Seven phở shops in Ho Chi Minh City hold a Michelin Bib Gourmand. All seven are below, which no other English-language guide we can find manages, and the cheapest of them sells a bowl for 60,000₫. If you only have one morning, go to Phở Lệ on Nguyễn Trãi for beef or Phở Miến Gà Kỳ Đồng for chicken.
The more useful thing to understand before you order is that Saigon serves two different dishes under the same name, and most guides never mention it. This version of the guide was rebuilt in September 2026 against the Michelin Guide’s own listings and the shops’ own menus, and it corrects several things the previous version had wrong, including a Michelin award that was withdrawn in 2025 and a price that was out by half.
Northern phở and southern phở are not the same bowl
Southern phở, what you get almost everywhere in Saigon, arrives with a plate of herbs, bean sprouts and lime on the side and a slightly sweeter broth. You build it yourself, and hoisin and sriracha are on the table.
Northern phở, the Hanoi original, arrives finished. No herb platter, no sprouts, no sauce. A clear savoury broth, spring onion, and that is the point of it.
Thanh Niên put the distinction better than we can, describing Phở Cao Vân as “a northern phở shop that indulges southerners” because it puts out herbs, sprouts and hoisin, where a strict northern bowl comes with only spring onion, lime and vinegared garlic. Several shops on this list sit exactly on that line. It is noted for each entry below.
| Phở shop | Where | Style | Bowl | Michelin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phở Lệ (An Đông) | An Đông Ward | Southern beef | 95,000–110,000₫ | Bib Gourmand |
| Phở Minh | Sài Gòn Ward | Northern broth | 75,000–100,000₫ | Bib Gourmand |
| Phở Phượng | Sài Gòn Ward | Southern beef | 75,000–115,000₫ | Bib Gourmand |
| Phở Hương Bình | Xuân Hòa Ward | Southern, beef and chicken | 80,000–85,000₫ | Bib Gourmand |
| Phở Hoàng | Vườn Lài Ward | Southern beef | 60,000–80,000₫ | Bib Gourmand |
| Phở Miến Gà Kỳ Đồng | Xuân Hòa Ward | Chicken | 55,000–65,000₫ | Bib Gourmand |
| Phở Chào | Thạnh Mỹ Tây Ward | Southern | Not published | Bib Gourmand |
| Phở Hùng | Cầu Ông Lãnh Ward | Southern beef | 98,000–120,000₫ | Selected |
| Phở Bò Phú Gia | Nhiêu Lộc Ward | Northern | Not published | Selected |
| Phở Dậu | Xuân Hòa Ward | Northern, strictly | 100,000–110,000₫ | – |
| Phở Cao Vân | Sài Gòn Ward | Northern, relaxed | Around 50,000–75,000₫ | – |
| Phở Tàu Bay | Vườn Lài Ward | Northern origin | 70,000–90,000₫ | – |
The seven Michelin Bib Gourmand phở shops
1. Phở Lệ, An Đông
413 to 415 Nguyễn Trãi, An Đông Ward (formerly District 5). Open 05:30 to midnight. Phone 028 3923 4008.
Ask a local where to get the best beef phở in Saigon and this is the name that comes back most often, and it is the Bib Gourmand. Michelin calls it authentic southern Vietnamese phở with bold flavours and generous portions. The broth carries beef bones, star anise, cinnamon and cloves and a great many hours, and it tastes like every one of them.
Phở tái, nạm, gân or bò viên is 95,000₫. The phở thập cẩm, which is the đặc biệt, is 110,000₫ and gets you raw and cooked beef, brisket, beef balls and tendon. Add a chén hột gà for 10,000₫.
Trading since 1970. Note the branch: there are two Phở Lệ and only this one holds the award. The other is entry 13 below.
2. Phở Minh
63/6 Pasteur Street, Sài Gòn Ward, down a narrow alley beside the Liberty Central CityPoint hotel. Open 06:30 to 10:30, Monday to Saturday.
Read those hours again. Michelin’s own note says they close at 10am and to come early before the food runs out. This is the one shop here that genuinely sells out, so it is a breakfast or it is nothing.
Going since the 1940s and the recipe has not changed: beef bones and daikon only, simmered for natural sweetness, with no star anise and no five-spice. That makes it a northern broth, though the shop now puts out herbs, sprouts and sauces that it historically did not, so it is a hybrid rather than a purist’s bowl.
75,000₫ regular, 100,000₫ large. Order the phở thăn bò, the fillet cut Michelin picks out, and add a bánh pâté chaud, a French-era hot pastry they have sold since the beginning. Michelin calls it a must. There are no bò viên here.
3. Phở Phượng
25 Hoàng Sa Street, Sài Gòn Ward (formerly Đa Kao), on the Nhiêu Lộc canal. Tuesday to Sunday 05:30 to 20:30, Mondays 05:30 to 14:00.
Order the oxtail. It is braised for 40 hours until it goes gelatinous and it is what Michelin singles out. Southern style, and Michelin makes a point of the herb garnishes being carefully trimmed and cleaned, which tells you something about the kitchen.
75,000₫ to 115,000₫, a range the owner told Thanh Niên in June 2025 had been unchanged for two years. Bib Gourmand three years running, trading for over 40 years, and one of eight places in Michelin’s own list of the best street food experiences in the city.
A detail worth having: the owner, Nguyễn Ngọc Phượng, is the sister-in-law of Hoàng Văn Khải, who runs Phở Hoàng at entry 5. Two Bib Gourmands in one family.
4. Phở Hương Bình
148 Võ Thị Sáu Street, Xuân Hòa Ward (formerly District 3). Open 06:30 to 21:00, seven days.
The most convenient of the seven. Long hours, no closing day, and no sell-out, so it is the one you can actually plan around. It also does both phở bò and phở gà properly, which none of the others on this list manage, so it is where to go if your table cannot agree.
Order the phở gà with the toppings it is known for: chicken skin, egg yolk, brisket and tendon. Michelin describes the broth as clear, light and savoury-sweet, made fresh daily.
Open since 1958, founded by Đoàn Thị Rạn and now in its third generation under Trần Thị Phúc Thịnh, who took over in 2017 and has said the Michelin listing revived the business. Prices were 80,000₫ to 85,000₫ when the owner gave them to Dân Trí in June 2024, so expect a little more now.
5. Phở Hoàng
460 Nguyễn Tri Phương Street, Vườn Lài Ward (formerly District 10). Open 06:00 to 14:00, seven days.
The cheapest Bib Gourmand phở in Ho Chi Minh City at 60,000₫ to 80,000₫ a bowl, a figure the owner gave Thanh Niên in June 2025. Southern without ambiguity: coriander, basil, lime and onion come with every bowl, and the clear beef broth takes over 12 hours.
Order a standard beef phở and customise it, tendon or flank or minced beef, or a raw egg on the side. Then order the house herbal tea made from monk fruit and more than ten herbs, which Michelin picks out and which is the genuinely unusual thing here.
It opened in 2008, much the youngest shop on this list, so the award is the story rather than the age.
6. Phở Miến Gà Kỳ Đồng
14/5 Bis Ky Dong Street, Xuân Hòa Ward, down a hẻm. Open 05:30 to 22:30.
The chicken one, and nearly 50 years old across three generations from bà Một’s cart. The broth is chicken and pork bones simmered three to four hours, clear and unsweetened, finished with spring onion and fried shallot. It leans northern rather than southern.
Order the miến gà, the glass-noodle version, which is what the shop is actually known for and what Michelin praises, rather than the phở. A small bowl is 55,000₫ and a large 65,000₫, and there is no fixed đặc biệt price because you build the bowl from toppings at the counter. Gỏi gà is 100,000₫.
Two corrections to things we previously printed. It does not sell out: 500 to 600 chickens a day, around 40 staff, and the broth is on all day, so going early avoids a queue rather than a shortage. And we previously credited it with a Netflix Street Food: Asia feature. We can find no support for that. The Ho Chi Minh City episode of that series is about snails and broken rice, and we have removed the claim.
7. Phở Chào
52 Nguyễn Công Trứ Street, Thạnh Mỹ Tây Ward (formerly Bình Thạnh).
The modern one, and the seventh Bib Gourmand. It holds a current listing in the guide, checked in September 2026.
We could not find a published price from any source we trust, and we are not going to estimate one. Every other Bib Gourmand here sits between 55,000₫ and 115,000₫, so budget in that band and tell us if it is wildly different.
In the Michelin guide, but not a Bib Gourmand
8. Phở Hùng
241 to 243 Nguyễn Trãi Street, Cầu Ông Lãnh Ward (formerly Nguyễn Cư Trinh). Michelin publishes 06:00 to 01:00 daily, though a delivery listing shows it running to 03:00.
Near Bến Thành, and the one that solves the late problem. Michelin lists it as Selected. Order the beef balls, which Michelin calls springy and flavoursome and a must, or the house special with everything in the bowl.
Our previous version had the prices badly wrong. It said bowls from 50,000₫ with a 90,000₫ đặc biệt. The live menu in September 2026 has no bowl under 98,000₫ and the đặc biệt at 108,000₫, topping out at 120,000₫. Delivery prices typically run 10 to 20 per cent over the counter, so ring 028 3838 5089 if the exact figure matters.
Two branches, not several: this one and 288 Nguyễn Tri Phương. It is not connected to the Phở Ông Hùng chain.
9. Phở Bò Phú Gia
146E Lý Chính Thắng Street, Nhiêu Lộc Ward (formerly District 3). Michelin Selected.
A pre-1975 Saigon name and one of the shops historically known for northern-flavoured phở. Order the phở tái lăn, a Hanoi preparation where the beef is seared in a wok with garlic and heaped with scallion, onion and coriander, then dip quẩy in the broth. The phở đặc biệt is the one to get if you want brisket.
Michelin’s hours block does not render and no price is published anywhere, so we have neither. Michelin puts it in its cheapest band.
The ones Michelin has not listed
10. Phở Dậu
Down an alley in Cư xá Phục Hưng, 288 Nam Kỳ Khởi Nghĩa, Xuân Hòa Ward. Roughly 05:00 to midday, busiest between 07:00 and 09:00, and it closes at noon as a matter of policy.
If you want to understand what northern phở actually is, come here. No bean sprouts, no herb plate, no hoisin. The condiments are fish sauce and lime, the garnish is spring onion and coriander, and that is the whole list. Marrow-bone broth simmered more than ten hours with black cardamom, grilled ginger, star anise, clove and cinnamon, seasoned with fish sauce rather than soy, and no rock sugar, no daikon and no MSG.
Order the phở tái vè. Vè is flank with a rim of fat and it is the house cut. Add a chén tủy of bone marrow. The regular’s order is “một vè, nước trong, hành chần”.
100,000₫ standard, 110,000₫ đặc biệt, raised on the sixth day of Tết 2026 in the first increase for years. Opened in 1958 by bà Dậu and in the same alley for over 60 years. Uông Văn Bình, who ran it for decades, died on 30 April 2026 and his four children continue.
11. Phở Cao Vân
25 Mạc Đĩnh Chi, Sài Gòn Ward (formerly Đa Kao). Roughly 05:30 or 06:00 through to 22:00, continuous.
Founded in 1947 by cụ Trần Văn Phồn, who came south from Hà Nam pushing a phở cart and banging a metal clapper. He traded on Trần Cao Vân street until 1960, then bought the house on Mạc Đĩnh Chi and moved, so the shop is named after a street it left 66 years ago. He sold phở until he was 96 and died in 2020, and his youngest son Trần Văn Phụng runs it now. It has never been sold outside the family, which is rare among Saigon’s old phở names.
This is the shop that best shows the northern and southern split: a northern kitchen that puts out the herbs, sprouts and hoisin anyway. Order the phở gầu, the fatty brisket, and add quẩy. Around 50,000₫ to 75,000₫, though that figure comes from a listing site rather than a menu, so treat it as a guide.
12. Phở Tàu Bay
435 Lý Thái Tổ, Vườn Lài Ward (formerly District 10). Roughly 03:00 to midday, sometimes closing earlier when it is busy.
Since 1954, and the bowls are the biggest in Saigon. Order the tô xe lửa, the train bowl, or the even larger tô tàu thủy, the ship bowl. Five cuts only, chín, tái, nạm, gầu and gân, and deliberately no bò viên.
The name comes from French soldiers giving founder Phạm Đình Nhân a pilot’s cap, which he wore constantly until customers started calling him ông tàu bay, Mr Aeroplane. Hence the vehicle-themed bowls. He had sold phở in Hanoi as Phở Nhân before moving south from Nam Định.
Northern in origin and now partly adapted: the founder refused herbs, sprouts, hoisin and chilli outright, his widow later allowed herbs and sprouts, and his son Khang dropped the sprouts again on the grounds that they dilute the broth. Khang, 75 as of December 2025 and running it for half a century, says the flavour is now only 80 to 90 per cent of his father’s. Around 70,000₫ to 90,000₫, though the shop’s own website assets date from 2023, so ring first.
13. Phở Lệ, Võ Văn Tần
303 to 305 Võ Văn Tần, Bàn Cờ Ward (formerly District 3). Open 06:30 to 22:00. Phone 0908 130 100.
The District 3 branch, and the one this guide used to list on its own. It is the same family and the same menu, 95,000₫ for a standard bowl and 110,000₫ for the thập cẩm, but it does not hold the Bib Gourmand. That belongs to the Nguyễn Trãi shop at entry 1.
Worth knowing: this branch was shut for about five years after Covid and only reopened on 16 June 2025. Any write-up of this address published before then was describing a closed restaurant.
14. Phở Hòa Pasteur
260C Pasteur, Xuân Hòa Ward (formerly Ward 8, District 3). Open roughly 05:30 to 22:30 daily.
Open since 1968, and a Michelin Bib Gourmand until 2024. It was dropped from the 2025 guide and is not in the 2026 one at any level, which is a correction to the previous version of this page and to most of the internet. The bowl is still excellent and the long hours still make it the reliable answer at 9pm.
Southern, and deliberately so: a Nam Bộ recipe with cinnamon, star anise and ginger, noticeably sweet, with thin Saigon noodles. Order the tô thập cẩm with giò bó and lá sách. Around 95,000₫ standard and 105,000₫ to 110,000₫ large. You will see 40,000₫ quoted in English-language guides; that is stale data from a listings site.
One correction to a thing we printed before: the rau sống and the blanched giá on the table are free. The quẩy is charged.
15. Phở SOL
37 Xuân Thuỷ, An Khánh Ward (formerly Thảo Điền). Phone 0896 693 737.
We previously called this Phở Thìn by SOL. That name is retired: the operator brands everywhere as Phở SOL and the word Thìn appears nowhere on its site, menu or branch list.
The northern bowl, served in a considerably smarter room than the Hanoi original. No herb platter, no bean sprouts, no sauces. Do not ask for the herbs, there aren’t any, and that is the dish.
We also had the price wrong by half. The June 2026 menu has tái lăn at 75,000₫ small and 95,000₫ regular, the cheapest traditional bowl at 92,000₫, and the đặc biệt at 188,000₫, with hot-stone wagyu bowls running up to 799,000₫. Our old “from 90,000₫” was wrong at both ends. Order the phở tái lăn and taste the broth before you touch anything.
The operator publishes no opening hours at all, so we are not going to state any. The 11:30pm figure we used to print most likely belonged to the grill and raw bar at the same address.
16. Phở 2000
208 to 210 Lê Thánh Tôn, Bến Thành Ward.
The Clinton one. He ate here in November 2000, upstairs with his daughter while security sealed the doors, then waved from the balcony and went into the kitchen to shake every cook’s hand. Founder Alain Tấn was not even there. The visit happened because a regular from the US consulate asked to have the kitchen lab-tested before bringing “some particular American friends”.
Order the phở gà, which is literally what Clinton ordered, with bottled water, a coffee and a mango smoothie. Founded in 1999, and the founders toured both Hanoi and Saigon shops for six months before settling the recipe, so it is a hybrid by design, served southern style.
It does not publish hours or prices and the menu on its site is a 2023 image, so we have neither. One thing to be careful about: the famous branch at 1 to 3 Phan Chu Trinh appears to be the registered office rather than a working restaurant now, so go to Lê Thánh Tôn.
What phở costs in Saigon
A street bowl is 40,000₫ to 60,000₫. The shops on this list run from 55,000₫ for a small bowl of chicken phở at Kỳ Đồng up to about 110,000₫ for a loaded đặc biệt at Phở Lệ or Phở Dậu, and a good deal more if you go to the hot-stone wagyu end of the market at Phở SOL, where the đặc biệt is 188,000₫.
The cheapest Bib Gourmand bowl in the city is at Phở Hoàng, 60,000₫. The most expensive standard bowl among the award winners is Phở Phượng at up to 115,000₫. Anything over 150,000₫ outside Thảo Điền is a hotel restaurant charging you for the tablecloth.
Phở is breakfast. The best broth is the morning broth, most of these shops open between 05:00 and 06:30, and Phở Minh genuinely sells out by 10am. If you can only go once, go at seven in the morning. Phở Hùng until at least 1am, Phở Hòa until 22:30 and Phở Hương Bình until 21:00 are the ones that cover the rest of the day. Prices checked September 2026.
How to order phở like you’ve done it before
- Phở bò is beef, phở gà is chicken. That is the first decision.
- Tái is rare beef, chín is well done, nạm is flank, gầu is fatty brisket, gân is tendon, vè is flank with a rim of fat. Đặc biệt or thập cẩm means all of it.
- Taste the broth first, before adding anything. That is what you are paying for and it is what separates these shops from the one on your corner.
- Hoisin and sriracha go in the side dish for dipping the meat, not squeezed into the bowl. Nobody will stop you. They will notice.
- At a northern shop such as Phở Dậu there will be no herbs and no sauces. Do not ask. Fish sauce and lime is the whole condiment set and the bowl is built to be eaten that way.
- Quẩy is the fried dough stick. Dip it. At most shops it is charged separately.
Checked and left out
Luli’s Kitchen, a Saigon Scene partner, led the previous version of this guide with a phở described in detail. Its live ordering menu carries 30 items and no phở in any section, and it opens at 08:00 rather than at breakfast. We have taken the entry off rather than leave a dish on the page we cannot find on the menu, and we are checking with the venue directly. It is a good Franco-Vietnamese kitchen and members still get 10% off; it is just not a phở shop.
Phở Bình at 7 Lý Chính Thắng is genuinely worth your time, because the upper floor was the forward command post for the 1968 Tết Offensive and the orders for the attacks on the US Embassy and Independence Palace were issued from it. It became a national historic site in the late 1980s and the relic room upstairs costs 20,000₫. We have left it out of the numbered list because we could not confirm its current hours or prices from any usable source, and the last on-site reporting we found was April 2025. Go for the upstairs.
How we picked these
Saigon Scene is based in Ho Chi Minh City. Every shop above was checked against the Michelin Guide’s own Ho Chi Minh City listings in September 2026, against the shops’ own menus where they publish one, and against Vietnamese press reporting. All seven of the city’s Bib Gourmand phở shops are included.
Addresses use the ward names introduced in 2025. Every ward on the previous version of this page was abolished, one of them back in 2021, so the old claim that each address had been verified could not stand. Michelin has already migrated to the new names and most competing guides have not.
Three factual corrections are marked in the text rather than quietly fixed: the Phở Hòa Pasteur Bib Gourmand was withdrawn in 2025, the Bib Gourmand Phở Lệ is the Nguyễn Trãi branch rather than the Võ Văn Tần one, and Phở Thìn by SOL now trades as Phở SOL at roughly twice the price we previously printed. A Netflix credit we gave Phở Miến Gà Kỳ Đồng has been removed because we could not substantiate it.
Where a shop publishes no price, we say so instead of estimating. That applies to Phở Chào, Phở Bò Phú Gia and Phở 2000.
Phở in Saigon: your questions answered
Which phở in Saigon has a Michelin Bib Gourmand?
Seven shops: Phở Lệ at its An Đông branch on Nguyễn Trãi, Phở Minh on Pasteur, Phở Phượng on Hoàng Sa, Phở Hương Bình on Võ Thị Sáu, Phở Hoàng on Nguyễn Tri Phương, Phở Miến Gà Kỳ Đồng on Ký Đồng, and Phở Chào on Nguyễn Công Trứ. Phở Hùng and Phở Bò Phú Gia are in the guide as Selected rather than Bib Gourmand. Phở Hòa Pasteur held a Bib Gourmand until 2024 but was dropped for 2025 and is not in the current guide.
How much does a bowl of phở cost in Ho Chi Minh City?
A street bowl is 40,000₫ to 60,000₫. The well-known shops run from 55,000₫ for a small chicken phở at Kỳ Đồng to about 110,000₫ for a loaded đặc biệt at Phở Lệ or Phở Dậu. The cheapest Michelin Bib Gourmand bowl is 60,000₫ at Phở Hoàng. At the top end, Phở SOL in Thảo Điền charges 188,000₫ for its đặc biệt and up to 799,000₫ for hot-stone wagyu. Checked September 2026.
What is the difference between northern and southern phở?
Southern phở, which is what most of Saigon serves, comes with a plate of herbs, bean sprouts and lime on the side, a slightly sweeter broth, and hoisin and sriracha on the table for you to add. Northern phở arrives finished: a clear savoury broth, spring onion, no herbs, no sprouts, no sauce. Phở Dậu is the strictest northern bowl in the city, with fish sauce and lime as the only condiments. Phở Cao Vân is a northern kitchen that puts out the southern herb plate anyway.
Where is the best phở in District 1?
Two of the seven Bib Gourmand shops are in what was District 1 and is now Sài Gòn Ward. Phở Minh at 63/6 Pasteur is down an alley and open 06:30 to 10:30 only, and it sells out. Phở Phượng at 25 Hoàng Sa on the canal does a 40-hour braised oxtail. Phở Cao Vân on Mạc Đĩnh Chi has been going since 1947, and Phở Hùng on Nguyễn Trãi in Cầu Ông Lãnh Ward is the one that stays open past midnight.
What time should you eat phở in Saigon?
Early. Phở is a breakfast dish here, the best broth is the morning broth, and most of these shops open between 05:00 and 06:30. Phở Minh closes at 10:30 and runs out before that. Phở Dậu and Phở Tàu Bay both shut around midday. If you want phở later, Phở Hương Bình is open to 21:00, Phở Hòa Pasteur to 22:30 and Phở Hùng past midnight.
Which Phở Lệ has the Michelin award?
The An Đông branch at 413 to 415 Nguyễn Trãi, which Michelin lists as “Phở Lệ (An Đông)”. The Võ Văn Tần branch in Bàn Cờ Ward is the same family and the same menu but holds no Michelin distinction, and it was closed for about five years after Covid, reopening only in June 2025. Both charge 95,000₫ for a standard bowl and 110,000₫ for the thập cẩm.
