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The Best Bars in Ho Chi Minh City

Ho Chi Minh City's best bars sit downtown, and several build their drinks on Vietnamese ingredients. The best bars in Ho Chi Minh City start at The Enigma Mansion, a colonial-era mansion whose rooms spread over several floors; it is No. 55 on the 51-100 list of Asia's 50 Best Bars 2026, and its Mungbean cocktail mixes tequila, fig leaf, local mung bean and koji amazake. Stir, a hidden first-floor bar on Lê Thánh Tôn with a 1960s and 70s feel, is No. 84 on the same 51-100 list and builds drinks on Vietnamese street drinks, such as a highball of fresh-pressed sugarcane juice. Drinking & Healing, up on the second floor at 25 Hồ Tùng Mậu, has "healer" bartenders make a drink to your mood. 85B Cocktail Bar hides inside an alley. Drinking & Healing takes bookings at least an hour ahead. These are the bars we would start with.

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  1. The Enigma Mansion
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    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.

    Order thisMungbeantequila, fig leaf, local mung bean, koji amazake
    5H Tôn Đức Thắng, Bến Nghé, Quận 1Evenings, daily
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  2. Stir
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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.

    Order thisNuoc Mia Highballfresh-pressed sugarcane, Zacapa 12 rum, calamansi, pandan cordial, soda
    1st Floor, 136 Lê Thánh Tôn, Bến Thành, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City
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  3. Drinking & Healing
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    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.

    2nd floor, 25 Ho Tung Mau, District 1, Ho Chi Minh CityDaily 17:00-02:00
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  4. Summer Experiment
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    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.

    Order this365 Days of Summersharing serve, poured from a watering can
    Second Floor, 77-79 Lý Tự Trọng, Bến Thành, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City
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  5. 85B Cocktail Bar
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    85B Cocktail Bar

    '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.

    Order thisFalling StarsChardonnay, blueberry jam, Malibu, pandan syrup
    85B Trần Đình Xu, Cầu Ông Lãnh, Quận 1, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam
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