One house, several names

Saigon Palm House — a Vietnamese restaurant & cafe in a hidden courtyard

From the alley, it is just a quiet wooden house. Inside are a courtyard, lanterns, and blue-rimmed ceramic tables — a place where guests sit long and eat slowly.

The house keeps a rustic look: dark wood tables and chairs, concrete floors, dark timber beams, a mezzanine with a wooden staircase, woven rattan pendants and colourful lanterns.

The garden is the other half of the story: a Buddha statue, roses, trailing plants — and folding glass doors opening to the alley, catching daylight by day and breeze at night.

The restaurant's name has changed over the years — an old sign read Secret House, a chopstick sleeve read Hidden House — but on the map today, this is Saigon Palm House.

Dining room, glass doors, mezzanine — Dining room, glass doors to courtyard, mezzanine (Apr 2026)

Courtyard

A house in a quiet alley

A quiet alley, folding glass doors onto a courtyard — reviewers praise the calm in the middle of District 1.

Light

Red, yellow, green lanterns

By day, sun through the glass doors; at night, lanterns light the wooden staircase and white-brick bar.

Garden

Buddha statue and roses

A small garden with a Buddha statue, roses and trailing plants — the garden half of the story.

The table

Blue-rimmed ceramics, Vietnamese dishes

Chạo tôm, bánh hỏi and greens on blue-rimmed ceramics — home-style Vietnamese dishes, 99,000–139,000₫.