Vietnamese egg coffee opens

Cà Phê Việt has opened on New Montgomery Street in downtown San Francisco, bringing Vietnamese egg coffee to the city’s Financial District. (sf.eater.com) Eater San Francisco reported the cafe opened on April 16, 2026, at the corner of New Montgomery and Minna streets with a menu centered on coffee drinks and bánh mì. (sf.eater.com) The shop’s own site describes the lineup as Vietnamese coffee in San Francisco, including phin drips, iced coffee with coffee jelly, and house specialties. Hoodline reported the cafe is open daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and includes a small retail shelf with beans and phin filters. (caphe-viet.com) (hoodline.com) Egg coffee, known in Vietnamese as cà phê trứng, is a sweet coffee drink made by topping strong coffee with a whipped mixture of egg yolk, sugar, and condensed milk. It is most closely associated with Hanoi, where the drink originated and became a cafe staple. (en.wikipedia.org) That makes the opening notable less for adding another generic cafe than for putting a specific Vietnamese coffee tradition into San Francisco’s office core, where grab-and-go coffee usually means espresso bars and chain cafes. Eater said the menu also includes salted cream coffee and black sesame cream coffee alongside sandwiches. (sf.eater.com) The Bay Area already has strong Vietnamese food scenes in San Jose and Oakland, and The Infatuation wrote in January that many of the region’s top Vietnamese restaurants are outside downtown San Francisco. Cà Phê Việt is opening in a neighborhood still trying to refill storefronts and daytime foot traffic after years of remote work. (theinfatuation.com) (hoodline.com) National Today identified the founders as Kiet Truong and John Tran and said they were bringing the dessert-style coffee drinks popular in the South Bay into the city center. That gives the shop a narrow pitch: a compact downtown cafe built around Vietnamese coffee first, with food as a supporting menu. (nationaltoday.com) For downtown San Francisco, the new address is also part of a familiar recovery playbook: smaller food businesses, shorter menus, and daytime service aimed at workers and visitors. For coffee drinkers, it means egg coffee is now easier to find between Market Street and the Salesforce Transit Center than it was a week ago. (hoodline.com)