What is Cafe Tùng in Đà Lạt's Khu Hòa Bình known for?

Cafe Tùng, at 6 Khu Hòa Bình by Đà Lạt market, is one of the town's oldest cafés, named after the northern-born owner who ran it for more than 50 years. Trịnh Công Sơn and Ngô Thụy Miên were regulars, and Trịnh is said to have met the future singer Khánh Ly there. It roasts its own beans and brews in a phin, from 15,000₫ in 2023.

When does the Đà Lạt night market start, and what can you drink there?

The Đà Lạt night market on Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai, at the foot of the central market, gets going around 17:00. Stalls there and around Hòa Bình square sell hot soy milk with ginger or pandan, 10,000–20,000₫ a cup as of 2026, along with grilled rice paper, snails and yogurt. The day market itself closes at 18:00.

Which cafés near Chợ Đà Lạt open early or stay open late?

Cà phê nguyên chất TRANG at 34 Hai Bà Trưng opens at 06:00, and Coffee One Day at 05 Trần Quốc Toản runs from 06:00 to midnight. An Cafe on Ba Tháng Hai stays open 07:00–22:00, and Len's Cafe on Nguyễn Chí Thanh 10:00–22:00. The soy-milk stalls around Hòa Bình square start after 17:00.

Cafés in Chợ Đà Lạt & Hòa Bình, Đà Lạt: Hours and Map

Chợ Đà Lạt, the central market, went up in 1958–1960 on swampy ground that had grown watercress, to a design by the architect Nguyễn Duy Đức.¹ Its predecessors stood in Khu Hòa Bình, the quarter beside it: a wooden market of 1929, known as Chợ Cây, and a brick one built after a fire in 1937.¹ Today the market trades from 05:00 to 18:00, selling vegetables, flowers, dried persimmons (hồng treo gió) and wool clothing.¹

Khu Hòa Bình is where the town's oldest café habits survive. Early risers stop at its sidewalk cafés, and after dark the same blocks fill with night-market stalls.¹⁰⁵ Around the square and the market, coffee runs from Cafe Tùng's narrow room to a Là Việt kiosk and the milk-tea shops of Nguyễn Văn Cừ.

Local tip: Take an early phin at a sidewalk table on Khu Hòa Bình, when residents fill the square,¹⁰ and come back after 17:00 for hot soy milk from the stalls around it.⁶

At a glance

88Cafés listed

7With opening hours

06:00Earliest opening

00:00Latest closing

Opens earliest: Cà phê nguyên chất TRANG - Capuchino Đà Lạt, from 06:00 (Daily 06:00–21:00).

Closes latest: Coffee One Day, until 00:00 (Daily 06:00–00:00).

Most listed streets: Ba Tháng Hai (6), Phan Bội Châu (6), Tăng Bạt Hổ (5).

Most common features: wi-fi (15%), open late (5%), brunch (3%).

Cafe Tùng, the oldest room on the square

Cafe Tùng, at 6 Khu Hòa Bình, is named after its owner, a northerner who settled in Đà Lạt; by 2014 he had run it for more than 50 years, among worn furniture, a rusty iron staircase and low tables.² It began on Thành Thái street, now Nguyễn Chí Thanh, moved to a kiosk beside the old market, and came to its present address after that site was cleared.³

Its reputation rests on music and regulars. Trịnh Công Sơn and Ngô Thụy Miên drank here, and Trịnh is said to have first met Lệ Mai, the 17-year-old student who became the singer Khánh Ly, in this room.² The café roasts and grinds its own beans to a private recipe and still brews in a phin; in 2023 a coffee here started at 15,000₫.³⁴

Where the market's cafés cluster

Nguyễn Chí Thanh, Cafe Tùng's first street, has Len's Cafe at No. 7, open 10:00–22:00, and Cafe 84 at No. 84. Two early openers are nearby: Cà phê nguyên chất TRANG at 34 Hai Bà Trưng starts at 06:00, and Coffee One Day at 05 Trần Quốc Toản runs from 06:00 to midnight, later than any other café around the market.

An Cafe, a flower-garden café at 63Bis Ba Tháng Hai, opens 07:00–22:00 and serves brunch; an August 2026 guide put its drinks at 30,000–55,000₫.⁹⁶ Là Việt, the Đà Lạt roaster, keeps a coffee kiosk on Khu Hòa Bình itself. Gu Coffee at 02 Trương Công Định, Phuoc Coffee at 46 Thủ Khoa Huân and HYM coffee at 7 Hải Thượng fill in the side streets.

After dark: soy milk and weekend music

The night market takes over Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai, the market's own street, from about 17:00; it shares Khu Hòa Bình with the day market, and its stalls sell bánh tráng nướng (grilled rice paper), snails, yogurt and soy milk with sweet cakes.⁵ As of 2026, a cup of hot soy milk with ginger or pandan costs 10,000–20,000₫ there and at the stalls around Hòa Bình square.⁶

Nguyễn Văn Cừ is the street for a sweet drink: Trang Sua Bap Bi Do is at No. 6 and KOS milk tea at No. 10, and Wikivoyage listed a soy-milk stall at No. 2 in 2022.⁷ On weekend nights local bands gather to play around Hòa Bình.⁸

Getting around from the market

The center around Xuân Hương Lake is walkable from here. Xe ôm (motorbike taxis) wait on most corners, and as of 2026 a Grab bike ride costs 10,000–30,000₫ and a Grab car 40,000–80,000₫.⁷¹¹ The last local bus of the day leaves Hòa Bình Square at 17:30, so plan any trip out of town by bus for the morning.⁷

Cafés in Chợ Đà Lạt & Hòa Bình

At a glance

Cà phê nguyên chất TRANG - Capuchino Đà Lạt

Coffee One Day

DOIDEP

French Touch Coffee

Hoa Sữa

Len's Cafe

An Cafe

2P Coffee

Backpackers tourist cafe

Beep Cafe & Juice

Bus Cafe

Cà Phê Anh Đào

Cà phê Dốc Nhà Làng

CÀ PhÊ ĐÀ LẠT

Cà Phê Vui

Cafe 84 Da Lat

Café 87 PBC

Cafe hà phúc

Café Iro

Cafe Muoi

Cafe nga đà lạt

Cafe Nghe Si

Café Nhật Nguyên

Cafe Phin Đặc Biệt Đà Lạt

Cafe trang

Cafe Tùng

Caffe Vợt Bin

Capulus Coffee and Bites

Carino cafe

Cuội Uncle

Dear Táo Coffee

Dính

Domaine Morère

Đường Lên Trăng

F Garden Dalat

Full House Coffee

Coffee chains in Chợ Đà Lạt & Hòa Bình

Milano Coffee

Trung Nguyên

Highlands Coffee

Là Việt Coffee

Napoli Coffee

Phúc Long

Katinat

Cafe Tùng, the oldest room on the square

Where the market's cafés cluster

After dark: soy milk and weekend music

Getting around from the market

Sources

More of Đà Lạt

Phan Đình Phùng & Bùi Thị Xuân

Xuân Hương Lake & the station

Valley of Love & the north

Hùng Vương & Trại Mát

Tuyền Lâm Lake & the south

Chợ Đà Lạt & Hòa Bình cafés: questions

What is Cafe Tùng in Đà Lạt's Khu Hòa Bình known for?

When does the Đà Lạt night market start, and what can you drink there?

Which cafés near Chợ Đà Lạt open early or stay open late?

Own a café in Chợ Đà Lạt & Hòa Bình?