Café
1. Café de Flore
A Saint-Germain café dating from around 1887, famed as a haunt of Apollinaire, Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir and home of the Prix de Flore.
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2. Fenocchio
A family ice-cream maker founded in 1966, serving more than 90 flavours on Place Rossetti, including Niçois oddities such as tomato-basil and Swiss chard tart.
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3. Les Deux Magots
A historic café facing the church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés since 1884, open from breakfast until late and home to its own literary prize.
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4. Maison Auer
A confectioner and chocolatier founded in 1820 opposite the Opéra, famous for its candied fruit and its rococo-style shop, run by the Dolfi family.
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5. Angelina Rivoli
A Belle Époque tearoom opposite the Tuileries, founded in 1903 and best known for its thick L'Africain hot chocolate and Mont-Blanc pastry.
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6. Café Paulette
A bright café-bistro in the port district serving farm-produce brunches, a lunch menu and evening sharing plates with natural wines.
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7. Confiserie Florian
A confectionery on the port quays, open since 1974, where free tours show how candied fruit, crystallised flowers, citrus jams and chocolates are made.
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8. Stohrer
The oldest pâtisserie in Paris, trading on Rue Montorgueil since 1730 and credited by the house with inventing the baba au rhum.
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9. Du Pain et des Idées
Christophe Vasseur's bakery near the Canal Saint-Martin, founded in 2002 in a historic shop and known for its Pain des Amis and escargot pastries.
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10. Pâtisserie Lac
A renowned Nice pâtisserie and chocolatier founded in 1995, known for refined entremets, award-winning chocolates and macarons, with a shop on Rue Barla.
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11. Boulangerie Zielinska
An old-town sourdough bakery run by Dominika Zielinska, baking heritage-flour breads, babka and cinnamon rolls alongside sandwiches and tartines.
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12. Shakespeare and Company Café
The café of the Shakespeare and Company bookshop, opened in 2015 opposite Notre-Dame and serving Paris-roasted coffee, pastries and vegetarian dishes.
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