Saigon's 50 award-winning restaurants — Google-verified

Saigon award-winning restaurants — FAQs

How were these 50 Saigon restaurants chosen?

TripAdvisor's Travelers' Choice awards mark roughly the top 10% of its 7,200+ Ho Chi Minh City listings. We took the 50 highest-ranked award winners and cross-checked every one against Google — rating, review count, price band and address — so you can see where 116,703 diners on two platforms agree, and where they don't.

Do Google and TripAdvisor agree on Saigon's best restaurants?

Mostly, but not always. 44 of the 50 hold 4.5 or higher on both platforms. 5 score clearly better with TripAdvisor's traveller crowd than with Google's larger, more local review base — worth knowing before you cross town for one.

Are all 50 award winners still open?

We checked every listing against Google in August 2026. One award winner, Benaras Indian Bistro, is currently listed as temporarily closed — it stays on the list with a clear badge rather than being quietly dropped.

Which areas of Ho Chi Minh City do the winners cluster in?

Heavily central: most sit in the Sài Gòn and Bến Thành wards — the District 1 core around Đồng Khởi, Bến Thành Market and the riverside — with a smaller cluster in Xuân Hòa (the District 3 side) and outliers in Tân Định, Thảo Điền and Chợ Lớn.