Menu to Taste

Coco Dining

Progressive Vietnamese · Ho Chi Minh City · Michelin One Star · Chef Vo Thanh Vuong

Awarded one Michelin star, Coco Dining in Ho Chi Minh City features chef Vo Thanh Vuong's progressive Vietnamese cuisine. Housed in a restored French colonial villa, the intimate dining room centers on black granite tables and a chef's counter serving multi-course seasonal tasting menus.

143 Nam Kỳ Khởi Nghĩa, Vo Thi Sau Ward, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City

  • Michelin 2025

Menu

Dishes

  • Full Experience Menu (3500000) — The complete CoCo Dining experience with all courses, amuse-bouches, and mignardises. Approximately VND 3,500,000 per person.
  • CoCo Tropical Sweet — Closing sweet drawing on Vietnamese sweet traditions and tropical fruits.
  • Northern Vietnam Course — A course representing the cuisine of northern Vietnam — delicate, subtle, and refined. Part of the 11-region Lữ Hành progression.
  • Highlands Course — Ingredients from Vietnam's Central Highlands — coffee, avocado, and mountain produce prepared with progressive technique.
  • CoCo Vietnamese Rice — Vietnamese rice reimagined with seasonal accompaniments — rice is the backbone of Vietnamese cuisine and central to Chef Vuong's coastal heritage.
  • Fermented Course — A course showcasing Vietnamese fermentation traditions — mắm, pickles, and cultured ingredients. Chef Vuong's first four seasonal menus were rooted in fermentation, curing, and aging.
  • Coastal Seafood Course — Inspired by Chef Vuong's childhood in Mui Ne on the coast of Phan Thiet — featuring the region's prized seafood prepared with contemporary technique and fermentation.
  • Central Vietnam Course — Representing the refined culinary traditions of central Vietnam, featuring complex layered flavors from one of the 11 regions in the Lữ Hành journey.
  • Southern Vietnam Course — Ingredients from southern Vietnam, reflecting the agricultural abundance of the Mekong Delta and Chef Vuong's adopted home of Ho Chi Minh City.
  • Protein Main Course — Premium protein prepared to taste like Vietnam — 'We may use the best ingredients from around the world, but when it comes to me, it will still taste like Vietnam.'

Tasting Menu

  • Progressive Tasting (2500000) — Progressive Vietnamese tasting — Michelin 1 star, HCMC
  • Lữ Hành Tasting Menu (3500000) — The signature tasting menu takes diners through 11 regions of Vietnam, evolving from Chef Vuong's childhood memories. Changes every 6-8 months. 'Lữ Hành' means 'journey' in Vietnamese.

Wines

  • Wine Pairing — Curated wine selections to accompany the Lữ Hành tasting menu, bridging Vietnamese flavours with international wines.

The Experience

A theatrical and intimate room built around the chef's counter and in a historic setting. The meal is structured around a tasting menu.

  • Atmosphere: Theatrical, Intimate
  • Format: Tasting menu
  • Setting: Chef's counter, Historic

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