Châu Kitchen & Bar

About Châu Kitchen & Bar

Châu Kitchen & Bar sits in a restored 120-year-old heritage house at 141 Tran Phu, on the main street of the Hoi An Ancient Town. It was opened out of a love for Hoi An's cooking and in tribute to the founder's late grandmother, Mrs. Châu, and pairs that local heart with an Asian–European fusion menu in one of the old town's prettiest dining rooms. The setting — timber, lanterns and a courtyard — is as much the draw as the food.

For Hoi An's other tables, compare the local specialities at Morning Glory, the garden dining of Mùa Trà Quế or the riverside Red Bridge. The kitchen leans on the region's seafood.

The Kitchen

The menu reads as Asian–European fusion, but the dish everyone orders is the Steak Châu Style — a sizzling iron beefsteak cooked on a screaming-hot cast-iron pan that keeps the meat sweet and soft inside with a charred edge, finished with an in-house sauce. Around it sit fresh seafood, pasta and salads, plus refined local specialities. The bar is part of the draw: handcrafted cocktails built on seasonal local ingredients such as corn, lotus seed and Cam Thanh coconut water, and homemade pomelo, hibiscus and silkworm teas. Expect to spend roughly 900,000–1,500,000 VND per person, more with imported-beef steaks and wine pairing.

The Room

The room is the headline — a beautifully preserved century-old merchant house with timber beams, lanterns and a courtyard, among the more atmospheric tables in the Ancient Town. Service is polished and geared to both a romantic dinner and a celebratory group, and a Tripadvisor rating around 4.7 reflects how consistently visitors leave happy. It is a dressed-up but warm setting, well suited to a special evening within walking distance of the old town's lantern-lit lanes.