The 12 Best Bars in Vietnam

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A cocktail bar set in a former architect's studio on the shore of West Lake, presenting itself as the 14th craft village of the Tây Hồ district. The interior uses warm wood, raw textures and skylights for a calm, contemplative room. Bar director Rich McDonough applies modernist techniques to Vietnamese ingredients in drinks such as a vacuum-redistilled chilli margarita and a rum serve with green peppercorn and guava. It opened in early 2025 and was named The Best Bar in Vietnam 2026.

The Hudson Rooms

The Hudson Rooms is the rooftop bar and restaurant at Capella Hanoi in Hoan Kiem, themed on the travel renaissance of the 1920s and on New York's Fulton Fish Market. It calls itself the home of oysters and caviar, pairing them with around two hundred whiskey labels and a signature whiskey cart.

The Enigma Mansion

A century-old colonial mansion in downtown Saigon, reborn in 2024 when the bar shed its neon aesthetic for heritage, exposed brick, soft light and wood across multiple rooms of high-backed armchairs and leather couches. The drinks run modern: rotovap distillation and fermentation reimagining the classics, like the Mungbean of tequila, fig leaf and koji amazake. No. 55 on the Asia's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2026.

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Stir

Tucked on the first floor of an unassuming District 1 building, Stir is 'a wonderful combination of contemporary cocktail bar with vintage touches, firmly informed by its Vietnamese roots', a 1960s-70s Vietnamese aesthetic around drinks inspired by traditional street beverages, like the sugarcane Nuoc Mia Highball. It has placed on the Asia's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list five years running, highest at No. 58 in 2024.

Drinking & Healing

Drinking & Healing is a second-floor cocktail bar on Ho Tung Mau in District 1, which describes itself as a social cocktail space shaped by culture and art, built around an experience designed for connection. It opens nightly and takes bookings through its own reservation site.

Nê Cocktail Bar

Nê is a cocktail bar on Tống Duy Tân in Hoàn Kiếm, close to the center of old Hanoi. Its current menu is laid out as a journey of stops across Vietnam, with drinks such as Ô Quy Hồ, inspired by the misty mountain pass of the northwest, and The Dynasty, a nod to Huế. The bar also runs live music nights and hosts guest bartender shifts.

Summer Experiment

Australian mixologist Jay Moir's trailblazer has set the tone for sustainability on Saigon's bar scene since 2019: an on-site garden and living walls, reclaimed furniture, an apothecary-style back bar of dried edible flowers and a herb-filled terrace, with homegrown ingredients through the drinks. No. 77 on the Asia's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2021, and cocktails still average about four dollars.

Angelina

Angelina is the cocktail bar and whisky lounge of the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi, done in a Scottish highland style with gold, green and blue accents. It is spread over several levels: a casual terrace, a lively ground floor bar, a dining room upstairs and a private whisky and cigar lounge. The bar pairs bespoke cocktails with a deep whisky collection, wines and Cuban cigars, and late night bar food runs until 12:30am.

Bamboo Bar

The Bamboo Bar is the Metropole's poolside bar, thatched roof and wooden floor beside the swimming pool, which the hotel calls the busiest spot in the house and the most storied, since the historic Metropole bomb shelter lies beneath it. The signature pour is the Graham Greene Martini, with light meals, ice cream and coffee through the day, and it opens at six in the morning and runs until eleven at night.

Kumquat Tree

Kumquat Tree is a speakeasy in Tây Hồ that describes itself as an East meets West bar, where the journey back in time begins and stories of a golden age are told. Guests find it behind a red door, and the bar runs guest shifts and seasonal parties through the year. It opens nightly from 6pm until 2am.

USE Bar

USE is a cocktail bar on Ngõ Huế in Hai Bà Trưng. The team says a bar is more than the drinks it serves, pointing to the ingredients it chooses, the techniques it refines and the people behind the counter. The cocktails lean on thoughtful ingredients and unexpected combinations, and the bar has added boozy ice creams such as Campari Watermelon and Mango Absinthe.