Square One Park Hyatt

The award-winning Square One restaurant (in the Park Hyatt Saigon) is, according to many, the best restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City. It’s a large restaurant, but a clever floor plan, with several open kitchens and cooking stations breaks it up, giving each section a more intimate feel. The menu splits evenly between upscale Vietnamese cuisine and Western-style grilled meats and seafood, without dumbing down any of the flavors, as is sometimes the case in hotel restaurants, especially with local dishes. The cool-yet-elegant interiors, rich with lattice detailing, Vietnamese lacquer and brick patterns, were designed by Super Potato (a Japanese team of hip go-to designers, akin to New York’s AvroKO).