Phuong Cafe and Deli

This Viet Café is 6 months old and very clean. They are also open late, until midnight even on weekdays.
Some buddies brought me here for a quick coffee before hitting the road for long drive. It was almost closing on a weeknight, so it was empty with one girl working with the owner.
There is a patio out front with seating, and inside small caberet style tables for two and four. (See pics) It has what every Viet Café has in order to be one: many large screen TVs, cute waitresses and coffee.
They also have a special crab soup to eat.
The outstanding feature of this Café versus all the others is that it is exceptionally clean, even the bathrooms are spotless.
If your female partner doesn’t mind the tube miniskirt wearing waitress and the sports on TV, she might appreciate the clean bathrooms and coffee!
Or if your driving down Tully in SJ and your girl needs to go to the bathroom, tell her you know where there is a very clean one. Bring her here and catch a glimpse of the game on TV while she freshens up!
(Just don’t get too fresh with the cute waitress, or you may end up with coffee in your face!)
It’s much more interesting than a tall latte at Starbucks!

I came here tonight with some biker buddies after one of our meets, as I had seen the Grand Opening banner above the door for sometime now.
With the tinted window, it was with some uncertainty that we approached the door. Having had some bad coffee shop experience recently, we know it’s not always a guaranteed good time. How is it possible to have a bad experience with delicious drinks and delicious-​looking servers, you ask? PM me for the answer!
We walked past the open court where tables and chairs are set up for patrons who smoke, and through the tinted glass door into the café /​deli proper. There are about 25 small tables with either 4 or 2 chairs each, surrounded by 10 large flat panel TV’s on all 3 side walls, showing european, asian, and american sports programming as well as Vietnamese music video. At 9 pm one of the TV’s was switched over to karaōke.
The waitresses are decently cute (only 4 star cute though) and very, very friendly and cordial. Some of you more experienced coffee shop patrons know these servers can have a well-​deserved snooty reputation, but not here at Phuong. Both of the ones that served our tables stopped and chatted with us, inquired how we liked our drinks, if we had any questions, etc. They were dressed, err… appropriately, for the environment too :-)
The drinks were well-​made, and were the standard $ 4 each. We chose from the standard selection of ice /​hot coffee, OJ, various smoothies (although they’re called shakes) and fruity drinks like lychee on ice. Phuong also offers crab-​and-​asparagus soup, and Vietnamese sandwiches, all food items $ 5.
I really liked the fact that everything was clean and new, the restroom was clean with new fixtures (as in everything worked!) and even the karaōke song books were brand new! The waitresses’ attitudes were also refreshingly new.
In all probability over time things will get worn and in need of refreshing, but for now, it’s a step above the existing VN coffee shops in the area.
I highly recommend you come by soon, while the newness hasn’t worn off, to experience VN coffeeshop the way it should be, but often isn’t.