Tea restaurants in Paris
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Mamie Gâteaux
A perfect light-lunch spot after a taxing morning savouring the stylish boutiques around nearby Le Bon Marché, this retro tearoom with lace curtains and a brocante (secondhand) décor positively heaves at lunchtime. Funnily enough for this hot shopping area, the clientele is predominantly female and chatty, as the electrifying buzz of happy shoppers chomping into homemade quiches, savoury cakes, tarts and salads testifies. For us, the ratatouille-and-mozzarella tart is the icing on the cake.
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Mayju
Wedged between the Sorbonne and Paris University, Mayju is a Zen retreat in a frenetic part of Paris. Pink and black are clearly the favourite colours of the interior designer – love the gargantuan pink rose, darling – whose modish mezzanine area oozes style. Pick from four starters, four plats (mains) alongside four savoury tartes (€6) and no guessing how many desserts. ‘ Saveurs du monde’ (world flavours) is the culinary theme.
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Aux Cérises de Lutèce
A feast for the eyes and tastebuds, this cosy eating space, heaped with colourful tea pots, jugs and jumble, is the type of place that would wear flowery wellies. As much café and tearoom as lunchtime restaurant, it serves breakfast all day (from €8 to €14) alongside salads, quiches and tartines. Market mornings see punters clawing for the trio of tables on the pavement out front.
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La Jacobine
What a sweet find! An olde-worlde hybrid tearoom and busy lunch spot, La Jacobine is packed to the rafters by noon with punters keen to fill up on homemade tarts, giant-sized salads and crêpes. Its lovely location inside Cour du Commerce St-André, a glass-covered passageway built in 1735 to link two Jeu de Paume (old-style tennis) courts, makes it all the more romantic.
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Chez Les Filles
This female-filled hot spot, which – unlike its grandmotherly neighbour – transports an eager lunch crowd into the land of the Orient. Salads, tajines, savoury tarts and a fantastic value plat du jour (€13) make for a colourful lunch. Mid-afternoon, refresh parched souls with a pâtisserie orientale and cup of sweet mint tea.
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Matteo et Paola
A youthful mix of tearoom-cum-trendy-café-bar, this popular weekend spot on a quiet shopping street near Le Bon Marché is perfect for a lazy breakfast over newspapers, brunch or indeed a light savoury-tart lunch. Most food has gone by 7pm when regulars stream in for an aperitif on the small pavement terrace.
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Les Deux Abeilles
Just around the corner from the Musée du Quai Branly, the faded floral wallpaper and even the somewhat stuffy service make this tearoom a charmingly old-fashioned stop for authentic baked treats like clafoutis aux cerises (cherry flan), Madeline cakes, and quiche.
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The Tea Caddy
Arguably the most English of the ‘English’ tearooms in Paris, this institution, founded in 1928, is a fine place to break for lunch or a nice cuppa tea with a Devon scone, double cream and jam after a tour of nearby Notre Dame, Ste-Chapelle or the Conciergerie.
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Le Café de l’Orient
If you fancy some North African mint tea and pastries or a cocktail, this is a comfortable Moroccan café with overstuffed cushions and Moroccan décor northeast of the basilica. They also do heartier dishes such as couscous and tajines.
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À Priori Thé
This cute little tearoom set up by two Americans (the bad pun gives the game away) 20 years ago is just the ticket! Good lunches but even better cakes (€3.50 to €7).
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