International · Bến Thành
Solobox
Solobox holds TripAdvisor's Travelers' Choice award at rank #23 of the 50 we cover. As of August 2026 it scores 4.8 on Google from 1,795 reviews, against 4.9 on TripAdvisor from 266. Google's sample is 7× larger, so the local read carries more weight here than the traveller one. Adjusted for sample size the two land 3% apart, which is why we stamp it google likes it more: The bigger, more local Google sample rates it above TripAdvisor's traveller sample. Usually a sign the kitchen plays better to people who live here.
- Address
- 252 Lý Tự Trọng, Bến Thành, Hồ Chí Minh 700000, Vietnam
- Typical spend
- roughly 200,000–700,000₫ a head · $$ - $$$
- Cuisine tags
- Cloud 9
What the diagram shows
An amber disc for 1,795 Google reviews at 4.8 overlapping a green disc for 266 TripAdvisor reviews at 4.9. The discs overlap 97% — the two platforms' agreement — with a globe in the overlap.
Photography on this site is of Ho Chi Minh City and of the food each kitchen cooks — it is never a photo of the restaurant itself. We do not have licensed interior photography, and we are not going to pretend a stock plate is your table.
The kitchen and the street
International in Bến Thành · the market & Bùi Viện →
The food. TripAdvisor files it under Cloud 9. 6 of the fifty are international kitchens; this one is the 4th of them in award order.
Getting there. Bến Thành is Metro Line 1's southern terminus and the city's bus hub. Everything in this area is within a 12-minute walk of that station; nothing here needs a taxi if you are already in District 1.
About Solobox
Is Solobox worth going to?
It is a TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice winner at award rank #23, scoring 4.8 on Google from 1,795 reviews and 4.9 on TripAdvisor from 266. Our stamp is google likes it more — The bigger, more local Google sample rates it above TripAdvisor's traveller sample. Usually a sign the kitchen plays better to people who live here.
Where is Solobox?
252 Lý Tự Trọng, Bến Thành, Hồ Chí Minh 700000, Vietnam — the Bến Thành area, District 1 west. Bến Thành is Metro Line 1's southern terminus and the city's bus hub. Everything in this area is within a 12-minute walk of that station; nothing here needs a taxi if you are already in District 1.
What does it cost?
TripAdvisor puts it in the $$ - $$$ band, which is roughly 200,000–700,000₫ a head at August 2026 prices. That is the platform's own band, not our estimate.
Do Google and TripAdvisor agree about it?
They agree 97%. The bigger, more local Google sample rates it above TripAdvisor's traveller sample. Usually a sign the kitchen plays better to people who live here. The divergence index is the gap between the two adjusted scores, centred on the median across all fifty. Positive means Google's larger, more local sample likes it more than TripAdvisor's traveller sample does. Negative means the reverse.
What else is nearby?
4 more of the fifty are in Bến Thành: Cloud Nine Sai Gon Restaurant, Banana Mama Rooftop Bar & Kitchen, Twilight Sky Bar Sai Gon, Mad Cow Saigon Wine & Grill. All are within the same area page.
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