Viet Mama Cafe is one of the newest restaurants to open up on Victoria Drive. This little shop serves up home-style Vietnamese Cuisine. The menu is small, but they put a lot of love into each dish.
All the recipes come straight from their family kitchen. They decided to open up Viet Mama Cafe after getting multiple compliments from friends and family about how great their food is. The whole cafe is family run, so there is a lot of heart in the kitchen and in the food.
They do not use MSG in their pho and all their dishes use fresh ingredients.
We were invited to check out Viet Mama Cafe for some lunch.
Interior
The space isn’t too large, but has a decent amount of seats. We did notice on a weekday that it was pretty busy around 1pm. As the space is new, it’s very very clean and organized.
Kids
I brought along my 11 month daughter and they have high chairs available. They do have a handicap accessible washroom, but unfortunately no changing table. They were kind enough to let me change her on a table at the rear of the restaurant.
Menu
Iced Vietnamese Coffee
I love Vietnamese coffee. They serve this a bit different. It’s shaken up and then served so its already milked with the condensed milk. Nonetheless, it still tastes good and give you a kick of caffeine into your day.
Salad Roll / Goi Cuon
The salad roll has shrimp, pork, cilantro, mint, and vermicelli served with fish sauce. The sauce on the side was a bit on the salty side, so we used less of it. Everything tasted nice and fresh.
Meat Rice Roll / Banh Cuon Nhan
This has ice flour with pork, shrimp, fried ham, meatballs, fried shallots, and veggies served with fish sauce. There is also fresh herbs, lime and red chilis if you want to enhance the flavour. I love the addition of the fried shallots. I really enjoyed the dish and I would order it again.
Special Beef Noodle / Pho Dac Biet
This has beef brisket, rare beef, and beef balls over noodles. The pho was quite nice. More subtle in flavour as they don’t use MSG, but its such a clean tasting broth that makes you feel good afterwards. The portions were a great size.
Crab Meat Noodle with Fish Cakes / Bun Rieu Cua Cha Ca
This pho is also very popular. It has Real crab meat, fish cake, tofu and veggies over the broth and noodles. I really enjoyed it and the flavour had some depth to it.
Final Thoughts
Overall, we enjoyed dining at Viet Mama Cafe. The flavours were very clean, not too salty and just had a homey feel to the dishes. The menu doesn’t have too many items, but it’s a solid set of items that will satisfy customers. Very family friendly as well. I loved both pho dishes as well as the rice roll.
Address:
5118 Victoria Dr, Vancouver, BC
6 Comments
A changing table? Seriously are you fucking retarded?
These details are very important for new parents like myself. It may not be important for all guests, but it does matter.
Damn, this Me mogo person be salty af and needs to get a life.Bye Felicia! What a sore loser. These kind of things are important to new moms.
Chill Me Mogo, all worked up over a changing table? It’s not hurting anyone. Looks like you’re the retarded one. Go yell at an ironing board.
Do you know how stressful it is to change a baby in the trunk, on a table, on a lap, on the floor, in the back seat, or just standing up. Reviews like this helps moms prepare when going to a restaurant. Thank you Foodology! Keep up the good work
Hey Diana. Thanks for your informative blog post and great pics. It really is inviting! Just a note that Pho is not a general term for soup in Vietnamese. It is a type of rice noodle. Bun is the word you were looking for 🙂 just for future reference.