Best Vietnamese Restaurants in Melbourne

Victoria Street in Richmond is Melbourne's Vietnamese corridor, a stretch of restaurants, bakeries, grocery stores and specialty suppliers that has served the city's Vietnamese community since the late 1970s. Known informally as "Little Saigon," Victoria Street between Hoddle and Punt delivers some of Melbourne's best-value meals: generous pho at prices that haven't changed much in a decade, fresh goi cuon made to order, and banh mi stuffed with enough filling to constitute a full lunch.

Melbourne's Vietnamese food scene extends well beyond Richmond. Footscray in the inner west has a rival Vietnamese quarter of comparable depth, centred on Hopkins Street and the Footscray market. Here the pho is as good as Richmond, the banh mi culture is fierce and the Vietnamese grocery stores carry produce that professional chefs from across the city come to source. Springvale in the south-east is another major node, popular with families from the southern suburbs who make a weekly trip to its Vietnamese restaurants and markets.

The CBD and inner suburbs have seen a wave of modern Vietnamese restaurants in recent years: upscale venues in Fitzroy and Collingwood that interpret the cuisine with contemporary technique, banh mi bars in Flinders Lane that serve precision sandwiches to office workers, and casual noodle shops in the Queen Victoria Market precinct that pack out at lunch. These newer venues sit alongside long-established institutions, giving Melbourne a Vietnamese restaurant scene with impressive depth at every price point.

Melbourne's Vietnamese community is also the source of one of the city's great baking traditions: the Vietnamese baguette. Melbourne's Vietnamese bakeries use a specific French-style flour mix and a hot-oven technique that produces a baguette lighter and crispier than anything a traditional French boulangerie achieves. The banh mi assembled from these baguettes, in Richmond or Footscray at six in the morning, is among the city's great street foods.

Whether you are eating a six-dollar banh mi on Victoria Street or an eighty-dollar modern Vietnamese tasting menu in Fitzroy, Melbourne's Vietnamese restaurants reward exploration. Generated by AI. Confirm current trading hours and menu details before visiting.