Vietnam’s Michelin-star restaurants lead its fine-dining boom as luxury travel expands

Vietnam’s Michelin-star restaurants lead its fine-dining boom as luxury travel expands

The week before Sam Aisbett opened Akuna in Ho Chi Minh City, in southern Vietnam, he panicked. “I said, ‘What the hell am I doing? What an idiot,’” recalled the Australian chef of the July 2023 opening. There was no way his restaurant, with a menu price of 3.9 million dong (US$155) – at least … Read more