Waken Beans coffee shop — own roast and a rooftop over the city

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A roastery cafe spread over several floors. Downstairs is the counter: glass tubes of beans on a wooden rack behind it, a La Marzocco espresso machine and a row of tall stools. Beyond it a room sits under a translucent roof on wooden beams, with leather benches and windows onto the lane. Above that comes a floor walled in glass, and over it an open roof with wooden benches: from there you see the tiled roofs of the town and the mountains behind them.

Beyond the ordinary coffee there is a specialty bar, where beans sorted by origin, Vietnamese and imported arabica and specialty robusta, are brewed by hand in a V60 or an Origami.

The room is furnished piece by piece: a silver relief of painted eyes above the bar, shelves along the walls with wall clocks, globes, rotary telephones and a reel-to-reel tape recorder.

Worth knowing. Open every day from 6:30 to 22:30. The view over the town opens from the top floor and the roof: from below the windows show only the lane.

Typical prices from the menu photographed on the spot on 2 September 2026, in thousands of ₫:

• espresso 50, americano 60
• cappuccino and latte 65 hot, 70 iced
• Vietnamese coffee: black 50, with condensed milk 55, egg coffee 65
• hand-brewed at the specialty bar 95, on imported beans 105–165
• cold brew 60–75, matcha and cacao 65–70

A matcha latte on plant milk costs 5 more. The full menu is in the photos below. There is food as well: the pastry here is good, though we did not write down what it costs.