Cafe Directory– archive –

Vietnam is the world’s second-largest coffee producer, but most of that goes to commercial-grade Robusta beans, and consumers have had limited chances to encounter high-quality specialty coffee. The place slowly changing that is Sox, a self-roasting shop sitting by the river in the Thao Dien area of District 2, Ho Chi Minh City ...

Can Tho, the largest city in the Mekong Delta, is strongly associated with floating markets and river-cruise tours, and is often seen as far removed from the polished café scenes of Ho Chi Minh City or Hanoi. Yet over the past few years, new-generation cafés have been appearing in Can Tho one after another. Among them, drawing particular attention ...

Vietnam is one of the world’s major tea producers, yet “Vietnamese matcha” has long failed to establish itself as a high-quality brand the way Japan’s has. The one trying to rewrite that received wisdom is MIYAEN, with shops in the Central Highlands towns of Da Lat and Bao Loc. A Japanese-style ...

In coffee-mad Vietnam, the place young people are flocking to right now is the matcha specialty café. Leading the pack is Atelier Matcha, a Japan-born brand that puts Kyoto Uji matcha center stage. It opened its first overseas location in a prime spot in the Ben Nghe area of District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, serving each cup ...

Vietnam is one of the world’s major tea producers, yet a refined café experience built around domestic tea was long lacking. Filling that gap is Phê La. Its signature is a milk tea made with oolong from the highland city of Da Lat. With the concept of “bringing Vietnamese tea to the world” ...

When it comes to Vietnamese coffee, many picture a strong, sweet cup loaded with condensed milk. But Ho Chi Minh City also has places built around authentic Italian-style espresso. Dolphy Café is a small but acclaimed spot that carefully pulls European-style lattes and espresso ...

That orange cup everyone in Thailand knows from street corners. ChaTraMue lets you enjoy Thai-style milk tea — richly sweet with plenty of condensed milk — in Vietnam, true to its authentic home flavor. In a Vietnam where coffee and lighter teas dominate, Thailand’s sweet-tooth culture ...

“Marou” is a bean-to-bar chocolate brand that takes Vietnamese cacao all the way to a finished bar in-house. Its café arm is Maison Marou. Peering through glass into the chocolate-making workshop, you can savor rich hot chocolate and pastries ...

KOI Thé, the bubble tea chain from Taiwan. Its signature is a milk tea sunk with house-made brown-sugar tapioca, the “Golden Bubble.” Reputed as an authentic standard-bearer of Taiwanese-style tapioca drinks for its quality and consistency, it has won a following in Vietnam too, especially among young people. Ja ...

Flaky croissants baked with butter sourced from France. Bakes Saigon is a bakery café where you can enjoy authentically crafted French pastry in Ho Chi Minh City. Freshly baked goods arrive from a workshop led by a French executive pastry chef ...

In a Scandinavian-style interior finished in pale wood and green, you spread out your laptop with a signature tea of peach, orange, and lemongrass in hand — The Coffee House is a homegrown chain that Vietnam’s Gen Z has chosen as a “café you can linger in like home.” Co ...

In an interior set in green and gold, you savor a “golden lotus tea” wrapped in lotus fragrance — Phúc Long is a long-established name that, while calling itself a coffee chain, is handed down as the place “where the tea is good.” More than half a century of history starting from selling tea leaves shows in the depth of each cup’s blend ...

In a space that seems to seal in the retro of Vietnam’s socialist era, you taste the signature “coconut coffee” — Cộng Cà Phê is a popular chain that tourists embrace as a “quintessentially Vietnamese café experience.” Army-khaki interiors, enamel containers, old propaga ...

In a hushed space lined with calligraphy, paintings, and tea ware, you wait for coffee dripping one drop at a time from a phin (Vietnamese-style filter) — Trung Nguyên Legend is a flagship culture-driven café from Vietnam’s largest coffee brand. From a cup made by traditional methods to a world ...

In an interior of terrazzo floors and brass accents, with motifs evoking old French clocks, you taste the signature “avocado milk” — Katinat Saigon Kafe is a Vietnam-born café that has drawn Ho Chi Minh City’s young crowd with a design that reconstructs the look of old Saigon in a modern way ...

A morning in the office district: Vietnamese workers grab a cup at the counter before clocking in and stride off — Passio Coffee is a takeaway-focused café that has supported that “busy-morning cup.” Cold brew poured into a deep plastic cup in hand ...

Down a residential alley, in front of a market, on a corner of a small provincial town — walk through Vietnam and you’ll run into Milano Coffee’s orange-and-white sign all over. At a tiny kiosk with just a few seats, locals chat over a cup of cà phê sữa đá at around 25,000 dong. Sight ...

Over the coffee, a generous topping of salty cream-cheese foam — Cheese Coffee is a Ho Chi Minh City-born café that made waves with the unexpected pairing its name suggests, “cheese × coffee.” The first sip’s salt and sweetness, and the bitterness that finally blends in ...

The familiar green logo arrived in coffee-mad Vietnam in 2013. Starbucks Vietnam has built its presence in a country crowded with local cafés, armed with consistent quality and distinctive brand strength. Alongside the global standards, Vietnamese coffee ...

Vietnam is the world’s second-largest coffee producer, yet most of it has been exported as commercial-grade Robusta. Bucking that current, the ones working to reconnect origin, roasting, and brewing with their own hands are Every Half Coffee Roasters. In Ho Chi Minh ...

In Hanoi, where polished tourist-oriented chains line the streets, the place locals drop by almost every morning is Aha Cafe. A cà phê sữa đá of dark-roast Robusta in hand, taking a breather while watching passersby — it lets you experience Vietnam’s everyday coffee scene in its most natural form ...

Vietnam’s coffee king, Trung Nguyên. King Coffee was launched single-handedly by Le Hoang Diep Thao — a co-founder of that company, also called the “Queen of Coffee.” Built around premium Robusta, it sends “Made in Vietnam” coffee out to the world ...

PhinDeli reinterprets Vietnamese phin (metal filter) brewing as modern craft coffee. Carrying the story of a founder who made headlines by buying a small town in Wyoming, USA, it now operates under Nova Consumer, expanding mainly in Ho Chi Minh City ...

In coffee-loving Vietnam, premium Japanese matcha whisked cup by cup — Nagocha Matcha is a Japanese-style café that puts Japanese matcha center stage. It directly imports tea leaves from across Japan, including Uji and Kagoshima, and offers deep-green matcha lattes, hojicha lattes, and matcha sweets. Co ...

A minimalist space in white and that “%” mark on the sign — %Arabica, the specialty coffee brand from Kyoto, is a hit that draws lines in cities around the world. It first arrived in Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City in 2024. With its globally consistent high-quality beans and offerings like the Spanish latte and the Kyoto la ...

Stripes drawn by brown-sugar syrup and chewy tapioca — Gong Cha, the global bubble tea chain from Taiwan, is one of the players that spread Taiwanese-style tapioca milk tea culture in Vietnam. Beyond its signature brown-sugar tapioca milk tea, its menu is built on Taiwanese tea ...

Travel around Vietnam and you’ll repeatedly spot red-and-black signs on residential corners, at market entrances, and along the main roads of provincial cities. Trung Nguyên E-Coffee is a franchise brand under Trung Nguyên, Vietnam’s No. 1 coffee king. With a small footprint, a strong ...

Vietnam is the world’s second-largest coffee producer, but most of it is commercial-grade Robusta, and the “specialty” culture in which consumers engage with origin is still young. Là Việt Coffee, in the highland city of Da Lat, integrates everything from farm to roasting and brewing, becoming a pioneer of that ...

Cafe Amazon, Thailand’s largest coffee chain, spreads across Southeast Asia with interiors themed on greenery and jungle. It had also entered Vietnam, but amid fierce competition with local brands, it closed all its stores and withdrew from the Vietnamese market in November 2025. In Vietnam now ...

Walk through Vietnam and the red-and-brown sign catches your eye right away — Highlands Coffee is the country’s largest coffee chain. Found in nearly every major mall and at landmarks, it’s the “go-to” for travelers hesitant to step into local shops, letting them enjoy Vietnamese coffee with ease ...