Croissant in Dalat coffee shop — 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.

Cần biết trước. Prices from the menu:

• black garlic coffee 55k ₫, an affogato on it the same
• ordinary coffee is cheaper: black, with milk and bac siu at 45, cappuccino and latte at 55
• croissants 55–65
• desserts: mousse of the day 45, tiramisu and strawberry waffles 59, ice cream 55

Worth knowing about the almond croissant in advance: it is not the French one with almond cream inside but a plain croissant scattered with flaked almonds. The menu and the receipt say Cafe Tỏi Đen, which is what the place with the coffee counter calls itself. The menu is doubled in English, a rarity here. The full menu is in the photos below.