15 stores · curated ORBIS register
Coffee roasting has an established address at Cafés Verlet, the Rue Saint-Honoré business dating to 1880. For pastries, Cédric Grolet makes sculpted fruit designs, with Paris locations including Le Meurice and Opéra. Its Paris network also includes Café and a chocolaterie, giving the same pastry house several different counters. Coutume Café roasts its beans in Romainville and runs cafés in Paris, following its foundation by Antoine Netien and Tom Clark.
Paris / Online
Café Coton organises menswear around shirts, with collar, cuff, fit and fabric choices visible across formal and casual lines. Polos, knitwear, ties and accessories extend the same coordinated wardrobe approach.
Best for Dress shirts, polos, and ties for easy business-casual menswear
Paris / Online
Nice’s cycling apparel maison — merino jerseys and Riviera-styled kit for the coastal peloton.
Best for Merino cycling jerseys and Riviera-styled kit from a Nice apparel maison
France / Online
Maison Drucker is a French rattan chair maker for Paris café chairs, bistro furniture, and colorful woven seating. At France, the range centers on rattan Paris café chairs and colorful woven bistro furniture.
Best for Rattan Paris café chairs and colorful woven bistro furniture.
Palais Royal
Paris’s 1880 roaster — Rue Saint-Honoré’s original specialty coffee, pre-wave by a century.
Best for Paris’s 1880 roaster — Rue Saint-Honoré’s original specialty coffee
Verlet's own site dates the business to 1880 at its original address, 256 Rue Saint-Honoré, describing itself as the oldest house to master artisanal roasting in Paris — 'la plus ancienne maison à maîtriser une torréfaction artisanale.' The roasting itself now happens a short distance away, at 27 Rue de Montpensier behind the Palais Royal gardens, where the company says beans are roasted according to their individual character and the day's weather rather than on a fixed cycle: 'les grains sont cuits à cœur en fonction de leur nature et du temps qu'il fait.' The Saint-Honoré address retains a historic tasting salon, and the shop specializes in single-origin coffees — 'cafés de pure origine' — sold alongside curated teas, honey, jam, chocolate, and biscuits. Verlet predates the current wave of Paris specialty roasters by more than a century, and unlike newer entrants built around direct-trade sourcing narratives, its distinguishing claim is continuity of place and craft: the same neighborhood, an artisanal roasting method unchanged in principle since the nineteenth century, and a tasting room still open in the original building rather than relocated or franchised.
Paris / Multiple
Cédric Grolet’s pastry boutiques center on trompe-l’œil sculpted fruit and other signature pastries, with Paris locations at Le Meurice, Opéra, Café and a newer chocolaterie. The official network also extends beyond Paris to London, Singapore, Monaco and Saint-Tropez.
Best for Trompe-l’œil fruit pastries, madeleines, and Paris pastry boutiques
Paris / Multiple
Paris specialty-coffee pioneer founded 2010 by Antoine Netien and Tom Clark, credited with introducing flat whites and third-wave roasting to the city. Roasts its own beans in Romainville and runs cafes in Paris, Tokyo and Osaka.
Best for Flat white Tom Clark and Antoine Nétien brought to Paris's 7th arrondissement
Coutume was founded in 2010, and its first roastery-coffee shop opened in Paris in 2011. Tom Clark and Antoine Nétien helped establish the business around specialty coffee, direct producer relationships and precise roasting rather than standardized blends. The first café in the 7th arrondissement became part of the early specialty-coffee wave in Paris, while Coutume later expanded its roasting and café footprint. For a shopper, the useful distinction is the coffee itself: traceable origins, house roasting and brewing methods intended to show differences between lots rather than mask them.
Paris / Multiple
Specialty coffee roaster founded in Paris in 2009 by Christophe Servell, son and grandson of roasters, with backing from entrepreneur Jeremie Trigan. By its own account France's first specialty coffee roaster, founded 2009; now operates roughly a dozen French locations plus outposts in South Korea.
Best for Competition-grade single origins from Christophe Servell's 2009 specialty roastery.
Terres de Café was founded in 2009 by Christophe Servell and describes itself as a pioneer of specialty coffee in France, operating independently with physical boutiques in Paris, Lille, and Versailles alongside European online sales. The company's competition record, listed on its own site, is unusually dense for a French roaster: Best Espresso of France in 2024, World Champion Ibrik in both 2023 and 2024, Best Coffee Roaster of France in 2015, seven French championship titles overall, and six Epicures awards for fine groceries. Roasting takes place in the Île-de-France region using Loring roasters, which the company describes as carbon-neutral equipment, and its stated sourcing model works directly with small producers and cooperatives across Africa and Latin America. Servell is quoted on the site framing the business around its supply chain rather than its retail presence: 'without our producer partners, we don't exist.' The distinguishing fact here isn't heritage — Terres de Café is younger than most Paris specialty roasters — but a competition record that is verifiable and specific rather than a marketing claim, spanning both barista-skill contests (Ibrik, espresso) and a wider run of French national titles.
Haut-Marais
Opened in 2013 by Guillaume Steinmetz, Anaïs Lafarge and Romain Joste at 12 Rue Perrée in the Haut-Marais, this concept store combines a fashion edit (Lemaire, Jacquemus, Maison Margiela), art books and an integrated café. Its name nods to Marcel Duchamp's readymade.
Best for Marais fashion sharpness — the insider edit where Lemaire meets art books
The Broken Arm opened in February 2013 at 12 Rue Perrée in the Marais, founded by Anaïs Lafarge, Romain Joste, and Guillaume Steinmetz, who had previously spent four years running the fashion and lifestyle site De Jeunes Gens Modernes together before opening the physical shop. The name is a direct reference to Marcel Duchamp's readymade sculpture 'In Advance of the Broken Arm,' a snow shovel hung from a ceiling — the founders have described the reference as illustrating the blurred line between art and everyday life, which extends into the store's own mixed format of fashion, art books, and design objects. The clothing selection runs from established houses such as Lemaire, Balenciaga, and Comme des Garçons through newer names like Jacquemus, alongside streetwear labels including Nike, Off-White, and Asics. The in-house café is not run by the founders directly but operated by Dreamin' Man, a Japanese coffee shop brought in as the café concession, sourcing its beans from Solberg & Hansen, a Norwegian coffee roaster and supplier. That combination — three ex-media founders, a Duchamp reference in the name, and a subcontracted Japanese café pulling beans from a Norwegian roastery — is what separates The Broken Arm from a standard Marais boutique-with-coffee-corner.
Saint-Germain
Boulevard Saint-Germain bookshop, next to Café de Flore, opened in the early 1980s; stocks over 40,000 titles and stays open until midnight every night but Sunday.
Best for Left Bank French literature, essays, and art books
L'Écume des Pages opened on Boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris in the early 1980s, in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés quarter next to the Café de Flore. The shop is a general-interest bookstore rather than a specialist one, carrying more than 40,000 titles across literature, essays, and art books. Its defining feature in the neighborhood is its hours: the store stays open every night except Sunday until midnight, unusual for a Paris bookshop and a draw for browsers looking for a late-evening stop after dinner in the quarter. In the summer of 2023, the store was acquired by the Bolloré group, though it continues to operate under a charter of editorial independence for its book selection. It remains one of the more visible bookshops on the Left Bank, positioned along one of Saint-Germain's main boulevards amid a concentration of other literary cafés and bookshops that has long defined the neighborhood's identity.
Paris
A Paris market street. The Rue Mouffetard slopes down from the Panthéon towards the Jardin des Plantes, lined with food shops, cafés, and stalls.
Best for Sunday morning market, food shops, and Hemingway's 'poor man's Montparn
Paris
Rue Cler is a pedestrian paradise of food shops, cafés, and flower stalls. The fromagerie, boulangerie, poissonnerie, and caviste are all exceptional.
Best for Fromagerie, boulangerie and caviste on Rue Cler
Place des Vosges, 75004 Paris
A planned square in Paris, built by Henri IV in 1605. The perfect symmetry of its 36 pavilions with vaulted arcades creates one of the most beautiful urban spaces in the world.
Best for Paris's oldest planned square (1605) — galleries, cafés
Canal Saint-Martin, Paris
Open on Canal Saint-Martin since 1995, in a space stripped back to its original circa-1900 decor. Its canal-side terrace helped revive the whole neighborhood.
Best for Canal-side terrace since 1995, unchanged circa-1900 interior on the quai.
Chez Prune has anchored the corner of rue Beaurepaire and the Canal Saint-Martin since 1995. Its owners stripped the space back to the building's original decor, dating to around 1900, and opened a terrace overlooking the canal at a time when the 10th arrondissement was still a mostly overlooked part of Paris. It took a few years to catch on, but the café is now widely credited as one of the businesses that pulled the neighborhood's revival along with it.
The format hasn't changed much since: cheese and meat platters, a seasonal menu, and a Sunday brunch that fills the terrace early. It's since become a fixture of the canal's boho-chic identity — Netflix's "Emily in Paris" has filmed nearby, and the area sits close to locations from the 2001 film "Amélie." None of that has pushed Chez Prune toward reinvention; the appeal is still the same one that worked in the mid-1990s — a terrace on the water, coffee or wine, and a spot to watch the canal go by.
172 Boulevard Saint-Germain, 75006 Paris
Along with Les Deux Magots, Café de Flore defines Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Founded in 1887, its Art Deco interior of red banquettes, mirrors, and mahogany has barely changed.
Best for Art Deco interior unchanged since 1887 — Sartre's regular table and justifiably
13 Rue de l'Ancienne Comédie, 75006 Paris
Le Procope stands at 13 rue de l'Ancienne Comédie on the site of the café Procopio Cutò opened in 1686. Voltaire, Diderot and Benjamin Franklin were among its eighteenth-century regulars. The original café closed in 1872, and the present restaurant dates from 1957. It serves classic French dishes such as coq au vin in period rooms, with a terrace in the cour Saint-André.
Best for Voltaire, Franklin, and Napoleon's hat in a glass case
Le Procope occupies 13 rue de l'Ancienne Comédie in the sixth arrondissement, on the site where the Sicilian Procopio Cutò, known in France as François Procope, opened his café in 1686. He had taken over a refreshment stall from an Armenian named Pascal and moved it to the rue des Fossés-Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Coffee was served at table in porcelain cups, which the house still presents as the moment coffee entered Parisian life. When the Comédie-Française opened across the street in 1689 the café filled with actors and writers, and later with Voltaire, Rousseau and Diderot. Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson also came. The record is not unbroken. Wikipedia notes that the original café closed in 1872 and that the present restaurant opened in 1957, so the claim of continuous operation does not hold. Today the house serves classic French cooking such as coq au vin and braised beef cheek in eighteenth-century rooms, with a coffee salon and a hidden terrace in the cour Saint-André. Salons can be booked for private events, and the nearest metro station is Odéon on line 4.
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