With so many great Vietnamese restaurants in Calgary I would not recommend going here. Welcomed by a lady yelling from across the restaurant "sign the paper" (AHS Covid registry). I obliged and looked up to see her pointing at a booth. I made my way to my table and a few moments later she dropped off a menu a napkin and break apart paper enclosed chop sticks. After reviewing the menu I made eye contact and she made her way over to take my order. Not a word was spoken by her. She wrote down my order snatched my menu out of my hand and disappeared into the back. I ordered Shrimp and Pork salad rolls and a bowl of Sate Beef Pho. The salad rolls looked like dehydrated grey flaccid - you know what. There was no taste at all and were rubbery. The Sate Pho was void of any Sate and any taste at all. Under seasoned and unenjoyable. To replicate what others have said there was no basil garnish and the sprouts appeared old, dehydrated and grey. To make it all worse the staff was mopping the floor right beside me through out my meal!!!! I arrived at 1pm this was not close to closing time. I could go on a bit more but why? You get the drift this place isn't good. I have scratched it off my list for sure. read more

This Restaurant USED to be good, but now the food quality is DISMAL and meager. Using cheap quality ingredients, and the wait staff is incompetent and NON-CARING, the bathrooms are dumpy and generally impresses me as a place that has gone DOWNHILL. I shall Never return, too many other good choices. read more

This was my first time visiting a Vietnamese restaurant in a while and it wasn't a great start. The service was not good, as we get rude looks from the waitress. I asked her what the vegetarian options were and she looked upset with me and didn't recommend anything. I ordered something random and it was not what she told me it would be. I didn't leave a tip and won't be returning for the rude service. read more

Let me start my review of this place buy saying That it would get a very easily get a 1 IF the food was any less than "pretty decent" the service at this establishment is really not good at all ( a lot of the time) i could tell you a few stories about the service here! like the time my Dad was sitting at a table for 40 minutes and not even one server came to take his order! and this place is a small joint so there is no way you could just not notice a customer ! So he literally stormed out and never ever will go back ! My friends and I have had such a relationship with this place, the food can be really quite good or not so good, sometimes it taste fine but you can tell next to no effort or care was put into it(i know that sounds weird) other times its actually on par with any other average vietnamese place! not very consistent! buts thats just how I feel, either way i just go here when I am too lazy to go anywhere else (as this place is in an area that I visit often with virtually no better choices to dine at a lower pricepoint) Its not a great place thats for sure! average at its best, not good at its worst. The service for me (because sometimes its jaw droppingly bad) is really the kicker for me! it is sort of one those places I am indifferent to because of that. read more

Shawnessy Vietnamese Restaurant - Here It is, the simple sub! - Vietnamese Near Me - Calgary, Alberta

Service was good and staff friendly and the food came out quickly but.... Ordered the beef and spring roll vermicelli bowl. The beef was dried out little strips and the spring rolls tasteless. The noodles were also a little on the dry side. The sauce lacked heat and flavor which needed significant assistance from a large amount of houses and hot sauce. I would not come here again, and would not recommend it read more

First time ordering from here. This is my "grilled pork and shrimp" vermicelli ... I think it is deep fried paste. Not impressed and I can't finish it. Another person ordered Pho and says it's not bad but not amazing either. I don't think we will be ordering again from this place. read more

Shawnessy Vietnamese Restaurant - Ordered grilled pork and shrimp vermicelli bowl. - Vietnamese Near Me - Calgary, Alberta

I just had eaten this last night and a drink and supposably for a odd reason I start feeling weird and sick right after it's good but just no read more

This place is a complete disaster. I ordered the special pho and received something similar to dishwater. The soup has a disgusting taste and the meat was sparse. Is tendon supposed to be hard? read more

My friends think it is really good. I think they may have sniffed glue. Perhaps they have never had really tasty food. Ever. They food is bland, and luke warm at best. And inconsistent results, sometimes it has not been half-bad, but most times it is dismal. Do yourself a favour and drive 5 minutes up the road to McLeod & Canyon Meadows and go to Sunshine Vietnamese. 10 gazillion times better and the service is always super friendly. read more

Please avoid this place. It used to be my family's "go-to" place for a quick meal, but everything seemed to go downhill in the last few years, or I'm just noticing it. I came here with my parents. My father ordered a rice dish, the rice was still raw. When we told the server, he smiled at us, mumbled something, and walked away. None of us knew what he said. I ordered the rare beef pho. My beef did not look like beef. It was a pale pinkish grey. At least I didn't get sick. My mother ordered a stir-fry egg noodle dish. Near the bottom of the dish she started finding some translucent, jelly-like clumps everywhere. It turns out that the chefs threw in the corn starch and stirred it around to make the "sauce" and most of it didn't get absorbed. Gross. Never coming back. read more

I know, I know ... Health code violations, rodents, etc. etc. ... but I can't help making a visit to "Greenie V's" every now and then. At $4.75 the subs are likely the cheapest in the city and, well, ya kinda get what you pay for. Not the highest quality, to be sure, but able to "fill a void" at that price. The sub I had this afternoon was the strangest yet. It tasted like the cucumber was soaked in sugar water! Weird! ... I'm not really selling you on this place, am I? The pho I've had (when I feel "classy" enough to be seated and served) is also not that bad! Not the best, but again, not the worst. read more

Ate here 3 times in the past few months. Food has been average and the service/communication has been absolutely terrible. Last two times we have ordered we have ended up with something completely different then what we had asked for. I ordered an item and got no rice, even though the menu item specifically said it was served on a bed of steamed rice. When i asked the waiter he muttered they were out of rice and then quickly left. My friend ordered seafood on shanghai noodles, and she got seafood, vegi's... no shanghai noodles. wow. Needless to say I think we are done with this place. read more

The food was decent-tasting, but the service was less than satisfactory. We walk in and the guy on his cellphone seats us in the worst seat, although the restaurant was empty. We chose to sit elsewhere, and he was okay with it, but let us show ourselves to the seat. It seems he was seating people add close to the kitchen as possible due to laziness! He delivered our food with no smiles nor even a word. The Vietnamese spring rolls contained exactly one shrimp, sliced into for thin slices. Decent flavour, though. Beef noodle soup was a bit heavy on the MSG, though. I would only recommend this place to the really hungry. read more

So I've been to this place a lot over the years...seems like there was a different man running the show at the front of the restaurant this time? Food is decent but they got a star deducted right away when they said they have no basil with the Pho. I don't understand this. It's like going to your favourite burger joint and they tell you they don't have any ketchup today. Whack. 3 stars. read more

My recent craving for Sushi isn't that hard for me to believe. The same thing happened a couple of years back with Vietnamese food. Once I tried it I was hooked and I set out to sample all the locations nearest to me. Shawnessey Vietnamese is one of those locations that I've always been fairly satisfied with. The food is solid, it's fairly priced, and the service is usually good. It may not be my favorite place, but it's convenient and not a bad choice if you're looking. 20/30 read more

Affectionately known as the Pervert's Lair, this Vietnamese restaurant is handy merely for its proximity to the movie theaters, the Starbucks, and our place. Their dinner special vermicelli dish (with skewers of pork, chicken, beef, and ground shrimp wrapped around a sugar cane) is usually tasty, if a little steep at $14, and their vermicelli in general is a good dose of Vietnamese food when you're craving it. However, the service is often shoddy, and the owner is truly unpleasant, always prickly and aloof. A classic example of convenience over quality. read more

I always wanted to try this place but never took the time to do it but when finally one day I had the time went there I had the vermicelli with the salad rolls shrimp and pork the salad rolls had no taste at all the meat in the vermicelli had no taste just plain how ever the fish sause was ok they are a lot cheaper then a lot of Vietnamese restaurant's but you get what you pay for don't know if I'll be back read more

Salad rolls = average at best . Vietnamese Chicken dish = mystery Chicken that tasted like it was mass produced in a laboratory . Gross Beef noodle Pho = 3/10. No big deal. Edible but not delicious Underbite server was average . read more

I've driven past this place millions of times, and finally decided to have lunch here today with my mom. The man, who I believe is the owner, did not say a word to us when we walked in. He just pointed at a table, dropped the menus and left. Like other reviews stated, service is slooooow. It took forever for anyone to take our order even though the man walked past our table several times. We each ordered the lunch special, which came with a choice of spring rolls or salad rolls. The spring rolls were literally as thin as my pinky finger and were also quite greasy. The salad rolls were soggy and ripping (perhaps rice paper soaked too long?). They also had maybe one tiny piece of shrimp in them. Our food came in a good time frame, but they literally dropped it at the table and left without saying a word. Nobody came by the entire time we were eating either to see how everything was. The broth for the pho was blaaaand. I had to put tons of hot sauce in it to get any flavor and the beef in it was highly questionable. It was a weird grey color and was incredibly tough. My mom had beef vermicelli over noodles with spring rolls. She too found her meal bland and she had to douse it in hoisin sauce for any flavor to appear. The most service we received was when we were paying. Funny how the man suddenly got friendly when he was taking our money. Couldn't have cared less about us beforehand. Oh well, I tried it and I really don't think I will return. I've had way better Vietnamese food, that's for sure. read more

This place was fantastic, it had great food and but the service was a bit slow but it was very busy that night. I would love to come here again! read more

Food has always been fast and delicious. Service is always great even though it can be very busy at times. Try the chicken wings yum yum.

I have been here many times and I love the food and the quick service. I always get the Wor Wonton soup because in my opinion it is the best dish on the menu. The staff is nice although not too interactive, but overall it's a great environment and it's a nice place to get a bite to eat before a movie at Landmark. read more

Food is better or equal to any other Vietnamese restaurant in Calgary. Service was fast and the waiter was pleasant enough. Decent atmosphere for your average Vietnamese place. read more

I have been to this restaurant a couple times. It has always been above average. The only complaint I have is the underwhelming staff. Very cold and frankly rude to their guests. I rather go to Oriental Phoenix. Food and ambiance is far superior.. I won't be returning. read more

Horrible! Went for lunch here today and my paralyzer tasted like dirt, the bubble tea curdled and separated, they had to check if some of their dishes in stock. I would never go back here again read more