. I had both the Shrimp Rolls with Peanut Sauce and Phở tái and let me tell you, absolutely amazing. The Rolls were simple, fresh, and delicious, as for the Phở, the broth was absolutely perfect, not too salty, and you could definitely tell that all the components had been reducing at a slow boil back in the kitchen. Noodles were perfect and still held density.<br/><br/>I want to go back this minute,.<br/>that should give you an idea, you should too.
Cool Food Dude
It's the sound of the batter hitting the hot oil that gives this dish (pronounced "bun say-o") its name: banh xeo. Literally "sizzling cake." Though it's difficult to pinpoint its origins, one theory suggests that banh xeo was developed from the crêpe, introduced to Vietnam during the French colonisation in the 19th century. The thin, runny batter is ladled into a large flat crêpe pan or shallow wok and swirled quickly across the pan until it's very thin, crisp and golden. The crêpe is then generously topped with pork, shrimp, diced green onion and bean sprouts and folded. Once cut up, it is served in lettuce or mustard leaves and stuffed with mint, basil and dipped in a sweet and sour diluted fish sauce. The banh xeo combines interesting contrasts of texture and flavour. The crunchy exterior, the perfume of the fresh herbs punctuated by the pungent dipping sauce make for a rewarding and appetizing culinary experience. Venerable gourmands will want to check out Huong's Vietnamese Bistr
Mary
These rice dishes were pretty interesting.
Michael Suddard
For Friday dinner my wife and I headed over to Ottawa's Chinatown to visit a decently recommended restaurant slightly off the popular path of Somerset Street West. Just to the south of Somerset on Booth Street is Huong's Vietnamese Bistro ( 343 Booth Street, Ottawa ). Huong's Vietnamese Bistro was positively reviewed in 2011 by the Ottawa Citizen 's Food Critic Ann DesBrisay and in the Ottawa Magazine by Shawna Wagman . As well, Huong's was also consistently highly rated on Urbanspoon.com . So I thought we should test it out to see if it could still be good in 2013. We arrived at 4:30 P.M. to find a restaurant that seemed with an ambiance stuck in the 1960s. The only thing that seemed at all modern was the newspaper reviews framed on the walls from the 2000s. The glass top tables with decorative fabric table cloths and more copies of the newspaper reviews underneath were a nice touch though. The service declined from pretty good to poor by the end of our meal. There was one se
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