Manzi Art Space and Cafe

The experience

An old villa at 14 Phan Huy Ích, on a quiet street north of the citadel, with a cafe on the ground floor and a contemporary art gallery on the first. The rooms are white-walled with tall windows, and the gallery rehangs regularly with work by emerging Vietnamese artists; it is free to walk up and look. Drinks run to specialty mochas, watermelon green tea and fresh pineapple with mint. Manzi also runs a separate, larger exhibition space a few streets away, which is a different address.

Hanoi's calmest art house, where the gallery costs nothing and the coffee buys you the whole afternoon.

What a membership adds.

Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.