The Workshop, Saigon

Review

I wonder how much longer the rickety staircase to The Workshop can hold out. May it be a long time. It’s a fabulous piece of work and a nice introduction to cool a cafe.

Saigon’s been bitten hard by the vintage industrial bug - The Workshop is another example. It has the usual features - polished concrete floors, repurposed timber and steel tables and chairs. The setting is an impressive, open, colonial era space with high ceilings that also features some industrial strength coffee roasting machinery.

There’s a serious coffee menu as well as juices, pasta, burgers and sandwiches.

The Workshop is busy with laptop laden young folk working, catching up for a chat, and taking time out for the odd selfie.

A favourite feature is the plentiful natural light. It also has views across the tree tops to Dong Khoi St evoking an old world Saigon that is being demolished as fast as the city’s cool young folk can create retro-cafes.


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Rusty Compass listings are always independent. We show you the stuff we think is worth knowing about. That’s it. We always pay our way at The Workshop. No inducement, financial or otherwise was received for this listing.