Cafe Marie stuart located on rue montorgueil is one of the best cafes on this "typical" Parisian street that's flooded with locals and people visiting from out of town. It's a great place to chill and people watch like a Parisian. They have 2 floors in a small space but most people never venture downstairs except for the purpose of using the restrooms. I've been going here for 6 years and I've had the pleasure of having tried "almost" everything on the menu and seen the staff rotate but th[...]
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Cafe Loustic can be found at 40 Rue Chapon, Paris 75001. If you're in the mood for an espresso pick me up with touches of rustic interiors and a decent selection of breakfast or lunch snacks you'll appreciate this cutely decorated spot. You?d almost never bike down Rue Chapon, it's a little side street not far from Centre George Pompidou and Les Musee de Arts et Metier. But I was on my energizer bunny mood that morning and I biked passed by around 11:30am and stopped for a coffee break[...]
After 15 minutes of cycling, 2 red lights and wisps of the damp Parisian air on my face, I was there. I attached my bicycle at the intersection of Rue de Forez and Rue Charlot in the 3rd arrondisement of Paris, close to a little vegetarian spot that I?ve wanted to try for sometime now: Cafe Pinson. These first few April days in Paris tasted like a moist mush of heavily diluted milk. The sun was out but the cold could still cut through my tweed coat as I cruised down Blvd Magenta and[...]
On Sunday we had our afternoon coffee at Craft along the canal. I was later than my other freinds getting there and had no oppourtunity to get a stool at the bar where my freinds were already sitting. So I stood at the corner of the bar waiting for a stool to be liberated from the young couple that where to my left - while doing this I also observed the desserts on display and asked before ordering, of course pretending to be a coffee snob, I said "I'd like a cappuccino (pause)...and whe[...]
Today I spent an afternoon with the ladies and my son at Ten Belles Coffee Shop along the canal. Despite the cold weather out today - 0?C - a group of us braved it and decided to have our afternoon gouter (aka afternoon snacks usually given to kids in France) at 4 pm. Squeezing into Ten Belles (it was packed) to get a seat for 5 was a bit difficult despite them having two levels because it was a tiny space and it was packed on this Sunday, proof that there is a real need for more re[...]
There are many cool coffee shops in Paris now that have borrowed from the American ( in this case Australian) style coffee shops, where you go for great coffee in all it's forms - with accompaniment of cakes, cookies, sandwiches, tarts etc whether it be morning or afternoon. At Koora Boora you won't be rushed to leave for the lunch or dinner crowd like in a typical Parisian Cafe - here you come to enjoy the cafe, yes , but you also come to lounge a bit, look out the window at the Parisian famili[...]