After much discussion/argument about where to go last night, Danielle and I settled for Golden Turtle. Golden Turtle is a Vietnamese restaurant on Ossington famous for its pho. It first showed up on my radar with this write-up in The Star, which described how Golden Turtle was Susur Lee's choice for top pho in Toronto:
For those of you who don't know, pho is a rice noodle soup typically served in rich pork broth with rare beef. It comes to your table with sprouts, fresh lime and basil, which you put in yourself, in addition to hoisin sauce and hot sauce to taste. All this comes together for a deliciously complex flavour.
Danielle typically orders a dish called bun, which is a bowl of rice noodles with grilled pork or fried pork spring rolls and herbs, covered in fish sauce, with hoisin and sriracha on the side.
Golden Turtle sticks out on the gentrifying strip of Ossington between Queen and Dundas and harks back to a time when this street was not inundated with fine dining like Yours Truly/Libretto/Boehmer etc. What you get is simple, fast, delicious, consistent and cheap. Dinner for two (with a glass of wine ) was $24.
Golden Turtle gets 4 stars.
"The boss of the big restaurant, he knew my restaurant," Hoang Nguyen says on a recent morning. He is sitting in the small dining room at 125 Ossington Ave. before the inevitable lunch rush, trying to explain why his pho – a Vietnamese rice-noodle soup served with rare beef and bean sprouts – has been called the best in the city.Ever since this endorsement, Golden Turtle has been my go-to spot for Vietnamese food in a city with many, many options.
"The food's really good and that's why the customer they sometimes, they saw the boss, Susur Lee," he says.
For those of you who don't know, pho is a rice noodle soup typically served in rich pork broth with rare beef. It comes to your table with sprouts, fresh lime and basil, which you put in yourself, in addition to hoisin sauce and hot sauce to taste. All this comes together for a deliciously complex flavour.
Danielle typically orders a dish called bun, which is a bowl of rice noodles with grilled pork or fried pork spring rolls and herbs, covered in fish sauce, with hoisin and sriracha on the side.
Golden Turtle sticks out on the gentrifying strip of Ossington between Queen and Dundas and harks back to a time when this street was not inundated with fine dining like Yours Truly/Libretto/Boehmer etc. What you get is simple, fast, delicious, consistent and cheap. Dinner for two (with a glass of wine ) was $24.
Golden Turtle gets 4 stars.
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