Specialty café · Ho Chi Minh City
Upstairs on Ngô Đức Kế, one of the city's longer-running specialty bars.
The Workshop is a specialty coffee bar of the kind described in specialty coffee in Vietnam: filter and espresso, beans roasted by the café, Vietnamese arabica on the list. It has been at this address since at least 2016, which makes it one of the longer-running specialty bars in the city.
Upstairs at 27 Ngô Đức Kế, a short street off Nguyễn Huệ in District 1. The door is at street level and the café is up a staircase. We have not been.
Filter coffee is the point: The Dot Magazine lists Chemex, V60, Kalita Wave and siphon, plus cold brew and espresso. For phin coffee, Cheo Leo and the pavement stalls are the other end of the same city.
Photo: Trương Minh Khải · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsTraditional café
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Research
Vietnam built a coffee industry on volume. Producers and roasters are now trying to sell by the cup instead: fine robusta, traceable lots and domestic demand.
Coffee
Vietnam grows 1.1 million bags of arabica against 31.4 million of robusta, about 1% of the world crop. Where it grows, how it tastes and how to brew it.
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