This Central Vietnam Resort Has the Region's First Michelin-starred Restaurant—and It Just Opened an Ambitious New Eatery

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Vietnam's coastal city of Da Nang is known for buzzy street-food vendors, rich coffee culture, and the country's freshest seafood. Now that the Michelin Guide has come to town, there are more reasons to visit this culinary capital.
Since the guide first debuted in Vietnam in 2023, Michelin has awarded stars to seven restaurants throughout the country. So far, just one can be found in Da Nang at the InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort's French fine-dining restaurant, La Maison 1888. The chef's table at Michelin star restaurant, La Maison 1888.
Intercontinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort
Set in a colonial Indochine mansion, the restaurant marries haute cuisine from chef Christian Le Squer, who is also behind three Michelin-starred restaurant Le Cinq in Paris, with local ingredients and an exceptional wine cellar containing more than 450 premium bottles focused on French wine regions.
'It was truly an honor and an emotional milestone—not just for La Maison 1888 and InterContinental Danang, but for the entire region,' says the resort's general manager, Seif Hamdy.
With its reputation as a culinary destination solidified, the InterContinental Danang just opened another ambitious fine-dining restaurant, Tingara. The modern Japanese restaurant is helmed by executive chef Junichi Yoshida, who brings his own Michelin pedigree to the InterContinental Danang from his experience at the first teppanyaki restaurant to ever receive a Michelin star. From Left: Grilled Kyori Beef tableside; Tingara's dining room.
Intercontinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort
Tingara skillfully showcases the breadth of Japanese cooking styles with two distinct omakase experiences that highlight sushi and teppanyaki. Throughout dinner service, the open kitchen at the center of the restaurant becomes a stage with skilled chefs carefully preparing sushi and using fiery teppanyaki tables to craft dishes like grilled ise ebi lobster and the restaurant's signature crispy wagyu beef, which is slow-cooked at a low temperature and finished over high heat using binchotan charcoal on a robata grill.
'We want to make a real mark on Da Nang's culinary landscape,' says Hamdy. 'Tingara brings refined omakase dining to Da Nang, offering an intimate, chef-led experience not otherwise found in the city.'
Tingara, the latest addition to the property's slate of six restaurants and bars, is nestled 100 meters above sea level in the jungle of the Son Tra Nature Reserve. Between courses, diners can take in sweeping views from the bird's nest-inspired dining room designed by famed American designer Bill Bensley.
Spread out across nearly 100 acres, the hotel's lush gardens mimic the maximalist sensibilities of the interior design also dreamt up by Bensley. It takes a team of more than 100 gardeners and landscapers to maintain the teeming greenery that stretches from the resort's fourth level all the way down to the waterfront.
Inside the 172 rooms and suites, plus 17 private villas and residences, bold patterns in citrus-like colors contrast the white-and-black color scheme. Each room is infused with playful details like lantern-shaped door frames and unexpected monkey statues hidden throughout the property.
Look out for the real monkeys on site as well. Macaques and endangered red-shanked douc monkeys are native to the only remaining coastal rain forest in Vietnam—they love to play in the tropical almond trees, helping bring this whimsical playground for beachfront vacations and culinary explorations to life.
Nightly rates start at $550 with daily breakfast for two. Learn more and book your stay at danang.intercontinental.com.