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Vietnamese coffee in Pleiku

Pleiku is the main highland city of Gia Lai, one of Vietnam's big coffee provinces. This guide is new and starts small: one long-running pavement café, with more being researched.

1 café listedDetails checked November 2026

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Painted illustration of a glass of iced black coffee on a wooden bench at the edge of rolling red-soil hills planted with coffee, with tall shade trees and pepper vines on poles.
AI-generated illustration of a Central Highlands coffee landscape. It does not show a real farm or café.
The local coffee
Robusta, mostly. Gia Lai had about 100,000 ha of coffee in 2023, before its 2025 merger with Bình Định.
What you'll find
Old pavement cafés serving phin coffee, some tied to families that grow and pack their own.
Coverage
One café so far. Others named in local press could not yet be confirmed at a current address.

Cafés in Pleiku

One café so far. This guide is new and lists only what we could source; more will be added as they are researched. We have not visited them.

1 café

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Coffee in Pleiku

Pleiku sits on the plateau in Gia Lai, one of the Central Highlands provinces that grow most of Vietnam’s robusta. The province had about 100,000 ha of coffee in 2023; since its 2025 merger with Bình Định, Nhân Dân puts the larger province at more than 107,000 ha. The province is covered on the Gia Lai region page.

The city’s café tradition, as the provincial paper describes it, is the pavement café: small tables close together on the street and phin coffee, some of them open since the 1960s. Thu Hà is the one we could confirm at a current address, and its family also grows and packs coffee.

This guide is deliberately short. Other old Pleiku cafés appear in local press, but not yet with an address and a recent report we can rely on.

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Related reading

Rows of coffee on red basalt soil in Gia Lai, bare wooden support poles standing between the trees and a dirt track running downhill between them.Photo: Stef vnmq · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Region

Gia Lai Coffee: The Pleiku Plateau

Gia Lai grows heavy-bodied robusta on volcanic soil north of Đắk Lắk, much of it on smallholdings. What the province produces, and why drying surface matters so much here.

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.

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 Pleiku

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The city context above comes from the following. Each café's own sources are on its page.

  1. Cà phê Gia Lai giữ vững đà tăng trưởngBáo Đại biểu Nhân dân · 2023-12-20 · accessed 2026-11-04About 100,000 ha of coffee in Gia Lai in 2023, per the provincial agriculture department.
  2. Kỳ vọng bứt phá nông nghiệp Gia LaiNhân Dân · 2026-02-05 · accessed 2026-11-04More than 107,000 ha of coffee in the merged Gia Lai province.
  3. Đến Pleiku, hoài niệm với cà phêBáo Gia Lai (Lam Nguyên) · 2023-02-17 · accessed 2026-11-04Pleiku's long-running pavement cafés, including Thu Hà and others dating from the 1960s.