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TripAdvisor award rank 51Consensus diagram for The Monkey Gallery Dining: an amber disc for 602 Google reviews at 4.6 overlapping a green disc for 195 TripAdvisor reviews at 4.7. The discs overlap 98% — the two platforms' agreement — with a globe in the overlap.

International · Sài Gòn

The Monkey Gallery Dining

4.6GOOGLE · 602
4.7TRIPADVISOR · 195
98%CONSENSUS

The Monkey Gallery Dining holds TripAdvisor's Travelers' Choice award at rank #51 of the 50 we cover. As of August 2026 it scores 4.6 on Google from 602 reviews, against 4.7 on TripAdvisor from 195. Adjusted for sample size the two land 2% 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
91 Mạc Thị Bưởi, Sài Gòn, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam
Area
Sài Gòn · Đồng Khởi & the river
Typical spend
1,000,000₫ a head and up · $$$$
Cuisine tags
Fusion, Vietnamese

Directions ↗Reviews & photos on TripAdvisor ↗

What the diagram shows

An amber disc for 602 Google reviews at 4.6 overlapping a green disc for 195 TripAdvisor reviews at 4.7. The discs overlap 98% — the two platforms' agreement — with a globe 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

International in Sài Gòn · Đồng Khởi & the river →

International cooking, representative of the cuisine
Banh trang nuong cooked at a street stall in Ho Chi Minh City · Photo Light Write, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Not a photo of any restaurant on this list.
The colonial spine — Opera House, Nguyễn Huệ walking street, Đồng Khởi, the Sheraton and Lotte towers, and the Saigon River behind all of it.
Dong Khoi Street, the colonial spine of District 1 · Photo TomW712, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Not a photo of any restaurant on this list.

The food. TripAdvisor files it under Fusion, Vietnamese. 6 of the fifty are international kitchens; this one is the 6th of them in award order.

All 6 international kitchens in the Fifty →

Getting there. Metro Line 1 runs under Nguyễn Huệ with stops at Ba Son and Nhà hát Thành phố (Opera House) — the whole ward is walkable from either. A Grab from Tân Sơn Nhất airport runs 180,000–260,000₫ and takes 25–45 minutes depending on the hour.

All 24 winners in Sài Gòn →

About The Monkey Gallery Dining

Is The Monkey Gallery Dining worth going to?

It is a TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice winner at award rank #51, scoring 4.6 on Google from 602 reviews and 4.7 on TripAdvisor from 195. 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 The Monkey Gallery Dining?

91 Mạc Thị Bưởi, Sài Gòn, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam — the Sài Gòn area, District 1 core. Metro Line 1 runs under Nguyễn Huệ with stops at Ba Son and Nhà hát Thành phố (Opera House) — the whole ward is walkable from either. A Grab from Tân Sơn Nhất airport runs 180,000–260,000₫ and takes 25–45 minutes depending on the hour.

What does it cost?

TripAdvisor puts it in the $$$$ band, which is 1,000,000₫ a head and up at August 2026 prices. That is the platform's own band, not our estimate.

Do Google and TripAdvisor agree about it?

They agree 98%. 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 Sài Gòn: The Lounge - Sheraton Saigon Grand Opera Hotel, Palsaik Korean BBQ Vietnam - Đông Du, Reflections Restaurant, Cafe de L’Opera. All are within the same area page.