UPDATE! More on my go-to speciality coffee shops in Paris for my feature on Refinery29 here.

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The French have been doing a lot of things really well for a really long time: architecture, wine, cheese, sounding sexy… Coffee was most certainly not one of them.

Coming off my deep dive of the acutely undivey Ob-La-Di, here are some other new coffee shops in Paris worth tasting, seeing and smelling.

Honor – realizing the coffee experience completely sucked in Paris, these two lovebirds left London and set up shop on this quaint courtyard. a cappuccino and a fresh OJ every day (but two Sundays) for two weeks straight. more chic-kisok love from my trips to Honor here.

54 Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré, 75008 (8th arrondissement; inside the first courtyard on the street)

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Café Kitsuné – they have matcha. and cookies shaped liked foxes. ok enough cutesy shit. the coffee itself is much better than your average.

51 Galerie Montpensier, 75001 (1st; at Palais Royal)

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Télescope – the only spot on this round-up that isn’t new. I spent HOURS walking, researching, asking for a coffee shop *not a cafe* on a trip in the winter of ’12. Télescope saved me from committing unspeakable acts while in exile in the depths of my espresso depravity.

5 rue Villedo, 75001 (1st)

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Boot Cafe – pre your prerequisite trip to shopping at Merci, stop off here for a cup of joe and a pastry. and let’s be honest, probably for an Instagram. 

19 rue du Pont aux Choux, 75003 (3rd)

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The Broken Arm – I basically had my face smashed like some avocado on nine grain toast against the window of this cafe-store hybrid for five solid minutes. it was closed since it was August, so I can’t speak to the coffee but I can say it sent dreamy caffeinated chills down my spine. (image courtesy of The Broken Arm.)

12 Rue Perrée, 75003 (3rd)

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Ob-La-Di – what an Instagram treasure. if you have only one scone, let their orange scone be the one. much more of these insouciant cats here.