Portland Cà Phê
Coffee shop · Eliot ·
Vietnamese coffee & sandwiches with unique ube & black sesame lattes
Vietnamese coffee & sandwiches with unique ube & black sesame lattes
"Cà phê is the word for coffee in Vietnam, whose traditionally dark robusta-bean roasts, paired with sugar, often get overlooked by coffee connoisseurs — at least until Portland Cà Phê began opening local sippers’ eyes in 2021. Owner Kim Dam started roasting beans from Vietnam for her family’s restaurant House of Banh Mi before supplying other Vietnamese businesses in Portland. There’s a wide menu of banh mi and Vietnamese coffee, served in classic espresso-drip options, traditional Vietnamese iced coffee made with a phin (traditional Vietnamese coffee filter), and lattes with flavor additions like ginger syrup and house ube puree. Dam recently teamed up with Chef Richard Le (Matta) and pastry chef Lisa Nguyen (Heyday) to open Vietnamese American cafe, Mémoire Cà Phê." - Paolo Bicchieri
"Vietnam is the largest producer of robusta beans in the world, and Dam noticed the specialty scene in Portland — and broadly — often knocked the plant unjustly." - Paolo Bicchieri
"The Northeast Portland Ca Phe location is open until 1 p.m. today." - Brooke Jackson-Glidden
"Portland Cà Phê Roasters is the city's first Vietnamese specialty coffee house, owned by Kim Dam, using beans imported from Vietnam."
"The Vietnamese coffee shop Portland Cà Phê plans to open a second location in Northeast Portland on the corner of NE Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard and NE Russell Street in the former Goldrush Coffee Bar space." - Janey Wong