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Best Cafés in France (2026)

Coffee shops, bakeries, tea rooms and dessert spots for breakfast, a light lunch or a break between sights.

3 places · Updated October 23, 2026

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1. Café de Flore

Historic literary café$$$Saint-Germain-des-Prés

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. Les Deux Magots

Historic literary café$$$Saint-Germain-des-Prés

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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