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“Superb cuisine, no atmosphere! ”
Review of Anan Saigon

Anan Saigon
Ranked #166 of 6,895 Restaurants in Ho Chi Minh City
Description: About Anan Saigon: The name of the restaurant is ănăn, which also means ‘eat eat’. It is located in Chợ Cũ Tôn Thất Đạm, a wet market right in the center of bustling Saigon. We specialize in street food-inspired dishes created by the award-winning chef Peter Cuong Franklin. Chef Peter’s creative Vietnamese cuisine reflects his vision of a Vietnam that is deeply respectful of its history and traditions yet progressive and international in its outlook. He takes inspiration from the country’s vibrant food culture and uses fresh ingredients often sourced from local markets while incorporating French culinary techniques. The result is a focused menu of deeply flavorsome dishes that are all intended to pair perfectly with our bar’s diverse selection of local craft beers, carefully curated wines, and tropical inspired cocktails.
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Description: About Anan Saigon: The name of the restaurant is ănăn, which also means ‘eat eat’. It is located in Chợ Cũ Tôn Thất Đạm, a wet market right in the center of bustling Saigon. We specialize in street food-inspired dishes created by the award-winning chef Peter Cuong Franklin. Chef Peter’s creative Vietnamese cuisine reflects his vision of a Vietnam that is deeply respectful of its history and traditions yet progressive and international in its outlook. He takes inspiration from the country’s vibrant food culture and uses fresh ingredients often sourced from local markets while incorporating French culinary techniques. The result is a focused menu of deeply flavorsome dishes that are all intended to pair perfectly with our bar’s diverse selection of local craft beers, carefully curated wines, and tropical inspired cocktails.
Reviewed 17 January 2019 via mobile

This 5 floor restaurant with a rooftop bar has a great potential to offer really nice atmosphere, but instead the entire restaurant is squished on the first floor and that small space with tables connected to each other like in a cantina, gets really crowded and loud, apparently all upper floors offer only appetizers, but if you would like to eat from the main menu only on the first floor is available, no wonder this plase is always busy. However if you care less for the atmosphere, the food is one of a kind, greetings to the chef, I highly recommend to try it.
Staff was nice and friendly. Prices a bit higher than the average for HCMC, but worthed.

Date of visit: January 2019
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Reviewed 16 January 2019 via mobile

It’s not a surprise that almost all customers to Ăn Ăn are expats. Prices are high, and the food is very average. It is not even proper fusion, it’s more Vietnamese food plated and presented differently. Among the 7-8 dishes we had, only the escargot ‘pizza’ (stir-fried snails on grilled rice paper) and the shaken beef (bò lúc lắc) were yummy. The foie gras spring rolls, tacos, and deep-fried elephant fish were meh. They’re supposed to have good cocktails, but my phởjito had no phờ ftagrance. The atmosphere and décor may indeed be hip, but there are many other restaurants with a better rooftop view, much better food, and lower prices than this place.

Date of visit: January 2019
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Reviewed 13 January 2019

It's hard to travel to or live in Saigon without hearing about AnAn via word of mouth or internet fandom. The restaurant has an almost mythical status. We held off going to AnAn for a while given how expensive it is, but we finally caved in and had dinner there this week for a special occasion.

There was nothing that was bad about the restaurant, but it just wasn't what we were expecting given all the hype and great reviews. The service was just okay and we felt very rushed by the staff to order and get the heck out of our table as soon as possible (fair enough, they've got a small space and need to fit in as many people as they can). Service usually isn't amazing in Saigon in general (em ơi!), but one would expect better service at a top restaurant geared for tourists.

Our food came out very quickly, so it was hard to have a chance to really "enjoy" the meal. Food-wise, nothing was bad, but it wasn't anything to remember forever. "Street food fusion" sums up the cuisine pretty well, and there's lots of variety on the menu. The menu (and cost) is definitely geared towards tourists who are probably more wiling to spend money for the experience. We joked that the restaurant should be called "MắcMắc" or Expensive Expensive (although that might just be southern Vietnamese; I've heard other words for expensive...).

We can say that the bar was quite good. We enjoyed the pitcher sharing cocktails which were probably the best deal on the menu, and they have some fun, unique cocktails on the menu. The roof top bar is fun, but very small, so be warned when the server inevitably tries to get you out of your table and up to the rooftop bar only to find that it's full (we were lucky, but we felt bad for taking the last seats when there was a whole crowd of people coming up the stairs just behind us).

We feel that AnAn was probably really awesome and more enjoyable when it first arrived in the Saigon restaurant scene, but now it just seems very commercialized and living off its fame. AnAn knows they will fill tables every night, but sadly, we don't plan on going back. If you are visiting Saigon and don't mind spending some money, you should try it (be sure to get a reservation) as many others have enjoyed it.

Date of visit: January 2019
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Reviewed 11 January 2019 via mobile

It’s a tall, slim building in the middle of a market. Leading to the rooftop were cool wall paintings. The rooftop was very cozy and chill, great music, too. Staff are very friendly. Food was great!! I’m glad my husband found this place!

Definitely worth our search and walk!

Date of visit: March 2018
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Reviewed 9 January 2019

A place for foodies, couldn´t be better. Great staff, cool roof top bar with DJ and lots of soul in the restaurant

Date of visit: January 2019
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