Mocha Monday

 Cloudy with a chance of coffee.

Mocha Monday

 

 

Hot coffee in the heart of Strasbourg's Old Town on a brisk morning.

 

PARIS - STRASBOURG

 3 hours (or less) from Paris

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Mocha Monday

 A café noisette, hot milk on the side, on a sunny café terrace.

 

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View from a table.

 

Above: a café noisette (strong espresso w/its small pitcher of hot milk); an espresso

 

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In France, strong black espresso is the preferred coffee after lunch or dinner and a café crème is the coffee choice of the morning. Order a café in France and you will get an espresso. Order an espresso and, while the waiter will understand, in French it’s a café express. The noisette is an express with a nice drop of milk. Sometimes I order an express with hot milk (it won’t be cream) on the side to add as I like, and it’s still considered a café noisette. In Spain the café noisette is a cortado, and while it's starting to appear under the Italian name macchiato - an excuse to make it more expensive - a café noisette should only cost slightly more than an espresso. - BPJ

 

 

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Morning papers, morning coffee to the news of the Los Angeles fires splashed across pages.

 

 

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A terrace table makes a colorful background.

 

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Most Paris cafés will happily serve up a café glacé, iced coffee, with or without milk, though it's rarely on the menu.

 Above: chunks of ice dominate a frothy café noisette

 

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Buildings reflected on a Left Bank tabletop.

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Monday morning in Paris coffee fresh start. 

 

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Eggs spoons croissants and a café noisette share a zinc counter.

 

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 Coffee on a terrace.

 

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 An espresso brought to the counter balanced atop a café noisette.

 

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That first morning comptoir coffee among familiar faces.

 

 

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Stacked receipts behind my café noisette on the zinc counter of a local Paris café.

 

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Mid-morning coffee, one of life's greatest small pleasures.

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Mocha Monday

 

A café noisette surrounded by flea market stalls.

 

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Two espressos and un café noisette.

A Paris croissant

Getting it straight. Not curved.

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