Buzz
These restaurants share a common feature—they are strategically located in beautiful spots within the city, allowing Saigon travelers to indulge in delicious cuisine while admiring the dazzling beauty of Saigon.
1. BB Corner Restaurant
Situated at the corner of Truong Dinh and Ly Tu Trong streets, BB Corner restaurant boasts a distinctive Western architecture with elegant and luxurious design, creating unique and ideal spaces. Traveling in Saigon and dining at BB Corner, patrons can enjoy delicious dishes while gazing at the vibrant street below.
Not only does it have a prime location, but this place is also favored by diners for its mouthwatering Asian-European fusion cuisine at relatively affordable prices. The drinks menu is diverse, featuring Vietnamese-style coffee, New Zealand ice cream, various fruit juices, smoothies, and a dessert counter with a variety of delicious cakes.
Open daily from 10 am to 10 pm. Prices here start from around 50,000 VND.
Embark on a Saigon journey to Gạo restaurant
Situated in a charming old villa, Gạo restaurant blends European sophistication with the rustic simplicity of Vietnamese countryside. With a panoramic view of Điện Biên Phủ street, Gạo is the perfect rendezvous for those who appreciate a refreshing space to enjoy both delectable dishes and street scenes. The menu at Gạo entices diners with flavors reminiscent of Vietnamese countryside cuisine, featuring specialties like field crab hotpot, boiled water spinach, fresh spring rolls, crab porridge, sour shrimp, and black fungus rice...
Dishes at the restaurant range from 30,000 to around 500,000 VND. Operating hours are from 7:30 AM to 10:30 PM daily.
3. Savor the ambiance at Scent Garden restaurant
Nestled in a quiet alley in District 3, Scent Garden restaurant, though designed as a European-style villa, exudes the charm of a Southern Vietnamese home with a garden, tree shades, and a water well. Beyond the enchanting ambiance, the cuisine here is rich in Southern flavors, offering dishes such as peppered snakehead fish, transparent shrimp dumplings, field crab in pepper sauce, salt-roasted frog, and familiar breakfast items like My Tho-style noodle soup and watery rice vermicelli...
Operating from 8 AM to 10 PM daily, the reasonably priced menu at Scent Garden typically ranges around 50,000 VND.
4. Stix Restaurant
The restaurant boasts a luxurious, elegant, yet cozy and private ambiance suitable for a diverse range of customers. Additionally, it features a spacious rooftop, providing a refreshing and comfortable setting for events, birthdays, or gatherings. The menu offers premium seafood dishes such as soft-shell crab tempura, green curry hotpot, baked cheese mussels, and a variety of sashimi.
The establishment is open daily from 10 am to 11 pm, and the pricing is relatively high, with a seafood set menu for one person costing around 900,000 VND.
5. Cham Charm Restaurant
Located near the Starlight Bridge in the Crescent Moon area (District 7), Cham Charm resembles a castle with Champa cultural architecture, illuminated beautifully at night. The sophisticated and airy space is not surprising as it attracts a large number of diners to enjoy delicious meals on weekends. Cham Charm's menu mainly consists of fresh seafood with various creative twists to offer diners the best possible culinary experience.
The restaurant is open from 10 am to 2 pm and from 6 pm to 9 pm. The buffet here is priced at around 700,000 VND.
6. Rooster House Restaurant
Located in a small alley, away from the hustle and bustle of Saigon's streets, Rooster House Restaurant stands out with a spacious, elegant, and delicately exotic atmosphere, deeply infused with the cultural style of the Khmer people. With a menu offering over 70 incredibly diverse and rich dishes, it vividly reflects the culinary culture of the Khmer people. Notable dishes include fermented beef, sour soup, tamarind hotpot, rice vermicelli soup, thot not cake, and thot not juice. Moreover, the restaurant is a favorite spot for many artists to enjoy delicious daily meals.
Prices range from about 50,000 VND to 200,000 VND. The restaurant opens daily from 10 am to around midnight.
7. Boat House Restaurant
Situated on the banks of the Saigon River in District 2, Boat House Restaurant offers a breathtaking view of the Saigon River, both refreshing and poetic. Not only that, when visiting this Saigon restaurant, diners can also use the river cruise service to enjoy the food while admiring the panoramic view of the lives of people on both sides of the Saigon River. The menu here mainly features beef dishes such as grilled beef and beef tenderloin, as well as fresh seafood and delicious European-style salads.
The opening hours are from 8 am to 11 pm every day. The dishes here are priced at around 60,000 VND to 150,000 VND.
8. Villa FB Restaurant
Situated in the heart of District 1, the restaurant is designed with a vintage yet dynamic garden style, featuring a completely open space that provides a comfortable feeling for diners from the first glance. Here, patrons can indulge in the restaurant's signature dishes such as roasted duck ravioli soup, live lobster carpaccio, grilled tuna with charcoal, and more. Especially, from 9 am to 4 pm, you can savor the restaurant's unique noodle dish, creatively prepared with dry noodles, wet noodles, stir-fried noodles, rolled noodles, offering both delicious and unique flavors.
Dishes here are priced from around 90,000 VND to 400,000 VND. The restaurant opens daily from 9 am to 10 pm.
As featured in Ngôi Sao
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Reference: Travel guide on Mytour
MytourSeptember 30, 2014
