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Vietnamese coffee in Buôn Ma Thuột

Also known as Ban Mê Thuột

Buôn Ma Thuột is the main city of Đắk Lắk, Vietnam's largest coffee province. It has a world coffee museum, a coffee festival and cafés that serve robusta both through a phin and as a hand brew.

2 cafés listedDetails checked November 2026

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Painted illustration of a phin dripping into a glass on a low wooden stool beside a tarpaulin of red coffee cherries drying on red earth, with rows of coffee trees and a farmhouse behind.
AI-generated illustration of coffee cherries drying on Central Highlands earth. It does not show a real farm or café.
The local coffee
Robusta. Đắk Lắk had 212,106 ha of coffee and produced 535,672 tonnes in the 2023–24 crop year, by the provincial figures.
The museum
The World Coffee Museum, built by Trung Nguyên Legend and open since 23 November 2018, holds over 10,000 objects in a building based on the Ê Đê longhouse.
The festival
The Buôn Ma Thuột Coffee Festival held its 9th edition in March 2025. The 10th is planned for March 2027.

Cafés in Buôn Ma Thuột

2 cafés so far. This is a short list by design: only cafés we could source are included. We have not visited them.

2 cafés

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Coffee in Buôn Ma Thuột

Most of the coffee in a Vietnamese supermarket bag is robusta, and most of that comes from the Central Highlands around Buôn Ma Thuột. Đắk Lắk reported 212,106 ha of coffee and 535,672 tonnes of it in the 2023–24 crop year. How the region came to grow it is in the history of Vietnamese coffee, and the province itself is on the Đắk Lắk region page.

The museum. The World Coffee Museum (Bảo tàng Thế giới Cà phê) was built by Trung Nguyên Legend and has been open since 23 November 2018. Its collection of more than 10,000 objects sits in a building based on the Ê Đê longhouse. It is a museum rather than a café, so it is not in the list above. Trung Nguyên’s Coffee Village is in the same city.

The festival. The Buôn Ma Thuột Coffee Festival held its 9th edition in March 2025, and the 10th is planned for March 2027. National Geographic put the city on its 2026 list of food destinations, the only Vietnamese entry.

Drinking robusta well. Robusta is usually drunk strong, through a phin and with condensed milk. Cafés here also brew “fine robusta”, grown and processed to specialty standards, as a filter coffee. Soul offers both on one menu.

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Related reading

Farmed hillsides and valleys on the Đắk Lắk plateau, planted in rows to the horizon, red earth showing through at the field edges.Photo: ASM (Vietnamese Wikipedia) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Region

Đắk Lắk Coffee: Inside Vietnam's Robusta Heartland

Đắk Lắk grows more coffee than any other Vietnamese province: robusta on deep red basalt. What grows there, when it is picked, and what Buôn Ma Thuột means.

A coffee branch carrying tight clusters of cherries at every stage of ripeness, from green through orange to deep red, behind broad leathery leaves.Photo: Daniel Schearf · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Coffee

What Is Vietnamese Robusta?

Robusta is about 97% of Vietnam's crop and why Vietnamese coffee tastes the way it does. What the species is, where it grows, and which beans suit a phin.

Farmed hillsides and valleys on the Đắk Lắk plateau, planted in rows to the horizon, red earth showing through at the field edges.Photo: ASM (Vietnamese Wikipedia) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Stories

The History of Vietnamese Coffee

How coffee came to Vietnam, why robusta took root in the Central Highlands, how reform and farmers turned it into a giant, and how Vietnam learned to drink it its own way.

How this list is made. Each café is researched from published sources, listed on its own page with the date we checked them. We have not been to these cafés and nothing here is a review. Addresses and opening hours change, so check before you travel.More on our method ·Suggest a café or a correction

Sources for coffee in Buôn Ma Thuột

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  1. Đắk Lắk thúc đẩy các giải pháp phát triển bền vững ngành hàng cà phêNhân Dân · 2024-11-28 · accessed 2026-11-04Đắk Lắk's 212,106 ha of coffee and 535,672 t of output in the 2023–24 crop year, citing the provincial plant cultivation and protection sub-department.
  2. Khám phá Bảo tàng Thế giới cà phêBáo Văn hóa · 2023-11-26 · accessed 2026-11-04The World Coffee Museum open to visitors since 23 November 2018, built by Trung Nguyên Legend.
  3. Tạp chí danh tiếng của Mỹ vinh danh Buôn Ma Thuột là điểm đến tuyệt vời nhất thế giớiBáo Quốc tế · 2026-06-02 · accessed 2026-11-04The museum's collection of more than 10,000 objects; Buôn Ma Thuột named by National Geographic among its 2026 food destinations.
  4. Vietnam's Buon Ma Thuot ranks among world's top 15 food destinations for 2026Tuổi Trẻ News · 2026-06-01 · accessed 2026-11-04The museum's building based on Ê Đê longhouses; National Geographic's Best of the World 2026 food list.
  5. Khai mạc Lễ hội Cà phê Buôn Ma Thuột lần thứ 9 năm 2025Báo Văn hóa · 2025-03-11 · accessed 2026-11-04The 9th Buôn Ma Thuột Coffee Festival, opened on 10 March 2025.
  6. Lễ hội Cà phê Buôn Ma Thuột 2027 dự kiến thu hút 1,3 triệu lượt du kháchVietnamPlus · 2026-10-10 · accessed 2026-11-04The 10th festival planned for March 2027.