My friend and I are from Rochester, NY and stopped here randomly for food. We were a little nervous walking in because of the appearance of the restaurant but I'm super happy we stayed. This was BY FAR the best Vietnamese food I've EVER had! The shrimp spring rolls were amazing. My friend got the chicken pho and loved it. I got the bun with bok choy and tofu. Everything was perfect. Great prices and TONS of food. We WILL be back! read more

Mi Mi Restaurant - Bun with bok choy and tofu with peanut sauce! So good! - Vietnamese Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

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Oh boy was I in for a surprise when I entered Mi Mi... This was a ok dining experience. The place had a somehow comforting atmosphere to it, fair prices, excellent service, but alas the stores cleanliness failed the test. I was in a party of 4 people and all of us noticed that when we received our spoons and chopsticks they were slimy, sticky, and just plain Dirty. We actually had to clean the chopsticks in the hot tea provided. Other than the cleanliness everything was fine. I ordered Bun Nem Nuong Cha which was alright in a giant bowl, I couldn't finish it. In total, this dinner cost us 43 dollars which is a OK amount. Overall if you are looking to try a fast new not so sophisticated vietnamese restaurant; I'd recommend going to Pho Mi Mi! read more

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Tl;Dr: Amazing spring rolls, bbq and fresh roll platter; would skip the pho Got a table for 2 with no problems on a Sunday at 6:30pm Highlight: - the spring rolls were crispy, crunchy savoury, delicious, hot, perfect. Order them - bbq meats on the platter was delicious, not too fatty or lean. Great flavour balance. Lowlight: - Pho: the broth wasn't very flavourful, there were TONS of noodles, but a little stingy on the beef for the price. Personally, would pass. Was about $34 after taxes. Service is a strange pace, as we ordered all three items at the same time, and the pho came out first, followed by a bit of a wait, then the spring rolls came out at the end, after we had finished eating everything else. read more

I happened to be in the area so stopped by for lunch at Mi Mi! We ordered the house special pho, deep fried spring rolls, and the Vietnamese iced coffee. The pho was average - good amount of beef, decent broth, and the noodles were the thin kind (vs. flat). Spring rolls tasted good but not the freshest. Vietnamese coffee was okay too. Overall not a bad place to eat but probably wouldn't venture here just for pho. read more

Mi Mi Restaurant - Deep fried spring rolls - Vietnamese Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

I placed an order for pick up last week when I was at work, when I went to pick up the food, the employee there was really sweet and nice. When I brought the food back, the packaging was super accurate from the pictures, and the best part is that the food was amazing!! I would recommend going over and try it out (the prices are really good). read more

Mi Mi Restaurant - Vietnamese Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

Great pho and other soups, family run, cheap as heck, clean and good service! My fav soup is a coconut curry chicken thingy - it's amazing and I've never seen anything like it at another restaurant. Mmmmm! read more

There is a lot of competition for excellent Vietnamese food in the area, but I think the ingredients at Mi Mi's are particularly high quality. The restaurant looks humble, but the food is anything but. It's not the only Vietnamese place I go to, but it's the one I go to most often. I highly recommend the combo meals. They come with a pile of fresh herbs and vegetables that are impeccably cleaned and prepared. read more

If you like thick coffee, then the coffee here is a must try. This is way better than the other pho/Vietnamese restaurants on this street. read more

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I've never actually eaten in the restaurant but we get takeout from here at work a few times a month, and this place has the best bun bo hue I've had in the city! read more

Some of the best viet spring rolls in town. Their fresh shrimp rolls always used crisp fresh roll, with fresh lettuce. The spicy peanut sauce is delicious as well. Always enjoyed their vermicelli and rice with grilled meats. Atmosphere is very simple and home style, no fancy decor, but you do get a good meal at a good price. read more

Been going to Mi Mi Restaurant for years! I love this place. It's my daughters and my go to restaurant when we're downtown to see my grandparents. The food is so flavourful. The service is great and the owners daughter that serves us is very nice. My favourite and go to dishes that we usually get is the fresh shrimp cold rolls and their yummy spring rolls filled with taro and pork. Their pork chop with rice is so good and flavourful and comes with leek soup. I usually get the specialty soup called Bun Bo Hue. I usually asked for slices of beef only. This soup comes with pigs blood and pigs feet which I'm not crazy about. My daughters love their beef balls noodle soup. Their vermicelli set where you wrap the rice rolls yourself is also quite good. Never had a bad experience and really love this place! read more

If you happen to be in the area and feel like having Vietnamese food, this is a great spot. However, I don't recommend going out of your way just to eat here. We went on a Saturday at around 2pm and it was a little busy. I had the bún with beef, sugar shrimp and spring roll for about $10-12. It was delicious! read more

Family owned and operated, great customer service and flavourful dishes. Definitely a neighbourhood gem, Will spread the word

The pork chop was good. The beef was not good. Too chewy. The shrimp salad roll was decent. The pho doesn't taste anything like what a pho should be. I never had pho that has sesame oil and pad-thai style noodle. The pho tasted more like a Chinese noodle soup than pho. read more

Everyone tells me how much they love Mi Mi. I loved how close it was to my house. What I didn't love was the pho. The good: - It's close to my house - The servers speak perfect English - It was pretty fast - It was packed (which like Neil, should have been a warning sign) The bad: - The beef in my pho was sketchy looking and fattier than rare beef at the other pho places - The broth wasn't as translucent as other places, it was cloudy - I expected the cloud was beef bits that would impart a more robust flavour but... I was let down - My can of pop was over $1, which I never think is right at dumpy places. Pop should be $1, the end. If this was the only pho place in my area I would begrudgingly eat here occasionally, but since it is one of about 10 pho places in my area I will never eat here again. read more

I'm surprised this place doesn't have a better overall rating. This is THE place we go for Vietnamese. There are so many choices in this neighborhood, and we have tried them all - always returning to Mi Mi's. I don't eat Pho, but my partner is a bit of a connoisseur. In his opinion Mi Mi's even trumps his previous favorite place in Markham. The real star of the show here is the Bun. It is very fresh, with a quantity of fresh veg, sprouts and peanuts. Their BBQ Shrimp on sugarcane Bun is fantastic. The best Vietnamese Shrimp Paste I have ever had (Soooo much better than Golden Turtle). Smoky, Lightly Charred and Sweet. My SO gets the Bun Combo, Shrimp and Pork and Beef in one. Family run, by an incredibly nice family. I completely screwed up an order once and offered to pay for my mistake. They took back the dishes and gave us what we had originally wanted without charge - and with a smile. Tea is good, always hot. The Sauces and tables are clean. read more

Mimi's delivers consistently great Vietnamese food time & time again. Live in the area, this has become our go-to local dinner spot. Disregard the interiors, the place needs an overhaul but the food and top notch service makes up for it. Their pho is delicious, deep, authentic broth, full of flavour and delicious fat. My pick for pho is the BBQ beef pho, the char from the beef adds a delicious smoky taste to the broth. Their bun dishes are also very good and super cheap. I'm partial again to the BBQ beef bun but always get it with sugarcane shrimp. Their cold rolls are chalk full of huge butterflied shrimp, tons of pickled carrot/daikon and glorious mounds of thai basil. The spring rolls are a bit hit and miss, sometimes arrive perfectly fried. other times super soggy with grease. Still worth a try. Dinner for two with drinks and a share appetizer is about $30 with tip. Beware: cash only. read more

Good Vietnamnese can be a little harder to come by in the East York/Danforth area so I'm glad to have found this restaurant to throw into the Vietnamnese rotation. Granted, I only tried one item, the Special Pho (Pho Dac Biet) but I enjoyed that their broth was not super salty or oily like most other places, it was very natural tasting. My friend's vermicelli with grilled pork and spring roll looked really tasty too (Bun Cha). Silly suggestion but they should play music in the background b/c even with a few tables of patrons in the restaurant, it sounds absolutely dead in there - not that most people go to Vietnamnese restaurants for the atmosphere. read more

We stopped in here this evening. I really dig this place, it's tasty, and clean! A pleasant surprise. I ordered the pho with with beef and brisket, and my friend had the pho with beef balls and something else...both were delish ($5.95 each for Small) We also has shrimp fresh rolls ($3.95). Everything was very tasty and extremely affordable. I'll be back. read more

Let's get this straight: i really wanted to like this place. I've only come here because Que Ling Pho is not opened for service on a cold Thursday night. (By the way, Que Ling: it would be amazing if you could indicate your hours on your restaurant) Since I promised my S.O. for great pho, we looked on yelp and luckily there's 'Mi Mi' which is just 10 steps away. Upon walking in I noticed that this restaurant is 90% full, which at first seemed like a good sign. However that may have been the reason my bowl of pho took longer to arrive then in any other pho place I've experienced. I was growing really impatient but the owner and his family were very friendly and each time I looked at them in my hangry eyes they would kindly tell me the pho is almost ready. Was this pho going to be the best pho I will have? At that point I thought NO pho in the world is worth 25 minute wait. And I was right: this pho is watery and not an ounce of oil to be seen. Barely any beef flavour was detected. The noodle was perfectly cooked however, but the beef was few to be found and too overdone. I applaud their business as they clearly have a fan base, but I will take my pho craving else where. Thank you. read more

I came to this restaurant based on good reviews by my boyfriend's brother. Atmosphere was like any other pho restaurant, similar to a cafeteria-style. Small and narrow restaurant with approximately 15 tables? The pho was tasty, albeit, not the best, but I was more disappointed with the spring rolls. Although they were "okay," they weren't fried with rice paper, but just regular spring rolls wrapper. I would probably return if I were in the area because this place seemed to be a lot cleaner than other restaurants near by and the wait staff were attentive. It appears that many Westerners come to this restaurant as well. read more

East Chinatown, you have disappointed me yet again. There's something about pho in the east that just doesn't quite cut it. With so many raving reviews, you would think that Mi Mi would be a gem but I think it's far from that. Let's get to the basics and that means Pho. The noodles are right (traditional dry noodles), condiments all good and the beef is pretty standard stuff. The broth is what really let me down. Instead tasting the usual herbs and spices like star anise, strangely enough I was tasting fish sauce. I love fish sauce in my stir fries but in a soup it left me a little confused. Equally confusing was the fact that there is yet another Vietnamese restaurant in the east end using the wrong spring roll wrappers for their spring rolls (Bach Yen is the other one). However, I do have to admit that the filling is pretty good. My partner in crime ordered some seafood noodle soup and it was loaded with Pepto colour faux crab sticks (it's common to have faux crab this type of soup but just not in such an abundance). The taste is again very strange and off-putting. All in all, both soups have a taste that I don't quite recognize and neither are good. However, as I glanced over at the other tables I did catch a glimpse of their barbeque dishes and they look delicious! Maybe, i'll come back to try it out in the future. In the meantime, avoid Pho in the east if you can. Oh yeah, the service is impeccable and they accept cash only! read more

I've been searching "Mimi"... I've been going there doggedly for years and always assumed "Mimi"!! Now, I know. When asked for a recommendation for Vietnamese resto, I ALWAYS recommend one of two places: Pho Phuong on College and Mi Mi. Both are a little off the beaten path, but definitely worth the trip. Mi Mi is family run and has a friendly and warm atmosphere. I recently took some friends there who were mostly vegetarian and they were super cool about adjusting dishes to make them work for everyone at the table. They have always been super accommodating. It's a nice open space. Lit well with a nice amount of space between the tables (ie - not packed like sardines!). Me? My usual there now is the bbq pork with egg and rice noodle (dry) with soup on the side ($7-ish). I don't think I eat it right because I always ask for the fish sauce for it and dump it onto the noodles... but their bbq pork is RIDICULOUSLY good. I've also had the rice dishes, pho and the vermicelli dishes and they are all a step above most Vietnamese places in the city. Mi Mi: It's worth the trip to Chinatown 2. read more

I'm Vietnamese and I think this place is one of the more authentic places for Vietnamese foods. That being said, authentic doesn't mean it's better. To be honest I like the pho from those chain pho restaurants better, but those pho places are the equivalent of McDonald's for "white food": they taste good, but they aren't authentic. The pho and noodle soup dishes at MiMi's taste a lot more like what my mom's pho and noodle soup dishes taste like. What I go to MiMi's for, and what it is known for are their BBQ vermecelli dishes! Their vermecelli noodle with their BBQ beef, beef balls, Vietnamese sausages, shrimp/seafood wrapped around sugar cane with the fish sauce - that's the stuff! It's fantastic! If you go to MiMi's, I would strongly recommend their Vermecelli dishes. I also eat their rice dishes, they're good too. And yes, there seem to be a lot of white people in this restaurant for some reason... but I think that's because it's a slightly nicer looking pho place and the waitress there is really friendly and speaks English fluently (as well as Chinese and Vietnamese) - which is impressive! read more

I generally don't eat a lot of Pho but I definitely enjoy the vermicelli dish here. I usually get the beef with springs rolls and it fills me up 8/10 times. GREAT hangover food in the morning / early lunch. Sometimes service is a bit slow but hey this looks like a mom and pop establishment so not complaints. 4.5/5 for me. Take out is generally pretty fast if you're in a rush. 4.25/5 for me. read more

It was packed on a Thursday afternoon for lunch. I was quite impressed for my first time here. Service was quick and friendly. Loved the fact that they can speak English, Chinese and Vietnamese so fluently, all of which I understand. I ordered the rice with BBQ chicken and Vietnamese sausage. ($7.95) The chicken was flavourful and done just right. The sausages were amazing. It's different than the ones I usually get at other Vietnamese restaurants. It tasted authentic and delicious! I'll be back to try the vermicelli and pho. Now I can't stop thinking about those sausages... read more

There is a plethora of Vietnamese places in East Chinatown you could be eating at. Why not Mi Mi?? It is probably your best bet. Always reliable and affordable comfort food, like a big-ass steaming bowl of pho, or a vermicelli dish. Zoidberg would not complain at all. This place attracts a disproportionate number of non-Asian diners compared to East Chinatown's other (and less remarkable) pho houses. Probably because the friendly folks in this no-nonsense eatery speak fluent English. That, or these white people have discovered what my own family knew long ago about where to eat in this part of town. They should also remember that it's cash only here. {TTC: the 506 to DeGrassi.} read more

Read about this place in a magazine (pretty sure it was Toronto Life), and found myself in the area around dinner one evening so I thought I would check it out. Seems I'm not in the norm by posting anything but a glowing review but honestly, I just don't understand the hype..? Service was excellent and incredibly friendly. I loved the fact that we got tea with our meal as well. Other than that, this place was pretty typical of most Vietnamese restaurants in the city. My spring roll appetizer was awful, which I found very surprising. I've never had mushier and blander rolls..probably ever. Our main dishes were good but hardly ground breaking. Just regular Vietnamese food. Maybe I didn't try the right item. Maybe the spring rolls were off with my batch. But ultimately, I found this place pretty average at best. Please note, this place is also CASH only. read more

I went here for the first time and loved my experience. Our server was amazing, so informative and helpful. I was looking for a veggie cold roll, and there wasn't anything on the menu and the server gave me two options. The meals were delicious, however my fiance got spring rolls and his response was "they were disgusting, they were the worst spring rolls I have ever had". So just stay away from the spring rolls and you'll be good to go! read more

Mi Mi delivers on good, affordable Vietnamese food in Gerrard St Chinatown, which probably should be deemed a Vietnamese town given the number of Vietnamese restaurants in the area. Came here last night and had Salad Wraps and Do It Yourself Rice Wrap platters (which has an actual Vietnamese name, but I don't recall what it is). Both dishes were very good. Salad wraps had nice pieces of shrimp and done well. I had the special mixed platter, which came with beef, chicken, shrimp on sugar cane and probably other cuts of meat. It was enormous and filling. The accompanying veggies were crisp and fresh! I was most impressed by the service and decor. It's not a fancy place by any means, but the menus are nicely printed, space was clean and comfortable and the servers were pleasant and even took time to answer questions about the menu. Not the typical transactional service I experience at most Vietnamese restos. read more

I've been to many pho places, and this is definitely one of the better ones. The soup base tasted fresh, the meat portions were good, and the bowl was massive. Unlike a lot of other pho restaurants, the soup base at Mi Mi doesn't feel like it's loaded with MSG and salt. The service was also speedy and friendly. Mi Mi is overall a viet restaurant with great value. read more

I want to concludes my East Chinatown pho hunt @ Mi Mi. I have frequented here while I was living in the area. Their pho broth is clean and fresh and they use fresh ingredients. This time around I've tried their bun bo Hue since I've never had it before. At first it looks more like sate beef pho rather than bun bo Hue, and the meats are totally off. Instead of using beef, pork hock and pork red they only use lean beef, and the meat portion is poor. The broth has flavour but I've definitely had better in Toronto. Goi cuon on the other hand is average and sauce isn't too memorable. Kudo to them for not using MSG as I don't feel minor migraine after the meal. Haven't been here for while but I can tell they've built a solid fan base in this area as patrons here seem to be mixed in ethnicity. They are pricier than other Vietnamese joints in the area but still acceptable. The service is consistently friendly and their pho is one of consistent one in East Chinatown. read more

Mi Mi Restaurant - Bun no hue - Vietnamese Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

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Here's another one for Kelly O. Is this fake too? Great Vietnamese place run by some sweet Vietnamese women. Mum's in the kitchen, and all smiles on the floor. They have a special chicken soup that cures what ails me in the colder months. I tried learning how to make it at home and I just can't. I'm sure they have this simmering all day in the back. It's inexpensive and the quality is A1. They get phone orders in for pickup from people on their way home. So their food has a great reputation. Big menu as well. I always leave this place stuffed. One small complaint: It's run by 3 women, so the place is kept super warm. If they cooled it down a bit, I would go more often. Too warm, coupled with a hot soup, doesn't make for a fun meal. read more

Stopped by here to grab a quick bite before a concert at the church nearby and man I was so impressed! The hostess was beyond kind, you can tell they have a great relationship with regulars and new customers! The food was delicious, and the service was fast. I loved the bbq beef and pad Thai. What a quaint and lovely restaurant. The hostess even mentioned if we were going to the concert, which was super nice of her to ask. Would defiantly recommend! read more

We order from Mi Mi's once a month and always enjoy their food. The customer service is amazing and make you feel welcomed when you dine in. My only wishes are that they accepted card and that there were a couple more vegetarian options. Other than that, if you have cash and an appetite be sure to go to Mi Mi's! The lychee drink with crushed ice is particularly yummy if you're looking for a sweet drink to have with your meal. read more

I found the hu tieu thap cam kho a bit bland compared to kimbo/kimpo but I think it's because this place doesn't use MSG in their broth. Overall me and my girlfriend enjoyed our meals and will definitely come back. read more

Mi Mi Restaurant - Hu tieu mi thap cam dry style - Vietnamese Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

Very watered down and flavorless pho with small amount of meat which did not taste entirely fresh... Usually pho broth tastes saltier later in the day due to the large pots of broth reducing down. I got a late lunch here after 3pm and it still ended up bland and insipid, making me wonder about the freshness of the food overall. It seems like I'm throughly disappointed each time I try a pho restaurant in this neighborhood. Spring rolls were forgettable. read more

The food here is priced at a bit of a premium for the area but everything we ordered was very tasty. The restaurant is very large and kid friendly. Service is good. We had a pho noodle and a rice vermicelli dish with a shrimp paste on cane sugar and spring rolls. Everything was delicious. Would definitely go back. read more

I was with my gf heading to softball when i got a call that the game was going to be cancelled. My gf felt like heading to the Broadview Chinatown and grab some Pho. I wanted to take her somewhere that was GOOD so i yelped it as usual. Mi Mi was across the street and had good reviews. The place was packed for a Thursday and the food...just right! We got 2 orders of the egg rolls (Vietnamese style all the way for egg rolls). Crispy outside, flavourful and meaty inside...dip it in fish sauce and you are in heaven. She got the Pho and i got the special seafood noodles with rice and egg noodles. Both were really good and we left impressed and full....that's how we do it! read more

Ever since the Pho 88 at Broadview and Gerrard closed down, I haven't had a goto Pho place in the East Chinatown. However I had always heard good things about Mimi so after cardio training/hill running at the Riverdale Park, about 6 other team members and myself decided to give the pho at Mimi's a try. One thing to mention - if you have never ordered a fresh fruit smoothie to enjoy with your Pho, you are missing out. Service - we came at around lunch hour on a Sunday and the restaurant was about half full 30 mins after we arrived. We had the most people in our group with 7. 2 people were working as servers, one was probably the owner. Food took significantly longer than the expected (for a pho restaurant) to come out. We had to remind them about our smoothies, which came almost after we were finished eating. There was probably a 30 minute delay in between the first smoothie and the last smoothie (ordered 7) Smoothie - the mango smoothie was tasty, however it tasted like it was made from mango nectar rather than the actual fruit. My team member had the avocado and said it was good. Another team member ordered the jackfruit and said it was terrible with no flavour. I had the sour sop and it was alright - it would have better if the flavour was stronger. Sizes - Sizes at pho restaurants are a hit and miss. Sometime you get a gigantic bowl for a large and sometimes you get a bowl the size of a small. At Mi Mi's, there is hardly a noticeable difference between the small and the large. Many of our guys were shocked when the bowls came out. In short, bowls are small - order a larger size. Pho - I tasted the rare beef and beef balls noodle. The broth was very clean and tasty - not as oily as the soup at Train. Noodles were fresh. Tasted like what pho should taste like. Vermicelli with grilled beef and spring rolls (bun) - nothing that stands out here. I've had better elsewhere There was an interesting taste to the spring rolls. Fish sauce was quite bland. Unimpressed. Overall, I would come back for the Pho or try something else on the menu. read more