Call them what you like - patisseries, boulangeries, cafes - they are so common in Paris that visiting one would be as cliche as visiting the Eiffel Tower. The Parisians seem to know this all too well and an unsuspecting tourist may end up paying an exorbitant amount for tasteless coffee or a skimpy crepe. Telescope cafe seems to defy all norms when it comes to the cafes that populate central Paris.
After a morning of cycling around Paris with a tour guide who was amusingly enthusiastic about her food, we were bestowed with a sacred list of restaurants, cafes and streets compiled every year by the tour guides. These were their favourite haunts and completely unsponsored so we knew we'd struck gold when we sat down at the top cafe on the list - complete with the sub-header "best coffee in Paris'.
We were too full to eat, but the cappuccino I ordered was indeed the best I'd had so far in Paris. (Though admittedly I still prefer and remain loyal to Monmouth coffee in London.) Telescope cafe is nestled along such an odd little street in the middle of nowhere that I marveled at how anybody had discovered it at all.
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| I wasn't the only food reviewer there that day - a food photographer and a journalist, both japanese, were busy at work while we sipped our coffee. |
5 rue Villedo
75001 Paris
2 comments:
is it possible to study in this cafe, do you think? Or is it not a place to stay fr a few hours with coffee and pastries
It gets quite crowded in the afternoons but if you went early you could probably stay longer to study or read (:
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