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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 1,190 cafes
Best cafes in Ho Chi Minh City
The 10 most notable cafes in Ho Chi Minh City, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Tiệm cà phê Hiên Cúc Trắng
25 Tân Canh
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.591, percentile 100 of 1,190
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2
Santorino coffee & veggies
74 Nguyễn Ngọc Phương
741 m from Ba Son station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.576, percentile 99.92 of 1,190
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3
Cafe TABAC
367 Phạm Ngũ Lão
626 m from Tao Đàn station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.567, percentile 99.83 of 1,190
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4
Saigon Coffee Roastery 2
232/13 Võ Thị Sáu
666 m from Dan Chu metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.559, percentile 99.75 of 1,190
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5
RuNam Vincom Đồng Khởi
Vincom B, 72 Lê Thánh Tôn
284 m from Opera House station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.550, percentile 99.66 of 1,190
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6
Sân Mây Café & Nhà Hàng Chay
10E Hẻm 10 Đường Trần Nhật Duật
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.541, percentile 99.58 of 1,190
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7
Gờ cafe - Đặng Văn Ngữ
126 Đ. Đặng Văn Ngữ
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.529, percentile 99.5 of 1,190
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8
Bo' Cafe & Drinks
590 8 Cách Mạng Tháng Tám
175 m from Le Thi Rieng metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.526, percentile 99.41 of 1,190
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9
The Seat Cafe
491/2 Đ. Lê Văn Sỹ
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.522, percentile 99.33 of 1,190
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10
Cafe Bùi Văn
281 Đường số 7
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.522, percentile 99.24 of 1,190
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).