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| Café and showroom in one. Good food, drinks and the furniture are on the menu at An’s Interior Cafe - Photo: Courtesy of An’s Interior Café |
“An” has two meanings. The name of the company that owns the café is, Hoang An Interior Company, and it also means peacefulness in Vietnamese.
In a quiet, blind alley off Tran Cao Van Street in HCMC’s District 3, An’s Café is hard to find among the old houses and trees. There’s a thick grey gate with a small sign, saying simply An’s. The entrance is through a garden decked with chairs and tables and bordered by a creeper covered wall.
Through the lace curtained glass door there’s a red piano and abstract paintings on the wall and upstairs is a large lounge bar for up to 60 people.
“Apart from serving good food and drinks, we also give them a peaceful venue to relax and browse the artistic items here. We change the café décor, every two months so guests can be surprised each time they come here,” said Kieu Viet Cuong, the café manager.
“Everything at An’s Café is for sale. If guests want to buy anything, they can buy the display article straight off the floor or wait three weeks for a brand new one,” Cuong added.
The food is meticulously prepared with a selection of Vietnamese and Western styles on the a-la-carte menu. Prices vary from VND65,000 to VND300,000. The Vietnamese spring rolls, beef roll with mushroom served with Italian rice and rack of lamb with pistachio are recommended.
The café also serves over fifty kinds of cocktails for VND65,000 to VND120,000.
An’s Interior Café is at 40C Tran Cao Van Street, District 3, HCMC, tel: 08 3823 3398, website: www.anscafe.com.
