Best restaurants in Hanoi 2026: 14 tables worth booking

The best restaurants in Hanoi in 2026 come down to 14 tables: the city's four Michelin-starred kitchens and ten Bib Gourmand addresses where a bowl or a plate costs less than a coffee in Europe. If you can only book one, make it Gia, Sam Tran's tasting-menu room opposite the Temple of Literature.

The Michelin Guide arrived in Vietnam in 2023, and its 2026 edition, revealed in Hanoi on 4 June 2026, lists 193 restaurants across Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang. The country still has no two- or three-star kitchen: eleven restaurants hold one star, four of them in Hanoi, and 72 hold a Bib Gourmand, 22 of them in the capital. The best restaurants in Hanoi list below keeps all four starred rooms and adds ten places where the city eats every day.

How the best restaurants in Hanoi line up in 2026

Hanoi's four starred rooms are worth booking, but the city still eats best at a phở counter.

For the dishes themselves, start with our guide to what to eat in Hanoi; for the same exercise further south, see the best restaurants in Singapore and our guide to what to eat in Bangkok. Prices are per person in Vietnamese dong, before drinks, unless stated. Street stalls take cash only.

Gia, Văn Miếu

Chef Sam Tran and her partner Long Tran run Gia at 61 Văn Miếu, across the street from the Temple of Literature. There is a single seasonal tasting menu built on northern Vietnamese ingredients and techniques, and Time Out puts the 12-course dinner with wine pairing at about 4,000,000 VND plus tax and service; a shorter lunch menu costs less.

Gia has held a Michelin star since the first Vietnamese guide in 2023, which made Tran the country's first female chef with a star. Dinner runs Tuesday to Saturday, lunch only on Friday and Saturday. Book through gia-hanoi.com.

Tầm Vị, Đống Đa

A mother-and-daughter team with no restaurant training opened Tầm Vị in 2019 in a wooden house at 4B Yên Thế, and four years later it won a Michelin star, which it kept in 2026. The cooking is northern home food, such as fish braised in a clay pot.

It is the cheapest starred meal in the city, with dishes from 10,000 to 200,000 VND and a Trung Bắc set at 760,000 VND for the whole table, according to Time Out. Weekends book out weeks ahead; reserve by phone or Facebook Messenger and ask for the second floor.

Hibana by Koki, Hoàn Kiếm

A 14-seat teppanyaki counter in the basement of the Capella Hanoi, at 11 Lê Phụng Hiểu, Hibana by Koki has held one star since 2023, when Hiroshi Yamaguchi led the counter. Abalone, sea urchin and beef are flown in from Japan.

It is the most expensive table on this list: Capella's autumn-winter menu lists 8,500,000 VND per person plus tax and service, before drinks. Book through the hotel, as far ahead as you can.

ONVIT, Cầu Giấy

ONVIT opened in September 2025 on the third floor of the Grand Plaza Hotel at 117 Trần Duy Hưng, and nine months later became the first Korean restaurant in Vietnam to win a Michelin star. Chef Chi Joon Hyuk cooks Korean dishes with Vietnamese produce; the signature is abalone porridge made with ST25 rice.

Znews put its set menus, of four to seven courses, at roughly 1.5 to 2.6 million VND per person in June 2026. Book through TableCheck or onvithanoi.com.

Mammom, Ba Đình

New to the Bib Gourmand list in 2026, Mammom on Phan Đình Phùng serves close to 100 home-style dishes from the north, centre and south of Vietnam.

At its menu launch, dishes ran from 35,000 VND for pickled mustard greens to 895,000 VND for a Cà Mau crab hotpot. Book by phone at busy times.

Ưu Đàm, Hai Bà Trưng

Ưu Đàm at 55 Nguyễn Du is a Bib Gourmand vegetarian restaurant, fully plant-based, with no fish sauce or shrimp paste in the kitchen.

Vietnam News reported a bill of about 1,000,000 VND for four dishes and a drink. It opens from 10:00 to 22:00; book at weekends.

Habakuk, Hoàn Kiếm

Hidden in an alley at 4 Phan Huy Chú, Habakuk is a specialty coffee shop by day and a European bistro by night, and one of the few non-Vietnamese kitchens in Hanoi's Bib Gourmand selection.

A 2023 review listed brunch dishes at 80,000 to 150,000 VND; dinner costs more. Book for dinner.

Chả Cá Thăng Long, Old Quarter

Chả cá, turmeric fish fried at the table with dill and spring onion, is Hanoi's signature dish, and the Bib Gourmand branch is the one at 6B Đường Thành, in a century-old townhouse. There are three Thăng Long branches on the same street, so check the number.

Time Out puts the full meal at about 200,000 VND per person with a couple of beers. It opens daily from 11:00 to 21:30; no booking needed outside peak dinner hours.

Phở Gia Truyền, Old Quarter

The beef phở at 49 Bát Đàn is the queue every visitor joins: order, pay, carry your own bowl to a stool. The family behind it opened its first overseas outlet, in Melbourne, on 3 July 2026, according to Tuoi Tre.

A bowl costs about 60,000 to 80,000 VND. It opens from 6:00 to 10:00 and again in the early evening, and sells out; arrive before 8:00.

Phở 10 Lý Quốc Sư, Hoàn Kiếm

Run by the same family for about two decades near St Joseph's Cathedral, this Bib Gourmand phở house starts its broth before dawn. The queue is long, but it moves: the menu is beef phở and little else.

A bowl costs 70,000 VND, cash, paid at the counter after eating. No bookings.

Phở Gà Nguyệt, Hoàn Kiếm

At 5B Phủ Doãn, Phở Gà Nguyệt is the only chicken phở shop with four consecutive years on Hanoi's Bib Gourmand list, according to Vietnamnet. After complaints about the cramped room, the owner rented two neighbouring houses and added air conditioning.

Bowls run from 55,000 VND for breast meat to 120,000 VND with thigh, back and extra meat; giblets cost 25,000 VND more.

Phở Hà, Old Quarter

A new Bib Gourmand in 2026, Phở Hà at 15 Hàng Hòm is a 40-square-metre chicken phở shop with an attic.

Bowls start at 50,000 VND; a full one with thigh, breast, soft egg and liver costs 80,000 VND. It opens from 6:00 to midnight and is busiest at lunch and from 18:30.

Bánh Cuốn Gia Truyền Thanh Vân, Old Quarter

Trần Thị Vân began steaming rice rolls on Hàng Gà in 1973, and her family still makes them to order, filled with pork and wood-ear mushroom. The shop entered the Bib Gourmand list in 2026.

A plate costs 45,000 VND with pork, 50,000 VND with chicken and 65,000 VND with fresh shrimp. Go before 8:00 or in the mid-afternoon to avoid the morning rush.

Miến Lươn Đông Thịnh, Old Quarter

At 87 Hàng Điếu, Đông Thịnh serves crisp-fried eel with glass noodles, in broth or tossed dry, and has been on the Bib Gourmand list since 2024.

A bowl costs about 30,000 to 65,000 VND. No bookings.

Frequently asked questions about the best restaurants in Hanoi

Which restaurant in Hanoi has the most Michelin stars? None has more than one. Gia, Tầm Vị, Hibana by Koki and ONVIT each hold one star in the 2026 guide, and no restaurant in Vietnam has two or three.

How much does a meal cost? From 30,000 VND for a bowl of eel noodles at Đông Thịnh to 8,500,000 VND plus service at Hibana by Koki. Tầm Vị is the cheapest way into a starred room.

Do I need to book street-food places? No. Phở shops, rice-roll stalls and Chả Cá Thăng Long take no or few bookings; arrive early and carry cash. The four starred restaurants, Mammom and Ưu Đàm should be booked.

Where can vegetarians eat well? Ưu Đàm is fully plant-based, and Tầm Vị and Mammom both offer tofu and vegetable dishes.

How we chose

Stars and Bib Gourmands come from the Michelin Guide Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang 2026. Each of the best restaurants in Hanoi on this list was checked against the Michelin Guide, Time Out Hanoi, Vietnamese press and the restaurants' own websites, and prices, opening hours and booking methods were last checked on 18 October 2026.