Saigon Kitchen - Surprise

Food is always great here. Prices have went up post covid but what hasnt. Still worth it the food is wonderful. Hadnt visited in a while but was still delicious as usual

I am currently sitting at Saigon Kitchen and I had to write a review. I'm not one to leave reviews so it really takes a lot for me to be writing this. I have eaten here numerous times. From the atmosphere, to the staff, to the FOOD. Everything is superb. This time, the chef (Dennis) brought me out something that wasn't even on the menu because he thought I'd like it. He was wrong. I LOVED it. Grape leaf wrapped beef with an amazing house sauce. I will be coming back here over and over and over.

Ordered two different kinds of fried rice. The rice was old and dry and all broken up. I used my broth soup to reconstitute the rice but still after two bites I could not eat it. It tasted rancid. My guest was relieved, because he was forcing himself to eat as to not offend me. I did take the dishes home... maybe for the dogs... but on further examining it at home the chicken in the fried rice was indeed spoiled smelled awful tasted awful and dogs were not getting this food. From the 3 bits we did take we both got sick and got Montezuma's revenge. I put a 0 with a slash through the bill wrote awful and initialed it. Fought the bill through my credit card... no apology from the restaurant. $47 of rotten food. I will say tho that other plates around us looked fresh and had good presentation. Ours did not!! The place was decent looking but not comfortable.

This was the nicest ambiance Vietnamese restaurant I visited in Phoenix area, and I've been to a lot of them. The price is a little higher than the majority of Vietnamese restaurants in the valley, but they have happy hour prices 11 AM to 6 PM every day including weekends. The combination pho was very tasty, even the meatballs in the pho were good... and I normally don't like Vietnamese meatballs. Of course they had all the standard accoutrements to go along with the pho. The spring rolls had just enough mint without being too overpowering. Even the shrimp in the spring rolls actually had a shrimp flavor vs the flavorless ones out other restaurants. The peanut sauce for the springrolls was a little too salty for my taste... but even considering that I used it all. The shaken beef filet mignon was so tender, yet a little crispy on the edges from the grilling with an awesome flavor. I had wanted to visit this restaurant after seeing it on little people big world (TV show) noticed how nice it looked inside. The music level was just right, allowing you to easily have a conversation with others at your table. This restaurant has a full bar and lounge, I believe they open the lounge later in the evening as it was a saturday and 11:40 AM when we arrived so the lounge was not open at that time The only negative, What they call black tea is actually a passion fruit flavored tea, but they don't tell anybody that it's flavored. However, they swapped it out for a sprite, but the syrup/carbonation mix was off on the sprite. It tasted more like club soda, they made another one for us, which tested a little better, but it did not taste like sprite. It tasted like some weird off brand. I did appreciate that they didn't over charge on the sodas or tea, which were only two dollars each. It's a pet peeve of mine when restaurants, charge three and four dollars and up for a medium soda. So I'm glad their soda/Tea prices are more reasonable Overall, I was very happy. And plan on coming back next time I'm in the area.

Our $22 Filet Mignon Pho had bok choi, mushrooms and beef shank, no filet. The broth is decent. Shrimp fried rice was dry. Salmon clay pot was super dry. $28 stir fry Soba noodles were absolutely terrible. $250 bill for 7 people.