Traveling to Hanoi, besides visiting famous attractions, you should not miss trying Hanoi’s specialties and dishes. One of the featured characteristics in Hanoi's cuisine is the egg coffee which also becomes a delicate beauty in Hanoians’ culture. Let’s find out the top 07 best cafés to enjoy egg coffee in Hanoi with Handspan Travel Indochina!

From this article, you will learn more detailed information about these cafés below.

Let’s find detailed information on each of the cafés above.

Café Giang

• Address: No 39, Nguyen Huu Huan Street, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi
• Opening hours: 7.00 a.m. - 10.30 p.m. 
• Phone number: +84 98 9892 298
• Price: from VND 25,000

Café Giang is always at the top of the list when people mention egg coffee in Hanoi. With an ancient look, Giang reminds every guest of an ancient and elegant Hanoi. Although it may take you a long time to find the café, you will not feel disappointed when you enter here. 

Giang Café is the first place to serve this type of coffee, founded in 1946 by Mr. Nguyen Van Giang, a bartender at Sofitel Metropole Hanoi Hotel. He had used the egg yolk to replace milk and his recipe is still used until now. The greasy egg yolk blended with the filtered coffee creates an unforgettable flavor that differentiates Giang Café’s egg coffee from other places’ egg coffee. 

Giang Café's egg coffee

Besides egg coffee as the first choice, you can find other drinks on the café’s menu, such as traditional black coffee, coffee with condensed milk, hot chocolate, egg with green beans, egg with cinnamon, etc. Let’s come to Giang Café and enjoy the best coffee egg in Hanoi!

Café Dinh

• Address: 13 Dinh Tien Hoang Street, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi
• Opening hours: 7.00 a.m. - 9.30 p.m.
• Phone number: 024 3824 2960
• Price: from VND 25,000

Café Dinh is also one of the best places to enjoy egg coffee in Hanoi. The café was founded by Mrs. Bich, Mr. Nguyen Van Giang’s daughter; therefore, the egg coffee here still retains the features created by Mr. Giang. Café Dinh’s egg coffee is extremely favored due to its rich and different flavor with the perfect blend of coffee, egg yolk, and milk. A cup of egg coffee here looks extremely beautiful with the color of coffee and egg yolk, and patterns decorated on the surface. 

Dinh Café's egg coffee

Unlike Café Giang’s egg coffee, the egg coffee cup in Dinh is not put in a hot water bowl. Therefore, you should drink while it is still hot to feel every bit of bitter coffee, melting with the fragrant egg taste. Besides egg coffee, Dinh also serves other types of coffee, tea, and juice. 

From Dinh Café’s balcony, you can admire a panoramic view of Hoan Kiem Lake. Let's come to Dinh Café to enjoy the egg coffee while feeling Hoan Kiem Lake's atmosphere. 

Café Lam

• Address: 91 Nguyen Huu Huan Street, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi
• Opening hours: 7.00 a.m. - 11.00 p.m.
• Phone number: 024 3824 5940
• Price: from VND 20,000

Café Lam is one of the oldest cafés in Hanoi, located at Nguyen Huu Huan Street. This café is famous for its pleasant aroma of roasted coffee, a special flavor that you can only find in Lam Café. Founded in 1952, until now, this rustic coffee roasting recipe is still kept, making the coffee flavor in Lam café unforgettable. 

Lam Café is also an ideal place to try egg coffee in Hanoi. The egg coffee here has a thick yellow-brown egg layer on top and pure coffee underneath, neutralizing the greasy taste. The eggs are machine-whisked at high speed, and the coffee filter is added, creating a creamy mixture you should not miss. 

Besides the egg coffee and other drinks on the menu, Café Lam also makes a deep impression on any guest with its decoration. Coming to Lam Café, you can find many vivid pictures of people and streets in Hanoi. 

Café Pho Co Hanoi

• Address: 11 Hang Gai, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi
• Opening hours: 8.00 a.m. - 11.00 p.m.
• Phone number: 024 3928 8153
• Price: from VND 20,000

Café Pho Co Hanoi is a famous café for both local people and tourists for its ancient space. The top floor of the café is on the terrace, overlooking Hoan Kiem Lake. The lower floors have a space resembling Hanoi from the 19-20 century with antiques displayed around. 

A corner inside Ca Phe Pho Co Hanoi

Besides, Café Pho Co also impresses guests with its drinks, especially the egg coffee. The café’s egg coffee is the perfect combination between the bitterness of coffee, the greasy taste of eggs, and the sweetness of the milk. Especially, when drinking hot, you can immediately feel the fragrant egg flavor and extremely concentrated coffee flavor. 

Ca Phe Pho Co Hanoi's egg coffee

Thanks to its distinctive characteristics, Café Pho Co is indeed a good café for enjoying egg coffee in Hanoi. Let’s come here if you want to try Hanoi egg coffee while admiring Hanoi Old Quarter and Hoan Kiem Lake!

Loading T Café

• Address: 08 Chan Cam, Hang Trong, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
• Opening hours: 8.00 a.m. - 10.00 p.m.
• Price: from VND 20,000

Loading T Café is located on the 2nd floor of an ancient villa in Chan Cam Street, Hoan Kiem District. This café is also a place you should not miss for a cup of egg coffee in Hanoi. To enjoy the best flavor of hot egg coffee in Loading T, you should use a spoon from the bottom of the cup so that you can fully try three layers of condensed milk, coffee, and egg cream. The café even prepares a leaflet to guide you on the best way to enjoy egg coffee; therefore, you do not need to worry if you try egg coffee for the first time. 

Egg coffee in Loading T Café

Besides the egg coffee, you will also be impressed with the café’s decoration and arrangement. With a high ceiling, vintage floor, wood chairs and tables, and space full of herb scent, this café is an ideal choice if you are looking for an idyll place. Let’s enjoy the tranquility with a cup of egg coffee in Loading T Café!

To Chim Xanh - Bluebird’s nest

• Address: No 13, Lane 19, Dang Dung, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi
• Opening hours: 8.00 a.m. - 10.30 p.m.
• Price: from VND 25,000

Unlike those above cafés, To Chim Xanh café is not located in Hanoi Old Quarter but a small lane in Ba Dinh District. It is also an excellent choice to try egg coffee in Hanoi with a unique taste. This café’s egg coffee has a strong flavor of roasted Robusta coffee, blended with a creamy egg cream that is fragrant and not greasy. If you are a lover of pure roasted coffee, you will definitely fall in love with the egg coffee of Blue Bird's Nest. Besides egg coffee, other drinks and snacks in this café also have a Vietnamese style that you should not miss. 

Yen Café

• Address: 184 Quan Thanh, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi
• Opening hours: 7.30 a.m. - 5.00 p.m.
• Price: from VND 25,000

Yen Café is a small street café in a lane of Quan Thanh District. Coming to Yen Café, you can see the owner of the café concocts and grinds coffee directly. The egg coffee has the combination of Dalat’s Arabica coffee bean, whipped egg cream, and milk, creating an unforgettable flavor you should try more than once. Besides the egg coffee, Sapa and Van Van coffee are also famous for their unique flavor and decoration. Let’s come here and enjoy the idyllic with a cup of Hanoi egg coffee!

In conclusion, you have just known about some cafés you should not miss for a tasty cup of egg coffee in Hanoi. Let’s prepare your luggage, take a vacation to Hanoi, and enjoy egg coffee together with other specialties in Hanoi! For further things to know before traveling to Hanoi, please refer to our blog post here: Hanoi travel guide.