How to book Ha's Snack Bar

Ha's Snack Bar is a small Vietnamese wine bar at 297 Broome Street, on the corner of Eldridge Street on the Lower East Side⁵. It is run by the married couple Anthony Ha and Sadie Mae Burns, who met as line cooks at Mission Chinese Food in 2015 and started the pop-up Ha's Đặc Biệt in 2019⁶. For about six years that pop-up moved between New York venues and residencies in London and Paris, before the pair settled on Broome Street under the new name in 2025^3,6. Resy describes it as the duo's first permanent location¹.

The room is tiny, with an open kitchen and bar seating, and Islands puts its capacity at 24 on closely packed stools^4,5. Ha cooks on portable induction burners while Burns runs the front of house and makes the pastry^2,5. There is no fixed printed menu: a handwritten chalkboard lists à la carte dishes that change often, and the drink is mostly wine, poured by the glass and kept in ice buckets behind the bar^2,3,4.

The food mixes Vietnamese and French ideas, and fish sauce runs through much of it^4,5. Dishes reported by critics include oysters with green chili, snails in garlic and tamarind butter, bass crudo with nuoc cham, chicken liver pâté on toast, branzino with mắm nêm, a black pudding tartlet with kumquats, and an occasional vol-au-vent of curried lobster and sweetbreads^1,2,4,5.

Tables are booked through Resy and go almost as soon as they are released; the restaurant has no phone^2,5. Walk-ins are welcome, and because the space is small, parties of two or three get an hour and a half at the table and larger groups two hours¹. In 2025 Bon Appétit named it one of the 20 best new restaurants in the United States, the only New York entry on that list².