Bars & rooftops · Riverside east
Xào Xạc Bar
Xào Xạc Bar was in TripAdvisor's Travelers' Choice listing when we pulled it in August 2026: No. 19 on our list, in that listing's order. As of August 2026 it scores 4.7 on Google from 500 reviews, against 5.0 on TripAdvisor from 185. Weighted for sample size, the two land 11% apart on our consensus measure. Our stamp: 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
- 1 Đ. Số 47, An Khánh, Hồ Chí Minh 70000, Vietnam
- Typical spend
- roughly 200,000–700,000₫ a head · $$ - $$$
- Cuisine tags
- Bar, Pub
What the diagram shows
An amber disc for 500 Google reviews at 4.7 overlapping a green disc for 185 TripAdvisor reviews at 5.0. The discs overlap 89% — 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 Thạnh Mỹ Tây & An Khánh · riverside east →
The food. TripAdvisor files it under Bar, Pub. 8 of the fifty are bars and rooftops; this one is the 5th of them in list order.
Getting there. Two of the three, in Thạnh Mỹ Tây, are in Bình Thạnh on District 1's side of the river, just over the Thị Nghè canal; Metro Line 1 stops at Tân Cảng there before it crosses to Thảo Điền. The third, in An Khánh, is across the Saigon River. By Grab, budget 45,000–75,000₫ and double the time in the evening peak on Điện Biên Phủ.
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About Xào Xạc Bar
Is Xào Xạc Bar worth going to?
It was in TripAdvisor's Travelers' Choice listing in August 2026, No. 19 on our list, scoring 4.7 on Google from 500 reviews and 5.0 on TripAdvisor from 185. 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 Xào Xạc Bar?
1 Đ. Số 47, An Khánh, Hồ Chí Minh 70000, Vietnam — the Riverside east area, Bình Thạnh & Thủ Đức. Two of the three, in Thạnh Mỹ Tây, are in Bình Thạnh on District 1's side of the river, just over the Thị Nghè canal; Metro Line 1 stops at Tân Cảng there before it crosses to Thảo Điền. The third, in An Khánh, is across the Saigon River. By Grab, budget 45,000–75,000₫ and double the time in the evening peak on Điện Biên Phủ.
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?
TripAdvisor rates it higher, 5.0 to 4.7. Weighted for sample size, the two land 11% apart on our consensus measure. The divergence index is the gap between the two adjusted scores, centred on the median across all fifty. Positive means it does better with Google's larger, more local sample, relative to TripAdvisor's traveller sample, than the median winner does. Negative means the reverse.
What else is nearby?
2 more of the fifty are in Riverside east: The Cloud, Mom's Indian Cuisine. All are within the same area page.
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