Apart from bars and cafes in the larger hotels, there are many other cafes:

- Trung Nguyen Café No 1, Nguyen Van Cu Street, Halong City.

- Trung Nguyen café No 2, Cong Doan Hotel, Halong Street, Baichay.

- Thang Long Hotel: House on Stilts café,  "ruou can" (rice wine drunk out of a jar through pipes).
Tel: 033.847276

- Noinho Café, 10 Tran Hung Dao Road, Halong City
Tel: 033.628027, 033.629128.

There are numerous cafés and refreshment locations in Halong Street (Baichay) and Le Thanh Tong Street (Hongai).