Cattle Cafe - Burnaby

I didn’t expect great service but staff were very attentive and friendly! I enjoyed my favorite laksa noodle soup- i chose fish fillet and tofu toppings. The toppings were fresh and good quality too. <br/

January 7th, 2018<br/ It's been a while since coming to Cattle Cafe, but a friend wanted to catch up so we decided to drop by here for some quick fix. Fish noodles is usually my go to when I'm here. I always find that getting the fish noodle soup options cheaper than the combo+drink options. With the combo+drink option, it is extra $4 on top for fish noodles, making it around $15, whereas the regular fish noodle soup plus a $1 cold drink only comes out to $10. Doesn't make sense to me at all. Anyways, I got the satay fish noodle option today with an cold iced lemon tea. Honestly, it wasn't that memorable.<br/ <br/ January 8th, 2018<br/ <br/ I was temping at a dental office nearby, so I dropped by for lunch today. I got the Beef Brisket with rice noodle. When it came out it actually look quite delicious. The beef brisket was juicy and full of flavour. Even the soup tasted the beef brisket! There are times where I got this at other places, the brisket were always dry and just tasted like beef and the soup was just chicken flavoured. Definitely, will be coming here for my beef brisket rice noodle fix!

Having discovered Cattle Cafe last summer, I was more than eager to return to the restaurant for lunch the next day. But it wasn't until we called to make a reservation that we discovered that the Richmond location had closed down. Consequently, we set out for their Burnaby location instead; this actually worked out quite well, as it allowed for a short period of shopping to be done at Metrotown before returning to Richmond to prepare for dinner.

I find it good to scan the menu ahead of time or I would spend an hour making up my mind. There is a great deal to chose from. To make it worse, while waiting, you can watch photos of the choices rotate through on a TV screen and everything looks good! My partner and I shared a signature noodle combo. The price is a couple of bucks more that the menu posted on Zomato but still a nice deal at $11.49. We had the Malay Laksa soup base with ramen noodles, baby bok choy and fish balls. It is a big serving. I'm not sure how one person would finish it. And it was very tasty. On the side (you can add on up to two sides), we tried the deep fried fish filet (very nice with a tasty tarter sauce) and deep fried chicken wings (only 3 sections to an order; very tasty but not a smoking deal at $3). My partner had a Green apple slush with pearls, which was great! We finished with a black bean desert which was on the forgettable side...reminded me more of Mexican restaurant black beans with some sugar added. We won't order that again. $30 for two for lunch including tax and tips is a pretty good deal. Sleek comfortable place with decent if somewhat distracted service.

Decent Hong Kong style restaurant with a huge menu selection with full colour pages with photos. It always takes me a while to decide what to eat. If you get some of their meal combos you can also order a specialty drink for $2.<br/ <br/ They have a happy hour menu from 3pm 6? where you can order mini set meals that are smaller versions of the regular menu with lots of snacky options. <br/ <br/ There are usually lineups for weekend lunch but if you're a table of 4 its a short wait. <br/ <br/ Service is fast and prompt with bilingual staff.