I made an account just so I can express my anger and frustration with this restaurant. I am just a new 18 year old student living on my own and looking for a cheap place to eat. I am generally a pho lover and decided to stop by this restaurant on Kingsway.

When I first walked in, the young looking man with tattoo just stared at me. Then I said for one and he told me to sit anywhere. He then tossed a menu on the table like I was someone who didn't deserve respect. Afterwords, he gave me a cup of ice water. I could have at least a cup of warm tea. I already knew what I wanted to order, pho dac biet, the usual. The waiter looked like he did not want to take my order and all and I was tempted to just get up and order at the front. It took maybe 10 minutes before he came to me and when I ordered, he just walked away like nothing happened.

When I got my food, he just tossed my bowl on the table without looking at me, no smile or anything. I didn't want to say thank you to him. Then I'm eating and he is constantly staring at me which made me a little bit nervous. The food here was okay, but not great, you get what you pay for i guess.

After paying and saying thank you, I got no response from the waiter, no smile or good bye greeting. From this experience, I will definitely not return and rather eat at the pizza store next door.

The service here was not polite nor did they care about the customers. They just work for their dirty money. I DO NOT RECOMMEND ANYONE TO GO HERE EVEN IF YOU ARE HUNGRY AT 3 IN THE MORNING.

I've been to this pho restaurant a few times - but I don't think I would return...unless I was desparate for pho. The pho I've had hear was at best, "eh". First time, my chicken pho arrived just warm (thank god it wasn't a rare beef pho) - which was really hard to enjoy when you're expecting a nice hearty hot bowl of soup. I didn't want to ask for them to reheat it because well, yes I admit...I was scared. The owners(?) all sat at a table in the front of the restaurant and they looked like gangsters! They all sat with one leg up on the chair picking their teeth with toothpicks and spitting! Not approachable at all!
The last time I went, the soup was hot, but the broth very flavorless. The springrolls were greasy. And that was when I decided that would be my last time there.
The restaurant looks much bigger from the outside but when you step inside, you've been fooled by the walls of mirrors.
The one good thing this place has going is that it is open 24-hours, so at any time you crave pho - it's there. Personally, I'd much rather go to Bino's next door.

I was looking for a solid meal and got one for take out. Food was standard Pho in takeout containers - the nice thing is that they separated the Soup (with beef balls) from the Noodles/partially cooked meat/other items. The soup was piping hot and cooked everything in the other bowl nicely.

The bad thing is that you end up having what appears to be slightly less Pho than in the restaurant...

We also ordered that fried Spring Rolls which were pretty good and solid.

Overall it was a solid place for when I needed some solid food at home.

But where was my mint...?! Sadly, despite lots of bean sprouts and lime, the mint didn't make it into the takeout bag!!

This was picked up around dinner hours on a weekend, they were very busy in the restaurant though!

As I walked into this place, it gave me a very dirty feeling.

The waiter says "anywhere, anywhere". so we picked out seat and sat down. He threw the menu on the table for us, like we were some dog in a cage. I had a couple of questions about the items on the menu, the waiter answered me that he was in a rush and I was wasting his time.

My lunch came and half way through my main course, my salad roll was not served yet. I asked him, and he yelled at me with great disgust, that it was coming.

Food was okay, but a little tasteless.

I do not think I will be coming back here again.

I went into GT because I wanted a change from Honolulu, and the nearby Lingering Taste just seemed weird. Mrs. C was with me and we needed some pho to drive away the rain and damp outside. I ordered a rare beef and tripe, and my favourite dining companion had the beef stew with noodles. We also tried the spring rolls and an iced coffee. The spring rolls were overcooked, but otherwise tasted okay. The iced coffee was also acceptable. Alas, the pho was not so good. My pho had no tripe, despite that particular meat being one of the feature ingredients, and it was not hot, so my bean sprouts and rare beef didn't get all the thermal energy they needed. The broth tasted okay, but the noodles were a bit gluey.

Mrs. C's beef stew was slightly better, with savoury chunks of beef that were flavourful but a little too tough. It was not as hot as could be either. Her noodles were reported to be fine.

The restaurant was dirty and the w/c was particularly nasty. I liked the neon, which gave it a festive feel. Actually the mirrors everywhere reminded me of the scene in Enter the Dragon where Bruce Lee fights Shih Kien, the guy with the hand made out of kitchen knives. Obviously if I was thinking about Bruce Lee, the pho wasn't holding my attention...

The service was okay, and I have no complaints there, but some girl in the restaurant kept stairing at me, which could be a good or bad thing depending on why. But I digress. I won't be riding the gold train again since there are so many better choices nearby.

To recap: Not a good pho restaurant.

A typical family-run Vietnamese restaurant, nothing fancy. Not dirty, but not particularly spotless either. It's got neon, it's got TVs, it's got tacky chairs and decor, and sticky menus, in other words: authentic.

I usually drop in there every couple of weeks for a bowl of Pho for lunch or after The Grind. The soup is good, but the beef is hit and miss. Sometimes it's very good, other times it's fatty and stringy, sometimes there's lots of it, sometimes you have to ration it. Even the soup is a little on the fatty side sometimes, although I suspect it is mostly a function of the beef.

Service is typical in such a place, nothing to write home about. You'll usually get tea/ice water when seated, rarely a follow up visit after the food is delivered. Although I have not had the other dishes there, lunch companions report it to be adequate. The spring rolls, which I have not had in quite some time, were home made and not the generic store bought type, and more Cambodian in style.

The word of the day here is: inconsistent. Even the music is hit and miss, sometimes quiet and unobtrusive, other times loud and obnoxious. Probably depends on the staff in front.

One of my top 3 favorite Pho places in the Vancouver area.

The 24 hrs service provides a warm psychological comfort.

Atmosphere is great for loners as well as groups. The blaring music and staff shouting in Vietnamese among mirrored walls under neon lights -- all creating an atmosphere perfect for insomniacs, happy couples, or anyone with $7 in their pocket and don't feel like cooking.

Service ? Well, nobody really go to places like this for that kind of thing, do they? It's also why the bathroom looks like that.

The soup in the pho has fairly low sodium for pho -- lowest sodium on Kingsway for pho.

From my experience, 9 out of 10 times, the beef bones are cooked properly into the broth.

Worth going back for.

My wife and I had a hunger for pho so we decided to stop by Gold Train on Kingsway. When we entered, we were half heartedly greeted and had the menu thrown on the table.

The food was decent for pho standards, but it's like almost every other pho place.

Value was standard, you pay for what you get at these pho places.

Ambiance was alright, lots of windows to look out into the street. Aside from that, not much else.

Service - I gave them a 1 star rating because they seemed to have either an attitude or they were not even interested. We tried to flag someone down multiple times for service, but the waitress just looked at us and walked on by.

Overall, we won't be back due to the poor service. Kingsway is full of other pho places.