Since 2018, the hummingbird flies backwards
The Hummingbird began in 2018 with three friends who loved specialty coffee, led by Trần Bá Hòa — a CQI Q Grader who studied roasting in Korea and Australia and spent years judging the Vietnam National Barista Competition.
It started as a small corner on the rooftop of an old apartment block at 5H Tôn Đức Thắng, District 1. In 2019 the team moved into a 1950s French colonial villa tucked down a Võ Thị Sáu alley — keeping the original structure, tearing up raised floors to reveal the original patterned-tile (gạch bông) floors.
Since 2021 the compound has held one café and one roastery — Blue in Green — at the same address. Coffee from Vietnam, Ethiopia and Kenya is roasted in-house on a Probat.
The pastries in the glass case are homemade — baked by the founder's wife. And the name? The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards — the founders' metaphor for flying back through the commercial coffee supply chain to study origin, variety and processing.
“We aim to bring to your table the cup that will reflect all the care given by so many human beings along the coffee journey.”
