photo credit: Tabia Lisenbee-Parker

A blueberry pastry and a cup of Vietnamese egg coffee sit on a wooden table next to purple flowers.

Ash Coffee

Name: Ash Coffee
Item: Ash Coffee

Coffee

Virginia-Highland

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Juli Horsford

February 22, 2024

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Ash Coffee is the quintessential neighborhood coffee shop filled with stroller-wielding VaHi parents, young adults looking to move the group chat F2F, and those here solely for their thick Vietnamese egg coffee (which has a blowtorched foam top). A well-stocked display case reaffirms that breakfast is the most important meal of the day with pastries like big cinnamon rolls and spicy bacon and egg breakfast sandwiches. Under the cheery glow of natural light flowing in from giant, plant-draped windows, coffee lovers take their place in line. But the wait never seems to matter while perusing fun shelves of tchotchkes a la Richards Variety Store.