"Arguably he best-known and most highly rated pho destination in Montreal, this restaurant near the Montreal Jewish Hospital draws diners with its giant bowls of noodles in a heavily spiced broth heady with fish sauce and sweet onions. Come for the raw beef version that usually gets to your table before the meat cooks through (as it should). The plates of herbs and bean sprouts are always fresh thanks to the high turnover. And if you don’t want to wait in the lunchtime line, there’s now a Pho Lien Express on Bishop Street, near Concordia University." - Amie Watson