On the evening of June 4 in Hanoi, the Michelin Guide Vietnam 2026 officially announced the list of selected food establishments in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang.
This year's event takes place right on the occasion of the Michelin Guide celebrating 100 years since the first Michelin stars were awarded in the world in 1926.
193 food establishments honored
Entering its fourth year of presence in Vietnam, this year's Michelin Guide introduces a total of 193 dining establishments, including 11 restaurants winning a Michelin Star, 72 establishments winning the Bib Gourmand award, 110 addresses in the Michelin Selected category and 3 restaurants winning a Michelin Green Star. This is also the first year that the number of restaurants winning a Michelin Star in Vietnam has reached a double-digit mark.
Mr. Gwendal Poullennec - International Director of the Michelin Guide - said: "For 4 years, we have witnessed Vietnam transform from a new and interesting discovery into a food destination with orientation and confidently affirming its own identity.
He assessed that the most impressive thing in this year's list is the young generation of Vietnamese chefs, who were trained abroad but chose to return to their homeland to create dishes with strong local imprints.
“It is a new generation of Vietnamese chefs leading the trend - young people who studied abroad and now return to their homeland to create their own unique dishes: rooted in local ingredients, nurtured by homeland memories and ignited by national pride,” said Gwendal Poullennec.
Among the new facilities added to this year's list, there are 7 addresses in Hanoi, 11 addresses in Ho Chi Minh City and 4 addresses in Da Nang.
The Bib Gourmand category (honoring addresses serving quality food at reasonable prices) has 11 new faces, with familiar names such as Thanh Van family-inherited banh cuon, Mammom, Pho Ha Hang Hom in Hanoi; Ba Ba crab noodle soup, Tay Ho 127 banh cuon, Yen vermicelli soup, Chi Mo, La Lola in Ho Chi Minh City; Ba Vui, Banh beo - Banh dap and Le Gia Khang in Da Nang.
This year's Michelin Selected list includes 110 food establishments highly appreciated by Michelin appraisers for their food quality. Among these, there are 9 addresses participating for the first time, including MAU, Pho ga Huyen Huong, ZAO in Hanoi; Apero, NOM, Ngu Binh Restaurant, Sono, Tales by Chapter in Ho Chi Minh City and Di Hoa in Da Nang.
Looking at the list of honors this year, it can be seen that familiar dishes of Vietnamese cuisine continue to prevail. Many pho, banh cuon, bun bo Hue, banh canh, bun cha, mi Quang restaurants and addresses specializing in snail dishes appear densely in Michelin Guide categories. Besides, other typical dishes such as fish cake, bun rieu, banh xeo or chicken rice are also present, reflecting the diversity of the Vietnamese culinary picture.
Notably, banh mi - a dish considered a symbol of Vietnamese street food - continues to be absent from the Michelin Guide lists. This is the fourth consecutive year that no banh mi businesses have been named in the categories of this culinary guide.
Two new restaurants win One Michelin Star
This year, two new restaurants were awarded a Michelin Star, including ONVIT in Hanoi and Upstairs in Ho Chi Minh City.
In which, ONVIT became the first contemporary Korean restaurant in Vietnam to achieve a Michelin star with a menu combining the quintessence of Korean cuisine and Vietnamese ingredients. Upstairs impresses with a modern tasting menu inspired by Central Vietnamese cuisine.
These two restaurants joined the list of Michelin-starred addresses that have been honored before, including Gia, Hibana by Koki, Tam Vi (Hanoi); Long Trieu, An Saigon, Akuna, CieL, Coco Dining (Ho Chi Minh City) and La Maison 1888 (Da Nang).
In the Bib Gourmand category - for establishments serving quality food at reasonable prices - this year's Michelin Guide recorded 72 addresses, an increase of 11 establishments compared to the previous year.
Many familiar Vietnamese restaurants were honored for the first time such as Thanh Van Gia Truyen Banh Cuon, Pho Ha Hang Hom, Mammom in Hanoi; Ba Ba Banh Canh Cua, Bun Rieu Yen, Chi Mo in Ho Chi Minh City; or Ba Vui, Banh Beo - Banh Dap, Le Gia Khang in Da Nang...
Notably, Tales by Chapter restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City joined the Michelin Green Star community for the first time thanks to pursuing a zero-waste model and seasonal vegan menu.
In addition to the categories for restaurants, Michelin Guide also awarded many individual prizes. Chef Chris Fong of NÔM restaurant received the Impressive Launch of the Year award; chef Tran Phuoc Hau of The Monkey Gallery Dining received the Best Young Chef award; Ms. Mai Bich Ngoc of ONVIT was awarded the Wine Tasting Expert award; while Ms. Nguyen Thanh Van of Tales by Chapter received the Contribution award.
The fact that the number of Michelin-starred restaurants continues to increase along with the emergence of many innovative culinary models shows that Vietnam's culinary industry is entering a new stage of development, increasingly affirming its position on the world culinary map.
