OPTIMIST Casual Cafe

What reviewers say

Excerpts from public Google reviews. They are the reviewers’ opinions, not ours, and we have not verified them.

• ★ 54 months ago

  Amazing place with such great people! Ngan is the best -- always brights up the mood and is ready to help! The owners obviously care about service and quality a lot. Menus in English and Russian are available. Their syrniki and crepes are the true highlights 😋

• ★ 5Edited 7 months ago

  The food was fresh, flavorful, and well-presented, with a good variety of menu options to choose from. Prices are reasonable for the quality offered, making it good value overall. Highly recommended!

• ★ 57 months ago

  Good place! I had light cheese pancakes — delicious, perfectly balanced, and not heavy at all. A simple breakfast I’d happily order again! 🥞✨

• ★ 54 months ago

  Great place, several floors. Tasty dishes with various choices. I chones MUST TRY dishes for 1st visit. I tried pumpkin pancakes 🎃 and ham&cheese sandwich 🥪.

• ★ 46 months ago

  The food at this cafe is indeed very good. (The breakfasts would be greatly enhanced if the bread were toasted—or if we were given that option.) Unfortunately, the open air ambience which would be nice on a quiet, shady street becomes a cacophonous torture on this very busy street corner. The extremely poor choice of music channel only makes the problem much worse.

• ★ 46 months ago

  Came for brunch,my review is next: Coffee is average — drinkable but nothing to write home about. Poached eggs with salmon sounded great on the menu, but the salmon was quite tasteless and didn’t feel decent,too much greens on above make it even more tasteless. I had a hair on the plate as well but thanks God not inside the dish. Anyway disappointing for the price. Grade 4 here only for good Vietnamese staff. Portion was okay, service friendly, in interior there is nothing catching the eye. Probably won’t return

• ★ 32 months ago

  On paper this cafe looks great, in reality it was a disappointment unfortunately. My coffee took about 25 minutes (maybe they forgot) and was delivered half way through my meal. Also some of the worst coffee I’ve had in Vietnam. I ordered the “Vietnamese” coffee which was not the traditional phin robusta coffee but just espresso, which was very bitter. Then the cacio e pepe (cheese and pepper) omelette was served in a pool of butter which made it very unpleasant and unnecessarily greasy. The bacon was chewy and the fat not properly rendered so it wasn’t crispy at all. Then a pile of useless dry lettuce. This place has great potential, but needs to improve on execution and service. Maybe try to be a bit less trendy and perfect simple dishes. All the best!

• ★ 3a month ago

  The food was yummy, we liked the cinnamon roll. The bacon omelet was okay, the sauce was interesting and good bacon, omelet was a bit rubbery. The bread did not seem to be the freshest. Decent sized coffees. They do not take cash. Everything seems to be a bit overpriced here for what you are getting. There is no AC, very hot and sticky on a busy and not relaxing road.