Egg CoffeeCà Phê Trứng
110,000 ₫Whipped egg-yolk silk over bold phin coffee — Hanoi's famous dessert-drink, crowned with cocoa.
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Volume One · Saigon
The Curious
Book
of Vietnamese Coffee
Coffees of Việt Nam · coffees for the curious
Lacàph exists to share Vietnamese coffee and culture with curious people everywhere — and this little upstairs bar at 151 Đồng Khởi is where the story is poured, one cup at a time.
4.9 ★ · 1,192 reviews151 Đồng Khởi, Quận 1Open daily · 9:00 AM – 6:30 PM
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Chapter One
The Bar
Upstairs at 151 Đồng Khởi — tucked away like a hidden gem.
You enter through glass double doors beneath a vertical wooden LACÀPH sign, climb one flight, and the city falls quiet. The Coffee Bar lives on the first floor of a plum-marbled building it shares with Koheis Bar and Brothers Men's Salon — a small espresso bar that guests call stunning, very aesthetic, down to its beautiful restroom.
The room, in detail
- A long dark-wood bar, the room's spine
- Blue ceramic pitcher of dried foliage
- Hand-written menu on textured beige plaster
- A large dark-metal LACÀPH sign
- Vintage sconces & glowing Edison bulbs
- Patterned tile floor underfoot
- Star wire sculpture on the wall
- Five framed vintage botanical & bird prints
- Chrome espresso machine, gleaming
- Chesterfield-style sofas for lingering
- Dark teal ceiling with exposed bamboo
- Plum facade with a gold BROTHERS sign
✦ ✦ A curious footnoteFriendly English-speaking baristas pour every table — and water arrives with your drink, unasked. The kind of small ceremony this book approves of.
"Stunning design — very aesthetic, down to the beautiful restroom."— guest
"Morning is work-friendly; the afternoon turns moodier."— guest
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Chapter Two
The Menu
A taste of the boards — hover or tap any dish to reveal its tasting note.
— The Signature Trio —
Salted CoffeeCà Phê Muối
90,000 ₫A whisper of sea salt rounds sweet condensed-milk coffee into something dangerously smooth.
✦ tasting note ✦Palm Sugar Honeycomb CakeBánh Bò Đường Thốt Nốt
60,000 ₫Chewy, palm-sugar caramel, faintly smoky — the cake guests photograph before they taste.
✦ tasting note ✦Chapter Three
The Farm
Every cup begins in the Vietnamese highlands — single-origin, direct-trade, never any artificial flavours.
The Vietnamese highlands, where Lacàph's lots are grown — Arabica Catimor and Robusta Sẻ, bought direct from the farm gate.
Cup to Farm
Lacàph's model is written plainly on the bag: Cup to Farm. Coffee bought single-origin and direct-trade from highland growers — Sơn La's Ara-Tay, Gia Lai's Mori, Lâm Đồng's Zanya — so more of every cup travels back up the mountain. No artificial flavours, ever; the character in the cup is the character of the land.
✦ A curious footnoteThe dark roast “Lũy” in your cup is the same roast that took a star at the Great Taste Awards 2025.
Great Taste Awards 2025
Judged blind in London — stars awarded for taste alone.
Phin Blend★ ★
Filter Blend★
Luỹ★
About the Author
Our Story
The mission, the maker, and the two rooms where it happens.
founded Lacàph on a simple mission — to share Vietnamese coffee and culture with curious people everywhere. It began with the beans of the highlands and became two Saigon rooms:
Timen Swijtink
The Last Page
Visit
Come thirsty. Leave curious.
Open daily, 9:00 AM – 6:30 PM. Mornings are work-friendly; afternoons turn moodier.
The bar keeps no public telephone — the kettle, however, is always on.