The third largest city of Vietnam is Da Nang, and in the last decade it has developed into a kind of digital nomada node. It is a city of 1.2 million so relaxed that people approached the nickname “Chiang Mai by the Sea”, comparing them with the northern Thai city with the spiritual atmosphere (and an excellent coffee scene). You will find people working on your laptops almost wherever you go at Da Nang, but this coastal city surrounded by rolling hills is much more.
Most distant employees and tourists come to the busy coastal seaside Da Nanga, where the streets are lined with western style cafes, newfangled cafes, seafood restaurants, studio apartments and local PHO pasta stands. There are also pockets of the city with a characteristic Korean climate: Korean groceries, KBBQ and excellent Korean restaurants. And at the eminent bridge Da Nanga Golden Dragon is a place where the city is located on its lively, enormous markets, weekend football games, street food and of course coffee.
Vietnam is of course the second largest producer of coffee in the world, with over 90% Robusta. Coffee is – really – part of the Vietnamese identity, and Da Nang does not shun it. You will find coffee wherever you go here, from open to hole in the walls and strollers to midnight, elegant bars of espresso with many different mixtures, internal burners and pastries at home.
In this guide, we mention five cafes in Da Nang, including tourist -oriented outlets in the city, as well as places where residents take place. Compared to other cities in Vietnam, Da Nang is quite petite, so moving around these places is child’s play. Jump on a bike or get a taxi, and a great coffee scene is waiting for you.
O2o first roast
It is O2o It is a bit circumspect. I feel like a Speakeasa bar, and if you are the type of person – as it used to be – who judges cafes after their project, you can easily pass by it. This is not a kind of cafe that you would stop in the photo on Instagram, but what he lacks in the impression is made up for great coffee.
The main thoroughfare Da Nanga draws on the side streets, and O2o sits in one of these deciduous Bystra, placed on the first floor of a residential building. Climbing, you will reach a petite space with a sofa at the counter. The store owner is talkative and loves anime, which you will notice when you are looking at coffee coffee profiles pages that are based on Japanese animated films.
Coffee is generally baked on average to lightweight, with rotating grains from Ethiopia from individual originals and specialist parties from Kenya, Rwanda and Vietnam. I thought that my chilly lemon infusion is unique: slightly sour with notes of floral, orange and raspberry notes. O20 is a great mother with lemon and gin.
PUNA coffee
It is not an exaggeration that Da Nang has a cafe on every street. But Pun It is unique because it has a kind of charm to make you feel at home: think rustic wooden interiors, terracotta floors, floral tablecloths and a balmy earthly coffee aroma.
Puna is hit in the middle of the tourist noise of Da Nanga and divides the area with projects, local food ponds, bakeries and used products, so you expect many tourists and digital nomads working with laptops all day. But this cozy cafe is completely property of Vietnam and runs away. They bake their coffee, with beans imported from Colombia, Ethiopia, Kenya and other parts of the world. There is also a choice of local Arabica and Robusta from the northern and central mountains in Vietnam; And Etiopian and Vietnamese mixture of pun with a prosperous, complicated mix of chocolate, plum and caramel. Some of them are available for sale, so look for shelves from the front of the house equipped with coffee packages. And as one of the barists put it, despite the reputation of Vietnam from his homemade Robusta, “many juvenile people are now going for Arabica.”
You will also get charming olong tea sets, cookies stuffed with pineapple canned, fresh carrot cookies and humid cheesecakes that immediately make you smile. The all -day breakfast menu is also unique, with pancakes, Benedict of eggs and cocktail bowls. And if, like me, you love watching people, take one of their seats outside.
Indigo
Few tourists – and even distant employees – who visit Da Nang, go to the Hai Chai district, but it’s worth visiting this part of the city. Here you will find an eclectic collection of companies, from pizzeria to cafes after 6:00 Breakfast places, in which Vietnamese aunt serve Bò né (sizzling beef steak and eggs poured with a baguette). To get here, you have to go – or ride a bike – one of the bridges that connects two banks of the Han River.
And a few blocks from the walking path of the river, where the locals go for their daily walk, you will find Indigo. It lives in the same building as M Village Hotel, opposite the pink cathedral of the city with stained glass and only a few blocks from the eminent Han market.
He focuses on creating a balmy, cozy space in which people can enjoy drinks, spend time with friends and have fun. There is places for balmy, shining days outside. Inside you will find worthy sofas and board games, while a petite boutique sells handmade bags, handbags with coins and notebooks, all thematic indigo. An impressive Black Guest cafe infusion station Eureka Helios 75Espresso machine, V60 and a delicious selection of freshly baked baked goods. It is a great place to try American American mandarin or try delicious frozen coconut coffee.
Down
Down He feels like going home after a tired day for a cup of heated coffee, but you can sit next to strangers – mainly Vietnamese students and technical employees – who are busy with laptops. This wonderful, two -story cafe with the roof is located in an even more pretty tropical garden. It has pure white interiors, wall climbers and the main floor bar, in which sunlight filters through the glass windows of the roof.
Coffee here is perfect, and every cup is equipped with tasting cards. During my visit to a rainy day I tried Panama Gesha Espresso brewed on an eye -catching orange Marzocco; It was wonderfully spotless, brilliant and sour with a mix of floral, grape and mandarin notes. Àla has an extensive lightweight list to medium and murky roast, from Ethiopia, Honduras, Brazil and other countries. They literally take their coffee seriously, and you will know about it from the awards they won, proudly displayed on the walls and shelves of the cafe.
On the countertop you will find a roast ore, next to a glass cabinet arranged with baked goods that combine well with coffee. From time to time, this excellent space also organizes nonsense and brewing sessions, so keep an eye on their updates about social networks.
XLIII Specialty Coffee
We return to our last stop to the lively coastal of Da Nanga, where you will find XLIII. This newfangled, newfangled cafe has only a few blocks from Puna, but both could not be more different.
XLIII is perhaps the most high-priced coffee bar you will find in Da Nang. But he explains why: you get an excellent, high -quality coffee in a minimalist, industrial environment. The staff is amiable and know a lot about coffee, so they will talk about this process, from collecting roast to various methods of brewing-chips-sip, flood and milk-to emphasize the taste profile of each mixture.
There is a enormous selection of lightweight roasting focusing on origin. You will receive Nueva Alianza Red Gesha in the Mountains of Peru, which is subtle sour and sweet with citrus, apple and jasmine. Other lightweight bakes are Sudan Rume from Colombian producers and the Volcano Valley grown on the slopes of the Panama bar volcano. The food is equally impressive, with sourdough croissants, Madeleines butter and Parma ham sandwiches.
The outer seats surround green and ponds, which makes it an ideal place for a ponderous, relaxed evening. XLIII was first founded in Da Nang, but now it is bred to four stores in Vietnam, two of which in the city of Ho Chi Minh.
