Traditional café · Hanoi
Phin coffee in an old Hoàn Kiếm house with a long story about painters.
Tatler Asia reported in 2025 that Cà Phê Lâm started in the early 1950s as a street stall run by Nguyễn Văn Lâm, before moving into the house on Nguyễn Hữu Huân. The walls carry sketches and paintings that artists, including Bùi Xuân Phái, are said to have left in exchange for coffee. That story is told by the press and repeated widely; it is an anecdote rather than a documented history.
60 Nguyễn Hữu Huân, on the same street as Cà Phê Giảng. We could not place it precisely enough for a map pin, so use the address. We have not been.
Tatler describes coffee dripped slowly through an old aluminium phin. No source we trust names a particular drink, so we do not.
Photo: Amenoc · CC0 · Wikimedia CommonsTraditional café
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.
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Hoàn Kiếm, by the lake
An upstairs egg-coffee café at 13 Đinh Tiên Hoàng by Hoàn Kiếm Lake, opened in 1987 by a daughter of Nguyễn Văn Giảng, the man credited with egg coffee.
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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.
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