Nina's Cafe

A quiet courtyard cafe down an alley in the backpacker quarter, doing coffee, breakfast and Vietnamese standards.

Tucked down a lane off Nguyen Tri Phuong, Nina’s is a small courtyard place that works equally as a morning coffee stop and a light dinner.

The menu covers Vietnamese standards and Western breakfasts, and the setting — plants, low tables, no traffic noise — is most of the appeal. It is a useful address to know on a hot afternoon.

Easy to walk past; look for the alley rather than the street number.