Barista coffee drinks, homemade pastries, and extensive breakfast menus—which have long been surprisingly hard to find in Paris—earned these coffee shops their places on our list of the city’s best.
Fauna
Located on rue Oberkampf, Fauna is a new addition to Paris’s coffee scene. Run by Filip and Jacob, a pair of serious enthusiasts, the place serves up flat whites, lattes made with both plant and animal milks, americanos, and matchas, as well as delicious sandwiches and their signature cinnamon rolls.
Cédric Grolet Café
Famous for his trompe-l’œil creations—sweet treats disguised as pieces of fruits, perfectly crunchy pastries, and old-school cookies, Cédric Grolet added a new coffee shop, Cédric Grolet Café, to his ventures this winter. Located at 6 rue Danielle Casanova, it’s just a stone’s throw from the Opera. When he was at the helm of the pastry shop at Le Meurice hotel and his own bakery, Grolet was voted best pastry chef in the world in 2018. The new café offers seasonal specialties and hot and cold drinks (flat whites, lattes, cappuccinos, café frappés, and more) made with beans sourced from Ethiopia and Brazil. The homemade pastries are the main draw, however, including two new ones that have already become Instagram favorites: cream-filled croissant doughnuts and XXL cookie-pizzas.