Following the success of its first season, Gourmet Vietnam Awards returns for Season 2 with a new collection of names and stories to celebrate. The Best Fine Dining Restaurant nominees reflect a dining scene that is becoming more confident, more personal and, above all, more exciting.
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A Table Worth Remembering
There are restaurants we visit for a good meal, and there are restaurants we remember. Sometimes it is a dish that surprises us. Sometimes it is the way a familiar Vietnamese ingredient is given a completely new expression. It can be the warmth of the service, the beauty of the room, or simply that rare feeling that everything has come together exactly as it should.
This is the pleasure of fine dining.
After a successful first season, Gourmet Vietnam Awards returns in 2026 for Season 2, continuing its celebration of the people and places bringing new energy to Vietnam’s culinary scene. This year’s nominees for Best Fine Dining Restaurant tell an especially interesting story.
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Vietnamese cuisine sits naturally alongside French, Italian, Japanese, Indian and other culinary traditions. Young chefs are bringing home ideas gathered overseas, while international chefs are discovering local ingredients and making Vietnam part of their own culinary journey.
The result is a dining scene that feels wonderfully open to the world, yet increasingly sure of its own identity.
Some restaurants invite us into intimate tasting menus where every course reveals a little more of the chef. Others celebrate the rituals and precision of a particular cuisine. And some return to the flavours of Vietnam, finding something new in ingredients and memories we thought we already knew.
The Best Fine Dining Restaurant 2026 nominees are:
CoCo Dining · Le Parfum · Le Cercle · Mãn by UnicB · UnicB Eatery · Indigo Restaurant Royal Shore Beach Club · Steakhouse The Fan · Nephele Restaurant · Spices Villa Vietnamese Dining · Onvit · CieL Dining · Si Dining · Sushi Rei · The Temptation · The Monkey Gallery Dining · Ö by Hoang Tung · Pink Pearl by Olivier E. · VIE8 Vie Infinity · Maison Des Reves · Square One · Sens · Truffle · Sushi Nishitsugu · Sóno · Voyage Restaurant · Benaras Indian Restaurant Chain Vietnam · Long Triều · Aiii House Saigon · LAVA Restaurant.
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Twenty nine restaurants, each with its own way of welcoming us to the table. For us at Epicure Vietnam, that is what makes this category so special. Fine dining is not only about technique or beautiful presentation. It is about generosity, personality and the pleasure of discovering something we did not expect. And sometimes, the most memorable part of dinner is simply how it made us feel.
GOURMET VIETNAM AWARDS 2026 SEASON 2
The story continues.