On 4 June 2026, at a ceremony at The Ascott Tây Hồ in Hanoi, the Michelin Guide unveiled its fourth Vietnam selection — and it made history. For the first time, the country's starred restaurants reached double digits: 11 one-star establishments across Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang. Fittingly, it happened in the year the Michelin Star itself turns 100 — the first stars were awarded back in 1926.
Hanoi holds four of those stars. Three veterans — Gia, Hibana by Koki and Tầm Vị — have kept their star since the very first Vietnam guide in 2023, and they're now joined by ONVIT, the first Korean restaurant in Vietnam ever to earn a Michelin star. The city also has one Green Star for sustainable gastronomy, Lamai Garden. Here's the full breakdown: the food, the chefs, the prices, and how far ahead you need to book.
Michelin in Vietnam: a 60-second history
The guide arrived in Vietnam in June 2023 and immediately handed Hanoi three of the country's first four stars (the fourth went to Ănăn Saigon in Ho Chi Minh City). The selection has grown every year since: 7 stars in 2024 — plus Vietnam's first Green Star (Nén in Da Nang) — 9 in 2025, and 11 in 2026. The full 2026 selection counts 193 establishments: 11 one-stars (2 new), 72 Bib Gourmands — "great food at a great price" (11 new), 110 MICHELIN Selected (9 new) and 3 Green Stars. No two- or three-star restaurants yet — that's the intrigue for coming years. Gwendal Poullennec, the guide's International Director, summed up the trend: a new generation of Vietnamese chefs, trained abroad, is coming home to cook food that is "unmistakably their own: rooted in local ingredients, local memories and local pride."
Did you know? The Michelin Guide was invented by a tyre company: in 1900 the Michelin brothers handed motorists a free booklet of maps and addresses to get them driving more — and wearing out more tyres. Restaurants and stars came later: the first stars in 1926, so in 2026 the Michelin star turns exactly one hundred.
ONVIT — the 2026 newcomer and Vietnam's first Korean star
Address: 3rd floor, Grand Plaza Hanoi Hotel, 117 Trần Duy Hưng, Cầu Giấy, Hà Nội (view on map)
Cuisine: Korean–Vietnamese tasting menu
Star: since June 2026 (new this year)
Booking: essential — the room is small
The headline of the 2026 ceremony. ONVIT — Korean for "warm light" — became the first Korean restaurant in Vietnam to receive a Michelin star. Chef Joon Huk Chi built his career in Japan, Canada and the Philippines before moving to Vietnam in 2020, and the menu grew out of that journey: Korean technique and tradition applied to fresh Vietnamese produce. The signature dish is abalone porridge cooked with Vietnam's celebrated ST25 rice and finished with an abalone-liver sauce — Michelin's inspectors called it "deeply Asian in soul".
The wine list is a second reason to come. Sommelier Mai Bích Ngọc took home the Michelin Sommelier Award 2026 at the same ceremony, and her pairings run well past the classics — up to and including pine-mushroom soju. Budget-wise, expect upper-tier tasting-menu pricing; check the current menu when you book.
Gia — the flagship of modern Vietnamese fine dining
Address: 61 Văn Miếu, Đống Đa, Hà Nội (opposite the Temple of Literature) (view on map)
Cuisine: modern Vietnamese, seasonal tasting menu (~12 courses)
Prices: dinner 3,500,000 VND++ (~$135) per guest, lunch 2,500,000 VND++; pairings 990,000–2,490,000 VND (++ means a 7% service charge and taxes on top)
Hours: Tue–Sat 18:00–22:30; lunch Fri–Sat 11:30–14:30
Booking: [email protected], +84 896 682 996
Gia has held its star since the first Vietnam guide in 2023 — and if you have room for exactly one starred dinner in Hanoi, this is the name you'll hear most. Chef Sam Trần is self-taught, spent nearly a decade in Melbourne kitchens, and came home with a thesis: a Vietnamese restaurant can be world-class fine dining without bowing to foie gras and caviar. The tasting set is a journey across Vietnam in about a dozen courses — tofu with peanut, pork with eel, swordfish with luffa, black chicken with angelica root — closing with a dessert built on egg coffee, the Hanoi classic. The menu changes with the seasons.
The restaurant itself is a two-storey Indochine-style house opposite the Temple of Literature: 14 tables, low light, and service that introduces every course. Book one to two weeks out; earlier for weekends.
Hibana by Koki — Japanese theatre at a 14-seat counter
Address: basement level, Capella Hanoi hotel, 11 Lê Phụng Hiểu, Hoàn Kiếm, Hà Nội (view on map)
Cuisine: Japanese teppanyaki
Prices: sets roughly 5,500,000–8,500,000 VND (~$210–325) per guest
Booking: via Capella Hanoi / SevenRooms; only 14 seats
Hanoi's most expensive and most intimate starred table. Hibana by Koki is a single teppan counter for 14 guests in the basement of the Bill Bensley-designed Capella hotel, where Chef Hiroshi Yamaguchi turns dinner into performance: open flame, precise knife-work, commentary on every ingredient. The premium produce — abalone, spiny lobster, sea urchin, Hokkaido hairy crab — is flown in from Japan twice a month; the house pride is Yaeyama Kyori beef from Okinawa, which Yamaguchi considers an underrated treasure even by Japanese standards.
Starred since 2023, four guides in a row. With one counter and two seatings a night, book well ahead — especially Fridays and Saturdays. Dress code is smart casual. If you want a meal that is literally front-row theatre, this is it: 90–120 minutes of gastronomy performed a metre from your plate.
Tầm Vị — the most affordable star: northern home cooking
Address: 4B Yên Thế, Ba Đình, Hà Nội (Temple of Literature area) (view on map)
Cuisine: traditional northern Vietnamese, family-style
Prices: à la carte; a full meal runs hundreds of thousands of dong, not millions — one of the world's most affordable Michelin experiences
Booking: recommended; walk-ins possible outside peak hours
Tầm Vị is proof that a Michelin star doesn't require white tablecloths. The kitchen cooks what Vietnamese families eat at big home gatherings: pickled eggplant with shrimp paste, caramelised fish in a clay pot, crab soup, dozens of vegetable dishes. The inspectors singled it out precisely for capturing "the essence of Vietnamese cuisine" — flavours that rarely leave family kitchens. The setting matches: antique wooden furniture, vintage ceramics, the feel of a mid-century tea house; a recent expansion added a second floor, a leafy courtyard, a photo menu and English-speaking staff.
Starred since 2023. The practical takeaway for travellers: this is the one starred restaurant in Hanoi that doesn't need a month of budgeting — a full dinner here costs less than a single pairing glass at some neighbours on this list. The perfect "first star" if you're new to the format.
Lamai Garden — the Green Star: fed from its own garden
Address: 36B Đê Quai, Tứ Liên, Tây Hồ, Hà Nội (near West Lake) (view on map)
Cuisine: contemporary Vietnamese farm-to-table; seasonal and vegetarian menus
Format: just 14 covers (10 in the dining room + 4 at the open kitchen)
Hours: Tue–Sat from 18:00; reservations essential
The Michelin Green Star is a separate award for sustainable gastronomy, and Hanoi has exactly one: Lamai Garden, on the dyke road by West Lake. Its 130 square metres are restaurant, home and kitchen garden at once — more than half the herbs and vegetables on your table are grown on site and picked the same day. Chef-owner Hiếu Trung Trần relaunched the space in 2022 and earned the Green Star by 2025 (confirmed again in 2026); Michelin noted the farm-to-table claim here isn't marketing — the evidence is growing by the front gate.
With 14 seats and five evenings a week, spontaneous visits are near-impossible — book ahead. If you're torn between "a starred dinner" and "something genuinely Hanoian", Lamai Garden solves both at once: a quiet lakeside lane, a counter by the open kitchen, and a menu that literally grew up in this yard.
Did you know? Michelin's Green Star — a young award for sustainable gastronomy — was only introduced in 2020; in Hanoi there's still just one, at Lamai Garden. And Vietnam joined the guide only in 2023 — later than Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia, but straight away with stars in three cities.
Beyond the stars: Hanoi's new 2026 entries
Stars are the summit, but for everyday eating the Bib Gourmand category — great food at fair prices — is where the guide gets practical. Hanoi added three new Bibs in 2026, all street-food royalty: Bánh Cuốn Gia Truyền Thanh Vân on Hàng Gà street in the Old Quarter, a family shop hand-rolling gossamer-thin rice rolls since 1973; Mammom, an homage to Vietnamese mothers' home cooking with nearly 100 dishes from every region (the inspectors loved the clam broth with tomato and pineapple); and Phở Hà Hàng Hòm, a no-frills chicken-phở spot whose sticky rice with chicken sells out by noon.
Three more Hanoi addresses joined the MICHELIN Selected list: MÀU, a gastro wine bar on a shady historic corner; Phở Gà Huyền Hương with its deeply savoury chicken broth; and ZAO, a lively spot from a Hanoi-born chef back from a career abroad — the tomato bingsu with buffalo cheese and lime-basil granita sets the tone. A great no-fine-dining way into the guide: bánh cuốn at Thanh Vân for breakfast, phở on Hàng Hòm for lunch, MÀU or ZAO for dinner.
Planning your starred night out
- ONVIT: Korean–Vietnamese — high (set menu) — 1–2 weeks
- Gia: modern Vietnamese — 2.5–3.5M VND ++ — 1–2 weeks
- Hibana by Koki: Japanese teppanyaki — 5.5–8.5M VND — 2–4 weeks
- Tầm Vị: northern home-style — from ~300–500K VND — 1–2 days
- Lamai Garden (Green Star): farm-to-table — mid-high — 1–2 weeks
Three practical notes. First, "++" in Vietnamese fine-dining prices means service charge and taxes on top — at Gia it's 7% plus tax, so budget roughly 10% above the menu price. Second, almost every starred room in Hanoi is tiny (14 tables at Gia, 14 seats at Hibana and Lamai Garden): walk-ins essentially never work, and holiday dates go weeks in advance. Third, dress code is smart casual everywhere — shorts and flip-flops are a bad idea even where they'd technically let you in.
