A parlour at night
Panel doors papered with prints, a moon in the window, a candlelit table — a small room dressed for lingering over Vietnamese tea & coffee.
Style: A dressed night parlour for Vietnamese tea & coffee — panel doors papered with vintage prints, a moon in the window, warm lamp light, and tables made for lingering.
Story: La Rotonde Saigon is a cafeteria for dessert & lunch and for work & chill at 185B Trần Hưng Đạo — a small room dressed like a parlour, where the walls are framed prints, the window holds a moon, and the table stays yours for the evening.
Menu: No published menu — ask at the counter when you arrive.
Hours: Open daily 07:00–22:00.
The panel-door wall
Tall navy doors whose panels are filled with framed vintage French prints and newspaper pages, a gold sconce on the plaster beside them, a small marble-top table and a birdcage below. Four of the venue's own photographs return to this wall — it is the room's signature, not its backdrop.
The moon in the window
A big glowing moon lamp hangs in the night window, seen from the street through the glass, above the lightbox that reads 'ORIGINAL VIETNAMESE TEA & COFFEE' and an event poster naming 185B Trần Hưng Đạo. The room is dressed to be seen from outside as well as sat in.
The work table, and lunch
By candlelight, a visitor writes and draws at a dark table crowded with plants, a tray of cards beside the papers. At another table, lunch arrives as a full Vietnamese spread — rice, soups, salads, a clay-pot dish, greens — eaten under the same lightbox, beside the same panels.
The rooms and the tables
