Traditional café · Hanoi
The other egg-coffee café in the Giảng family, up a staircase opposite Hoàn Kiếm Lake.
Egg coffee is generally credited to Nguyễn Văn Giảng, whose own café is Cà Phê Giảng on Nguyễn Hữu Huân. VietNamNet reported in 2025 that his daughter, Nguyễn Thị Bích, opened this café in 1987, and that since her death in 2012 her husband has run it. That makes it the second café in the family line, a few minutes’ walk from the first.
As with the drink itself, the family history rests on the family’s account as reported by the press.
The café is upstairs at 13 Đinh Tiên Hoàng, on the east side of Hoàn Kiếm Lake. We have not been. Look for the staircase rather than a shopfront.
Egg coffee, which VietNamNet names as the house drink, and phin coffee. The egg coffee recipe explains how the drink is built.
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Hoàn Kiếm, Old Quarter
The café generally credited as the home of egg coffee, opened in 1946 by the bartender said to have invented the drink. At 39 Nguyễn Hữu Huân, Hoàn Kiếm.
Traditional café
Hoàn Kiếm, Nhà Thờ street
A branch of Cộng Cà Phê, the Hanoi chain founded in 2007 whose cafés recall the subsidy era, on Nhà Thờ street in Hoàn Kiếm. Known for coconut coffee.
Traditional café
Hoàn Kiếm, Old Quarter
A Hanoi café at 60 Nguyễn Hữu Huân that began as a street stall in the early 1950s, its walls hung with sketches artists are said to have left in exchange for coffee.
Photo: travel oriented · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsRecipe
Vietnamese egg coffee
Photo: Amenoc · CC0 · Wikimedia CommonsCoffee Places
The café generally credited as the home of egg coffee, opened in 1946 by the bartender said to have invented the drink. At 39 Nguyễn Hữu Huân, Hoàn Kiếm.
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