Temple Club, First floor, 29-31 Ton That Thiep, District 1, Saigon
"During their visit to HCM City last week, American superstars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie visited Temple Club, a Vietnamese restaurant housed in an old colonial-era building favoured by expats and tourists. Brangelina, as the couple is known, depending on your tastes, chose Temple Club for a brief taste of anonymity following a highly recognisable tour around town on a Yamaha motorbike, manned by bike aficionado Pitt. Staff and customers told me they kept their distance to give privacy to the famous couple, who were visiting Viet Nam after a trip to Cambodia," writes Anh Thu in The Vietnam News.
NB: More on The Temple Club at Frommers. FWIW, it's quite a nice enough place, but the food, in my experience, is average or just plain dull. Their deep fried crabs are not bad though, but all in all you'd be better staying downstairs in Fanny's.
Or maybe going straight upstairs to 3T. THough the wait can be killer, I like the rooftop barbecue there.
Posted by: Chris | January 02, 2007 at 03:20 AM
i like Temple Club as a place to chill though. Only eaten there once or twice, mediocre and quite pricey.
The lounge bar area (to the right as you walk in ) is great. One of my favorite places to take clients for drinks.
Posted by: m@t | January 11, 2007 at 08:57 AM
Never tried the rooftop barbie, although I did hear very good things about it :)
m@t you're absolutely right about the bar area. Very pleasant, calm, quiet etc.
Posted by: Graham Holliday | January 11, 2007 at 10:32 PM
Actually she was there with me.
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Posted by: | April 13, 2008 at 11:46 AM
It's hard to find the club if you havent notice and for foreigner only!
Posted by: Handbag girl | June 18, 2008 at 03:56 AM