Floral Friday

 Flowers and coffee, two favorite subjects, one magical setting.

Elle Était Une Fleur

11 rue de Médicis 75006

 

(facing Luxembourg Garden) 

 

 

Table Tuesday

Your café crème awaits.

 

Today begins La Rentrée.

Welcome back, Paris. 

Mocha Monday

 

 

Looking back: first light, first coffees and sea air on a French port. 

Tête-à-tête Tuesday

 Recently vacated chairs tell a story.

Mocha Monday

 

The cup alone made this Japanese-inspired French pâtisserie-tea salon worth a linger.

 Above: petal-kissed rhubarb tarte du jour

Niwa

56 rue Vaneau 75007

Friday find

 

A medieval moment on a Marais back street. 

 

Minicafé

10 rue des Barres 75004 

Frenchie Friday

 Tell me you're French without telling me you're French.

Above: whatever the temperatures café life goes on

 

Mocha Monday

 Cloudy with a chance of coffee.

Table Tuesday

 Your coffee awaits.

 

Mocha Monday

In their own world.

Table Tuesday

 

A hidden table.

Mocha Monday

 

Beating the heat with cafés glacés, for the asking even if not on the menu.

 

Mocha Monday

 

A light breakfast with café crème, chocolat chaud, golden chai.

 Les Cinq Marches.

 Café-Cantine 

12 rue Girardon 75018

 

 

 

Sit-down Sunday

 

Weekend downtime.

 

Les Cinq Marches

Café-Cantine

12 rue Girardon 75018

 

Saturday séjour

Up and out early to the village market. But first, coffee.

Easy day/weekend trips from Paris

May newsletter 

Mocha Monday

 L'Art de... Vivre. Coffee and fruit.

Floral Friday

 

Coffee and flowers... and iced matcha, pastries, more.

 Café les Artizans

64 rue de Seine 75006

  

Mocha Monday

 Easter Monday morning treat of Irish Coffees / Cafés Irlandais.

 

Street-side Sunday

 

Coffee croissants and color on a Paris market street.

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At Maison Jeffrey Cagnes (73 rue Montorgueil) re-imagined viennoiseries and pastries join the street chaos: a must-try Paris-Brest, standout chocolate tarts, éclairs, and a Black Forest gâteau w/its playful "red hat" (and yes that beret really was that bright). - BPJ

 

Treeful Tuesday

 Arches, a café, a sunny terrace.

Jardin du Palais-Royal