Places to meet in Hanoi

A Mexican restaurant in the West Lake expat district.

A bánh mì shop on Hang Ca Street.

A noodle restaurant in the Old Quarter popular with visitors.

An antique-styled café at the end of a small passage off Hang Gai Street.

A small café in the Old Quarter close to the cathedral area.

A café on Dinh Tien Hoang Street known for egg coffee and a view toward Hoan Kiem Lake.

An Italian restaurant on To Ngoc Van Street in Tay Ho.

A café in the Old Quarter on Hang Ga Street.

A Vietnamese fine-dining restaurant holding one Michelin star.

A café and bistro listed in the Michelin Guide, serving coffee and desserts.

Open public square in Hanoi's Ba Đình district around the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, site of the 1945 Declaration of Independence.

Steel cantilever bridge over the Red River in Hanoi, opened in 1903; open to trains, mopeds, cyclists and pedestrians.

Hanoi's largest lake, about 5.26 km² in Tây Hồ district, with Trấn Quốc Pagoda on an island and cafés along the shore.

A UNESCO World Heritage archaeological site of the old imperial capital.

A historic Confucian temple complex and Vietnam's first national university.

Museum at 66 Nguyễn Thái Học Street, Hanoi, with Vietnamese art from ancient to modern; opened in 1966.

Museum opened in 1990 in Ba Đình, Hanoi, tracing Ho Chi Minh's life through eight chronological galleries.

Hanoi's national library at 31 Tràng Thi Street, founded in 1917 and open to the public since 1919; quiet indoor setting.

Museum at 36 Lý Thường Kiệt Street, Hanoi, on women's roles in family and history and dress of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups.

Museum behind the Hanoi Opera House with about 200,000 items from the Stone Age to 1945, in a former French colonial museum building.

A theatre beside Hoan Kiem Lake presenting traditional water puppetry.

The largest covered market of the Old Quarter, selling wholesale and retail goods.

A weekend evening market along a pedestrian stretch of the Old Quarter.

An Old Quarter street lined with bars, cafés and street food stalls.

A cocktail bar with blues and jazz in the Old Quarter.

A craft beer bar with a lake-facing balcony on Truc Bach island.

A bar near West Lake in Tay Ho.

Vietnam's largest stadium by capacity, opened in 2003 in Từ Liêm, Hanoi; used for national team football and concerts.

Football stadium in Hanoi's Ô Chợ Dừa area, first a pitch in 1934 and rebuilt in 1958, used by Hà Nội clubs.

A multiplex cinema inside a shopping centre on Tran Duy Hung Road.

A multiplex cinema on Lac Long Quan Road in Tay Ho.

A coworking space in the north-west of the city.