Review: New Belfast coffee shop offers a sweet and savoury taste of Vietnam

William Chan’s latest hospitality venture Phin is currrently focused on coffee, with a limited offering of classic Vietnamese bánh mì iterations

Phin's char sui pork and pate bánh mì

John Mulgrew

It’s something of understatement to say that Belfast’s Ormeau Road has a lot of coffee shops.

Aside from a few months during the heady days of the pizza boom – in which purveyors of baked dough appeared to be popping up in the area like newbuilds before a property crash – there’s a sizeable presence of everything caffeine-related along a relatively small stretch of the south Belfast suburb.