Boot Café

St-Germain & Les Invalides


For a serious noisette, cortado or double crème made from coffee beans roasted in Berlin by 5 Elephant, duck into the Left Bank offspring of Le Marais's famously teeny-tiny Boot Café. Lunchtime ushers in a fashionable weekend crowd keen to linger over imaginative homemade granola, tartines (€8; the ricotta, honey and pumpkin seed is delicious) and healthy salads (€11).


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