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17 cafés worth sitting in, in Nha Trang

Rating: 4.5 / 5 — Our own score, not an average of guest reviews

Our own score, not an average of guest reviews

On a river, on a hill, in a garden. 17 places chosen for the seat, coffee from 20,000₫

City centre

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Address
Three on the Cái river at Vĩnh Ngọc and Ngọc Hội, two on hillsides at Đường Đệ and in the south, the rest in town
Opening hours
Five open at 6:00; Vintage 198x lists itself as always open; the latest closes at 22:30
Price range
20,000 – 50,000₫/drink
Best time to go
Late afternoon at the river and hillside places. The city faces east, so that is where the sunset is

Overview

Nha Trang faces east, so this city has no sunset over the sea. The sun goes down behind the western hills. That fact shapes the list below more than anything else: to sit and watch the light go, you have to get high, get to a river, or head west. Three places here sit on the Cái river, two on hillsides, and one on a ninth-floor roof terrace in the middle of town.

A good seat does not have to be expensive. Vũ Garden in the Mipeco estate charges 20,000₫ for a black machine coffee: the cheapest on any café page of this site, and the place is a Japanese-style garden with a red bridge over a koi pond, bonsai and tiled roofs, with a menu printed partly in Japanese. Cà phê Hòn Chồng View beside the rocks asks 23,000₫ for a black coffee. Vintage 198x on the southern hillside runs 30,000–50,000₫ a cup. Those three numbers make one point: in Nha Trang the view is not what you pay for.

The busiest of them is Nhà Ven Sông concept, at the end of alley 007 on Cồn Ngọc Thảo. An island in the Cái river about 4 km from the tourist quarter. It is an open-sided shed facing a coconut garden and the water, with a small stage and live music on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights according to its own board. Nearby, Cham Riverside at 362/15 Lương Định Của lines its tables along the embankment, and CoCo Cafe at 80 Xuân Lạc builds a thatched deck out over a lake. All three need transport, and all three trade that inconvenience for something the centre cannot offer.

To look down on the bay there are two options, and they could hardly differ more. View Tỷ Đô on Nguyễn Cơ Thạch in Đường Đệ is a beach club raised above the water: timber decks over the sea, bean bags on imported sand, a thatched bar, and at night a straight view across to the city's lights. Vintage 198x in the south is the opposite: a timber house on a hillside, balconies over the valley and the sea beyond, listed on Maps as open around the clock. The coffee is no better than fine; you go for the seat.

Three places in town are worth going to for the room rather than the view. Nón coffee & more at 46/10 Lê Thánh Tôn is the most carefully made room of them: yellow walls, green shutters, a ceiling packed with conical hats, and hand-drawn latte art: a blossom tree, an apricot branch, on every cup. YEN coffee n more at 8 Đống Đa goes the other way: white, arched, planted, with a small stone courtyard, open 6:30 to 22:30. Góc Của Mây up alley 93 Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai has a stream running through the yard, tables at the water's edge, and opens at six in the morning.

Two of these suit families with small children, which is worth saying because café guides rarely do. Đường sắt Coffee at 707/1 đường 23 Tháng 10 is built entirely around a railway theme: there is real track laid indoors, and has a large indoor ball pit, so the children play while the adults sit. Cà Phê Bar Sky Garden at 49 Củ Chi also has a ball pit and a television showing football. At the other extreme, Huyền Thoại Núi Cà Phê at 36 Hòn Chồng is for people who want quiet: one huge old tree in the courtyard, a wooden stair winding around its trunk, and a counter selling beans to take home.

The five most-mentioned cafés right on the water are not on this list because each already has a page of its own: Sailing Club, Ana Beach House, The Busa Park, Moonlight Chill and the Wave Bar on Hòn Tre. See cafés. To choose on other grounds, there is the full list of seventy, the fifteen most talked about, the six-o'clock openers and the late ones.

Some shops, with addresses

  • Nhà Ven Sông concept

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    End of alley 007, Con Ngoc Thao, P. Tay Nha Trang (Vinh Ngoc former), Khanh Hoa

    4.9★ Google · 1,037 reviewsOpen 7:00 – 22:00

    At the end of alley 007 on Cồn Ngọc Thảo. An island in the Cái river about 4 km from the tourist quarter, open 7:00–22:00. An open-sided shed under a tin roof facing a coconut garden and the water, sand underfoot, strings of lights, and a small stage: its own board advertises live music on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. It serves breakfast and full dishes by day and fills up after dark. The approach is a narrow lane, so follow the map pin.

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  • Nón coffee & more

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    46/10 Le Thanh Ton, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    5.0★ Google · 521 reviewsOpen 8:00 – 21:00

    46/10 Lê Thánh Tôn, up a lane in the middle of town, open 8:00–21:00. It is done in a Hội An manner: yellow walls, green shutters, lanterns, a ceiling packed with conical hats, mosaic-topped tables, a corner of old televisions and a typewriter. The latte art is drawn by hand on every cup. A blossom tree, an apricot branch, a pattern. It is small and shuts early at 21:00, so do not save it for late.

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  • View Tỷ Đô Coffee

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    Nguyen Co Thach street, Duong De, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.8★ Google · 296 reviewsOpen 7:00 – 22:00

    Nguyễn Cơ Thạch in Đường Đệ, north of the city, open 7:00–22:00. It is built as a beach club: timber decks over the water, bean bags on sand, a thatched bar, coconut palms. By day it looks straight out at the bay and the mountains; after dark, across at the city's lights on the far shore. It serves food and beer as well as coffee, so an afternoon can run into an evening. About 6 km from the centre along the northern coast road.

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  • Vũ Garden Cafe

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    Lk09, 01 To Hieu, Mipeco, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.4★ Google · 253 reviewsOpen 6:00 – 22:0020,000 – 50,000₫

    01 Tô Hiệu in the Mipeco estate, open 6:00–22:00. It is built in a Japanese idiom: a two-storey timber house, a koi pond with a red bridge across it, bonsai, stone and tiled roofs; the logo is a bonsai and the name is written in Japanese as well. This is the cheapest coffee on any café page of this site: 20,000–40,000₫ a cup, from a 20,000₫ black off the machine to a cappuccino or matcha latte at 40,000₫. Teas, juices and even the pizza sit inside the same range. One catch: the printed menu carries the address 192 Điện Biên Phủ, which is not the address on Maps. Ask first if you are navigating by the menu.

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  • Góc Của Mây Coffee

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    Alley 93 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.8★ Google · 227 reviewsOpen 6:00 – 22:00

    Alley 93 Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai, open 6:00–22:00: one of five here that open at six. Its full name is "Góc Của Mây Coffee & Vintage Corner": indoors it is timber, chandeliers and a large tree planted in the middle of the room; outside a small stream runs through the yard with tables at its edge and a flower garden behind. The drinks are elaborately presented, often in stemmed glasses, the place is built to be photographed and makes no secret of it. It is central enough to need no journey.

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  • YEN coffee n more

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    8 Dong Da, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.5★ Google · 447 reviewsOpen 6:30 – 22:30

    8 Đống Đa, open 6:30–22:30: earlier and later than most on this page. It works in a pared-back, earth-toned idiom: white walls, arched openings, wooden shutters, big planters, a small stone courtyard with low wooden seats, and rattan lamps over round tables indoors. The drinks are carefully made, egg-cream coffee, coconut coffee, a few fruit sodas. It is in the central cluster, walkable from most hotels.

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  • Vintage 198x

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    Vo Thi Sau street, southern Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.1★ Google · 475 reviews30,000 – 50,000₫

    Võ Thị Sáu street in the south of the city, listed on Maps as open around the clock. A timber house on a hillside: deep verandas, sliding doors, balconies over the valley and the sea beyond, boardwalks along the grass slope. Drinks run 30,000–50,000₫: a traditional black coffee is 30,000₫ at the bottom, a coconut coffee 50,000₫ at the top. It is on this list for the seat rather than the cup.

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  • Đường Sắt Coffee

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    707/1 duong 23 Thang 10, western Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.2★ Google · 166 reviewsOpen 6:00 – 22:00

    707/1 đường 23 Tháng 10, about 8 km west of the centre, open 6:00–22:00. It commits fully to a railway theme: real track laid through the room, signal posts, warning signs, and outside, tables along an actual line beside the fields. Its real distinction is a large indoor ball pit: with a slide and a carousel, which makes it one of the few cafés in Nha Trang where children have something to do. Do not confuse it with "Quán cà phê Đường Tàu" at 66a Nguyễn Trãi: different places.

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  • Huyền Thoại Núi Cà Phê

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    36 Hon Chong, northern Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.5★ Google · 136 reviewsOpen 6:00 – 22:00

    36 Hòn Chồng, open 6:00–22:00, a few hundred metres from the Hòn Chồng rocks, so it folds into an afternoon there. A single broad old tree stands in the courtyard, lit from below at night, with a wooden stair winding around its trunk to the upper floor. Indoors it is cool and quiet, with a counter selling beans and brewing kit to take away. A place to sit for a while rather than to drop into.

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  • CoCo Cafe & Restaurant

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    80 Xuan Lac, P. Tay Nha Trang (Vinh Ngoc former), Khanh Hoa

    4.5★ Google · 119 reviewsOpen 6:30 – 22:00

    80 Xuân Lạc in Vĩnh Ngọc, about 8 km west of the tourist quarter, open 6:30–22:00. Painted orange under thatch, with a timber deck out over the water and a rail facing the hills opposite; indoors it is patterned tiles and wooden tables. It is a restaurant as much as a café, so a full meal is possible: grilled pork rolls, salads, fish, not just a drink. A long way out, repaid by the lake and the quiet.

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  • Cham Riverside

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    362/15 Luong Dinh Cua, Ngoc Hoi, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.6★ Google · 108 reviewsOpen 7:00 – 22:3035,000 – 395,000₫

    362/15 Lương Định Của in Ngọc Hội, open 7:00–22:30: about 6 km from the tourist quarter. Its full name is "Cham Riverside, Villa & Coffee & Restaurant", and all three are true: there are rooms, there is a café, and most of the trade is dining. Tables run along the embankment above the Cái river under palms and string lights, and the evening is when it is best. The prices split cleanly in two: breakfast 35,000–149,000₫, the cheapest being bread with a fried egg, and the restaurant card 145,000–395,000₫ a dish, topping out at the free-range chicken platter. You can order just a coffee, but this is a place to eat.

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  • Chốn Bình Yên Coffee

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    9th-floor roof terrace, 1 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.6★ Google · 942 reviews

    The ninth-floor roof terrace at 1 Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai. The highest seat on this page, and in a city facing east, height is the only way to see a sunset. It looks across at the Trầm Hương tower and 2/4 square. The entrance is small, beside the Sigo supermarket at street level and easy to walk straight past, so find the sign and follow it down through the basement. The drinks are fine; you come for the view.

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  • Cà phê Hòn Chồng View

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    6 Pham Van Dong, north Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.1★ Google · 430 reviewsOpen 6:00 – 22:0023,000 – 45,000₫

    6 Phạm Văn Đồng, right at the Hòn Chồng rocks and open from 6:00. The second-cheapest here: black coffee 23,000₫, milk coffee 25,000₫, coconut coffee 45,000₫. It also sells wood-roasted coffee to take home at 260,000₫ a kilo, beans or ground. A line on the board mentions a surcharge for drinks-only tables, so read it before sitting down.

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  • Cà Phê Bar Sky Garden

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    49 Cu Chi, north Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    3.9★ Google · 603 reviewsOpen 6:00 – 22:00

    49 Củ Chi in north Nha Trang, open 6:00–22:00. A large garden café, plenty of timber, an open outlook, and two things few places on this run have: a ball pit for small children and a television showing football. Which makes it right for a family outing or a match. The seat here is better than the cup.

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  • Yen Garden Bistro

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    51/19/8 Tue Tinh, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.1★ Google · 576 reviewsOpen 6:30 – 22:00

    51 Tuệ Tĩnh, down a lane. Quiet, cool, with generous car parking, decorated in a folk-craft style dense with set-pieces that they keep refreshing. The room is the strength; the drinks are dear for what they are. For the garden and the photographs it earns its keep.

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  • GÁC de.art

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    44-46 Phong Chau, south Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.5★ Google · 245 reviewsOpen 7:00 – 22:00

    44–46 Phong Châu, at the foot of the bridge. Clean and fresh-smelling, indoor and outdoor areas, plenty of carefully arranged corners. It works alone or in a group. The drink to order is the oat-milk coffee. Mornings are busy and a little loud; afternoons are the quiet end.

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  • Koi Garden Cafe

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    Phuoc Loi, south Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.7★ Google · 663 reviewsOpen 6:30 – 22:00

    South Nha Trang, the furthest out on this page. Wide terraced grounds, big trees, a koi pond with feed for sale, a swimming pool and a lot of built set-pieces. Best with children. Coffee is not its strength, and the Vietnamese dishes are muted because the menu aims at foreign visitors. From 40,000₫, open 6:30–22:00.

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Addresses come from each shop's own Google Maps listing, and the Open map button opens that shop's pin rather than running a search. 18 shops on the site have no listing we could confirm, so they have no button: the address lookup returned a different business, and a button that points at the wrong place is worse than none. A Google score appears only when Maps carries both the score and the number of reviews — a bare average cannot be weighed, so this page leaves it out. Street-food stalls change hours and close without telling anyone; call ahead if you are travelling across town.

What to order

  • Vũ Garden pours a 20,000₫ black coffee in a Japanese garden with a koi pond
  • Nón coffee draws its latte art by hand under a ceiling of conical hats
  • Nhà Ven Sông has live music on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights
  • Two of them have an indoor ball pit for small children

Practical tips

  • For sunset pick a river or hill place, the beach faces east
  • The three river places are 4–8 km out: book the return leg
  • Nhà Ven Sông is at the end of a narrow alley, follow the map pin, not the street name
  • Chốn Bình Yên is entered through a small door beside the Sigo supermarket. Easy to walk past

Frequently asked

Where can you watch the sunset from a café in Nha Trang?

Not from the beach: the city faces east, so the sun sets behind the western hills. For evening light you need height or a river. View Tỷ Đô at Đường Đệ, Vintage 198x on the southern hillside, Chốn Bình Yên on the ninth-floor terrace at 1 Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai, or the three river places, Nhà Ven Sông, Cham Riverside and CoCo Cafe.

Do the pretty cafés cost more?

Not really. Vũ Garden charges 20,000₫ for a black machine coffee and 23,000₫ for filter, Cà phê Hòn Chồng View 23,000₫, Vintage 198x 30,000₫. At or below the going rate in the city. Across this page a drink runs 20,000–50,000₫.

Are any of them good with children?

Two: Đường sắt Coffee at 707/1 đường 23 Tháng 10 has a large indoor ball pit and real track laid through the room, and Cà Phê Bar Sky Garden at 49 Củ Chi has a ball pit too. Koi Garden Cafe in the south has a koi pond, a pool and a lot of built set-pieces, but it is well out of the centre.

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