Café de Flore
the rich signature hot chocolate served on its green-and-white china
Historic Paris cafe with table service and classic coffee. Come to sit, not rush. Best mid‑afternoon; expect a wait at peak times.
In Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris. Easy to fold into a morning or a longer afternoon; there's usually something else worth a stop within a few minutes' walk.
Café de Flore is a historic café in Saint-Germain-des-Prés (6th arr.), at the corner of Boulevard Saint-Germain and Rue Saint-Benoît, dating to the 1880s. It is famous as a former haunt of intellectuals and artists like Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Picasso, and Apollinaire, and its interior has changed little since WWII. Reviews consistently single out its rich, sumptuous signature hot chocolate served on green-and-white china. It draws both tourists drawn by its history and Parisians/celebrities; table service is the norm, matching the curator's 'come to sit, not rush' note. The Google Maps link redirected and was not fully fetched, but search results corroborated the curator's notes well.