Up On TheRooftop
Cafe — Bakes & BBQ — Cocktail Bar, on the roof of an early-20th-century French train-repair factory.
To get up, you climb.
Three steps to "go up top"
No elevator, no flashy signs. The café sits on the rooftop of the old factory — when you arrive, tell the guard, then follow the old but sturdy spiral staircase.
The ground floor is the bakery, the second floor is another restaurant — say clearly "up to Trên Tầng Thượng" so he points you the right way.
The old spiral staircase, its wooden handrail polished by years. The higher you climb, the more the bakery smell gives way to open sky.
More than 1,000m² of factory roof opens up: the U-shaped wooden deck, white gravel courtyard, two lotus ponds, the glasshouse — and the railway tracks in the distance.
A tiny Dalat,on a factory roof in Saigon
Two lotus ponds
The ponds sit in the white-gravel courtyard, lily pads mirroring the string lights — a fixture no other rooftop has.
The glasshouse
The wooden-framed glass seating corner at the roof’s edge — every review calls it "like being in Dalat".
The U-shaped wooden deck
Floor, roof, tables and chairs all in raw wood; pampas grass swaying in the afternoon wind; views toward Saigon station.
The white-gravel courtyard
As evening falls, string lights switch on in clusters over the trees — the café turns into a bar.
When night falls, the roof starts singing
Raw acoustic music among the crowd on the wooden deck — no surcharge. Evenings also bring BBQ and the cocktail bar.
