The director of a Brisbane restaurant has agreed to change the business name after facing sharp criticism from the Vietnamese community over the weekend.

Uncle Ho, named after the communist dictator Ho Chi Minh, closed it's doors on Sunday after more than 100 members of Brisbane's Vietnamese community protested outside the Fortitude Valley establishment.

The restaurant, located on East Street just off Ann Street, had been open for 17 days.

During the Sunday protest, restaurant director Anna Demirbek posted to the restaurant's Instagram page that management and staff had received death threats and threats of damage to the business.