Presenting the 10 best bars in Vietnam, in alphabetical order.
Drinking & Healing
Bumping a hip-hop playlist in a colonial-style apartment, the “healers” (bartenders) at this feel-good Saigon mainstay sling well-made classics as well as bespoke concoctions tailored to guest requests.
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Enigma Mansion
At this follow-up act from the team behind Enigma, waistcoat-clad bartenders serve classic and inventive cocktails—many made with Vietnamese ingredients—in a sultry candlelit hideaway near the Saigon River.
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Hudson Rooms
This 120-seat restaurant-bar whisks guests to the gilded age of 1920s New York, serving cocktails and whiskey with oysters, caviar, and a house seaweed bread.
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Hybrid Saigon and Hybrid Nha Trang
Trang
With an award-winning location in Saigon as well as the beach city of Nha Trang, Hybrid has become a household name in Vietnam’s cocktail scene—remixing Vietnamese ingredients via molecular mixology.
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Layla
Set in an old apartment complex with a garden courtyard, Layla spotlights sustainable seasonal cocktails alongside a menu of elevated bar bites like garlic chicken cartilage and Korean marinated ribs.
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No Cocktail Bar
One of Hanoi’s earliest pioneers of cocktail culture, this Hoan Kiem Lake area bar set a standard for infusing cocktails with Vietnamese spices and herbs—earning acclaim for their boozy rendition of pho.
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PK Maltroom
Boasting one of Saigon’s largest curated whisky collections, PK Maltroom has become a standby for local brown-spirit connoisseurs, sourcing many rare bottle tough to find in markets like Vietnam.
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Rabbit Hole
With a mirrored, labyrinthine design, this live-jazz speakeasy offers an elegant escape from the Saigon bustle, serving classics as well as original cocktails with house infusions like butter-pandan–washed gin.
rabbithole.com.vn
STIR
Evoking a Saigon of yesteryear in its design, Stir blends modern drinks with traditional street influences—think a country highball with rum, fresh sugarcane and calamansi, and pandan cordial.
fb.com/stirsaigon
The Haflington
The Haflington turns out outstanding cocktails in a room modelled after a quirky, old-timey British aristocrat’s study—cigars, artifacts and taxidermy included.
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Written By
Dan Q. Dao
