Specialty coffee in Paris
32 cafés, 11 roasters, 12 neighbourhoods
For a long time Paris meant a small, dark coffee at the counter. Since around 2010 a specialty scene has grown alongside it, with roasters who roast lighter and take filter coffee seriously. Many of these cafés are in the east of the city, especially in the 11e arrondissement, where you can visit several in one afternoon.
The cafés, by neighbourhood
For 14 of the 32 cafés we know whose coffee they pour. The neighbourhoods with the most cafés: 11e arrondissement and Le Marais (3e & 4e).
More about these labels
- In-house
- The coffee is the café’s own roast.
- Regular roaster
- The café pours this roaster’s coffee. Cupd researched this, mostly on the café’s or the roaster’s own website. Once a café has claimed its profile, it can confirm or remove the roaster.
- Roaster not listed yet
- Cupd does not know yet whose coffee the café pours. Cafés can add their roaster for free, and guests can report it in the app.
1er arrondissement
2 cafés
Café Nuances
Behind Café Nuances are brothers Charles and Raphaël Corrot, who sourced the coffees themselves with an eye on ethical production and sustainable farming. The room mixes 1920s details: Art Deco lettering, a painted glass ceiling and a mosaic floor.
Télescope Café
Nicolas Clerc opened Télescope in March 2012, after more than ten years as a photographer for Vogue, Chanel and Hermès. He trained at Intelligentsia and Blue Bottle in New York.
Le Marais (3e & 4e)
6 cafés
Boot Café
Forêt Forêt
Fringe Coffee
Fringe pairs specialty coffee with photography: they show work by carefully chosen photographers and keep a library of books and magazines that they keep updating. The beans are seasonal single origins from small European roasters.
Le Peloton Café
Christian Osburn and Paul Barron ran Bike About Tours for ten years, then opened Le Peloton to mark the anniversary. They wanted a bar so they could talk to people, and the café is still about coffee, community and cycling.
Partisan Café Artisanal
Partisan is café and roasting workshop in one, run by Georges Karam, a financial analyst turned café owner. The house 'Italian' blend and the 'New Wave' single origins are roasted right here.
Tanat (Marais)
Tanat used to be called Kawa. They roast in their own Paris workshop and buy their coffees directly from producers.
6e arrondissement
3 cafés
Café d'Auteur
Café d'Auteur pays tribute to writers and artists such as Balzac, Nina Simone and Pavarotti, and one of the coffees is called 'Serge Gainsbourg'. Yadh, their master roaster, also teaches the basics of specialty coffee and roasting.
Café du Clown
Clown Bar does coffee too: Café du Clown is a small retro bistro counter inside the Marché Saint-Germain, where former sommelier David Benichou makes the coffee. If you drink filter, you get several coffees to choose from.
L'Arbre à Café
L'Arbre à Café started in 2009 and is both coffee producer and roaster. They work with organic and biodynamic farming, buy direct from producers and pay a fair price.
10e arrondissement
2 cafés
Bonjour Jacob (Canal St-Martin)
Bonjour Jacob is coffee shop and magazine shop in one, with titles from around the world, in Paris since 2021. They also publish their own magazine, Still., about coffee and the life around it, one city per issue.
Ten Belles
This is the original Ten Belles, open since 2012 just off the Canal Saint-Martin. Ten Belles is a coffee company and sourdough bakery in one, and this shop also sells their house-made sourdough bread.
11e arrondissement
10 cafés
Back In Black Coffee
Back In Black is KB Coffee Roasters' big coffee shop, opened in 2019: 200 m² of specialty coffee with a roasting workshop of its own.
Café Singuliers
Café Singuliers was dreamed up by estate agent Patrice Besse. The room is pale wood and herringbone parquet, heated by a 1953 De Dietrich stove.
Fauna
Jacob Köhler and his co-founder both came from Residence Kann before opening this tiny 10 m² shop. The beans come from Koppi in Sweden and Coffee Collective in Denmark.
Haïkara Kissa Coffee
Haïkara Kissa is a kissaten, a Japanese-style coffee house, from Sho Miyashita and Jérémy Mégaly, and the third Haïkara after the Izakaya and Deep Fried. The coffee is roasted by Fève, and the music is prog rock on vinyl through a vintage Marantz amp.
Klover Coffee Showroom
Byungchul 'Harry' Kim toured coffee shops across Scandinavia and Asia before opening Klover. Try the milk brew: freshly ground coffee steeped in whole milk for 12 hours.
Kott Café
Kott is run by a French-Korean couple. There's no Wi-Fi and no laptops, just espresso from the La Marzocco and People Possession on drip.
Le Café Alain Ducasse
Le Café Alain Ducasse opened its Manufacture here in 2019, and the coffee is roasted on site in the back of the shop. The head roaster is Veda Viraswami.
Panas Café
Tactile café
Pierre de Chantérac, five-time French champion and 2023 world Ibrik champion, opened Tactile in spring 2026. The coffees are roasted by Tribute in the Drôme.
The Beans on Fire
The Beans on Fire is a collaborative roastery: more than 30 coffee projects roast in their workshop. They buy direct and want their coffees to lead you to the terroirs and the people who grow them.
20e arrondissement
3 cafés
Belleville Brûlerie
Belleville Brûlerie has a soft spot for filter coffee and for blends, and aims for smoothness and body in the cup. They work long term with their exporters, importers and producers.
Pilo's
Argentine pastry chef Pilar d'Amuri set up Pilo's. With your coffee you'll find medialunas and alfajores, the Argentine dulce de leche shortbread.
The Dancing Goat
Daniel Chapman, formerly of Café Craft, dreamt up The Dancing Goat. Cocorico Paris did the room: mixed tiles, mirrors, small marble-topped tables and Thonet chairs.
Other neighbourhoods
6 cafés
Hexagone Café
Hexagone has been here since 2015, and the coffee is roasted by Stéphane Cataldi. It doubles as a roasting workshop where you can taste on site, with single origins such as Nicaragua, Colombia and Guatemala.
Caducée
Café Lomi
Lomi opened this coffee shop in 2012 and calls it the heart of the company. There's a roaster on site as well, used mostly for their training courses.
Substance Café
Joachim is Substance's only barista and also its roaster. He roasts very light on a Loring S7 in the shop's workshop, and you sit at the bar: no takeaway cups, no sugar, no pastries, no music.
Coutume Café
Coutume Babylone is coffee shop and brunch spot in one. The baristas brew Coutume's own coffee here every day, freshly roasted in Romainville.
KB CaféShop / KB Coffee Roasters
KB has been in specialty coffee since 2010 and started with this coffee shop. The pastries are made in-house, and KB has roasted its own coffee since 2015.
Roasters poured in Paris
11 roasters across the cafés above, by how many of them pour each one.
Roasters from Paris
KB Coffee Roasters
KB started in 2010 with a coffee shop between Pigalle and Montmartre and has roasted its own coffee since 2015. They choose their coffees blind, because for them only taste counts.
Belleville Brûlerie
Thomas Lehoux is one of the co-founders of Belleville Brûlerie. Since summer 2017 they have roasted, blended and packed everything at their headquarters on Rue Lally-Tollendal in the 19th, where you can also taste their blends and origins as filter or espresso.
Café d'Auteur
Café d'Auteur works with specialty micro-lots, each from a terroir chosen for its purity, complexity and aromatic character. They call producers their partners, never their suppliers.
Café Lomi
Lomi has roasted in the Drôme, at Le Poët Laval, since 2018. They build long-term relationships with carefully selected coffee producers.
Coutume Café
Tom Clark co-founded Coutume, and in 2011 its first roastery with a coffee shop opened in Paris. Since 2022 they have roasted in Romainville, choosing coffees for their aromatic profile and traceability.
L'Arbre à Café
Substance Café
Tanat
Tanat has been working since 2016 and has focused on roasting ever since it opened. They select coffees directly at the source, which lets them work with very fine lots that are traceable end to end.
From elsewhere
Questions
Which roasters can I find in Paris’s cafés?
This page lists 11 roasters, among them Friedhats, KB Coffee Roasters, Belleville Brûlerie, Café d'Auteur and Café Lomi. Next to each roaster it says whether the coffee is the café’s own roast and where Cupd got the information. The labels are explained above the list.
How up to date is this list?
It is a copy of the Cupd app as of November 11, 2026. Cafés and guests keep the app current, so open Paris in Cupd to see what has changed since.
A café is missing. How does it get on here?
In the app, search for it and tap “Missing a café? Tell us”. If it is your café, claim it for free on the page for cafés and enter your roaster. It shows up here with the next update.
Where the café texts come from, read on November 11, 2026
- Back In Black Coffee: kbcoffeeroasters.com, yonder.fr
- Belleville Brûlerie: cafesbelleville.com
- Bonjour Jacob (Canal St-Martin): bonjourjacob.com, sortiraparis.com
- Café d'Auteur: yonder.fr, cafedauteur.com
- Café du Clown: timeout.fr
- Café Lomi: lomi.cafe
- Café Nuances: timeout.fr
- Café Singuliers: timeout.fr, lefooding.com
- Coutume Café: coutumecafe.com, coutumecafe.com
- Fauna: lefooding.com
- Fringe Coffee: fringecoffeeparis.com
- Haïkara Kissa Coffee: timeout.fr
- Hexagone Café: timeout.fr, fr.gaultmillau.com
- KB CaféShop / KB Coffee Roasters: kbcoffeeroasters.com
- Klover Coffee Showroom: lefooding.com
- Kott Café: lefooding.com
- L'Arbre à Café: larbreacafe.com
- Le Café Alain Ducasse: timeout.fr, sortiraparis.com, ducasse-paris.com
- Le Peloton Café: sprudge.com, lepelotoncafe.cc
- Partisan Café Artisanal: fr.gaultmillau.com, parisbymouth.com
- Pilo's: lefooding.com
- Substance Café: substancecafe.com
- Tactile café: timeout.fr
- Tanat (Marais): tanat.coffee, tanat.coffee
- Télescope Café: fathomaway.com
- Ten Belles: tenbelles.com, tenbelles.com
- The Beans on Fire: thebeansonfire.com
- The Dancing Goat: lefooding.com
- KB Coffee Roasters: kbcoffeeroasters.com, kbcoffeeroasters.com
- Tanat: tanat.coffee
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