This retail and leisure development housed in old wine warehouses is a relaxed place to shop, with the advantage of late and Sunday opening. Squarely aimed at tourists and...

Come for a morning croissant and you might find yourself staying on for lunch, so tempting are the wares at this Anglo-influenced boulangerie/épicerie/café. Giant wedges of...

Bourgeois locals crowd the terrace tables at lunch, eating club sandwiches with knives and forks as anxious waiters frown at couples with pushchairs or single diners occupying...

The Musée de l'Homme's Café de l'Homme has established itself as one of the Chaillot area's best hangouts, thanks to its breathtaking terrace with views of the Palais de...

Chez Prune is an excellent lunch spot, and still one of the best places to spend an evening on the Canal St-Martin. The local bobo HQ, this traditional café, with high ceilings...

The Forum des Halles is Paris's biggest and least pleasant shopping mall, although a facelift due for completion in 2012 should improve matters. Extending three levels...

The 'Apparently' feels more like a communal living room than a café. The low lighting, cosy nooks and board games (Trivial Pursuit and Taboo, both in French) make for an...

L'Estaminet d'Arômes et Cépages is tucked away in the Marché des Enfants-Rouges, a charming neighbourhood market and one of the city's oldest. The café has a warm interior,...

Perhaps the hippest café in this stuffy part of town, Le Dada is best known for its well-placed, sunny terrace. Inside, the wood-block carved tables and red walls provide a...

Le Loir is named after the unfortunate dormouse who gets dunked in the pot at the Mad Hatter's tea party. Its squishy sofas are the perfect complement to its comfort food: it...

This place should satisfy film buffs and foodies alike; Le Pure Café was the setting for a rendezvous between Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke in the movie Before Sunset. The bright...

For a decade between the wars, the junction of boulevards Raspail and du Montparnasse was where Man Ray, Cocteau and Lost Generation Americans hung out in the vast,...