Parisian cafés serve as a center of social and culinary life in Paris. They have been around for centuries in one form or another, the oldest one still in operation is "Café Procope" on Rue Buci, since 1686.
Paris cafés are the meeting place, the neighborhood hub, the conversation matrix, the rendez-vous spot, the networking source, a place to relax or to refuel, the social and political pulse of the city.
The café business sometimes doubles as a “bureau de tabac”, a sidekick tobacco shop that can sell you everything from metro tickets to prepaid phone cards.
Typical Paris cafés are not “coffee shops”. They generally come with a complete kitchen offering a restaurant menu with meals for any time of the day, a full bar and even a wine selection.
Generally you will find lots of bars everywhere in Paris, but the most vivid bar districts are in the 11th arondissement around (the metro stations) Parmentier/ Rue Saint-Maur/ Couronnes and around Bastille. Châtelet also offers quite a lot of bars to go out while St Michel is more touristy.
Pubs, bars, cafes highlights
Run by two Americans, L'Imprévu ("unpredictable") is an artistic, colorful and cozy bar situated in the Marais district and the perfect place to have a chai (made of an ...
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Ever wondering where to get bubble tea in Paris? Well, Zen-Zoo gives you quite a lot of options to choose from. Not only does this small place offer the original bubble tea ...
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Not far away from the bar L'international, you will find Alimentation générale. Offering very few seats, this bar has cocktails starting at 7EUR, coffee, beer, ...
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One of the bar districts in Paris is the 11th arondissement which has a whole bunch of not too expensive pubs.
L'international is a very well known bar with free live ...
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For this area pretty inexpensive, the Art Brut is a (very) small café/ bar with stone walls is located next to the metro/ RER stations Châtelet/ Les Halles in an area full of ...
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Located near the tower next to the Hôtel de Ville, the Café Delyan is the ideal place to have a tea and a nice piece of cake on a very comfortable couch (if the couches ...
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The Café de Flore, at the corner of the Boulevard Saint-Germain and the Rue St. Benoit, in the VIe arrondissement of Paris, has long been celebrated for its ...
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Les Deux Magots is a famous café in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés area of Paris, France. It once had a reputation as the rendezvous of the literary and intellectual ...
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Café de la Paix is a famous café in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was designed by Charles Garnier, the architect of Paris Opéra (located across the ...
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Café Procope, in rue de l'Ancienne Comédie, 6th arrondissement, is one of the oldest restaurants of Paris. It was opened in 1686 by the Sicilian Francesco Procopio dei ...
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