Turn your next dinner party into a Viet feast with this vibrant Vietnamese cookbook filled with wildly creative recipes and innovative cocktails from James Beard finalists Yenvy and Quynh-vy Pham.
Phởnomenal Nights is a Vietnamese cookbook for entertaining, packed with shareable dishes, interactive feasts, bold party boards, and playful cocktails. Inspired by the Pham family’s restaurants and community-building legacy in Seattle’s Little Saigon, every recipe brings big flavour and an open invitation to pull up a chair.
Inside you’ll find:
- FOOD MADE FOR SHARING: Serve sizzling spring rolls, salmon ceviche on black sesame crackers, roasted lemongrass ribeye wraps, and prawn and brown-butter-leek dumplings.
- 5 PARTY-READY SECTIONS: Explore batch cocktails, tableside wraps, extra-fancy party boards, make-ahead dumplings, and one-pot wonders.
- PLAYFUL DRINKS: Shake up your usual cocktail book routine with inventive drinks like the Cà Phê Jello Shot.
- MORE THAN RECIPES: Weaves deeply personal family stories and dishes from Seattle’s legendary Phở Bắc restaurant, the Pacific Northwest's very first Vietnamese restaurant.
With this vibrant Vietnamese cookbook, fish sauce is your new best friend, fresh herbs are non-negotiable, and stuffy entertaining is officially off the menu.
Details
Hardcover / 208 pages
Published 3 November 2026