Saboteur

Not the most authentic asian food, but overall, it still tastes really good. The restaurant was nicely decorated and spacious. Staff were very friendly and the service was fast. Although they gave us one wrong order, they managed to fix it very quickly.

The decor is modern with Thai hints and I loved the wooden cased booths that we sat in! The menu is not extensive and this is a bonus as you would have a hard time to choose what you want. Everything is delicious, even the cocktails! The prices are rock bottom for Edinburgh, especially considering the quality and the friendly service.

Good Vietnamese spot with a properly priced menu, a good variety of options, and many options for vegetarian and vegan eats. Service was helpful and quick, and food arrived shortly after ordering while it wasn't too busy. Good portion sizes, great spices, fresh veggies. All in all, very pleased!

Staffs are very friendly. Although the foods don't really taste like authentic Thai or Vietnamese, they are quite delectable. With the price and portion size, I would say it's worth a try.

Really friendly staffs and Reasonable price! The food here are general taste. For me,this restaurant is a little bit like fast street food. I can get fast and warm meal here ,and also it tastes fine😉

Visited this restaurant during the recent fringe festival. Delicious Vietnamese food. Interesting and modern interior. Very friendly and accommodating staffs. Great hospitality.

I adore this vietnamese restaurant. All the food is delicious but I love their bao buns, all of them. Seems to be getting more popular every day so long gone are the days of just walking in and grabbing a seat.. But is is totally worth it. Let them surprise you!

Unfortunately the food does _not_ live up to the rating! After passing this place many times I finally decided to visit, and was excited given the high rating and recommendation by Google as a top rated restaurant. The restaurant itself is dark but the layout is cool -- but it's very very loud. I was glad to be by myself as I wouldn't have liked to try to talk to anybody else against the music. Even understanding the waitress and waiter sometimes was difficult. I ordered the Suki Pho with chicken on the recommendation of the waitress, along with a margarita - not my first choice but half the cocktails were unavailable the day I visited. The margarita, made with coconut, was actually fantastic - not strictly traditional but really great. And I'm picky about margaritas! The pho was... Well, terrible. It was incredibly salty and had no depth of flavour. It tasted like salty sweet-chilli sauce. I was starving so I ate all the chicken out of it, but once the edge of my hunger was sated I simply couldn't go on eating. I decided to order the "slow braised pork belly" Bao Thit Lon steamed buns. You cant go wrong with pork bao, right? Wrong. I don't know how slow "slow" is but this pork was like rubber. I've had better bao from random food vans. So disappointing!! I was excited to go here from other reviews, and I really wanted to enjoy a tasty bowl of pho -- then when that fell though, some bao -- but both were just... Bad. I can't remember the last time I didn't finish a meal from not liking it - I'm not a picky eater at all and am pretty easy to please. Perhaps I visited on a bad night? But I won't be back!!

While I'm really happy to see this kind of southeast asian food opening near campus, the flavor of the food seems inauthentic and somewhat lacking. While I have had pho from Saigon to Hanoi, and am a therefore a little hard to please, I'm more comparing this to other asian food I've had in the UK and US. Even by those standards it is pretty weak. I ordered the Bun Bo Hue - a fabulously rich and spicy beef soup from Hue in central Vietnam. The noodles were tough and bland, and the soup, while well spiced, seemed to lack the depth of flavor that I've come to expect from Pho. Would maybe go again to try the bahn mi or other options.

Summary: A chic and well designed "pho" place that offers mixed feelings If you want traditional Vietnamese Pho, this isn't the place for you. The flavor is drastically off and the ingredients used to make their pho are totally different. However, IF you are into a fusion form of Pho, take a chance and try this place out. I, clearly, wasn't a fan of the pho here. The noodles had this weird earthy taste while the broth lacked the flavor of beef. The broth was on the sweet side and clearly made to suit western tastes. Coming from Los Angeles, I was really surprised how the dish I had was called pho. However, the ONE thing I did like about the pho was that the beef they used was high quality and tasted amazing. The beef was juicy and tender, as if it would melt in your mouth! Service is dodgy. The servers here offer you service based on what you look like and how you dress. When my friend tried to order her dish while I was in the restroom, the waiter apparently told her "Not now I'm busy". However, when I called him over after returning from the restroom, it seemed as if the gold chain on my neck turned me into a "vip" client. He quickly took my order and apologized to my friend for his error. My personal experience with the service is good, but others might have it differently. On a side note, it seems like my friends really like their stir fried rice noodles. I have yet to try that--but from what I heard they are DELICIOUS.

The atmosphere is very modern and hipster, but the pho was quite underwhelming. I ordered the Bun Bo Hue, but the taste was as far from traditional pho as you can get. So, if you want VERY 'fusioned' pho, this can be a place to try, but not if you are expected traditional pho. Bun Bo Hue is suppose to be a beef and rice noodle soup dish with shimmered beef shank, lemongrass, shrimp paste, and spicy chili oil. However, the dish was lacking in the spicy department. The beef was quite dry. The soup was overly sweet, and the traditional ingredients aren't used here. The service was also overall a meh. We seated quite literally in front of the open door so it was really drafty. We had to ask a couple times to even get a menu and utensils.

Despite falling under the shadows as the lesser known sibling to TingThai-Caravan, Saboteur boasts a diverse array of delicious Thai cuisine that deserves more recognition. The Mee Korat offered a generous portion of noodles, beef, bean sprouts, spices and crushed peanuts. Mixing these ingredients together yielded a mouth-watering, savory Thai dish. The service was exceptionally quick as well, from ordering to the bill.

The food was so good, so so good. I sat and stared at the menu for a crazy long time because I wanted to eat everything. I finally settled on one of the chicken rice bowls and was impressed by the strong lemongrass flavor. Everything else was delicious and I wish I lived in Edinburgh just so I could go here (and to Mary's Milk Bar) every day.

Ordered pho, but basically it is fusion confusion. It does not taste like pho at all and the soup base has too much MSG. On the other hand the duck rice is way too sweet since they put too much sauce in it. Would not recommend to come unless you like fusion food.

In mood of pho, so ordered a Bun Bo Hue, and a Egg Coffee. The broth is surprisingly sweet instead of a savoury taste as I expected. But I would say the beef is well cooked and tasty. Also enjoyed sprinkling chopped peanuts and chillies in it, as they added different textures to the soup. Egg coffee didn't taste so different from coffee with condensed milk which I had in other Vietnamese restaurants. Only when drinking the last bit of coffee, I felt somewhat the texture of egg. All in all, it was good and personally I think I would visit this restaurant again.

We got the chicken pho and seafood pho and the flavor was top notch. The soup base had a slightly sweet hint to it and it made it really interesting and delicious.

Food was absolutely delicious. I went on a Tuesday evening and there was no wait time. Ordered the roti - roti could've been a bit crispier but was very good with the peanut sauce. As a main dish I had the yellow curry with chicken and a side of jasmine rice - also amazing good curry with a hint of sweetness but not too overpowering. Would recommend.

This is great and inexpensive Vietnamese food. I absolutely love the yellow curry (had it with Jasmine rice). Also had the fried rice with anise flavour -- can't remember what the dish is called. This was very good I've had it twice now. Everything is very clean and service is prompt. My only complaint is that the Chicken Pho is a bit bland. I would recommend the curries before the pho if you want lots of flavour.

this is the second worst nodules I never had before. I have traveled many countries and PHO is always one of my favour food. the waiter put us in a very small corner while there is other aviliable table. I asked why and he told me that table is for 4 people(we are three). and then he moved three white guy over there. no service at all.