Cafe & Croissant · District 1
TONKIN GARDEN
TONKIN SPECIALTY COFFEE from Vietnam with love
A two-floor tube house at 135/50 Trần Hưng Đạo: a cream-toned ground-floor lounge with bamboo baskets, folk masks and a conical hat, rattan chairs by big windows; upstairs, a tall green plant wall on the mezzanine. The specialty is egg coffee.
Finding it
The marquee TONKIN GARDEN letters, number 135/50
A vivid red-orange tube-house facade: warm cream marquee bulbs on red, with “135/50 TRẦN HƯNG ĐẠO, Q1” painted below. A wooden-framed glass door, a red perpendicular hanging sign, two concrete cylinder stools, large ribbed ceramic urns, a tree in a big planter, and the A-frame price board on the sidewalk.
135/50 Trần Hưng Đạo, District 1
The signature
Bamboo baskets, folk masks, a green plant wall
The cream ground-floor lounge: woven bamboo baskets, colourful hand-painted folk masks, a large conical hat on the wall; a rattan-framed sofa with grey cushions, a dark-green cane-sided armchair, a round white pedestal table, a wooden coffee table, rattan peacock-style chairs by big windows with grey curtains. Up the mezzanine: a dark railing and a tall green plant wall, greenery everywhere.
The specialty
Egg coffee, croissants, banh mi
Egg coffee served in a blue-and-white patterned bowl is the must-try, alongside salt coffee, Vietnamese coffee, coconut milk coffee and Vietnamese matcha latte. To eat: salted egg croissant, golden flaky croissant and roast-pork banh mi.
The room & the menu
A cream lounge, colourful plates
Visit
Right on Trần Hưng Đạo, District 1
135/50 Trần Hưng Đạo, District 1 · Open daily 7:30–22:00 · +84 879 924 691