Old Compass Cafe & Bar
A traveler’s clubhouse.
By day a bright Indochine coffee house. By night a candlelit wine-and-craft-beer bar. Scroll: from the alley, past the hand-painted sign, into the two worlds of The Old Compass.
You have to know it’s there.
From Pasteur Street, duck through the blue-gated alley at 63/11. No street frontage, no neon — just the promise of a hand-painted sign on a stairwell wall.
The blue-gated alley is part of the charm: the café hides itself, and those who find it are rewarded with a room unlike any street-front café.
Then you climb.
The weathered hand-painted sign: WINE / CRAFT BEER / LOCAL FLAVOURS / TUNES — and the whole room opens up beyond it.
Wine
Wine by the glass 160–190K, by the bottle 650K–3,700K — from Australia and France to Italy and Argentina.
Craft beer
Pasteur Street, East West, Heart of Darkness — draft and bottled craft beer 80–100K.
Local flavours
Bánh mì ốp la 150K, the 3-course home-cooked dinner 290K — a real kitchen, not a café afterthought.
Tunes
Under amber dome pendants, the room also hosts art shows and author talks.
The bright Indochine coffee house.
Tall shuttered windows, sheer curtains, red drapes, potted palms — soft daylight. Laptop workers, expats, slow mornings over salt coffee.
- Signature salt coffeesignatureprice at venue
- Vietnamese milk coffee70
- Bánh mì ốp la — sizzling pan, pate, sunny-side-up eggs150
Prices in units of 1,000 VND, subject to 10% VAT.
The candlelit wine bar.
Dripping wax candlesticks on dark-wood tables, green-patina walls, dome pendants. Wine by the glass, craft beer on tap, cheese platters until late. Happy hour daily 17:00–19:00 — half off.
- Wine by the glass160–190
- Cheese platter — Brie, Comté, Roquefort270
- Pasteur Street Jasmine IPA — on tap100
Happy hour daily 17:00–19:00: 50% off wine by the glass, Saigon & Tiger beer.
