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Cà Phê Lâm
A cafe worth a slow morning · Hanoi, Vietnam
4.3★Rating
1,031Reviews
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The experience
Nguyễn Văn Lâm opened this one-room café at 60 Nguyễn Hữu Huân in 1956, and it became the canteen of Hanoi's French-trained painters. Mr Lâm ran tabs for artists who could not pay and took paintings instead, so the walls now carry originals by Bùi Xuân Phái, Nguyễn Tư Nghiêm, Văn Cao and Nguyễn Sáng. Little else has changed: miniature stools, worn wooden tables, dark-roasted robusta from a phin. Open 7am until late.
An accidental museum of Vietnamese modern art where the paintings were the bar tab, still pouring the same coffee.
1956 institutionoriginal paintingsdark-roast phinartists' hangout
Where it is
Hanoi, Vietnam · Hoàn Kiếm / Old Quarter. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
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