Saigon Cafe

Love this place!!! Been going for 20 years!! Incredibly fresh and very tasty food. Love the crispy spring meat filled spring rolls, pha rare beef soup, chicken and shrimp pineapple fried rice, the sweet chili prawns to die for!!!!!!
Apr 23rd, 2022

Saigon Cafe is the best Vietnamese food in Saint Louis, period. The Ga Xao Xa Ot is amazing and very flavorful! The pho is very good as well, and seasoned just right. Highly recommend to anyone looking for Vietnamese food in STL.
Apr 19th, 2022

Great place for pho when the pasta selection at the other place is sub par, and when your baby needs some chicken soup.
Apr 13th, 2022

I just ate here for dinner and was not impressed. On a positive note, the staff was friendly and courteous. Service was really nice. Unfortunately, that didnt make up for everything else. The food came in small portions, which isnt necessarily a bad thing if your prices reflect that. But these prices were extremely high. We ordered three meals, two appetizers, and only drank water, and our total came to almost $100. The food was just okay. It was bland with not much flavor. You had to smother everything with soy sauce or sriracha to actually be able to taste your food. We didnt have any leftovers to take home, which would have been fine, but for $100, I want leftovers. There was also not much ambiance. I suppose the look of the restaurant reflected the food the was served, boring and bland. No booths or atmosphere, just a bunch of tables and chairs in a big open room. Moreover, they charged me an automatic gratuity AFTER bringing me a bill that didnt include it. Little did they know that I probably would have tipped them more had they not done that, because as I stated before, service was great, and our waitress was kind and attentive. But if you charge me an automatic gratuity, especially without notice, youve lost my business forever.
Apr 16th, 2022

This place is not worth its 4.5 star standing. The customer service and people at the restaurant were all very nice and professional. The issue is 100 percent the food! This was the worst Vietnamese food I have ever eaten/seen in my life! We ordered several dishes because this place was highly recommended. The chicken wings were disgustingly sweet, not a note of spice or flavor except the poorly executed orange sauce (yes Chinese orange sauce). The salad Goi Tom Ga was an over priced joke for the amount of errors made in a simple salad. The shrimp was poor quality and quantity, it was incredibly salty/watery. Not to mention these already small shrimp were sliced in half, making the disgraceful portion, just insulting. The rest of the salad was equally as salty and watery without any other flavors. The chicken was boiled and soaked in a terribly sweet and salty mixture. Finally, the Pho this was the absolute worst excuse for pho that I have ever seen. The noodles way over cooked and soggy/mush, the broth was flavorless not even close to what a beef bone broth should taste like. Also, the broth was warm at best. The steak was decent and the meatballs were awful. The only item ordered that was edible was the Cha Gio (crispy spring rolls). They were at least cooked to order.
Apr 11th, 2022