Sharing another favorite site:

http://hipparis.com/

Thanks, Mimi. Just what I need. Another Paris blog to get hooked on...

Great info - thanks. So many near where I will be staying as well, it just gets better. I wonder if the Kooka Boora is run by Australians, it didn't say. I feed my "Kooka Booras" every day on my balcony - shame they don't make good coffee for me as well!!

Schnauzer

Nice blog! Thanks!

I'll accept the mission to try and get to Kooka Boora unless Schnauzer bets me to it. We'll be in Paris in about 6 weeks.

We might be desperate for a decent coffee by then, see if it stacks up to the coffee we get at home along our cappucino strip in Fremantle.

Shall report back in due course.

Maudie

Only in Paris would the topping of the coffee be a work of art!

Take me away!!!

Hurray, they use FRESH milk and one is close to Bon Marche too!

The work of art is a fairly normal occurence where we live. You mean they don't always use fresh milk - yuk! We must be spoilt.

Ha ha, <i>a fool and his money are soon parted</i>, as they say.

Would just like to point out that the person behind the bar in France is a <i>barman</i> and will never be a barista, except in an insult.

Well, kerouac, you are probably a black coffee man, which is the only safe way to drink it in France. I like un caffe machiato myself, usually around a euro in Italy and rarely bad.

Re the link, Pish tosh.

I am not exactly insensitive to decent coffee, eg, I avoid Starbucks.

I have found the coffee in Paris to range from acceptable to very good.

Having a cuppa topped with a fancy design is fine, unless one has to pay extra for the treat.

I just got to the chapter about the bad coffee in David Lebovitz's "The Sweet Life in Paris" and I was shocked! I always liked the coffee in France, and now I am finding out that a lot of people think it's awful. Hmmm. A chacun son gout, I guess, or I have been lucking out all these years. I am a black coffee drinker, though. At home, we drink coffee & chicory, black - not for the faint of heart.

Actually, tarquin, I don't drink coffee at all except at social occasions, so yes, I drink it every day but don't care what it tastes like. Which is perhaps why I care a lot more about what it costs.

I very much approve of the McCafé chain attacking the "luxury" coffee places head on. They do offer the same coffee flavored milk drinks as the expensive places, but they charge half as much and prefer to promote French pastry and macarons rather than brownies and cookies.

http://hipparis.com/2011/04/18/frog-...+Paris+Blog%29

One of my early travel mentors always said "go to Italy for good coffee and bad pastry, go to France for bad coffee and good pastry."
Personally I have not found things to be quite so polarized. My (former) complaint about Paris coffee was the unfamiliarity of coffee vendors with the concept of coffee to go. That's certainly changed.

I'm with Kerouac. We drink our coffee in cafes in the Dordogne rather than in Paris - and black. I would not expect a barista in a French cafe - nor would I expect to have coffee to go other than in a cup on a tray as far as the terrace.

We were in New Zealand and Australia over the winter, where fancy milky coffees were common (and I found short blacks too strong) and longed for French coffee. They did do nice designs on the top whenever I gave in and had a milky coffee. But not my drink of choice.

Thanks for the link.

I've been quite satisfied with cafe cremes as part of my morning ritual, but this might be worth a quick visit. And if the stars align, a quick visit end of May.