Saigon
• Home Saigon (yummy but a bit expensive)
• Quán phở số 10 (excellent local Pho!)
• Rice Fields (over rated and expensive)
• Den Long Restaurant (excellent!)
• Bahn Xeo 335 (very good, walking tour)
• Quan An Co Lieng (good, walking tour)
• Street cart to try Bot Chen
• Bahn Mi Ngoc Chau street cart
• Seafood alley
• Eden Star Hotel included breakfast (pretty good)
Ben Tre and Can Tho
• The elephant ear fish resistant! (It doesn’t seem to have a name but the food here in Ben Tre was absolutely amazing as part of tour)
• Mekong rustic lodge (awful, couldn’t eat the dinner or included breakfast)
Hanoi
• Cha Ca Thang Long (elephant fish only thing served, mix of tourists and locals but good)
• Bun Cha Dac Kim (yum, walking tour)
• Pho Ga Kahn Beo (came here twice for the “dry” chicken pho)
• Bahn Mi B+ (pancakes made as you watch)
• Bahn my pho co (good but unusual…this was the weird separated Bahn mi dish)
• Hoa Beo (dessert – yum!)
• Cafe Dinh (authentic egg coffee)
• Nimh Binh – awful mass produced tourist place pumping through hundreds. So bad didn’t even get name!
• Palago Hotel included breakfast (pretty good)
Hue
• Quan Hahn restaurant (very tasty local dishes)
• Roast pork noodles at local place opposite the Eldora Hotel (yum!)
• Madame Thu (touristy but good)
• Eldora Hotel included breakfast (eggs made to your liking helped a lot here)
Da Nang
• Bep Tran (authentic local food, good pricing but very busy)
• My Quan Co Sau (best noodles ever! Definitely try quang here, pricing was excellent + Michelin recommended)
• Wink riverside hotel rooftop bar (for a western bar their food was fresh and tasty)
• Wink riverside hotel included breakfast (great range including pho!)
Hoi An Town
• Bahn Mi Phuong (good but a very tourist focused option and not cheap)
• Hai Cafe BBQ (higher prices but excellent BBQ meat)
An Bang Beach
• Soul kitchen (expensive, food is good but not worth cost. Great view!)
• Phuong’s Beach Restaurant (tasty, best priced on the beach option, can use their beach chairs and drinks are very well priced)
• Lucky Restaurant (our favourite where we ate many times and very well priced)
• Passions (great food, good price)
• Purple lantern (nice food but another very tourist focused one)
• Nya Hung Restaurant (really nice hot pots)
• Aira Boutique included breakfast (very low quality, ended up going elsewhere each day)
• An Bang Fresh Juices (really yummy, no added coconut water or milk)
• An Bang Beach Village (recommended by an ex pat and the red snapper was amaaaazing!)
• Hoi An Noodle Bar An Bang Beach (very new, tasty but not as good as some of the other local places)
• CHiEM boutique hotel included breakfast (you have to order on an app the day before which so many people whinge about but we thought it was great! Food was delicious )