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TripAdvisor award rank 8Consensus diagram for Banana Mama Rooftop Bar & Kitchen: an amber disc for 2,372 Google reviews at 4.8 overlapping a green disc for 1,200 TripAdvisor reviews at 4.9. The discs overlap 93% — the two platforms' agreement — with a cocktail glass in the overlap.

Bars & rooftops · Bến Thành

Banana Mama Rooftop Bar & Kitchen

4.8GOOGLE · 2,372
4.9TRIPADVISOR · 1,200
93%CONSENSUS

Banana Mama Rooftop Bar & Kitchen holds TripAdvisor's Travelers' Choice award at rank #8 of the 50 we cover. As of August 2026 it scores 4.8 on Google from 2,372 reviews, against 4.9 on TripAdvisor from 1,200. Adjusted for sample size the two land 7% apart, which is why we stamp it both crowds agree: Large samples on both platforms land in the same place. As close to a safe blind booking as this list gets.

Address
ABC, 102, Đ. Cống Quỳnh, Bến Thành, Hồ Chí Minh 70000, Vietnam
Area
Bến Thành · the market & Bùi Viện
Typical spend
roughly 200,000–700,000₫ a head · $$ - $$$
Cuisine tags
Dining bars

Directions ↗Reviews & photos on TripAdvisor ↗

What the diagram shows

An amber disc for 2,372 Google reviews at 4.8 overlapping a green disc for 1,200 TripAdvisor reviews at 4.9. The discs overlap 93% — the two platforms' agreement — with a cocktail glass in the overlap.

Photography on this site is of Ho Chi Minh City and of the food each kitchen cooks — it is never a photo of the restaurant itself. We do not have licensed interior photography, and we are not going to pretend a stock plate is your table.

The kitchen and the street

Bars & rooftops in Bến Thành · the market & Bùi Viện →

Bars & rooftops cooking, representative of the cuisine
Cocktails on a bar counter · Photo Shixart1985, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Not a photo of any restaurant on this list.
Bến Thành Market, the backpacker grid around Bùi Viện and Phạm Ngũ Lão, and the rooftop bars stacked above Lý Tự Trọng.
Ben Thanh Market and its clock tower · Photo Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Not a photo of any restaurant on this list.

The food. TripAdvisor files it under Dining bars. 8 of the fifty are bars and rooftops; this one is the 2nd of them in award order.

All 8 bars and rooftops in the Fifty →

Getting there. Bến Thành is Metro Line 1's southern terminus and the city's bus hub. Everything in this area is within a 12-minute walk of that station; nothing here needs a taxi if you are already in District 1.

All 14 winners in Bến Thành →

About Banana Mama Rooftop Bar & Kitchen

Is Banana Mama Rooftop Bar & Kitchen worth going to?

It is a TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice winner at award rank #8, scoring 4.8 on Google from 2,372 reviews and 4.9 on TripAdvisor from 1,200. Our stamp is both crowds agree — Large samples on both platforms land in the same place. As close to a safe blind booking as this list gets.

Where is Banana Mama Rooftop Bar & Kitchen?

ABC, 102, Đ. Cống Quỳnh, Bến Thành, Hồ Chí Minh 70000, Vietnam — the Bến Thành area, District 1 west. Bến Thành is Metro Line 1's southern terminus and the city's bus hub. Everything in this area is within a 12-minute walk of that station; nothing here needs a taxi if you are already in District 1.

What does it cost?

TripAdvisor puts it in the $$ - $$$ band, which is roughly 200,000–700,000₫ a head at August 2026 prices. That is the platform's own band, not our estimate.

Do Google and TripAdvisor agree about it?

They agree 93%. Large samples on both platforms land in the same place. As close to a safe blind booking as this list gets. The divergence index is the gap between the two adjusted scores, centred on the median across all fifty. Positive means Google's larger, more local sample likes it more than TripAdvisor's traveller sample does. Negative means the reverse.

What else is nearby?

4 more of the fifty are in Bến Thành: Cloud Nine Sai Gon Restaurant, Twilight Sky Bar Sai Gon, Mad Cow Saigon Wine & Grill, Solobox. All are within the same area page.