Common Grounds Cafe

Common Grounds Cafe and Bakery is a newly opened cafe located in the middle of town on the road leading to Senglao DVD between Inter City Hotel and La Gondola. I visited it in the morning last week and even then it was attracting quite a few customers, mainly tourists, but also one expat mother who let her kids loose on the indoor playground.

A word that came to mind upon my first impression of the place was ‘jomesque’: because it bears a huge resemblance to the original and still dominant Lao cafe chain.

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