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A sacred site of Da Lat-born specialty coffee
Da Lat, a highland city in south-central Vietnam. Located at an elevation of about 1,500 meters, this city has been known as a summer resort since the French colonial era, but in these past few years it has drawn attention for another face: its role as a major producing region for Vietnamese-grown Arabica coffee. The one leading Da Lat's coffee scene is La Viet Coffee.
2015年、創業者のチャン・ニャット・クアン（Tran Nhat Quang）氏がダラットに開いたこのカフェは、ベトナムのスペシャルティコーヒーを世界に発信する拠点として急速に成長しました。ベトナムのコーヒーといえばロブスタ種が全体の約95%を占めますが、La Vietはダラット周辺のラムドン省で栽培されるアラビカ種に着目。地元の農家と直接取引し、ブルボン種やティピカ種といった希少な品種の栽培を支援しながら、品質の高い豆を確保しています。
Its quality is highly rated at home and abroad, and it is steadily raising its presence in the specialty coffee world, including participating in the UCC Coffee Contest 2025 (the 11th, held in Da Lat) in April 2025. On Tripadvisor it consistently ranks near the top in Da Lat's café rankings, earning high ratings in travelers' reviews too.
Recommended menu
La Viet Coffee's appeal lies in a pricing that is astonishingly reasonable for specialty coffee. Coffee of a quality that would cost 500 to 800 yen a cup at a specialty café in Japan or Australia can be enjoyed here at an unbelievable price.
The first thing you should try is the Latte. For just 40,000 VND (about 240 yen), you can enjoy the harmony of milk with the delicate flavor of Arabica beans grown in the Da Lat highlands. Because it uses beans freshly roasted in-store, the richness of aroma you can't get from store-bought beans stands out.
The Affogato is an outrageous price of 35,000 VND (about 210 yen). This dessert drink, pouring rich espresso over vanilla ice cream, is exceptional when tasted in Da Lat's cool climate. The contrast between the coffee's bitterness and the ice cream's sweetness is exquisite, a dish you can recommend to coffee connoisseurs and beginners alike.
For those who want to enjoy the coffee's flavor straight, single-origin coffee brewed by hand drip or AeroPress is recommended. Centered on Da Lat Arabica, it also stocks beans from around the world such as Kenya, Ethiopia, and Guatemala, but the local Arabica beans are still the most popular. A feature is the light-to-medium roast that lets you feel the character of the origin.
It also does retail of coffee beans, available from about 170,000 VND (about 1,020 yen) for 250g. Since you can take home fresh beans with the roast date clearly noted, it is the best choice as a souvenir for coffee lovers.
A distinctive space from a renovated warehouse
The first thing that surprises you when visiting La Viet Coffee is the sense of scale of its space. Rather than a café, this store, a renovated vast warehouse that should be called a "coffee factory," stands out among Da Lat's cafés in a class of its own.
This space at 200 Nguyen Cong Tru Street is a building originally used as a coffee bean processing warehouse. Inside the high-ceilinged warehouse coexist a café space, a coffee class, a bean sales area, and a glass-partitioned roasting lab. The sight of jute sacks of coffee beans stacked here and there and a giant dry mill (processing machine) sitting in place is a scene befitting a sacred site of coffee.
This dry mill has the capacity to process one ton of green beans per hour, and you can watch it actually operating up close. Drinking coffee while listening to the sound of the roaster turning through the glass is an experience unique to La Viet that you can't get at other cafés.
In the industrial-design interior, rough elements such as concrete walls, exposed piping, and metal fixtures line up, yet it is finished into a space that feels strangely warm. Perhaps the wooden tables, leather sofas, and streaming natural light soften the factory-like atmosphere. There are "photogenic" spots everywhere, and you often see travelers enjoying photography.
Da Lat's cool climate also enhances the appeal of this space. Unlike the muggy heat of Ho Chi Minh City or Hanoi, Da Lat, with an annual average temperature of 18 to 25 degrees, is the perfect environment for slowly enjoying hot coffee. Since it's even chilly morning and night, time spent soaking in the warehouse café's atmosphere with a warm latte in hand will surely become a special memory of a Vietnam trip.
Practical guide
Price range:30,000 to 60,000 VND (about 180 to 360 yen). Outrageously cheap for specialty coffee. Prices of 40,000 VND for a latte and 35,000 VND for an affogato are among the world's top for value in specialty cafés.
Address:200 Nguyen Cong Tru, Ward 8, Da Lat, Lam Dong
Hours:7:00 to 22:00 (open year-round)
Access:About 5 minutes by car from the center of Da Lat. From Da Lat Cathedral or Xuan Huong Lake it's about 10,000 to 15,000 VND by taxi or Grab. Show the address to the driver and, since it's a café famous locally, you won't get lost.
Guide to length of stay:If you're just having coffee, 30 minutes to an hour. If you want to enjoy touring the roasting lab, buying beans, and photography, allow 1.5 to 2 hours. If you join a coffee class (workshop), advance reservation is required.
Ordering tips:There is an English menu, and staff can handle basic English. If it's your first time, a Da Lat Arabica latte is recommended. If you know coffee well, ask the staff for their recommended beans. They'll surely explain the beans' characteristics and roast level enthusiastically.
Souvenirs:You can buy freshly roasted coffee beans (from 250g) in-store. Since the roast date is clearly noted, you can enjoy them fresh even after returning home. They'll also vacuum-pack them, so they're easy to bring home as a souvenir.
How to get to Da Lat:From Ho Chi Minh City it's about 50 minutes by VietJet Air or Vietnam Airlines domestic flight (using Lien Khuong Airport). By bus it's about 6 to 7 hours. Since Da Lat itself is a popular tourist spot, we recommend planning a two-day, one-night or longer itinerary and enjoying a café tour including La Viet.
Summary
La Viet Coffee is a sacred site of specialty coffee where you can taste Arabica beans grown in the Da Lat highlands in a stunning space renovated from a warehouse. At surprising prices of 40,000 VND (about 240 yen) for a latte and 35,000 VND (about 210 yen) for an affogato, you can enjoy world-class specialty coffee.
Drinking coffee while watching the roasting lab, then buying fresh beans to take home as a souvenir. A café where you can have such an experience is, however vast Vietnam is, none other than La Viet. If you visit Da Lat, La Viet Coffee is a store you absolutely can't miss. A one-of-a-kind coffee experience awaits, letting you taste the new possibilities of Vietnamese coffee and the refreshing highland air at the same time.
🗺️ For La Viet Coffee's basic information, signature menu, map, and reviews, seeShop guide (card)where we've put it all together.
🗺️ If you also want to compare it with other cafés,Vietnam's 30 Popular Cafés: A Thorough Comparison Guidelets you browse from a single list.
