Altec Lansing Coffee Shop

Style:

A coffee shop at 396 Nguyễn Công Trứ, staged as a music-listening room — a wall of vinyl LPs and album covers, a reel-to-reel tape machine, a boombox and vintage radios, the bar a stage where every drink is weighed pour by pour on the black digital scale. Cream ground, maroon accents, black discs.

Story:

The room is staged as a music-listening room: a wall of vinyl LPs and album covers, a reel-to-reel tape machine, a boombox and vintage radios on and under the counter. The bar is a stage — every drink is weighed pour by pour on the black digital scale, milk then coffee then coconut cream, while the records play behind the counter. Upstairs, a nook with a floral painting and a reel-to-reel machine keeps the listening-room mood going after the cup is finished. The window tables with striped blinds are where regulars work — laptops open, greenery outside, the room quiet around them.

Menu:

There is no printed menu — ask at the counter for what the bar is building today.

Hours:

Open daily · 8:00–21:30