Where We Ate in Sapa: Warm, Filling and Worry-Free
Places we ate at and loved
After a long, winding ride up the mountain, the last thing you want is to gamble on your stomach. Sapa is cold, damp and full of hiking, so you want food that warms you up, fills you up and doesn't leave you regretting it later. Here's where we ate and had a great time, with no stomach trouble. Nothing is ever guaranteed, but these are well-reviewed places we'd happily go back to.
Our rules for eating safely in Vietnam
- Clean hands: hand sanitizer before every meal, and soap and water whenever there is a sink.
- Water: don't drink from the tap. Sealed bottles only, including for brushing your teeth.
- Ice: machine-made ice only (a cylinder with a hole in the middle). Skip anything that looks chipped off a block.
- Raw greens: only where you trust the kitchen. Cooked food is the safer choice.
- Reviews first: check Google Maps before you sit down, and go for busy places where the food moves fast.
Breakfast (and anytime, really)
Sapa Center Cafe Restaurant
Sapa town
A hearty English breakfast, and the doors never close: open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
What we ordered & tipsShow less
We ordered the English Breakfast 2. There are two versions on the menu, and this one is the more generous of the two: eggs, bacon, sausage, beans, mushrooms, grilled tomato, toast and even pancakes. It costs 200,000 dong, which is about $7.75. Exactly what you need before a day in the mountains. And since they're open around the clock, if you get hungry at night, you know where to go.
What we ordered
English Breakfast 2