Chef Linh Pham and Beverage Director Mai Tran opened the first Cha Can Ting in a 38-seat room on Wythe Avenue in 2017. Nine years later, three flagship rooms, 186 teammates, and a craft tea program twice the size of anyone else's — the idea is still the same.
In 2017, Linh Pham took over a failing 38-seat noodle shop on Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg, kept the wok station, and rebuilt the menu around Hanoi cha ca — turmeric-marinated fish grilled over charcoal, served loud and fast. The first eight months, she ran the line solo with Mai Tran pulling shots of Vietnamese coffee on the same counter.
Linh runs the kitchen. Mai runs the program that has earned the brand a national reputation: 42 single-origin Vietnamese teas, a tea-cocktail list that swings from breakfast to last call, and a coffee program sourced through Diaspora Coffee Co. They plate, pour, and hire together. They have never opened a room without each other.
Every dish is built around shareable small plates. House-made ferments — chili crisp, koji butter, fish sauce caramel — anchor the menu. The tea program is treated with the seriousness of a wine cellar. And the dining room runs until 1 a.m. Thursday through Saturday, because the best food conversations happen late.
Three flagship restaurants. 8,400+ Google reviews averaging 4.7 stars. An average guest tenure of 2.4 years among returning customers.
Mai Tran's beverage program runs on a single-origin sourcing relationship with Diaspora Coffee Co. — Vietnamese-grown beans roasted for the way we brew them: strong, sweet, and meant to be shared across the table. The 42-leaf tea list is curated with the same discipline, and every brewing standard in the room is set by Mai's team.
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Our in-house chili crisp and koji butter are co-developed with 5th Street Ferments and finished on our own line. Every ferment on the menu is built around regional producers within a 200-mile radius — 71% of the produce that lands on the pass comes from farms our team has visited and shook hands on. Locality isn't a marketing line; it's a sourcing spreadsheet.
See Where We SourceThree flagships. Brooklyn, Austin, Chicago. Walk in for the small plates, stay for the tea program, leave planning your next visit. Or skip ahead and book the private dining room — 34 events a month run on average across all three houses.
Brooklyn flagship · 142 Wythe Avenue · open until 1 a.m. Thu–Sat · +1 (718) 555-0427 · [email protected]
