Croissant in Dalat — croissants and black garlic coffee

a coffee or a croissant

A cafe that turned the local oddity into a menu: black garlic is grown in Lam Dong, and here it goes into a signature coffee, a latte and even ice cream. The taste is not garlicky in the usual sense — fermented garlic reads closer to molasses and balsamic. The other half of the place is a bakery: butter croissants baked daily. We tried the coffee and the pastry ourselves and have no complaints. The stone-walled room looks into a garden, and upstairs there is a roastery with its own roaster and shelves of beans.

Worth knowing. Black garlic coffee is 55,000₫, and the affogato on it costs the same. Plain coffee is cheaper: black, with milk or bac xiu at 45, cappuccino and latte at 55. Croissants run 55–65,000₫. Know about the almond one in advance: it is not the French pastry with almond cream inside, but an ordinary croissant scattered with flaked almonds. Mousse of the day 45, tiramisu and strawberry waffles 59, ice cream 55. The croissants are made with French Elle & Vire butter, as the banner at the entrance claims, along with daily coffee roasting. The menu boards and the receipt say Cafe Toi Den — same place, that is the name of the venue with the coffee side. The menu is duplicated in English, which is rare here. The crockery, the light and the plating are clearly built for a camera: people come here to shoot, too.