The best places for Vietnamese food in Dublin

A popular Thai and Vietnamese restaurant with various outlets around the city, including one on South William Street, one on Baggot Street, and one just outside of the city in Kildare Village, Saba is the perfect place for authentic and fragrant Southeast Asian flavours. Open seven days a week, their vibrant menu features a fantastic array of flavours with everything from tasty Saigon Noodles with prawns, roast pork, and Vietnamese-style egg Vietnamese style to a flavourful Xao Hao Lo with asparagus, oyster mushrooms, baby corn, snow peas, and cashew nuts, complete with your choice of chicken, vegetables and tofu, beef fillet, or prawns.

Bringing together both Thai and Vietnamese flavours, Saba have come up with a range of unique and delicious dishes that are special to just their restaurant. Thus, you can always expect exceptional flavours each and every time you dine here.

A Thai and Asian fusion restaurant with various outlets within the city and just outside, Red Torch Ginger is a great place to get a glimpse of delicious Vietnamese flavour. With a large and varied menu featuring plenty of dishes to suit all tastes and dietary requirements, from vegan dishes to meat, fish, and everything in between, you’ll be spoilt for choice with the delicious options on offer here.

With plenty of deliciously fragrant dishes making use of Southeast Asian herbs and spices, including Thai basil, lemongrass, fresh chilli, and lime, you can expect flavours that will transport you across the continent. This crispy sea bass with chilli and lime is simply unmissable and you certainly won’t regret ordering their epic chilli basil stir fry, which is served with your choice of fillet beef, mixed seafood, or prawns.

Located in Ranelagh, Nightmarket is another hugely popular Asian fusion-style restaurant that offers authentic flavours of Southeast Asia. With a focus on Thai dining, you can expect an array of flavours inspired by dishes and ingredients from all across the continent. Making the most of quality local ingredients combined with authentic Southeast Asian recipes and cooking techniques, you can expect nothing short of the freshest dishes made with love.

Having won numerous awards including Georgina Campbell’s Ethnic Restaurant of the Year in 2018, this incredible spot is renowned across the city, making it one eatery that is well-worth checking out. From roast cashews and peanuts to start served with lemongrass, lime leaf, and dry chilli to fresh rice paper rolls filled with prawn, mango, sweet basil, cucumber, mint, and baby spinach, all served with a spicy, zesty dipping sauce, you can expect a vast array of fragrant flavours here.

An authentic Vietnamese restaurant in the heart of Dublin, Pho Kim offers delightful Vietnamese food that is fresh, vibrant, and guilt free. Considered among the healthiest cuisines in the world, Vietnamese dishes are defined by fragrant vegetables, fresh meats, light broths, and plenty of herbs and spices, and that’s exactly what the team at Pho Kim try to emulate.

Most dishes here incorporate the iconic Vietnamese flavours of ginger, fresh mint, fresh coriander, cinnamon, bird’s eye chilli, lime, and basil leaves. Plus, they offer an entire vegan and vegetarian menu, so those following a plant-based diet don’t have to worry about missing out. From filled rice paper rolls to pork and prawn salad, crispy chicken wings served with tamarind sauce to various phos, ca ris, and mon xaos, you’ll be blown away by the impressive range of flavours offered here.

Closing out our list of epic Vietnamese eateries in the Irish capital is the fantastic Aobaba Restaurant. First opened in Kingston on Thames in 2011, this popular spot quickly branched out to open outlets around London and finally opened their first restaurant on Dublin’s buzzing Capel Street.

From traditional pho noodle soup served with your choice of beef, chicken, prawn, pork, or tofu to classic banh mi available as a vegetarian dish or with your choice of grilled chicken or pork, they have it all here bringing the traditional culture of Vietnam to life on the busy Dublin streets. Laid back and relatively inexpensive, you can expect a great range of delicious Vietnamese flavours for an incredibly reasonable price (especially for Dublin dining standards). So, what are you waiting for? Treat yourself to some authentic Vietnamese dining with a delicious dine in or takeaway meal from Aobaba.