Voices of Authority, Flavours of Excellence
Global judges shaping Vietnam’s culinary future
The Gourmet Vietnam Awards 2025 celebrates the nation’s finest chefs, restaurants, and hospitality leaders. Guided by a distinguished advisory board of international hoteliers, sommeliers, entrepreneurs, and tastemakers, the awards ensure credibility and vision. These judges bring unmatched expertise, guaranteeing winners truly embody excellence, creativity, and authenticity in Vietnam’s gastronomy.
Where Hospitality Meets Gastronomy

At the Gourmet Vietnam Awards 2025, the Hotel & Hospitality Dining category honours destinations where cuisine and travel intertwine. From Saigon’s skyline rooftops to seaside tables on pristine shores, these restaurants and bars transform every stay into a memory — where each flavour tells a story of place, culture and artistry.

Redefining the Art of Travel

Every memorable journey begins with a place that inspires. Vietnam, with its rich cultural tapestry and breathtaking landscapes, has become a stage where hotels, resorts, and destinations transform travel into something deeper—an experience where culture, comfort, and innovation intertwine. From glittering city skylines to tranquil coastal retreats, the country’s finest establishments are shaping experiences that resonate long after guests depart.

Defining Hospitality
Honouring Vietnam’s Hotel General Managers of the Year
Beyond the polished marble lobbies and sweeping sea views, true hospitality begins with vision. The Gourmet Vietnam Awards 2025 celebrates the Hotel General Manager of the Year nominees , seventeen exceptional leaders whose artistry, grace, and foresight continue to elevate Vietnam’s reputation as one of Asia’s most inspiring luxury destinations.
The Art of Pairing
Celebrating Vietnam’s Finest Sommeliers
In the delicate dance between wine and cuisine, sommeliers are the unseen maestros who turn moments into memories. The Gourmet Vietnam Awards 2025 honours nine visionaries whose passion and precision are shaping a new chapter in Vietnam’s fine dining and wine culture.
Rising Stars
The Next Chapter of Vietnam’s Culinary Story
Passion, precision and purpose define the Rising Star Chef category at the Gourmet Vietnam Awards 2025. From Saigon’s vibrant kitchens to Phu Quoc’s island shores, these 24 chefs illuminate the evolving story of Vietnamese cuisine with creativity, vision and heart, shaping the nation’s gastronomic future one plate at a time.
Vietnam’s Wellness Renaissance
Leading Spas Redefine Luxury
Under the Hospitality Design & Services category at the Gourmet Vietnam Awards 2025, the Best Spa of the Year nominees highlight Vietnam’s ascendance as a global wellness destination. From Saigon to Sapa, these visionary sanctuaries set new benchmarks in design, service, and holistic rejuvenation—proving that hospitality, at its finest, heals the spirit.
Beyond Green
Where Sustainability Defines the Future of Hospitality
The Best Sustainable Hospitality Concept category at the Gourmet Vietnam Awards 2025 celebrates visionary destinations that are redefining luxury through environmental stewardship, cultural preservation, and community empowerment. These nominees go beyond eco-conscious practices to pioneer a new hospitality model, where sustainability is not a trend, but the very essence of modern luxury.
Dôme Hospitality Joins Gourmet Vietnam Awards as Gold Sponsor
Renowned for its mastery in designing, developing, and managing world-class hospitality concepts, Dôme Hospitality Services steps forward as a Gold Sponsor of the Gourmet Vietnam Awards 2025. With a philosophy founded on excellence and creative vision, Dôme brings a legacy of transformative expertise to Vietnam’s culinary and hospitality scene.
Celebrating Refined Living
Annam Gourmet – The Essence of Conscious Luxury
As a Bronze Sponsor of the Gourmet Vietnam Awards 2025, Annam Gourmet represents the evolution of modern luxury in Vietnam, where exceptional taste, global culinary discovery, and environmental responsibility come together to define a sophisticated way of life. With over two decades of excellence, the brand continues to inspire a new era of gourmet culture.
Elegant Hotel Collection
Silver Sponsor of the Gourmet Vietnam Awards 2025

In a world where hospitality is increasingly defined by individuality, storytelling, and the art of creating meaningful experiences, Elegant Hotel Collection stands as a champion of independent luxury. As the Silver Sponsor of the Gourmet Vietnam Awards 2025, Elegant brings its refined vision and global expertise to a celebration that honours excellence, creativity, and innovation across Vietnam’s vibrant culinary and hospitality landscape.

Gourmet Vietnam Awards
Celebrating the Stars of Vietnam’s Gastronomy and Hospitality
Bringing together Vietnam’s most influential chefs, restaurateurs, hoteliers, and industry leaders, the Gourmet Vietnam Awards 2025 celebrated excellence across gastronomy and hospitality. From fine dining and world-class resorts to visionary individuals, the evening honoured creativity, craftsmanship, and the evolving spirit of Vietnam’s culinary scene.
The Rising Collective
Vietnam’s Highly Recommended Culinary & Hospitality Stars
The Highly Recommended distinction of the Gourmet Vietnam Awards 2025 celebrates more than excellence it honours the voices, visions, and values shaping Vietnam’s evolving gastronomic identity. From spirited bistros to world-class resorts, this distinguished collection reflects creativity, resilience, and the nation’s growing confidence on the global stage.
Where Stillness Becomes the Journey with Bhaya Soul
In the silent embrace of Ha Long Bay, Bhaya Soul introduces a new expression of cruising - one shaped by wellness, flavour, and calm awareness. More sanctuary than ship, it invites travellers to slow down, reconnect with themselves, and experience the bay through balance, gentleness, and deeply intentional design.
Square One: The Quiet Art of Refined Dining
Tucked inside Park Hyatt Saigon, Square One embodies a more intimate expression of luxury - cuisine guided by precision, ingredients chosen with reverence, and an atmosphere that feels poised yet deeply inviting. Vietnamese and French traditions meet with grace, offering a dining experience that lingers quietly, long after the last course.
Chef Benjamin Werge Jensen: From Copenhagen to the Clouds of Sapa
Chef Benjamin Werge Jensen’s path was not scripted. Drawn first by curiosity, then by purpose, he journeyed from Nordic kitchens to Vietnam’s mist-covered mountains, where classical technique now meets remote landscapes, local communities, and a growing sense of belonging.
Casinha: A Table Without Interpretation
In Ho Chi Minh City’s fast-moving dining landscape, tradition is often treated as material to be transformed, reinterpreted, or adapted to contemporary tastes. Casinha adopts a quieter posture. It does not seek to reinvent Portuguese cuisine, nor to contextualise it. It presents it simply, as it is.
Where Spain Speaks Through Small Plates
At Ibérico Vinos Y Tapas, tapas are not reinvented - they are lived. Food, wine, conversation, and movement come together in a distinctly Spanish rhythm, where plates are shared, time slows, and dining becomes a language of connection rather than performance.
Where Wellness Finds Its Rhythm by the Sea
Along the quiet curve of Non Nuoc Beach, Fusion Resort & Villas Da Nang invites guests into a slower way of being - shaped by sunrise rituals, thoughtful spa journeys, and deeply intuitive hospitality. Here, coastal living becomes restorative, and every moment feels gently guided back toward balance and presence.
Bạch Place Đà Lạt: A Gentle Retreat in the City of Eternal Spring
Tucked into the heart of Đà Lạt, Bạch Place is a small, thoughtful hideaway shaped by calm, memory, and a sense of ease. It is not designed to impress at first glance, but to be felt over time - through simple comforts, attentive hospitality, and moments of quiet that invite guests to slow down and breathe.
Noriboi Omakase: A Dialogue Between Two Cultures
At Noriboi Omakase, Japanese omakase tradition is interpreted through a distinctly Vietnamese lens. Premium ingredients, quiet architecture, and thoughtful storytelling come together to create a tasting journey where precision meets emotion - honouring heritage, craftsmanship, and nature in every composed bite.
El Toro: Designed for Taste, Built for Connection
More than a steakhouse, El Toro is a place where evenings unfold gently. Soft lighting, natural textures, and perfectly executed dishes create an atmosphere that feels both elegant and grounded - a space made for conversation, depth, and lingering moments.
Alba Wellness Valley by Fusion: A Journey Back to Balance
Just outside Huế, Alba Wellness Valley by Fusion by Fusion unfolds like a tranquil retreat grounded in water and forest. From mineral hot springs to immersive mindfulness programs, every element is crafted to restore the body, soothe the spirit, and gently realign one’s sense of inner equilibrium.
Azerai Ke Ga Bay: Silence, Sea Light, and Slow Living
Just two and a half hours from Ho Chi Minh City, Azerai Ke Ga Bay reveals a quieter Vietnam — gardens opening to the sea, soft contemporary design, and a rhythm shaped by wellness and ease. It is a retreat for travellers who value space, serenity, and the art of truly slowing down.
CoCo Dining
Whispers of Elegance in a Saigon Villa
Nestled within a beautifully restored French villa, CoCo Dining, designed under the architectural vision of Managing Director Daniel, offers a quiet pause in the heart of Ho Chi Minh City. Here, memory, craft and contemporary Vietnamese sensibility intertwine, inviting guests to slow down, reflect and experience flavour with grace, precision and intention.
Bờm Kitchen & Wine Bar
Where Memory Meets Modernity
At Bờm Kitchen & Wine Bar, Vietnamese flavours are not reinvented, they are quietly reawakened. Familiar tastes from kitchens, markets, and family tables are guided forward with modern craft, resulting in dishes that feel both reassuringly known and beautifully refreshed, carrying heritage with grace into the present moment.
Namia River Retreat: Where the River Slows and Wellness Breathes
Flowing gently along the Thu Bon River, Namia River Retreat proposes a quieter definition of luxury - one shaped by Vietnamese herbal wisdom, mindful design, and sustainable intention. Here, wellness unfolds as a lived experience, measured not by schedules, but by breath, light, and time reclaimed.
The Gate: Where Everyday Dining Finds Its Quiet Elegance
In the heart of Thảo Điền, The Gate offers a composed yet inviting approach to casual dining, where European influences meet thoughtful execution. With well-crafted dishes, an impressive wine selection, and warm, unpretentious hospitality, the restaurant has become a destination defined by consistency, comfort, and understated refinement.
Long Triều: Imperial Cantonese Heritage, Refined for the Present
Set within the palatial surroundings of The Reverie Saigon, Long Triều represents the pinnacle of Cantonese fine dining in Vietnam. Rooted in tradition and elevated through precision, the restaurant offers a composed and refined culinary experience defined by craftsmanship, elegance, and cultural depth.
Truffle Saigon: Among the Clouds
Rising above Ho Chi Minh City, within the iconic Landmark 81, Truffle Saigon offers a refined culinary experience where altitude meets intention. More than a restaurant, it is a place shaped by vision, discipline, and a deep respect for ingredients and craft.
Yazawa Saigon: Where Wagyu Becomes a Standard of Excellence
Recognised as Best Japanese Restaurant at the Gourmet Vietnam Awards 2025, Yazawa Saigon embodies the highest expression of Japanese wagyu mastery. Through uncompromising sourcing, disciplined craftsmanship and refined omotenashi hospitality, Yazawa presents a dining experience defined by authenticity, precision and quiet authority. 
Where Fire Finds Its Discipline
In a dining landscape shaped by speed and spectacle, PRIME Steak Boutique & Chill moves with intention. Fire is treated as discipline, ingredients as dialogue, and each service as a composed experience—one defined by precision, atmosphere and a quietly assured sense of craft.
A Rooftop That Listens to the City
At Social Club Rooftop Bar, the skyline is not only admired – it is quietly felt. As evening unfolds, Saigon softens into rhythm and light, becoming a living artwork. Here, atmosphere, cocktails and perspective come together, offering a place to pause, reflect and see the city with deeper tenderness.
Maison des Rêves: Where Silence Becomes a Signature
Neither theatrical nor overt, Maison des Rêves approaches dining as a quiet art of attention. Here, French technique meets Vietnamese intuition in a space shaped by restraint, memory, and rhythm. It is a restaurant that invites guests not to be impressed, but to be gently, unmistakably moved.
In the Quiet Language of Spice and Memory
At RANG, Indian cuisine is expressed through nuance rather than intensity. Rooted in heritage yet shaped by global experience, this Da Nang restaurant offers a contemporary vision of Indian dining that is lighter in touch, layered in meaning, and closely attuned to Vietnam’s evolving and sophisticated culinary sensibility.
Beach House Restaurant
An Oceanfront Dialogue of Fire and Sea
Set along the sands of Non Nuoc Beach, Beach House Restaurant presents a refined expression of resort dining shaped by elemental cooking and uninterrupted ocean views. From sunlit afternoons to ember-lit evenings, seafood, fire and shoreline rhythm converge to create an experience defined by place, pace and understated elegance. 
La Festa Phu Quoc
A Mediterranean Love Letter on the Shores of Phu Quoc
Vietnam’s first Curio Collection by Hilton arrives in Phu Quoc as a sun-washed Mediterranean reverie. Rooted in a bespoke love story, the resort blends art, craft and celebration with refined gastronomy, cinematic sunsets and the quiet warmth of Hilton hospitality, shaping a destination designed for life’s most meaningful moments. 
Basilico
The Art of of Italian Cuisine
Basilico offers a composed and deeply refined interpretation of Italian cuisine, where flavour is guided by restraint and intention. Located within JW Marriott Hotel & Suites Saigon, the restaurant honours regional Italian traditions through ingredient integrity, classical technique and an understated elegance shaped for contemporary dining. 
JW Marriott Hotel & Suites Saigon
A New Benchmark of Urban Luxury
Rising within Ho Chi Minh City’s evolving urban landscape, JW Marriott Hotel & Suites Saigon articulates a measured vision of contemporary luxury. Designed for global travellers and long-stay residents alike, the property unites refined hospitality, business precision and residential ease through architecture, service and a cultivated sense of calm. 
BREMIERE: Designed for Restoration
Located within Sofitel Saigon Plaza at Le Duan Boulevard, BREMIERE Wellness Center offers a calm, contemporary interpretation of luxury wellness. Designed as a holistic destination rather than a traditional spa, it focuses on sensory balance, skilled therapy and thoughtful rituals that support long-term physical and mental wellbeing. 
The Temptation Danang
The Language of French Refinement
At The Temptation, French gastronomy is expressed with restraint and grace. Set within a tranquil corner of Da Nang, this intimate restaurant offers a thoughtful dialogue between classical French technique and Vietnamese sensibility, where dining becomes an experience shaped by atmosphere, memory and quietly assured craftsmanship.
The Albion by Kirk Westaway
A Gallery of Flavour Above the City
At Hôtel des Arts Saigon, dining unfolds as a carefully composed gallery of flavours, moods and moments. From contemporary British refinement at The Albion to vibrant market-inspired feasts and rooftop rituals, the hotel’s culinary landscape reflects a rare harmony of craftsmanship, culture and timeless elegance. 
The Regent Phu Quoc
Taste Gallery Symphony of Flavour by the Sea
At Regent Phu Quoc, dining unfolds as an art form. Anchored by the Taste Gallery, this beachfront sanctuary elevates resort gastronomy through thoughtful curation, cultural dialogue and sensory precision—earning recognition as Best Resort Dining at the Gourmet Vietnam Awards 2025 for its refined, multi-layered culinary vision.