Lá Sen Vietnamese Cuisine

Its a wonderful place to enjoy a hearty and authentic meal. I visited with friends, and we were impressed by the fresh ingredients and rich flavors in every dish. The staff was warm and welcoming, making us feel right at home. I’ll definitely be coming back for more

Lá Sen Vietnamese Cuisine is a fantastic spot for authentic Vietnamese food! The flavors are rich, the ingredients are fresh, and the atmosphere is warm and inviting. The staff is friendly and provides excellent service. Highly recommended for anyone looking to enjoy delicious Vietnamese cuisine!

Found this relatively new resto on online as I was roaming on Yelp and Google and quickly came w/ my gf to take advantage of the 15% off all items from the dinner & weekend specials menu.

It's in the building adjacent to the Porsche dealership. You can park in the parking garage and then ask the servers to present you a pass which you can then insert in the parking garage machine when you exit, to exempt the parking cost.

Right off the bat when we walked in, we noticed the resto was pretty big and able to sit quite a number of customers. We arrive at 7pm-ish on a Sunday and got a table right away.

We got the wine-braised beef pho hotpot for 2, fish sauce wings and viet drip coffee w/ condensed milk.

The fish sauce wings were not consistent unfortunately. Some of them were juicy, some of them were overcooked and dry. They also took quite a while to make these (I think they should put a disclaimer on the menu in brackets that this item would take ~ 20-25 mins to prepare; that way, customers know to order it quickly before looking at the rest of the menu).

The wine-braised pho hotpot is a pretty unique item and this was the first resto in the GTA I've seen serving it. It was good! They stuff quite a bit of meat variety in your pot. Love my beef ribs and big chunks of brisket. The soup was tasty (not your typical beef pho broth).

My gf and I had one gripe though. The broth was lukewarm when it arrived. The server brings it to the table with this dinky little candle burner underneath. I'm not sure if the concept was to keep the pot warm with this tiny flame but we figured that the pot would slowly bubble and boil on low simmer. We were wrong lol. We enjoyed the dish but as a feedback to the resto, I think using an actual burner or bringing the pot to the table while it's still steaming hot/bubbling would be a definite improvement.

The drip coffee was as good as the one at our current fave spot, Ngon Corner.

I'd definitely be open to coming back in the future! They have some unique and interesting items that I don't think I've seen at other restos and want to try (ex. the golden crispy chicken rice and hue supreme beef noodle soup).

Price-wise it is slightly more expensive than Ngon Corner and Pho Anh Vu so comparatively speaking, I think those would continue to be our go-to's for pho.

This resto certainly has potential!

Parking: Grab parking pass from resto and use it to pay the parking machine when you leave

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

I'm not even kidding when I say they got whole North York shook with their cuisines. What an amazing place!! The tea got me melting in my chair. They got the best kind of tea, and that sets the whole vibe up for whatever you've ordered next. I mean, you can't go wrong with anything on the menu. It's not very complicated and it doesn't have 700 dishes either. The selection process is simple and quick. Their veggie soup tasted like a sweet nector from the heavens of Vietnam. I know I sound so much over the top with this review, but I have no other way to express what I truly felt after having dinner here. I hope the chefs stay passionate and they keep the quality of food and service consistent in the future as well. This is my favorite Vietnamese restaurant going forward. This is your sign to go eat there with your loved ones.
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Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

We are a repeat customer. First time we ordered take out and was pleased with the quality of the food.

Second time we decided to dine in and caught them at a very busy time during Sunday lunch hour. Food is very good and authentic. We ordered their special steam rice rolls and a pork broken rice dish. Portion is a decent size.

Service definitely has area of improvement as it seems like they are lacking a system. Management was receptive to feedback and we are looking forward to revisiting this place.

Location is convenient and free parking is available or paid street parking.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 3

yummers!!! ?? spring rolls and pho!!! very delicious!

we went around lunch time and they were very busy, so be careful if you don’t want to wait! our food came very fast, but the drinks were a little slow, probably because of how busy they were. i didn’t mind waiting because my coffee was very yummy :)

we will be returning! thank you ??

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

Clean and cozy place
Ordered beef spring rolls and vege spring rolls
Beefspringroll wasn’t really my type ( I thought grilled beef) vege one is really good!
Wanna go try pho soon

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 5

Beef not good, soup tasteless, no internet

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 1

Service: 4

Absolutely amazing place to have a Pho. Their signature beef tastes very good and their service level is beyond great.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Food was good, but it seemed like they didn't have enough staff for dinner time.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 3

Good authentic Northern Vietnamese food. We tried their Banh Tom Ho Tay, met nem lui! I think their pho broth is a bit salty for my liking

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Great place for pho and beef! And their pandan green tea is superb as well. Seems to be a newly opened place.

The food is great, love their beef hotpot, very generous with the meat portion and you can taste how fresh the beef are. My friend love their beef roll(the one with rice paper), she said it’s soft like glutinous rice cake.

We ordered a jelly like stuff for dessert, can’t remember the name but they put a variety of fruits and jelly in there, along with durian. I would order that again next time.

Call me biased cuz the owner packed me some pandan green tea, man I def would go back. Especially it’s like 40+ per person after tax, for that much food, oh yeah.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

I dined at La Sen last night and ordered the Pho Hot Pot. I was shocked to find a fake fingernail on one of the fried dough sticks! This was extremely disgusting, and I immediately brought it to the server’s attention, but the server simply took the plate away and said sorry without any further response. It was us who find the staff and asked for a result. We felt so disgusted that we stopped eating, paid the bill and left the restaurant immediately .

Food: 1

Service: 1

First time trying Lá Sen Vietnamese. The place seemed very clean and the service was great. The food on the other hand was just "ok". We ordered the combo specials that came with a drink, an appetizer and a main for $18.95 plus tax and tip. The drinks came in a small size cup, but were quite tasty. One of us ordered a crispy spring rolls and one of us ordered a fresh spring roll with prawn and pork as our appetizers. You got one small spring roll per combo. It tasted good, but nothing that really stood out. For our mains we ordered the Beef Pho. As part of the combo you get a small bowl with half a beef ball, a few shreds of tripe, one slice of raw beef (I think that's what it was) and about 3 slices of another type of beef, could have been brisket, but I'm not entirely sure. The broth was nice and light. I would've much preferred something more flavourful. The upside is that they do validate parking as long as you park within the building's parking lot. Just give the server your parking ticket and they will sort you out. Too bad we did not find out about this until after we paid for street parking.
All in all, our lunch was good, but I don't think I would go back here unless I was very hungry and in the immediate area, or they dropped their combo prices a bit.

Parking: If you park within the building's garage, bring your ticket to the server and they will sort out your parking for you.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 5

Customer service is always amazing and you can tell the team is always working on improvements to the food and experience. Really enjoy coming here for lunch or dinner.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5