A popular tourist destination in Vietnam, Nha Trang’s most popular restaurants range from contemporary establishments in five-star hotels to shacks just minutes from the beach. Some of these establishments also offer cooking classes, where you can learn how to prepare local specialities such as Vietnamese curry, spring rolls and hot dishes. To help you choose the best places to dine, read our selection of the 10 best restaurants in Nha Trang.
This restaurants are popular with locals and tourists alike. They offer not only some of the freshest seafood in Vietnam, but also a satisfying choice of authentic dishes from Asia, Europe and the USA.
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1. Cookbook Cafe
- Address: 32 – 34 Tran Phu, Nha Trang
- Opening hours: Daily from 06:30 to 22:30
The Cookbook Cafe restaurant at the InterContinental Nha Trang hotel, offers live cooking stations of local and international delicacies, as well as a wide range of seafood, grilled meats and authentic Vietnamese specialities. Open all day, this elegant restaurant features an air-conditioned section and a breezy outdoor terrace overlooking the East Sea.
Popular dishes include prawns and pork rolls with peanut sauce, Vietnamese-style sweet and sour pork ribs, seafood spring rolls and Piri-Piri roast chicken served with vegetables. For health-conscious travellers, the Cookbook Cafe restaurant serves fruit-infused water, imported cheeses, homemade dim sum and gluten-free options for breakfast. Leading chefs from around the world often visit the Cookbook Cafe.
2. Sailing Club & Restaurant
- Address: The East 72 – 74 Trần Phú Street (Beach Side)
- Opening hours: Daily from 7am – 2am
Nestled in the heart of Nha Trang Bay, Sailing Club Nha Trang is a symbol of vibrant life and style. For three decades, this restaurant have catered to guests, offering a wide variety of culinary delights and unforgettable Vietnamese hospitality. Helmed by a talented British chef, delicacies on offer include beef fillets, grilled salmon and oven-roasted sea bass.
Located just a few minutes from Tran Phu beach, this seaside restaurant is divided into several dining areas, the best of which is the seaside terrace, which offers stunning views of the East Sea.
3. Louisiane Brewhouse
- Address: No. 29 Tran Phú Street, Nha Trang
- Opening hours: Daily from 07 am to 1 am
This is a stylish beach club located on one of the largest stretches of Nha Trang beach. Louisiane Brewhouse offers not only beer, which draws crowds here, but also eclectic international cuisine consisting of Vietnamese, Japanese and Thai dishes. There are also pastries and cakes for afternoon tea. Sun loungers on the beach under thatched parasols, good food, an excellent brasserie and a beautiful swimming pool are sure to give you an unforgettable experience of a relaxing day.
4. Nha Trang Xua restaurant
- Address: Thái Thông Village, about 6 kilometres from Nha Trang city
- Opening hours: Daily from 9am to 9pm
When it comes to Nha Trang restaurants, Nha Trang Xua is a classic Vietnamese restaurant located in a beautiful old house surrounded by a lotus pond, rice fields and a 300-year-old village mansion. Located about 6 km from Nha Trang city centre, the restaurant is owned by an American retiree Vince and his Vietnamese wife. Most of the ingredients used here come from the establishment’s vegetable plot.
The most popular cuisine here is typical Central Vietnamese cuisine with twists such as Vietnamese salads and five-spice beef, and of course, seafood. You should not miss the clay pot beef, crispy pancakes filled with herbs and meat, and banana flower here.
5. Nha Trang Seafood
- Address: 46 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street, Nha Trang
- Opening hours: Daily from 7.30am to 10pm
This restaurant is popular with Japanese tourists. It serves simple seafood dishes in various forms including fried, steamed or grilled. The most distinctive feature of this restaurant is the typically Vietnamese mixture of sour, sweet and spicy, such as dishes in clay pots and prawns in coconut. This seafood restaurant in Nha Trang has upstairs and downstairs. At night, the upstairs is crowded but fun and lively.
6. Dining by The Bay
- Address: Six Senses Ninh Van Bay, Ninh Hoa
- Opening hours: Daily from 07:00 to 23:30
Dining by The Bay is an all-day dining venue within Six Senses Ninh Van Bay, specialising in international fusion dishes for dinner. The two-storey restaurant is equipped with comfortable daybeds, bar stools and an outdoor terrace, where you can wine and dine while enjoying the sea breeze and stunning views of Ninh Van Bay.
Must-try dishes include Vietnamese seafood pancakes with nuoc mam sauce, Luong Son seafood in a clay pot and wok-fried beef fillet served with chips. Being located in one of Nha Trang’s most exclusive resorts, Dining by The Bay is priced accordingly, but those who appreciate the finer things in life will find it money well spent.
7. La Mancha Restaurant
Address: 176/3 Hung Vuong, Nha Trang
Opening hours: Daily from 9am to 11pm
Espanol La Mancha is a Spanish cuisine restaurant open since 2006. It features a colourful mixed décor, an air-conditioned lounge and a terrace on the first floor. The establishment offers a wide range of Spanish traditional dishes, wines, cocktails and fresh beer.
Tapas, fajitas, barbecue, paella, sangria are the specialities of Espanol La Mancha. Prices for paella are VND190-390,000, hot dishes in earthenware cost VND200-235,000, seafood dishes cost VND250-390,000, grilled meat dishes cost VND200-400,000, appetisers cost VND70-250,000, soups cost VND90,000, salads cost VND70-130,000, and spaghetti costs VND120,000.
Guitar musicians play every evening and there are masterclasses in Latin American dances such as bachata, salsa, samba and rumba.
8. Mix Greek Restaurant
- Address: 181 Nguyen Thien Thuat, Loc Tho, Nha Trang
- Opening hours: Daily from 11am to 9.30pm
MIX Greek restaurant is very popular with locals and tourists, so it is often crowded. The owner of the restaurant is a Greek who is a good cook. The name Mix characterises the variety of cuisine and the presence of mixed dishes – from traditional Greek food to burgers and fish delicacies.
9. Lac Canh Restaurant
- Address: 77 Nguyen Binh Khiem, Nha Trang
- Opening hours: Daily from 10am to 9.30pm
Lac Canh Restaurant has been serving delicious grilled Vietnamese beef and a range of unique delicacies for over 40 years. This lively restaurant is a 15-minute walk from the Sheraton Nha Trang Hotel & Spa.
Marinated in honey and local spices, its signature beef is served in cubes, which you can grill to your liking on the charcoal table-top stove. Lac Canh also offers seafood dishes such as crab egg noodles, spicy fried frogs and grilled squid. Note that the restaurant gets really crowded at 7pm, so make sure you get there early to avoid long queues.
10. Trúc Linh 2 Restaurant
- Address: No.21 Biet Thu (Biệt Thự), Loc Tho, Nha Trang
- Opening hours: Daily from 8am to 10pm
Among the many restaurants in Nha Trang, this one is probably the most popular among all categories of visitors as well as residents. The restaurant has a seafood exhibition on ice from which you can choose jumbo prawns, fresh fish, crabs and squid and then cook them to your liking. The electric menu includes Vietnamese-style broth fondue, which contains lots of herbs, fresh vegetables, seafood and meats; a variety of claypot mixed dishes; and the famous shrimp spring rolls.
This restaurant, one of the most popular spots in Nha Trang, is not the same as Truc Linh 1, which is on the same street, but offers a simpler menu.
Nha Trang has a large selection of cafes and restaurants. Here you can try various dishes from all over the world, not to mention traditional Vietnamese cuisine. But before going on a gastronomic tour, it’s important to work out which restaurants are really good and which dishes you can try in this or that establishment. Wish you a good appetite!
