The Oliver Cafe — European breakfast and brunch, kitchen until three

a breakfast

A cafe that serves a proper European breakfast: sourdough toasties with avocado, salmon, prosciutto and halloumi, three kinds of eggs benedict, a full English with sausages, bacon, baked beans and hash brown, omelettes and croque monsieur. The building is green, with a striped awning and the name across the whole wall; inside, the ceiling is painted as a European street of brasseries and tiled roofs, the seats are striped, the bar holds an espresso machine and a juicer, and upstairs there is a glazed veranda with palms and a view over the roofs. Coffee comes both the Vietnamese way and off the machine, right down to a flat white and a yuzu espresso tonic.

Cần biết trước. The breakfast kitchen works from 7:30 to 15:00, the cafe itself from 7am to 10pm. Prices from the menu, in thousands of ₫, VAT included:

• breakfast plates 135–235: the English breakfast 215, benedict on a croissant 185, omelettes and croque-monsieur at 155
• open sandwiches on toasted bread 125–145
• sweet dishes — French toast, a waffle, a fruit plate — 115–155
• extras 45–115: eggs, avocado and mushrooms at 45, bacon 55, smoked salmon 115
• coffee: Vietnamese 45–55, espresso 45, americano 55, latte and cappuccino at 60

The full menu is in the photos below.