1280 Saint-André Berri-UQAM métro
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Tel. 849-0429. Every day, 11 a.m. 'til midnight.
$15 for two before beer, taxes and service. Table d'hôte: $5.95—$6.45 (noon). No credit cards.
Café Saigon is a classic Vietnamese greasy spoon, sandwiched between UQAM and Radio-Canada/CBC—a clientele all too cognizant of the effect of budget cuts on expense accounts. Featuring delicious fire soup, the freshest ingredients, and hot sauce on each table, this is one of the surest spots to get real bang for your buck. Free tea. Beer, a felicitous accompaniment to Vietnamese food, is also avallable. Genuinely friendly service spoken here. TV, burbling quietly in the corner. An aquarium doing likewise. Student hangout. So out, it's in.
Sample menu: Mytho noodle soup, saté soup, tonkinois soup, noodle soup with beef and tomato sauce, vermicelli with imperial roll and thinly sliced pork, ginger sauté, Saigon fried fish, fried bananas, fried apples, almond cookies.
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