24 hours cafés in Hanoi

Who sits in a Hanoi café at 03:00

Mostly young people and students. In a 2023 VnExpress reader debate about all-night cafés in Hanoi, commenters mentioned people working night shifts for American and European companies, and others who leave hot, cramped rented rooms for a 24-hour café.²

In Saigon, where the format began, a 2022 VnExpress report found students using all-night cafés for group revision during midterms and finals, and delivery drivers resting between late jobs.³ An average of three or four customers slept over each night at the café it visited.³

Hanoi's big all-night garden cafés

Tuổi Trẻ's 2023 visit to a 24/7 café near West Lake found more than 30,000 m² of outdoor seating on mats, chairs and beanbags, and 200–300 customers a night, about double the daytime count.¹ It was busiest from 21:00 to 01:00. Drinks cost 50,000–70,000₫, guests could bring their own food with no time limit, and some brought blankets in winter.¹

Chains are arriving as well. Three O'Clock, one of the few coffee chains in Vietnam open around the clock and best known in Ho Chi Minh City, opened its first Hanoi store on Trần Nhân Tông, near Thuyền Quang lake, in April 2025.⁴

Where Hanoi's 24-hour cafés are

Tây Hồ has Hưu Hạ Space at 1 Ngõ 6 Đặng Thai Mai and TOP TOP CAFE in Ngõ 28/78 Xuân La, both with outdoor seating, and Steel Coffee at 16 Ngõ 56 Phố Lê Văn Hiến. In Cầu Giấy, ULA Workspace Cafe at 81 Nguyễn Khang has Wi-Fi, as does cafe tưởng tượng in Ngõ 32 Phố Viên.

Ba Đình has Cà Phê Văn Miêu at 59 Phố Quốc Tử Giám and Cà Phê Sách at 41 Ngõ 84 Ngọc Khánh, both with Wi-Fi. Đống Đa has Cà Phê Tùng at 64 Ngõ 102 Trường Chinh and The Caffinet in Làng Hạ. In Hoàn Kiếm district, Cà Phê Chum at 81 Phố Yên Ninh sits on the Old Quarter's northern edge, and JINJU, a Korean rice-drink shop at 27 Phố Nguyễn Hữu Huân, has outdoor seats.

Practical notes for an all-night café

Arrive late if you want quiet. One VnExpress reader noted in 2023 that these cafés are usually noisy until about 23:00 and then thin out.² Bring a layer for outdoor seating between December and February and keep your laptop and phone in sight if you doze.