Award-winning

The Lunch Lady

Name: The Lunch Lady
Address: 1046 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5L 3W9
Telephone: (604) 559-5938
Price range: CAN$31 to CAN$50
Rating: 4.7

4.7

510 Reviews

CAN$31 to CAN$50

Vietnamese

Top tags:

Enjoy award-winning Vietnamese street food in the heart of Commercial Drive! Lunch Lady is not your average pho joint – dishes showcasing the PNW’s best ingredients, craft cocktails, and Michelin quality service makes us a crowd favourite with locals and international guests alike. Come and discover our modern and soulful dishes that are distinctly authentic to Vietnam. We look forward to serving you!

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Party Size

2 people

DateTime

Sept 21, 2023

7:00 p.m.

Booked 51 times today

Order delivery or takeout

Additional information

Dining style
Casual Dining
Cuisines
Vietnamese, Comfort Food, Tapas / Small Plates
Hours of Operation
Lunch Tue–Sun 11:00 am–2:30 pm Dinner Tue–Thu, Sun 5:00 pm–9:30 pm Fri, Sat 5:00 pm–11:00 pm
Phone number
(604) 559-5938
Website
https://thelunchlady.com/
Payment Options
Mastercard, Visa
Dress Code
Smart Casual
Catering
Email - thelunchladyyvr@gmail.com
Private party facilities
Email - thelunchladyyvr@gmail.com

Location
1046 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC V5L 3W9
Award-winning
1. MICHELIN Bib Gourmand 2022
Neighbourhood
Commercial Drive
Cross Street
Commercial Drive & Napier St.
Parking Details
None
Additional
Bar/Lounge, Beer, Cocktails, Corkage Fee, Delivery, Entertainment, Full Bar, Gender Neutral Restroom, Gluten-free Options, Non-Smoking, Patio/Outdoor Dining, Patio/Outdoor Dining, Takeout, Vegan, Wheelchair Access, Wine

Popular dishes

What 510 people are saying

Overall ratings and reviews

Reviews can only be made by diners who have eaten at this restaurant

4.7

4.7 based on recent ratings

4.7Food
4.6Service
4.4Ambience
4.4Value

Noise • Moderate

510 Reviews

DR
DavidR
1 review
5.0
1 review
Dined 2 days ago
overall5food5service5ambience5
Awesome place, make sure to make a reservation before hand.
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Jamie
Vancouver
1 review
4.0
1 review
Dined 4 days ago
overall4food5service4ambience4
Food was great, but they served all foods at once.
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Carmen
Vancouver
1 review
5.0
1 review
Dined 5 days ago
overall5food5service5ambience5
Excellent service and taste of food. Some food choices have been a bit pricey but all was great overall.
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Jayhh
Montreal
1 review
5.0
1 review
Dined 6 days ago
overall5food5service5ambience5
Service was oustanding, food was amazing, everything was perfect. I would highly highly recommend!
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michaely
Vancouver
6 reviews
vip
4.0
6 reviews
Dined on September 13, 2023
overall4food4service4ambience4
great lunch options. A level up from your normal Vietnamese resto. Portion sizes are a bit small for the price.
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JennaM
Vancouver
1 review
5.0
1 review
Dined on September 13, 2023
overall5food5service5ambience5
Food was absolutely delicious. Highly recommend!
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OpenTable Diner
Calgary
1 review
4.0
1 review
Dined on September 12, 2023
overall4food5service4ambience5
Food was great ! We made reservation but still had to wait for 30mins as the table of 2 ladies wouldn’t leave after their meal. I guess the server should let the customers know the next seating customers already arrived so we don’t have to wait too long. Especially my lunch time is only an hour
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OpenTable Diner
Vancouver
1 review
5.0
1 review
Dined on September 11, 2023
overall5food5service5ambience4
Recommend the family style menu, versatile choices & staff are willing to accommodate simple substitutions! Great & timely service. Cocktails are worth a try & steak was 10/10.
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OpenTable Diner
Vancouver
5 reviews
vip
5.0
5 reviews
Dined on September 10, 2023
overall5food5service5ambience5
Great food. Love the bone marrows and the crisly prawns
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MizukiS
1 review
5.0
1 review
Dined on September 8, 2023
overall5food5service5ambience5
Amazing place!! The best!! Food and people, everything so good!
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BerniS
1 review
5.0
1 review
Dined on September 8, 2023
overall5food5service5ambience5
The service is always quick and the food is to die for! Marco our chef was 10/10 and treated us so nicely.
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mslovelee
Vancouver
4 reviews
5.0
4 reviews
Dined on September 8, 2023
overall5food5service5ambience5
Such delicious food and amazing service! Everything we ordered was to die for!
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donnas
Vancouver
4 reviews
vip
4.0
4 reviews
Dined on September 8, 2023
overall4food4service5ambience4
Vegetable spring rolls were the best I have ever had! Also loved the Dungeness crab fried rice, garlic noodles and lobster pomelo salad Crispy prawns were just ok, chicken skewer was good but the pork skewer was fatty and not as expected (lean and flavourful)
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Rnny
Vancouver
3 reviews
5.0
3 reviews
Dined on September 3, 2023
overall5food5service4ambience4
Omg try the grilled octopus! The family style menu did not disappoint. The kitchen is fast! Barely had time to socialize, but maybe that’s a good thing!!
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Zjo92
Vancouver
4 reviews
5.0
4 reviews
Dined on September 1, 2023
overall5food5service5ambience5
Amazing food, just like being in Vietnam. Can't wait to go back and try it for Lunch
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OpenTable Diner
Calgary
2 reviews
5.0
2 reviews
Dined on August 31, 2023
overall5food5service5ambience5
Everything was fantastic, as always! We’ll be back soon.
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OpenTable Diner
1 review
4.0
1 review
Dined on August 31, 2023
overall4food5service2ambience5
Food was spectacular and well-worth the price. Unfortunately, our table wasn’t ready for our reserved time and we had to either move outside or wait 15+ minutes for our table inside to be ready.
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OpenTable Diner
Vancouver
3 reviews
vip
1.0
3 reviews
Dined on August 31, 2023
overall1food3service1ambience2
The restaurant called us a few days prior to push back our dinner reservation time 15 minutes which was fine. On the phone, they told us they will take care of us and get us a round of drinks, also acknowledged it was a birthday. On the day of, no acknowledgement of this whole conversation at all.
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SherryZ
1 review
5.0
1 review
Dined on August 30, 2023
overall5food5service5ambience5
First time to Lunch Lady and the overall experience was awesome. The food was great and service was warm and welcoming. Beef Carpaccio was my favourite!
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WendyN
Vancouver
3 reviews
5.0
3 reviews
Dined on August 29, 2023
overall5food5service5ambience4
Perfect lunch for daughter & my birthday celebration. Everything worked, warm welcome from Christine, ordered coffee and very kindly was also served hot tea, as I was sitting near door, rainy day. Loved the prawn fritter, lemongrass chicken and rib eye very tender and tasty! Efficient pleasant servers, attention to detail such as attractive dishes, interesting unobtrusive music selection. We enjoyed two great desserts. All for a very reasonable price. Wonderful! Thank you all! Wendy
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Nat123
Calgary
3 reviews
5.0
3 reviews
Dined on August 27, 2023
overall5food5service5ambience5
Every bite was perfect. I would return every day. The tasting menu is a fantastic value and the pho is so good I want to bathe in it lol
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kirans
Vancouver
11 reviews
vip
5.0
11 reviews
Dined on August 25, 2023
overall5food5service5ambience5
2 of us dined here for dinner. We got the $50 per person menu which was a bunch of signature items. We loved each item but surprisingly our least favourite was the garlic noodles which we were both excited for. They tasted reallly eggy/fishy and not garlicky. Over would come again! The tartare, octopus, steak and sticky rice dessert were ahhmazing. Staff is knowledgeable and nice.
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JDog
Toronto
1 review
4.0
1 review
Dined on August 25, 2023
overall4food5service4ambience4
The food and drinks were very flavorful. The fried prawns was my favorite dish. We had a wonderful culinary experience. We sat outside which mimiced the experience you would get sitting on the sidewalk in Vietnam. Our server checked in on us regularly but gave us our space. The price is perhaps slightly more pricey than other Vietnamese places but it's worth it for the quality you get.
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Lina
Greater Boston
1 review
5.0
1 review
Dined on August 24, 2023
overall5food5service5ambience5
Very excellent service. They cared a lot about the quality of the food and the speed at which items came out. Delicious beef carpaccio and wagyu pho. Would definitely come again.
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kanly
Vancouver
2 reviews
5.0
2 reviews
Dined on August 24, 2023
overall5food5service5ambience5
the food perfect !!! everything is perfect (except the cocktail, a but disappointed, the taqueilla taste so strong cover other ingredients, like drinking it own... yet , if you love taquella , it's your shot
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rickv
Vancouver
1 review
5.0
1 review
Dined on August 24, 2023
overall5food5service5ambience5
The food was outstanding from the Prawns to the garlic noodles then the amazing ribeye steaks . And the 3 layer cake . This was the best dinner I have had this year
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HarveyQ
Vancouver
1 review
5.0
1 review
Dined on August 24, 2023
overall5food5service5ambience4
Went for the family style dinner for 2. Very good depth of flavour in the meal (carpaccio, BBQ baby octopus, garlic noodles, ribeye steak). The dishes mixed East and West flavours (eg. mint, fish sauce, butter, Reggiano cheese chili peppers, etc) really well. Very unique cuisine. Service was great and everyone had their eyes open to clearing dirty plates, keeping the table clean and offering drinks when empty. Not so keen on the hard chairs and cramped table seatings - a bit of first world problem since it stays true to it's road-side food vendor lineage, but I would prefer it a bit more bougie :)
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Lisa
Vancouver
7 reviews
4.0
7 reviews
Dined on August 23, 2023
overall4food5service2ambience4
My friend and I came for lunch and it was all very delicious. The host informed me of the hour time limit before I sat down and they told us exactly after an hour that we had to leave. What I didn't appreciate was my friend was still in the middle of finishing her dish and it seemed really strange to rush us out since there were a couple of tables open AND there was no one waiting inside or outside for a table. When the server came with the bills, she had split a portion of it which I never requested and she seemed so annoyed with me that she had to fix the error. Overall, I would come back for the food, but not the experience.
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MatiB
Vancouver
1 review
5.0
1 review
Dined on August 20, 2023
overall5food5service5ambience5
Wonderful food and staff provided excellent suggestions.
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OpenTable Diner
Austin
2 reviews
5.0
2 reviews
Dined on August 20, 2023
overall5food5service5ambience5
Delicious sharing plates from the set menu for two. My partner and I loved the food, which was very quickly and efficiently served!
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OpenTable Diner
Toronto
2 reviews
vip
5.0
2 reviews
Dined on August 19, 2023
overall5food5service5ambience5
Coming from Toronto, I must say that this is the best Vietnamese restaurant I have ever experienced in Canada. I highly recommend trying the crab fried rice and the grilled octopus
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oeats
Toronto
2 reviews
4.0
2 reviews
Dined on August 19, 2023
overall4food5service3ambience4
The food was great. We got the family set for 2 and enjoyed everything we ordered! However, the service was extremely lacking. Upon sitting down, we were greeted by our server who didn’t even look like he wanted to be there. Basically didn’t do much for us the whole meal, and at the end when we were ready for dessert another server took care of us - she was awesome. Would have appreciated some acknowledgment that we were there for a special occasion. Would visit again, with lower expectations of service.
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NatCanada
Vancouver
25 reviews
vip
4.0
25 reviews
Dined on August 18, 2023
overall4food5service4ambience4
Food is always good. Service is attentive and friendly. However not a fan of being rushed, food gets pushed out quickly and you get a sense it’s because they want to ensure there is a high turn over. Luckily we ate quickly but I could see how other diners would be turned off by being rushed. Our server was great and had paced our food appropriately but other food runners tried to push food when we didn’t want it (plus there is no room on the small tables if you order a lot of food-you have to stagger the food appropriately). I feel like after it was Michelin recommended, this place cares more about pumping out customers versus making it an enjoyable evening out (good food but not being so obvious with being rushed out). Food is great! But it’s more fast food based on the pace of it
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OpenTable Diner
1 review
5.0
1 review
Dined on August 17, 2023
overall5food5service5ambience5
The food is incredible. I've ordered delivery before which was amazing. However, it's so much better in the restaurant! Highly recommend!!!
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annniiee
Vancouver
36 reviews
vip
5.0
36 reviews
Dined on August 17, 2023
overall5food5service4ambience4
The food at Lunch Lady is the perfect balance of authentic flavour and modern twist. Everything is well seasoned with different aromatics/spices. The decor is industrial and unassuming but gives a cozy vibe.
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OpenTable Diner
Vancouver
3 reviews
4.0
3 reviews
Dined on August 17, 2023
overall4food5service2ambience4
Showed up for reservation and needed to wait another 20-25 mins for table.
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JoanH
1 review
5.0
1 review
Dined on August 16, 2023
overall5food5service4ambience3
Amazing. Best meal we've had in a very long time.
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MeowJ
Los Angeles
2 reviews
5.0
2 reviews
Dined on August 13, 2023
overall5food5service4ambience4
Like the vibe, food was delicious and well plated.
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OpenTable Diner
1 review
5.0
1 review
Dined on August 10, 2023
overall5food5service5ambience4
Even with a reservation had to wait about 20 minutes for a table. However, when my friend realized his initial order was going to be too spicy for him they had no problem replacing his order with something milder and did not charge for the first order. Service was very attentive as well.
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MeenaB
Vancouver
8 reviews
vip
5.0
8 reviews
Dined on August 10, 2023
overall5food5service5ambience3
Our meal at the Lunch Lady was amazing! The Family Style menu was the best way to try a variety of dishes at a reasonable price point. Would highly recommend to others.
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Safety precautions

Cleaning & sanitising
- Surfaces sanitised between seatings
- Digital, disposable or sanitised menu provided
- Common areas deep-cleaned daily
- Sanitiser or wipes provided for customers
- Contactless payment available

Screening
- Staff is vaccinated

FAQs

You can order delivery directly from The Lunch Lady using the Order Online button. The Lunch Lady also offers delivery in partnership with Uber Eats. The Lunch Lady also offers takeout which you can order by calling the restaurant at (604) 559-5938.

The Lunch Lady is rated 4.7 stars by 510 OpenTable diners.

Yes, you can generally book this restaurant by choosing the date, time and party size on OpenTable.

Make a reservation

Party Size

2 people

DateTime

Sept 21, 2023

7:00 p.m.

Booked 51 times today

Order delivery or takeout

1046 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC V5L 3W9

Additional information

Award-winning
1. MICHELIN Bib Gourmand 2022
Cross Street
Commercial Drive & Napier St.
Neighbourhood
Commercial Drive
Hours of Operation
Lunch Tue–Sun 11:00 am–2:30 pm Dinner Tue–Thu, Sun 5:00 pm–9:30 pm Fri, Sat 5:00 pm–11:00 pm
Cuisines
Vietnamese, Comfort Food, Tapas / Small Plates
Dining style
Casual Dining
Dress Code
Smart Casual
Parking Details
None
Payment Options
Mastercard, Visa
Additional
Bar/Lounge, Beer, Cocktails, Corkage Fee, Delivery, Entertainment, Full Bar, Gender Neutral Restroom, Gluten-free Options, Non-Smoking, Patio/Outdoor Dining, Patio/Outdoor Dining, Takeout, Vegan, Wheelchair Access, Wine

Website
https://thelunchlady.com/
Phone number
(604) 559-5938
Catering
Email - thelunchladyyvr@gmail.com
Private party facilities
Email - thelunchladyyvr@gmail.com

The Lunch Lady

Make a reservation

Order delivery or takeout

Additional information

Popular dishes

MÌ XÀO TỎI - GARLIC FRIED NOODLES

STEAK LÚC LẮC

BÒ TÁI CHANH - BEEF CARPACCIO

Menu

What 510 people are saying

Overall ratings and reviews

Safety precautions

Cleaning & sanitising

Screening

FAQs

Does The Lunch Lady offer delivery through OpenTable or takeout?

How is The Lunch Lady restaurant rated?

Is The Lunch Lady currently accepting bookings?

Make a reservation

Order delivery or takeout

Additional information