A small cafe on NE Halsey Street is quietly building a following for its cream-topped Vietnamese coffee and homemade snacks. Two Roosters, run by Portland natives Khang Duong and Jun Robles, opened earlier in the summer of 2026 in the Parkrose Heights neighborhood, bringing Southeast Asian-style brews to Northeast Portland.
The cafe sits at 11937 NE Halsey Street, according to bridgetownbites.com, which has tracked the shop since it opened its doors on Saturday, July 25. The outlet counted about 18 seats inside, plus a small lot with off-street parking out front, making it a cozy stop rather than a sprawling coffeehouse. Two Roosters is open Tuesday through Saturday starting at 8 a.m., as reported by Axios.
At the heart of the menu is traditional Vietnamese coffee, brewed using phin metal drip filters that produce an intense, bold flavor, per Axios. Axios describes Vietnamese coffee with salted condensed milk, as well as coconut soda. Two Roosters also pours cream-topped Vietnamese coffee in four flavors — sweet, salt, custard and black sesame — giving regulars plenty of ways to customize their order.
Snacks Built Around a Chef's Resume
Beyond coffee, the cafe's snack menu carries the fingerprints of co-owner Jun Robles, a chef whose résumé includes stints at Le Pigeon and Nostrana, according to Eater Portland. Axios reports that Robles is behind the shop's food offerings, which include pork floss croissant toast, mango mochi rice crispy treats and Banana Pudding Tiramisu. The bridgetownbites.com account adds that the mochi treats also come in a black sesame and mango with li hing mui flavor, and that the cafe's offerings extend to a POG cream soda made with passion fruit, orange and guava juice topped with club soda and sweet cream.
The menu keeps expanding. As of this week, the cafe has recently added Vietnamese coffee jello, Banana Pudding Tiramisu and Krab Rangoon Toast, the same report notes. Two Roosters has also been making its own kaya — a thick, pandan-flavored spread — for kaya toast, a sign the owners are following through on earlier plans to grow beyond their opening lineup.
A Name Rooted in Family
Duong and Robles named the cafe to honor their parents, who were both born in the Year of the Rooster, Axios reports. That personal touch sits alongside a practical one: Two Roosters sources its beans directly from Vietnam’s Central Highlands region, the same region that produces the robusta beans traditionally used in Vietnamese coffee, according to Axios.
Joining a Growing Local Scene
Two Roosters arrives as part of Portland’s small but growing Vietnamese coffee scene, per Axios, a category that includes Kim Dam’s Cà Phê chain. That renaissance kicked into high gear in 2021, when Dam opened Portland Cà Phê, as Eater Portland has reported, becoming what Portland Cà Phê itself describes as the city’s first Vietnamese specialty coffee house, located at 2815 SE Holgate Boulevard according to Daily Coffee News. Dam has since expanded to two Portland Cà Phê locations and was preparing to open a third shop, Café Better Days, as of August 2024, Portland Monthly reported at the time.
Vietnamese cafes have been appearing all over the city in recent years, Eater Portland notes, pointing to Phin Caphe & Boba — which serves both Beaverton and East Portland — along with Cafe Ume and Gạch Viet Teahouse. CoffeeTalk has likewise described a broader renaissance taking hold across Portland’s Vietnamese coffee scene. For now, Two Roosters is carving out its own corner of that scene one cream-topped coffee and tray of kaya toast at a time.
