Maison Fleuret Paris

2 Days in Paris: Authentic Bistros and Hidden Gems Locals Love

"Once you’ve settled in at your hotel, head straight to café Maison Fleuret for breakfast. It’s only a few minutes on foot from the more familiar and tourist-saturated cafés of Left Bank literary lore, Les Deux Magôts and Café de Flore, and far more intimate. Occupying the space of a 19th-century bookstore, the owners preserved the bookish focus, adding hundreds of their own Gallimard titles to stock the floor-to-ceiling shelves on both levels. Come for a specialty coffee, a vegetarian breakfast plate and a buttery almond financier, and lose yourself in a book." - Lindsey Tramuta