Our Story
Roasting in Nha Trang since 2013
ANDAO began in Nha Trang with a hands-on approach to coffee: roasting, understanding the machine, brewing, tasting and learning from the raw material.
Where it began
From a small Nha Trang coffee space to an independent roastery
Founder Đào Hải An opened the first space at 164 Bạch Đằng in 2013. The business was formally registered in March 2014, but the operating story begins a year earlier: serving coffee, learning from customers and building a practice around roasting and brewing.
From 2019 to 2022, An spent practical time in Chư Pưh, Gia Lai, working closer to the Central Highlands raw-material environment — learning about farms and soil, ripe-cherry harvesting and Natural processing at source. That experience became part of the technical foundation behind ANDAO’s approach to coffee.
Craft philosophy
The Roaster · The Technician · The Barista
The Roaster
Small-batch roasting is treated as technical work: understand the raw material, build the profile deliberately and evaluate the result in the cup.
The Technician
Roasting also means understanding the machine itself. Equipment knowledge and maintenance are part of repeatable craft, not separate from it.
The Barista
Brewing closes the loop. Tasting coffee as it is actually served helps connect roast decisions with extraction and everyday drinking.
Heritage
A working history, kept in objects and places
2013–2017 · 164 Bạch Đằng
The early Nha Trang period survives in a handwritten Russian–English menu and a 2014 kraft coffee bag — physical traces of the first years and the international customers the space served.
2018–2020 · 41 Đống Đa
This chapter includes the beginning of sourdough starter work and experiments roasting Vietnamese cacao, widening the same hands-on craft mindset beyond coffee.
Hà Quang 2
The Hà Quang 2 space continues ANDAO’s working history as a tasting lab and R&D studio for roast-profile development and cupping.
2021–today · Vĩnh Thái
The 6 kg gold-and-silver production roaster at the riverside Vĩnh Thái space marks the move into larger-batch commercial roasting while keeping machine knowledge and hands-on maintenance close to production.
Two working spaces in Nha Trang
Today, ANDAO’s work continues across the Hà Quang 2 tasting and R&D space and the Vĩnh Thái riverside craft and production roastery.