Genkan Vegan Cafe — Restaurant in Đồng Hới

It’s a beautiful experience to eat here. Located on a quiet tree-lined street in between the main commercial boulevard and the waterfront, this is a restaurant with a gentle positive spiritual vibe and great food. The accessible English-language menu offers a nice selection of vegan options and good-sized portions at very fair prices for taste and quality. This is the kind of high-quality vegan restaurant that you might expect in a progressive world city, but maybe not a small relatively less known city in Vietnam.

The young Vietnamese woman who started the restaurant (and also speaks great English) is not just there to be in business, but clearly to embody a positive and respectful philosophy about life on Earth. So when you eat there you not only get great food, but you are supporting someone trying to make the world a better place. She even made the effort to make a new cake on the spot for me to take out, because they were already sold out of them that day. It was scrumptious! And since it’s often hard to find vegan desserts like a vegan cake, to find this on the Vietnamese coast was amazing.

I went back to eat here several times. The food is that good - super tasty and nutritious! Every meal is in balance. You leave happy and satisfied. A must-visit if you are...

The food was nice, a lot of the menu wasn't available. Maybe have a smaller menu with items you stock then have a specials board. It becomes a disheartening experience when you have your sights set on something and it's not available. Plus it wasn't just to odd thing that wasn't in stock, a lot of the menu was unavailable.

I don't want to put people off eating here, especially as their coffee and banana cake were delicious! I've missed having cake since being on Vietnam and this really hit the spot! 😋

(We had: Ste*k and chips, Kimbap (sushi), mixed steamed dumplings, ice salted coffee and...

The food was tasty, but one of their waitresses got my orders wrong twice. I came twice during my stay in Dong Hoi, because I really enjoyed the food. The first time she bought an extra dish even though I already canceled it when ordering. For the second time, we ordered takeout and we got the wrong food. According the menu, F27 is some fried vegetarian meat but we got F26, which was spring rolls. Actually, the spring rolls were quite disappointing. So if you visit this cafe, make sure to triple-check your order. Use English, Vietnamese, Google Translate, etc. Don't be disappointed...