XO Bistro – CBC Review

XO Bistro – CBC Review

This post is about XO Bistro, a Vietnamese restaurant in Edmonton, but please indulge me for a minute, first. I recently returned from five weeks in Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. I travelled with another food writer and suffice it to say, we ate a lot. An...
Whyte Avenue’s Pho Boy, for sure.

Whyte Avenue’s Pho Boy, for sure.

Fan of Pho? You’re going to like Pho Boy, a little Vietnamese restaurant in the old B’s Diner on Whyte Ave. The menu is concise with a half dozen appetizers, a couple of noodle bowls and a two soups plus the option to build your own. The pho broth has...

Pho & Bun: Edmonton’s Fab Pho

The debate of where to go for the best pho in Edmonton is a hot and steamy one. But my twenty year quest to find a Vietnamese noodle house—one that could hold a candle to my beloved but long-defunct Vientiane on 107th Avenue—has finally come to an end. I found the...