Nê Cocktail Bar
One of Hanoi's modern-cocktail pioneers, home of Pham Tien Tiep's famous flaming Pho cocktail.
Vietnam
Vietnam's cocktail scene is young, inventive and good value. Ho Chi Minh City's District 1 is full of speakeasies hidden up stairwells and behind unmarked doors, while Hanoi mixes grand colonial hotel bars around the Opera House with small creative bars in the Old Quarter and Tay Ho. Many bartenders work with Vietnamese ingredients, from rice spirits to coffee and local herbs.
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Angelina – Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi
The Metropole's glamorous bar, with a towering back bar, classic and modern cocktails and a whisky and cigar lounge.
Polite & Co
Hanoi's original speakeasy: a gentleman's-club room of leather chairs and framed photos, strong on classics and whisky.
Workshop14
A minimalist former architect's studio in Tay Ho, serving modernist cocktails built on Vietnamese produce.
The Hudson Rooms – Capella Hanoi
Capella Hanoi's top-floor bar, styled on 1920s Grand Central Terminal, pairing travel-themed cocktails with seafood.
The Haflington
A museum-inspired Old Quarter bar with a dinosaur skeleton overhead and a vintage-minded cocktail list.
Rabbit Hole
A surreal underground speakeasy opposite Independence Palace, inspired by Magritte and Alice, with a piano and an L-shaped...
Snuffbox
One of Saigon's first speakeasies, hidden in an old apartment block and channelling Gatsby-era glamour since 2015.
2 Lam Son – Park Hyatt Saigon
Park Hyatt's lobby martini bar, framing Hai Ba Trung Street through floor-to-ceiling windows, with DJs and a Vietnam-themed...
Summer Experiment
A playful, sustainability-minded bar where it's 'summer all year round', with around 30 creative cocktails and a jazz bar...
Firkin Bar
A Mad Men-style whisky and cocktail bar off Dong Khoi, specialising in carefully 'remastered' classics.
Drinking & Healing
Bartenders play 'healers' in a 150-year-old colonial building, with neon-lit smoking terraces looking out to Bitexco Tower.
The Enigma Mansion
A dramatic brick-and-mirror bar under a giant suspended phoenix, known for technical, award-winning signatures.
Stir
A discreet speakeasy near Ben Thanh Market where a young Vietnamese team rework the classics with street-food flavours.