The Best Places to Drink in Ho Chi Minh City

1. The 50 #61 · Asia’s 50 Best Bars
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1. The 50 #93 · Asia’s 50 Best Bars

The name is a dare and the room backs it up: raw brick, warm light, a towering back bar, and a heavy metal door that opens onto something that feels airlifted from Brooklyn into a Ho Chi Minh City colonial building. It's a proper cocktail bar, with barrel-aged mixes on the menu and bartenders who will skip the list entirely and write you a liquid prescription based on your mood. Old-school hip hop keeps the whole thing from taking itself too seriously.

1. The 50 The 50 Discovery
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An 11-metre bar stretches across an industrial space on the second floor of a colonial apartment block, floor-to-ceiling windows on two sides pulling in the street below. Layla is a cocktail bar run by the team behind Summer Experiment, and the drinks lean heavily on botanicals and spice. The entrance looks a little rough around the edges, which only makes the room feel more like a find. Named a 50 Discovery by Asia's 50 Best Bars.

1. The 50 The 50 Discovery

1. The 50 The 50 Discovery

1. The 50 The 50 Discovery

Down an alleyway in District 1, this split-level cocktail bar has the bones of a speakeasy and the energy of somewhere bartenders actually drink on their nights off. Raw industrial walls, repurposed metal wheels turned into lights, and frames of music legends stacked everywhere set the tone. The drinks are the real draw, and the team behind the bar clearly knows it.

1. The 50 The 50 Discovery

1. Difford's Guide Difford's Guide