Best Vietnamese Restaurants in the UK and Ireland

In total, there is 1 award winning Vietnamese restaurant in the UK and Ireland, based on the combined awards from the leading UK restaurant guides.

Were you expecting to see more Vietnamese restaurants listed? Remember, at Leading Restaurants we only list restaurants holding awards from major food guides in the UK and Ireland; that's less than 3% of all restaurants here.

The best Vietnamese restaurant in the UK and Ireland is Lai Rai in London (based on our unique combination of the leading UK restaurant guides) where the kitchen team serves up award winning Vietnamese Cuisine. Lai Rai currently holds a standard Michelin Guide listing.

There are currently no Vietnamese restaurants holding a Michelin Star in the UK and Ireland, however there is 1 restaurant holding a standard Michelin Guide listing.

At present, there are no restaurants serving Vietnamese cuisine holding an AA Rosette in the UK and Ireland; maybe the AA Guide inspectors will try some new food types soon!

The UKs Vietnamese dining scene has matured with a quiet confidence, moving well beyond the casual noodle joints and pho counters that first introduced British diners to the cuisine. London, in particular, now boasts a small but compelling roster of restaurants that treat Vietnamese cooking with the reverence usually reserved for its French or Japanese counterparts. The Little Viet Kitchen in Islington stands out as a polished, almost romantic interpretation of the cuisine, where chef Thuy Pham brings a refined touch to classics while remaining firmly rooted in tradition. House of Ho, once guided by chef Ian Pengelley, helped push Vietnamese flavours into a more upscale, internationally inflected setting, proving that the cuisines elegance can shine in a high end dining room without losing its soul. What remains especially engaging is how these chefs channel the cuisines inherent lightness and balance into dishes that feel both familiar and quietly elevated. One senses that the UK has an appetite for Vietnamese food that goes far beyond comfort bowls of broth, and the newer generation of chefs seem keen to oblige, offering tasting menus, thoughtful wine pairings and a level of technique that nudges the cuisine into contemporary fine dining. While the scene is still modest in size, its growing ambition hints at a future where Vietnamese cooking claims a more prominent place among Britains most celebrated culinary traditions.