Everything was really good, and the prices were reasonable. The food came quickly. I would go back.

If you are not looking for ambiance, but are looking for the best Vietnamese soup (satay, wor won ton, etc) in Calgary, for a very fair price, Co Do is your place. Run by a hardworking family, this 17th ave stalwart offers steaming, large bowls of uniquely tasty soup (shrimp satay is my favourite!). Unlike many other restaurants whose broths are dull, Co Do offers real flavour. The spring rolls... more

BE WARNED - look at your food before you eat it! We ordered take out and asked several times, very clearly and had it confirmed that there was a fatal peanut allergy.
We looked over the food very quickly and once we got home opened for a closer look, BOTH DISHES CONTAINED PEANUT GARNISH. And not just a little.
I am incredibly thankful that I opened the boxes first and tried the chopped up bits.... more

Best peanut satay I have had in the city. Good service. Open late.

Order the right dishes, Co Do is pretty stellar.
Order the wrong dishes, Co Do is simply average.

There are few great things going for this place. First, it is open late (11pm). Second, it is super convenient. Third, the beers are very cheap aka great spot to start off your night before you start bar hopping along 17th.

The first time we were here, we ordered the non-typical dishes on the... more

Food is good. Service is OK. The owner is more interested on being on Facebook then looking after customers. If you don't want to serve customers hirer someone who does.

Given the high ratings, I actually had better but for the value, location (not much around here in terms of Viet) and cleanliness, this is an easy one to recommend.

Ordered the grilled pork on vermicelli, and as pic shows, this is an insane amount of meat! Enough for 2 ppl for sure. Noodles, i'm a bit of a snob: not as long and consistent, some short batches here and there.

but good tasting... more

I love Co Do. The food is always very good, swift service and you can get booze here.

It might be that it is just a short jaunt down the hill for me, but we keep coming back for the spicy chicken sate pho. Their noodle bowls are great too.

The only thing they are missing is they do not do Vietnamese subs. If they did that I would never eat anywhere else.

I'm not sure why this place gets 4/5 stars. The satay pho broth was about as tasty as dishwater. I'm not sure if they just had an "off" day but with the great reviews it gets I'm hoping so. Grumpy server as well. Yikes

A staple for pho in calgary, always reliable, open late, typical service...perfect go to for an awesome meal. Get the deep fried wontons added to your pho :)

In my opinion the perfect hang over cure is a big spicy bowl of pho. So after waking up with a headache this Sunday, my wife and I decided to try this establishment.

We were greeted by the host and immediately sitted. I ordered the large pho (8.5$) and my wife got the medium(7.5$) with everything in it. I specifically looked for tendon and tripe my two favorite ingredients in the pho.

The... more

I have been frequenting Co Do for a number of years and have tried many items on the menu. I have never been disappointed. The food quality has consistently been great and I believe that they offer the best prices in town (under $10).

I consider myself a pho addict. If I could eat it everyday I would. I am from overseas and where I'm from you can get cheap Pho pretty easily. I have also eaten it in Vietnam and fell in love with it there. Unfortunately since moving to the USA I have yet to find a great Pho and was pleasantly surprised when I came to Co Do for a warm Pho on a cold day. I honestly picked it because it was the... more

I've never had such quick service in my life!!!! The restaurant is always busy and I was pleasantly surprised by how fast we got our food, from arriving to ordering, I'd say 7 minutes. Now that's fast especially in Calgary!

Spring rolls were fresh and hot, beef pho was spicy (love spicy). I ordered the regular and the portion size was enough for two people! Condiments on the table were clean,... more

Mediocre food. Mediocre service. Everything seemed cheap

I love the Pho soups at Codo! They are the best I have had anywhere in the city.

I LOVE Vietnamese food. I'm contemplating a trip to Vietnam so that I can eat exclusively Vietnamese food for many weeks.

I did not love Co Do. Perhaps Co Do is short for COuld be DOing better.

Yeah, it's reasonably priced.
Yeah, you can get a glass of wine for $5.
Yeah, it's ok.

But, it's not that clean (which is kind of a big deal for me in food service establishments).
The food is pretty... more

Review #16 for Yelp's 30 Day Challenge 2012

I grabbed takeout from here the other night because it was after 9pm and my local Vietnamese place was closed.

I got a 47 B stir fried tofu and vegetables on rice vermicelli noodles. I appreciate they have some vegetarian options on their menu, but it's basically all the same, plain veggies and tofu or curried veggies and tofu on rice or noodles.
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love it.

The service was prompt. I walked in the door and I was led to a table immediately. The food came almost instantly after ordering. Great food, great service.

This would have been a 4-star if I had never been introduced to Basil or Pho Dau Bo.
Don't get me wrong, there's nothing truly amiss with the place. The service was reasonable. The Pho was quite serviceable. There's nothing bad here. My dining partner was quite impressed with her bubble tea as well.
However, after trying those other places, I just can't in good conscience give it a 5.
There is... more

A go to for me. So many Vietnamese places to choose from, I always come back. Quick, clean, and quality.

I used to love Co Do- in fact, it's the first Viet resto I ever ate at in Calgary (May 2000). Over the years and with many apparent changes in ownership, it's gone downhill. The size of servings has shrunk and I have to sadly say that I am boycotting them now and forever because I ordered fried rice there (based on the good luck I've had with fried rice at other viet places, like Thanh Long up... more

This was the place where I first learned what Pho was. It was an excellent intro.

We arrived about an hour before closing (something I don't like doing), but the staff were quite friendly and happy to serve us. I got a Beef Pho...but somewhere in there I didn't get any sort of spring rolls to start. I downed the pho and was full for the moment...but an hour or so later I was hungry again.
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For Vietnamese, this is the best I've had in Calgary. It's a tiny, basic little joint along a busy street with very limited parking, but the food is worth the hassle to get there!

The menu has all your typical Vietnamese items, and they make it right. Service is friendly and fast. I've been here about 15 times for dine in and countless times for take out. You can't go wrong here!

And if you... more

Had a good visit here - I had the lemongrass chicken on rice (#40) and it was delicious. I haven't tried out a whole host of Vietnamese restaurants so I'm no expert, but definitely worthy of having again.

Despite arriving less than an hour before close, the staff were very friendly. However, they seemed to keep us waiting forever towards the end of the meal while we wanted to pay & leave.

I'd... more

I used to live on 15th Avenue and 11th, and when I was in a pinch for good, fast food that wasn't that Rockadoodle McDonalds on 17th, I went to Co Do. I remember it being this cute, locally owned place that had great food at a decent price.

Enter a few weeks ago, while re-living my bygone days, I decided to revisit Co Do.

Apparently my memory is fading because Co Do has gone downhill. The... more

Was in the mood for Pho the other night so thought I'd check out Co Do. Started with the spring rolls and the grilled beef pho for a main. The spring rolls were quite tasty. Good size and freshly fried. The Pho was very good with a healthy portion of beef. Well prepared and very fresh.

What would have made the spring rolls perfect is if they were served with lettuce and fresh mint. I used to... more

It's ok. This city is full of Vietnamese restaurants and I don't get what stands out about this one to the other reviewers. It seems average. Maybe because I order the vermicelli and spring roll dishes instead of pho?

I find it hard to reconcile all the great reviews with the actual restaurant I visited last weekend. Snow's review matched my experience the best. The place was near empty during the lunch hour - always a bad sign. The vegetarian menu looked bland, my spring rolls on vermicelli tasted bland, the place was dirty (walls & floor), and the staff inattentive (dude didn't even try to upsell me on... more

Vietnamese soup, hard to screw up, but because of the almost insatiable demand, hard to find a decent, reasonably-priced place in this city that serves it.

Everything on Co Do's menu is under $9, with the option of getting large or medium servings. The medium servings go from around $7.50, and are easily large enough to fill me up. The service is just quick, as it should be.

As many have said... more

Take it from me, I am Vietnamese and I live in Southern California (Vietnamese central in the US), this is by far the best Vietnamese restaurant I've ever been to! EVER!!! I love this place. Whenever I come to Calgary, this is my first stop! I've tried just about everything on their menu so I have too many favorites. Oh what I would do for Co Do's Pho Satay right now!!!

Anyways, here is the... more

I've got to be honest, Most Vietnamese places Ive gone to ( Dozens) have never let me down...except one. They also tend to offer almost identical tastes.Vietnamese as far as tastiness, healthiness and affordability is always your best bang for buck ratio.
CoDo is just deadly, close to my house and quick friendly service.
Dont sit by the door in -30...but that goes for any door in the city, just... more

Coming from San Francisco, Bay Area, I must say that we have the best vietnamese joint in this side of the globe. Just visited Calgary. Our first day there and just got out of the airport, starving to death. Found Co Do w/ great reviews here so I thought this must be darn good.
I thought the place was ok, but could use some cleaning for sure. I can see sauce markings on the wall. Condiments on... more

When it's cold outside and something hot in temperature and hot in spice is needed to make you feel better this place is great! I love their Satay soup and homemade lemonade (its actually lime) so good when you want to ward off the cold!

Codo will always hold a special place in my heart. Mostly because it was my first experience with Vietnamese ever. Codo's food is so good that I've compared every single restaurant to it ever since. I don't know if that is a good thing or not because I've become so accustomed to perfectly flavoured rice vermicelli, pork and spring rolls. My mouth is watering as I type. Sorry keyboard, it is... more

The beef noodle soup is fantastic! Beef noodle is my favorite food, I search out new places every chance I get. This place was on my radar for awhile due to other reviews, so finally got the chance to go.
Food - as stated above, the broth for the soup is unbelievable. There is no grease / oil slick on top at all, the flavor is light, but just right to complement whatever you want to throw in.... more

I tried out Co Do for the first time this weekend. As a vegetarian, I was happy to see that their menu had a special vegetarian section. I was also happy to see that their website reminds vegetarian visitors that the "vegetarian" pho is made with a pork-based stock. I appreciate those little reminders!

We arrived around noon for lunch, and there were a few other people seated in the... more

When I first moved to Calgary I asked a friend who knew the hottest spots where the best pho was and he said hands down the Co Do in Calgary. And with that request he actually took me there.

It was some week night and we had to actually wait in line because the place was super packed. There were many Asians in the place but it was also brimming with Non Asians, families, artists, and couples.... more

My new all-time favourite Vietnamese restaurant in Calgary.

I was in serious withdrawal of GOOD pho and I finally found it here!

TGFP (Thank God For Pho!)

If you've never been, definitely stop by! Great food, insanely reasonable prices, wonderful service.

Amazing food at a crazy price.

My Favorite

The food is consistently excellent. The service has always been fast. Order an extra plate of deep fried spring rolls, they are very tasty.

Good vietnamese food, the noodle soups are excellent, and the iced coffee's outstanding.