Historic Venues — Paris
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Angelina
A Belle Époque tea room on rue de Rivoli, opened in 1903, famous across Paris for its thick "Chocolat Africain" hot chocolate and chestnut-cream Mont-Blanc pastry.
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Café de Flore
A Saint-Germain-des-Prés institution opened around 1887, the postwar haunt of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, who reportedly wrote at its tables to escape unheated apartments.
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Ladurée
A pâtisserie founded in 1862 whose staff is credited with inventing the modern double-decker macaron in the 1930s, its opulent Champs-Élysées salon serving them alongside tea and light meals.
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Le Procope
Founded in 1686 by Sicilian Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli, Le Procope claims the title of Paris's oldest continuously operating café, once frequented by Voltaire, Rousseau and Benjamin Franklin.
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Les Deux Magots
Café de Flore's next-door rival on Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés, named for two carved Chinese figures still watching over the room, and a magnet for writers from Hemingway to Camus.
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