Traditional café
Cà Phê Muối, Nguyễn Lương Bằng
Nguyễn Lương Bằng street
The first shop of the Huế couple commonly credited with creating cà phê muối, salt coffee: phin coffee under a salted cream, at 10 Nguyễn Lương Bằng.
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Traditional café · Huế
Cà Phê Muối, Đặng Thái Thân
The salt-coffee founders' garden café, a street's width from the Citadel.
Why it matters
This is the second shop of the couple commonly credited with creating salt coffee; their first is on Nguyễn Lương Bằng. Of the two, it is the one a 2025 press report confirms is trading: Huế Ngày Nay interviewed the owners here in February that year.
Finding it
142 Đặng Thái Thân, in a garden off the street, close to the walls of the Imperial City. VnExpress calls it a garden café. We have not been.
What to order
Salt coffee. Since 2020 the drink has spread to other cities, and chains in Hanoi now sell their own versions; this is one of the two shops where the people credited with it make it.
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Traditional café
Chiều
By the Citadel (Kinh thành)
Chiều (‘Afternoon’) is a café in a two-storey wooden house at 44 Đặng Thái Thân near Huế's Citadel, a local favourite for over 30 years, per VnExpress.
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- Salted coffee brings the world to HueHuế Ngày Nay · 2025-02-10 · accessed 2026-11-04Reporters interviewing the owners at 142 Đặng Thái Thân; the shop opened at the end of 2014, by the owner's account; salt coffee as the house drink.
- Cà phê muối xứ HuếVnExpress (Ngân Dương) · 2020-09-03 · accessed 2026-11-04The Đặng Thái Thân shop described as a garden café.
- Salty cream in your morning brew? Why Vietnam's specialty coffees are catching on around the worldCNN Travel (Maggie Hiufu Wong), read in the CNN Newsource syndicated copy · 2024-06-27 · accessed 2026-11-04The owners describing a second, bigger shop.