Updated September 2026
On the record: three on Asia's 50 Best.
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 Asia's 50 Best Bars 2021, and cocktails still average about four dollars.
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 Asia's 50 Best Bars 2026.
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. A fixture of Asia's 50 Best extended list five years running (No.58 in 2024, No.84 in 2026).
'Love is in the air' at 85B, a hidden first-floor bar up an alley in the heart of Saigon, where the romance-themed signature list runs fruit- and flower-forward on Vietnamese ingredients: pandan, calamansi, butterfly pea, jasmine and guava, all at 259,000 VND.
These bars are the starting point. The full BarMagazine directory covers every listed bar in Ho Chi Minh City, with a map, filters by bar type, and new openings as we verify them.
