The Best Vietnamese Food in Chicago
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The best Vietnamese food in Chicago, according to the experts: AAA, the James Beard Awards, and the Michelin Guide have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. HaiSous comes out on top.
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VietFive Coffee and Sochi Kitchen hold the next two places. Eater shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with AAA next.
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Rank 1. HaiSous
Vietnamese
The menu at this Vietnamese restaurant in Pilsen is split into five sections and leans into lesser-known dishes, the kind that make you feel like you've been missing something for years. The room offers an open kitchen with counter seats, a cocktail bar, and two dining rooms, one with communal tables. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand. The cafe next door, Cà Phê Đá, handles coffee and street food.
The awards
- AAA AAA: Three Diamonds
- James Beard Awards James Beard Awards: 2025 · Nominee · Best Chef: Great Lakes · Thai Dang
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
- AAA Three Diamonds
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Nominee · Best Chef: Great Lakes · Thai Dang
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
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Rank 2. VietFive Coffee
Vietnamese Coffee Shop
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- Eater Eater: Chicago’s Best Coffee Shops
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Coffee Shops & Cafes In Chicago
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Rank 3. Sochi Kitchen
Modern Vietnamese
Glass doors open into a bright, modern dining room on Belmont, fitted with a leather banquette and planters that look suspiciously well-tended. Sochi is a modern Vietnamese restaurant where the menu leans into careful sourcing and pho built on long-simmered bone broth. The Michelin Bib Gourmand crowd skews local and unhurried, the kind who know to save room for the cassava cake when it appears on the dessert card.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 4. Ocean Grill & Bar
Vietnamese
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- The Banchets The Banchets: Nominee · Best Heritage Restaurant
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Rank 5. Le Colonial - Chicago
Vietnamese
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Rank 6. First Sip Cafe
Vietnamese Coffee Shop
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Rank 7. Cà Phê Dá Vietnamese Café
Vietnamese Café
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Rank 7. Phodega
Pho Shop
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