What are some nice cafes in Laos?

Laos has many nice cafés, particularly concentrated in Vientiane and Luang Prabang. Many nice cafés in Luang Prabang combine French-inspired architecture, lush green spaces, and views overlooking the Mekong River, making them ideal places to relax and take photos.

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2.1. Saffron Coffee

Saffron Coffee with a view overlooking the river (Photo: Collected)

👉 Saffron Coffee offers a picturesque view of the Mekong River. Its menu features a wide range of hot and cold beverages, including espresso, macchiato, cappuccino, mocha, Lao latte, chocolate drinks, tea, blended drinks, and handcrafted coffee.

📌 Address: Khem Khong Road, Ban Wat Nong, Luang Prabang

📌 Opening hours: 6:30 AM – 5:00 PM

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2.2. T56 Cafe & Bar

The cafe features French architectural influences combined with traditional Lao style (Photo: Collected)

👉 T56 Cafe & Bar combines French-inspired style with traditional Lao elements, making it a suitable place for coffee during the day or cocktails in the evening.

📌 Address: Khem Khong Road, Luang Prabang

📌 Opening hours: 6:30 AM – 11:00 PM

2.3. Somsa Cafe and Bar

The peaceful, green space of Somsa (Photo: Collected)

👉 Somsa Cafe and Bar offers a peaceful and airy setting overlooking the Mekong River. It is an ideal place to watch the sunset and enjoy a relaxing atmosphere.

📌 Address: V4QJ+RJH, Khem Khong, Luang Prabang, Laos

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2.4. Formula B

Formula B – A coffee shop with a youthful and modern style (Photo: Collected)

👉 Formula B is a great choice for young travelers who enjoy modern spaces, pastries, and a wide variety of drinks.

📌 Address: Sisavangvong Road, Luang Prabang

📌 Opening hours:

Monday – Friday: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday – Sunday: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM

2.5. Joma Bakery Cafe

Joma Bakery Cafe has two branches located in the heart of Luang Prabang (Photo: Collected)

This is a place you can visit with two branches, both conveniently located in the center of Luang Prabang. The café features a warm, cozy style inspired by coffee shops in North America. Its wooden furnishings create a comfortable and inviting atmosphere for guests. You can enjoy aromatic coffee, including espresso-based drinks and iced coffee, as well as tea and fresh fruit juices. These drinks can be paired with sweet treats such as cookies and pastries. The café also serves several breakfast options.

– Address:

– Opening hours: 6:30 AM – 9:00 PM (daily)

– Price: Drinks range from 15,000 to 32,000 LAK, while food is priced from 21,000 to 49,000 LAK.

2.6. Two Little Birds Cafe

A small, cozy space at Two Little Birds Cafe (Photo: Collected)

Two Little Birds Cafe is a small, cozy family-run café. It specializes in vegan dishes made with carefully selected ingredients sourced from local farms. It is an excellent choice for travelers following a healthy diet or vegetarian and vegan diners. The menu offers a variety of options, from main dishes and traditional Lao coffee to the café’s signature smoothie bowls. The smoothie bowls are particularly popular with diners thanks to their sweet, refreshing flavors combined with fresh fruit.

– Address: Behind Dao Coffee, near Amantaka Hotel

– Opening hours:

Monday – Friday: 11:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Saturday – Sunday: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM

– Price: Prices range from 10,000 to 30,000 LAK.

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2.7. Cafe de Laos coffee shop

Cafe de Laos coffee shop (Photo: Collected)

This café in Luang Prabang features an elegant style that combines an artistic atmosphere with an authentic local experience. The cozy interior blends traditional architectural elements with artistic touches. One of its unique features is that the coffee beans are sourced directly from farms around Luang Prabang and the Bolaven Plateau, ensuring an excellent coffee experience. In addition to coffee, the café also offers a selection of fine imported teas to cater to different tastes.

Address: 93/3 Phoneheuang Village, Sakharin Road, Luang Prabang

– Opening hours: 6:00 AM – 6:00 PM (daily)

– Price: Drinks and pastries range from 20,000 to 40,000 LAK.

2.8. Zurich Bread Factory and Café

Zurich Bread Factory and Café (Photo: Collected)

Zurich Bread Factory and Café offers a warm and comfortable atmosphere, featuring a design that combines European style with the distinctive old-world charm of Luang Prabang. The café provides both indoor and outdoor seating, making it a suitable place for relaxing gatherings with family and friends. In addition to coffee and other beverages, the café also serves European-style dishes, as well as bread and pastries.

Address: Sakkaline Road, near 3 Nagas Luang Prabang – MGallery, Luang Prabang

– Opening hours: 5:00 AM – 9:00 PM (daily)

2.9. DaDa Cafe

Drinks at DaDa Cafe (Photo: Collected)

Another Mekong riverside roastery is DaDa Cafe. DaDa offers multiple coffee beans in a range of intensities to suit even the most discerning of caffeinated palates. The coffee shop has comfy seating inside as well as a shaded riverside terrace.

We can especially recommend the iced latte. Frothy, creamy yet still full of flavour, the latte was excellent. Sometimes lattes can feel more like an ice cream or milkshake, but this had that perfect underlying rich bitterness that only really good coffee manages.

DaDa Cafe serves delicious cheesecakes, brownies and pastries. There is also a full food menu available if you want something bigger or are looking to treat yourself to breakfast.

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2.10. Lum Lum / Moka Pot Street Coffee

Lum Lum / Moka Pot Street Coffee (Photo: Collected)

Despite feeling as though we had stumbled into the local Laotian youth club, Lum Lum / Moka Pot Street Coffee made one of the best iced americanos we drank in Luang Prabang.

A small black shed serves as the central hub of this tiny shop and roastery. The eponymous ‘Moka Pot’ sits on a portable stove on top of the riverside wall. The whole place has a sort of “upmarket campsite” feel with foldable chairs, pallet tables and umbrellas for shade. It is very popular with the local youth, who all sit around playing mobile phone games. The locals are super lovely and polite, as soon as they realised there was no chairs for us they leapt up and offered theirs!

The staff were super friendly and despite their (very) young age really knew how to brew properly good coffee. The iced americano from Lum Lum was pure rocket fuel in the tastiest way possible. To say we were buzzing after would be an understatement!

2.11. Wabi Sabi Cafe

Wabi Sabi Cafe (Photo: Collected)

If you’re looking for a cheap and cheerful caffeinated pick me up, Wabi Sabi Cafe will have you covered. This no frills cafe drew us in with its coffee grinder and espresso pot display on the street-side.

Inside there’s simple seats and decorations supplied by many travellers who have passed through Luang Prabang – currencies from around the world and messages in all languages crowd the walls.

Wabi Sabi has a simple coffee menu offering americanos, lattes and all standard variations on the theme of coffee. It also serves a small menu of food for a reasonable price.

Wabi Sabi was always popular with other travellers either sitting in or grabbing a cup to go. The coffee shop sits on the other side of Phousi Hill next to the backpacker favourite “Redbull Bar”.

2.12. Coffee Express

Coffee Express (Photo: Collected)

Coffee Express seemed to be the informal common room for backpackers in Luang Prabang. Busy from morning to night, Coffee Express quickly became our favourite coffee shop in the whole of the city.

Coffee Express sits in a wooden building which is open on all sides and is set just on the edge of a beautiful lily pond.

The cafe has an extremely relaxed atmosphere with chilled out beats playing and plenty of seating both inside and out.

The coffee shop sells all the normal coffee’s as well as smoothies, soft drinks, beer, and cocktails. Coffee Express also serves excellent baguette sandwiches. We treated ourselves to a ham and cheese baguette alongside our standard iced lattes. Both the coffee and the crunchy baguette were brilliant.

If you’re after a sweet treat, Coffee Express serves a delicious white chocolate cheesecake, which is now quite famous amongst the backpackers of Laos. They also have French pastries and brownies.

As the sun goes down in the evening, the coffee shop becomes a sort of informal bar with backpackers chatting and enjoying a bottle of Beer Laos. Coffee Express sits opposite a Taco Shop and is just up the road from another popular bar, The Fat Cat, making it a popular stopping off point on nights out in Luang Prabang.

The coffee shops listed above are just some of our favourites we tried in Luang Prabang. If we have missed your favourite coffee shop let us know in the comments below!

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