Juliet’s Garden 97/5 Le Quang Dinh Ward 14 Binh Thanh District UPDATE – February, 2023: CLOSED AND GONE 🙁 ******************************** Things are changing quickly here’ in Saigon. Leave the country for a short while to explore another part of the world … and when you return, streets may be turned into pedestrian walkways, subway stations may [Read on …]
Cakes and Ale Cafe 6B Cong Truong Quoc Te (Ho Con Rua – Turtle Lake) District 3 (08) 35210367 0906.840.500 ******************************* Eating Saigon! readers may not be aware that about 95% of Eating Saigon! posts are written in Saigon cafes (not a big surprise, I’m sure). So, Yours truly has become, if not an expert on [Read on …]
Banksy Studio Cafe’ 1st Floor, Old Apartment Building 14 Tôn Thất Đạm District 1 0169 999 0003 ***** No place in Saigon could be further from the classic verdant rice paddy image of Vietnam than the Banksy Studio Cafe’. I mean, Was I in Sojo, New York City, 1970? Was I in the Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, 1972? NO, [Read on …]
Lado Cafe (“Place of Passion”) 97/5 Le Quang Dinh, Ward 14 Binh Thanh District 08 2977630 A NEW NAME FOR THIS CAFE! ***** This lovely Saigon cafe is one of my favorite places in Ho Chi Minh City to stay cool and relax with a cà phê sữa đá (Vietnamese iced coffee with milk) on a [Read on …]
Trop. B 306/4 Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai District 3 0918016611 UPDATE – February, 2023: CLOSED AND GONE 🙁 ***** In Vietnam, when there are 11 siblings in the family, your brothers and sisters are often referred to by the sequence in which they arrived in the family. Thus, last night we celebrated the birthday of [Read on …]
Alley Fruit Cocktail Hẻm 177 Lý Tự Trọng Street 0908 407 269 ***** Fruit Cocktail Fruit Cocktail – the very term makes me grimace. Images from my youth in New Jersey of canned Delmonte geometric cubes and spheres inside a metal can, masquerading as actual edible fruit items come to mind – and they’re not [Read on …]
Highlands Coffee Mom always told me, “If you can’t say something NICE about somebody, then don’t say anything at all.” So, concerning Highlands Coffee in Saigon, ….. silence ….. ……. more silence ……. ………. a lot more silence ………. Okay, sorry mom, I can’t resist. Just one short comment. So, there [Read on …]
Sinh Tố Võ Văn Tần Street District 3 * One & 1/2 blocks west of Cach Mang Thang Tam * Across the street from 203 Võ Văn Tần ***** Looking for a relaxing place to sit, to watch the world (or at least Saigon’s street life) go by, and to enjoy perhaps Saigon’s best sinh tố (fruit shake, [Read on …]