Great Foreign Restaurants
Creperie & Café
Situated next to Le Van Tam park on Han Thuyen Street, Creperie & Cafe is a very stylish and chic restaurant located in the heart of Saigon.
Unlike a lot of other restaurants in the heart of district 1 though, Creperie & Cafe's location on Han Thuyen offers visitors the change to eat out side in the quiet away from hordes of people.
This is because Ham Thuyen Street is a pretty quiet street by Saigon standards, and Le Van Tam park opposite seems to filter out a lot of the noise coming from the other traffic.
And located in a hundred-year-old French colonial residence, Creperie & Cafe is a great place to go and relax either inside in the cool upstairs, or outside where you can sit out front and watch the general coming and goings in the park opposite.
The specialty at Creperie & Cafe are Crepes (or pancakes), and they have every type of crepe you could ask for here.
On my last visit I sat upstairs in the cool with my girlfriend and tried the Chicken Gruyere Crepe, which consisted of a lovely fluffy crepe served with a chicken fillet and thick creamy Gruyere Cheese sauce.
My girlfriend on the other hand tried the mushroom and bacon crepe with cream sauce.
And while crepes often don't make you feel like you have eaten a proper meal, both our meals were substance personified, for me the meaty pieces of chicken and the thick cheese sauce left one feeling pleasantly full.
The soft crepe combined with the tender chicken and creamy sauce were an absolute delight.
And for those particularly concerned 
about their health, Creperie & Cafe also has a long list of vegetarian crepes and salads.
Creperie & Cafe have made a great effort to keep an eye on the amount of cream and fat in their meals and provide the more health conscious with healthy options.
Another thing about Creperie & Cafe that strikes the right cord, is that on top of serving great food they also seem to get all the little things right.
For a start they probably have the most polite, friendly and well trained waiters in all saigon. Friendly and knowledgeable staff often make a person's visit a lot more enjoyable.
Secondly, a basket of warm fresh bread and a plate of butter is brought out before every meal.
It is attention to niceties and little extras like this that just increase a person's dinning experience ten fold, and has turned most of Creperie & Cafes visitors into repeat customers.
5 Han Thuyen, Dist 1
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