Cong Caphe Place Vendôme

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Cong Caphe Place Vendôme packs a small ground-floor room with nostalgic Vietnamese decor, low-key music, and even crayons for coloring at the table. Drinks lead the order: iced coconut coffee, coconut coffee with condensed milk, salted egg cream coffee, coconut matcha, matcha latte, and a large coco glacé au café that lands somewhere between coffee and dessert. The menu reaches beyond cups to bánh mì, cake, noodles, and a phở variation mentioned more than once. A stop near Opéra and Place Vendôme, it carries a distinctly Vietnamese character in both flavor and look, while the compact footprint means seats can be scarce when the place fills up.